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February 28, 2005
Five Thousand words - Happy 2nd Birthday Kieran
Posted by frani at 08:07 AM | Comments (2)
February 25, 2005
Friday stuff...
The sun is out! The 4 inches of snow is sitting there looking pretty and glistening but I must admit, I'm ready for it to be gone for the year. I know it's only February and winter probably has a few more good storms left in it. Bah Humbug...I see cabin fever on the rise. Having sunshine makes a huge difference for me though.
So, my college roomies and I had lunch together yesterday..what a hoot! Again, the 34 years just melts away and we are those people again sitting in the living room on Summit Street shrieking and holding our tummies with laughter. We actually went to the old college town for lunch...oh my goodness, I can't believe how huge the old alma mater is...I think there were maybe 5 whole buildings when I left the place and now there huge buildings in place of soccer fields and high rise dorms being built! Hhhmmm guess there are a few more students there now than in our day. Way to go state college...
Todays' agenda is to get myself in gear...pack up a few items and drive over to Stamford for the Birthday weekend. Mine and Kieran's. I guess Kieran doesn't read my blog so I shouldn't worry too much about ruining the surprise
I think I'll let the highway crews work a bit clearing the roads before I head out...Lord only knows what I-95 looks like. Is there any part of that road from FL to ME that isn't nasty??
I found the table at Goodwill for $5...bought the Duplos at Toys R Us and spent a fortune on paint and paintbrushes and fasteners for the canvas bags that I got at Michaels...isn't that the way though? BTW..I built that duck from Duplo direction but I made that house alllllllllllllllllllll by myself. (pppsssttt...now I'm afraid I'll be giving Kieran a used present. We'll be moving out of the apt at the end of next week and he was showingit to a couple with a little girl...I brought her over to the table and we had great fun palying while her parents looked around. Tom allowed as how the toy table and built in Grandma didn't go with the apartment. Sorry....
Have a good weekend all........
Posted by frani at 07:48 AM | Comments (4)
February 24, 2005
State of being..
Here's something to play with today while I'm out cavorting with my college roomies! ( thanks Ben)
I think I got these right although I don't like the idea that you can't do two for one. I have lived in CT as well as being there at the moment. There could be an occasion where I just happen to be in a state and wouldn't consider myself having lived there. I think you have to have a residential mailing address to have lived somewhere... you know receive packages from eBay or Amazon!
bold the states you've been to, underline the states you've lived in and italicize the state you're in now...
Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C /
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Posted by frani at 07:43 AM | Comments (3)
February 23, 2005
This and that......
Let's see...I've managed to keep myself occupied the last few days but I don't seem to have much to blog about. Guess we'll just have to see what kind of babble flows from my fingers.
We did have a good weekend with "the Kids". Some of them anyway. With Lori and the Grandkids off to PA and Nora working, that left the four of us to our own devices. While it was reminiscent of the old days of our family discussions, our DILs were definitely missed and there certainly was a real void in the house without Maura and Kieran. However, as usual, our sons made me laugh too hard..I didn't bring nearly enough clothes with me. Ohhhhhhhhh, the things they find on the internet...a mother shouldn't see and I daresay neither should the father. The previous post concerning Weird Al's eBay song sparked quite a lively conversation concerning intellectual property rights...I was satisfied with posting what I did even though I was probably violating copyright laws etc...I trust all 12 of my faithful readers not to turn me in to the authorities. Toilets were fixed, coffee was drunk, sap was evaporated, dining was out so all and all it was a good time. This coming weekend, we get to do it all again to celebrate Kieran's birthday (mine too)
I've still been working on Kieran's birthday present - the blue paint was a lot runnier than the other colors. I only managed to get a few drops splattered around when I was shaking the container with the cover slightly askew. The blue paint doesn't come off the skin quite as easily as the other colors either. I am the original Pigpen when it comes to paint...or anything else for that matter. Hmmm..maybe there is a little Grandma Fran in Kieran after all.
