The "Cutest Little Percolator" Coffee and Memories

 Hello out there! It is H O T hot outside! My computer screen shows the temp being 108 degrees at 5:38 pm. The weather app on my phone is showing 106 degrees! Same forecast for tomorrow - give or take a degree! Excessive heat warning until 9:00 pm tomorrow evening! There are some clouds outside that look like they could have some rain in them. I told Jim that I prayed and asked the Lord to bless us with some rain, a little reprieve, even though we don't deserve it! His response was, God says it will rain on the just and the unjust. So, there you go - we have a chance of rain after all!

I looked up the exact verse and it is in the Gospel of Matthew 5:45 but I'm going to share verses 44-46 to get the full meaning:

Matthew 5:44-46

But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have?

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the news. Gloom and doom and a whole lot of crazy going on in our country right now. Praying! And Praying!

I decided I needed to share a sweet memory that is near and dear to my heart. Jim and I are both coffee drinkers. He usually makes the coffee at night; pours water in the reservoir and adds the coffee to the basket and then whoever gets up first just has to push the brew button! I fixed it up night before last. He was drinking his coffee when I walked into the kitchen. I poured coffee into my mug that says, "Embrace the Mess" and took a sip and my eyes almost crossed it was so strong! I immediately said, "Oh my gosh, that coffee is strong! And you didn't even warn me!" His reply was, "You made it!" Anyway, I had to add some extra sugar and cream - Wowzers! He fixed the coffee last night and this morning when I took my first sip, it was just right!

The following post is a story I shared in January 2015: (The sweet memory)

Tuesday, January 6, 2015
The "Cutest Little Percolator" I Received at My Bridal Shower, Many Years Ago
 
Good Morning out there! Wait, I have to go get a second cup of coffee before I
begin! I'm back, with a hot cup of coffee, a little cream, a little sugar! I was going
to write about something else, but I've decided to share a neat story instead.

I really enjoy drinking coffee in the morning, my husband does too. It all started
with a gift I received at my bridal shower many years ago!
When Jim and I got married, I was 19 and he was 27. I wanted to be the perfect little
house wife! I would get up and make breakfast every morning before Jim would head
off to work. He has always been a welder, so oatmeal or cereal just aren't a good
breakfast when you have a physically demanding job. I would fry up bacon and
eggs, and fix toast with butter and jelly. Well, I received the cutest little 4-6 cup
percolator as a gift at my bridal shower, so every morning I would make coffee.
I remember asking Jim what he took in his coffee, and he said "milk and sugar."
So it began, every morning, no matter what I cooked for breakfast, Jim and I had
one or two cups of coffee, we both added milk and sugar. As the years came and went,
so did the coffee makers! Large percolators, Mr. Coffees, the percolators were my
favorite because I liked the bubbly, gurgling noises they made! Jim stopped putting
milk in his coffee, you never know what I want in my coffee, sometimes cream,
sometimes not, always sugar (use to be real, then Equal, now Splenda). Anyway,
no matter what we ate for breakfast, we always had a cup or two, of coffee! We prepare
the coffee the night before and set the delayed brew button, that way, when we wake up
the coffee is ready. I always say it is like magic! I love waking up to the smell of a
fresh pot of coffee! We use Folgers, not the flavored foo foo kind!
About five years ago, Jim and I were taking a walk. We were talking about all kinds
of things, and we both stated that we were glad we didn't smoke cigarettes, and
he was glad he had stopped dipping many years ago, and such. Anyway, Jim said
the only thing we both had to have, was coffee in the morning. Then he said that it
was all my fault! I said "What do you mean all my fault?" Jim replied that I made
coffee every morning and set a cup for him on the table with his breakfast. So he
figured I must be a big coffee drinker, and he didn't want to hurt my feelings since
we had just gotten married, so he drank it! Well, I started laughing hard, you know,
the kind where you double over laughing. When I stopped laughing like a hyena,
and got my breath back, I told him that I just knew he drank coffee since he was
older than me. Both of  my parents drank coffee, my grandparents drank coffee,
his parents drank coffee. Besides all that, I got the cutest little percolator for a gift
at my bridal shower, and so that must mean that you drink coffee once you're
married! Well then Jim started laughing, not like a hyena, but pretty hard. So when
he stopped laughing, he said to me, "You mean all these years we've been drinking
coffee, it wasn't because you were already a coffee drinker, but because we received
a percolator as a wedding gift?" To which I laughingly replied, "Pretty much!"
I really enjoy my cup of coffee even more now, because I think back how Jim would
drink it, not because he was a coffee drinker, but because he thought I was.
I hope your day is filled with blessings, go and make some happy memories with
your loved ones!

Peace and Blessings to you and yours, near and far, wherever you are!

Bye for now, Sharla