Coffee of the day is a Mexico Turquesa; it's brewed up quite favorably in the vac pot. Now there are a few things to remember when using this brewer. Switching the lever to high is helpful. Putting the top on securely splashes less water around without the filter rod in place. Ummmm...having the filter rod in place before putting the ground coffee in the top however, is a must and lastly having the cover on the top brewer results in more of the coffee remaining in the pot. Amazing how many ways there are to screw up this process and I should know! Oh yeah...and the first thing I learned is the water goes in the bottom container first. It get to the top with heat.
Now then...it's a beautiful sunny day out there and not toooooo cold so I should probably get a move on and enjoy it. Have a good day all
Posted by frani at 07:20 AM | Comments (5)
February 18, 2005
Do you know me??????????
A typical Friday evening...rummaging around eBay looking for stuff I "neeeeeeeeeeeeeed", when I came across an auction that started playing this song while viewing. Yes I nearly had a Depend Moment here! Ahem..it would be sooooooo much funnier if it wasn't so true!
..and BTW...don't want to violate Weird Al's royalties here so I think you should probably go buy his CD with this song on it. the man has to eat ya know. hhhmmm...wonder if the deadzoom guys paid him to use it?
Weird Al Yankovic
ยป EBay
Yeah
A used ... pink bathrobe
A rare ... mint snowglobe
A Smurf ... TV tray
I bought on eBay
My house ... is filled with this crap
Shows up in bubble wrap
Most every day
What I bought on eBay
Tell me why (I need another pet rock)
Tell me why (I got that Alf alarm clock)
Tell me why (I bid on Shatner's old toupee)
They had it on eBay
I'll buy ... your knick-knack
Just check ... my feedback
"A++!" they all say
They love me on eBay
Gonna buy (a slightly-damaged golf bag)
Gonna buy (some Beanie Babies, new with tag)
(From some guy) I've never met in Norway
Found him on eBay
I am the type who is liable to snipe you
With two seconds left to go, whoa
Got Paypal or Visa, what erev'll please
As long as I've got the dough
I'll buy ... your tchotchkes
Sell me ... your watch, please
I'll buy (I'll buy, I'll buy, I'll buy ...)
I'm highest bidder now
(Junk keeps arriving in the mail)
(From that worldwide garage sale) (Dukes Of Hazard ashtray)
(Hey! A Dukes Of Hazard ashtray)
Oh yeah ... (I bought it on eBay)
Wanna buy (a PacMan Fever lunchbox)
Wanna buy (a case on vintage tube socks)
Wanna buy (a Kleenex used by Dr. Dre, Dr. Dre)
(Found it on eBay)
Wanna buy (that Farrah Fawcet poster)
(Pez dispensers and a toaster)
(Don't know why ... the kind of stuff you'd throw away)
(I'll buy on eBay)
What I bought on eBay-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y
Posted by frani at 07:21 PM | Comments (4)
Busy Busy...
I'm still alive! This week has gone very quickly for me...normally, I'd spend the day packing up and waiting to drive home. Alas...we get to stay here so the day will be spent doing laundry and errands. pppsssttt....Anyone got spare Euros laying around to send to France for a Hellum coffee pot? International eBays...who'da thought.
Actually I spent two days gathering the materials I needed to make something for Kieran's birthday next week. We'll see how that all goes. I figure the worse that can happen is I throw it out and say I was entertained for a week trying to make something...the best is he could pass it on down to his Grandchildren with the comments, "she was a nice lady and she loved me despite of her lack of talent." yeah yeah..it can show up on Antiques Roadshow 100 years from now as primitive folk art! That's the plan!
Yesterday, Nancy (my college Roommate of 35 years ago) and I went off to Putnum CT Antique capital of Eastern Connecticut. I was commenting that in all my antiqing travels, I have yet to find any of the Vac pots we are buying on eBay. Lo and Behold...I did find 4.5 of them. Two were overpriced..one was in good shape but we really didn't NEED it since we have one like it and one was in not so great shape and I really should have bought it because I couldn't readily identify it's make...meaning it may not have been all that common a piece and for $15 I should have bought it. Sigh. I did buy the .5 one...the bottom pot of a red glass Kent....works for me.
So there's my week all wrapped up. Maybe we'll go harrass our kids for the weekend if they will have us. Demian has tapped his sugar maples...good man...I saw in today's VT paper that they were tapping trees at home. Yup, a week earlier in CT is a good thing.
Have a good weekend all...........
Posted by frani at 07:35 AM | Comments (2)
February 14, 2005
Southern Living...
Gee, what a difference a few degrees in latitude make...there is very little snow south of Vermont these days. We got a good foot of snow between Thursday and Sunday morning...granted the last bunch was Lake effect snow. It was pretty when we left though. Now we have dirt/salt...most of it caked on our cars too. Must find car wash today.
Soooo, I see our little burg of a city in VT is getting a Hooter's this spring. Ahhh, give me a break..their Chicken wings aren't all that much better than some other restuarant. Yeah, and you all buy Playboy for the articles, right? Well before we get all huffy and defensive, I have a question for you...would you want your daughter/niece/grand-daughter to work there? Just asking....
Hmmm...I can think of one thing worse than an Left lane hugging SUV with CT plates going 64 MPH on the interstate...a left lane hugging SUV with CT plates going 64mph hauling a snowmobile trailer...gggrrr. There was more than one. Oh yeah...and I noticed the drive is a LOT longer when you have to stay awake and drive it yourself! Worth it to have two cars here though.
Today's coffee has been Costa Rica La Minita brewed in an electric Sunbeam vacuum pot; chrome base with a glass top auto shut off. Aaarrgh, we left some coffee home in the cupboard! The horrors! Umm....maybe I can get one of my neighbors to take it off our hands so it doesn't go to waste! hhhmmm?
Hrumph...someone bought my double boiler for more than 3 times what the last one sold for on eBay. I'm annoyed.
Time to get on with the day...make it a good one for yourselves.
Posted by frani at 08:44 AM | Comments (1)
February 12, 2005
Take your time and hurry...
It comes as no great suprise to us that we will be spending an extended period of time in CT when we leave tomorrow. Probably 3 weeks. Do we have enough cat supplies in house for 3 weeks? No. Do we have enough drugs on hand to take with us? umm..working on that. Have we acquired audio books for him? Nope. Are we the least bit packed? No. Are the clothes even clean? YES, but still in the laundry room. At least both cars are gassed up; we are taking two. One of them is um...filty. So I guess I have my day planned out for me...as I sit and write blog entries and surf eBay.
My cookbook came yesterday and I'm so hoping we get a big flurry of packages today before we leave. We have a few outstanding purchases...ahem...and I just can't believe we wouldn't have a few waiting for us after 3 weeks. Why just today there are more than a couple interesting looking vac pots to bid on...really..they are different than some of the ones we already have. Oh oh...and also found 2 glass double boilers that are soooo pretty...I don't really have a good double boiler, ya know...nope. what? You don't think I NEED a double boiler? Yeah, well what about those times I want to make chocolate dipped strawberries..huh? Huh? You like those don't you...I need a double boiler.
Today's coffee is Nepal Himalaya Everest Washed...not bad for one of them Eastern type coffees I'm not particularly fond of. ( pardon the dangling participle..."of which I'm not particularly fond" sounds so pretentious and I do realize I'm contributiong to the demise of civilized speech)
Book of the moment: the curious incident of the dog in the nigh-time by Mark Haddon. Hmmm...I think I Know this character in the book. Please read the descriptions and reviews on Amazon, then get the book. Thanks Morgan and Nora for the Christmas present and I'll pass it off to you soon...;-D
Moving right along...time to get a move on...have a fine weekend all!
Posted by frani at 10:28 AM | Comments (2)
Not so simple...
"It's a little more complicated than that"...words often heard around here these days. Maybe it's always been that way, but for me and my idealized way of looking at the world things tended toward black and white, right and wrong, left and right and red and blue....now everything seems to have a little twist to it.
Now we have our former Governor/Presidential Candidate Howard Dean poised to become the leader of the DNC today. He'll probably do a very good job for them..he's a bright man and certainly doesn't lack enthusiasm. Living in Vermont under his governorship, I can't say I always agreed with him or even voted for him every time but I am pleased he has this opportunity before him.
Now I'm going to do another one of those "things" I do...take one aspect and rant at the injustice of it all! Remember, Howard was not necessarily MY choice for the Dems Last Presidential candidate...but in hindsight..maybe...BUT I honestly believe the media did more to derail his candidacy than any "primal scream" of his ever did. Give it a REST, Please! I beg you! CBS news last night had a segment on Dean's becoming the DNC Chair....but was it really that? Not in my opinion...it really had more to do with Howard's independence..his NOT toeing the line and his NOT kowtowing to the media. Apparently, Dean was asked to appear on the segment and he said "sure, as long as you don't replay the scream"...they did and he didn't. ...and that was really the point of CBS' segment. To once again derail Howard.
What are they afraid of? Someone who actually thinks for themselves? Someone who doesn't think as told to by the six second sound bite on the news? Which btw way is more opinion than fact these days. If any of the media had put a positive spin on the "primal scream", we all might just have someone other than George W sitting in the Oval Office. I also think that is scarier than anything else...listen up folks...the news media and the 6 second sound bite makes the decisions for the majority of this country who are too lazy to think for themselves. Doesn't that scare you???? But I digress....
Maybe Howard is a little more of a Vermonter than I have previously given him credit for....he's pretty darn Independent even for a Democrat!
At anyrate...it's more complicated than that...give the man a chance and judge for yourselves. It may take some work to weed through what we are fed for facts, but I'm willing to see what he does first and then decide for myself.
Posted by frani at 09:35 AM | Comments (0)
February 10, 2005
...and on the local front
This just frosts me no end. As if the hospital board isn't in need of someone without a personal agenda. I think I'm pretty mainstream when it comes to political correctness and although the "Crazy for you Bear" for Valentine's day did not appeal to me, I was no offended by it either. I've purchased many bears from VT Teddy Bear ofver the years so I get email and snail mail advertizing from them quite frequently. I received many notices about this bear long before the political correctness of it became an issue. Never once did I question the PCness of this bear and I certainly never thought the controversy would result in the removal of Elisabeth Robert from the hospital board of trustees. Geesh...that's what happens when you live in the big city and lose touch with real Vermonters.
hhhmmm...I wonder how many of those people who were soooo offended are out hawking the bear on eBay and getting their 15 minutes of fame on the local news.
Today's coffee has been brought to us by the country Puerto Rico, the Jura Capresso S7, Eva Solo coffee brewer and the support of kind listeners (readers) like you.
It's snowing; it has been snowing since last night and it will continue to snow throughout the remainder of the day. Oh well, it was getting dirty looking out there anyway with all the melted snow and slush. March will be here soon enough with it being all dirty looking...that is definitely NOT the time to come to Vermont...we don't look very pretty then. So far there is about 6 inches of snow accumulated. yea Yippe...Schools were canceled for my PIC ( partner in crime) so we went grocery shopping. God forbid we should starve to death before we get out again.
Make youself a fine day all....
Posted by frani at 11:57 AM | Comments (4)
February 09, 2005
Who ARE these people??
I know there must be a parallel universe out there somewhere. How is it that there is another person out there who wants the very same old out of print cookbook that I do?? I don't recall someone extra with us at my MIL's when we were discussing the cookbook and thumbing through her copy of it. Is there someone just monitoring my searches on eBay?? Messing with me?? Coming in at the last 5 seconds of a 10 day listing to challenge me??
Why?? Why??
Ha!...I still got the Bentley Farm Cook Book..neener, neener. seee?? I can't even send you a link to it! But it's mine..all mine and not that sniper's...
umm...'scuse me...I need to go collect myself.
Posted by frani at 01:23 PM | Comments (5)
February 08, 2005
Of Bears, Snakes and Kids.
Today's coffee: Australian Mountain Top...still being brewed in the Jura capresso one cup at a time. A few more weeks at home and I could very well suffer from "Jetson finger".
Ack...I just don't have the heart of an opportunist. Can someone explain to be why, when all the flap surrounding the Vt Teddy Bear's "Crazy for you" campaign, I just didn't drive 5 miles down the road and buy a bunch of these things? They're selling on eBay right now for more than 4 times their original selling prices. I just watched 2 sell for $282 and they are $70 bears. I could have been supporting our vacuum coffee brewer addiction!
Did I mention I've taken to undocking my laptop in the evening, dragging it to the living room so I can watch our auctions end while watching TV? No, I'm not obssessed, just interested...yeah, interested.
We have other lives...Being the good grandma that I am, I have tried hard not to pass on my snake phobia to another generation. If I recall correctly one son and I had a very hard time trying to herd one out of our yard. 10 miles radius is too close for me and these are just garter snakes. Of course, I don't say I'm afraid of snakes..just that I don't like them "because they don't have legs" and I can't hear them coming. Maura called last week to tell us about her field trip to the pet store and how she petted the snake and how smooth he was. willies...I get the gross willies thinking about my sweet little grand-daughter petting a snake! Ack..this is a child who was afraid of cats and dogs! Please don't let her have a "pet"!!
Owen, neighbor's grandson and of the "I bet Jesus would like this farm set for his birthday" fame, was being scolded by his mother recently. Guess he didn't take this scolding very well and declared "I'm leaving!" Piece of work little sister, Anna (3),calmly crooked her finger and declared, "There's the door." I just love seeing the parents and sometimes grandparents(grandfather) in this generation!
I really need to get out more. We've been having a heat wave this week...30s and 40s for temperatures; the snow is melting. I should at least drive around the driveway some and make tire tracks in the slush before it all freezes again. (tonight)It can get mighty slick out there if left alllll nice and smooth.
Enjoy the day all...
Posted by frani at 08:02 AM | Comments (1)
February 05, 2005
Home Improvement 101
Take one slightly bowed wooden closet clothes rod.
Apply slightly more than maximum weight for slightly more than optimum duration.
Make trip to the hardware Store for new closet rod holders.
Replace broken one screw plastic closet rod holders with 3 screw metal (albeit slightly thinner) closet rod holders.
Add one reinforcing closet rod holder bracket in middle of closet; hanging from the underside of shelf.
Find and install a piece of 1/2" board behind reinfrocing bracket to make it flush with the back wall of closet.
Place old slightly bowed wooden closet rod in new brackets.
Recite all known profanities.
Make Second trip to hardware store for new wooden closet rod 1/4" to 3/8" longer.
Place new rod on new holders.
Place many clothes on new rod. Do not place old clothes that do not fit on new rod.
Plan to make trip to frame shop to replace broken glass in Framed Snowflake Bentley Print which fell off the wall in hallyway when nailing in 1/2" board for reinforcing bracket.
Have coffee and write blog entry about project. Little precious strikes again.
Posted by frani at 05:19 PM | Comments (5)
More ramblings..
Coffee of the day: We have been using the Jura Capresso superautomatic the last couple of days for our daily coffee..we are on the last of our Huehuetenago Greg roasted earlier this week. I just love those "wussy Central Americans"
Hehehe Risa asked in comments yesterday why we needed so many vac pots. and Gary over at Virtual Rants (good read)emailed and asked about french press vs vacuum brewing... Well, silly Risa...there she went and used that "need" word. Maybe at first the number of vac pots had to do with acquiring a good functioning usable vac pot. BUT then we found better ones, and different styles and colors and stoves and and and and...then it became a matter of collecting...there in lies the rub. A collection has nothing to do with need, right? And a French Press is a French Press is a French Press...basically....but then again...there are different sizes and some nicer than others too...hhhmmm. Will really have to do a pot in the French press today to compare brews. ahem..will have to check eBay for vintage French presses also.
update:a vintage French press didn't differ much from a new French press but I did find a really cool French Duck Press!
I have a project for today. We awoke suddenly to some crashing sound; I thought Knoel had knocked some stuff off the TV table in our room as he performed some of his more daring feats of acrobatics while taunting ~Elmo from the floor. "You can't catch me"... Upon opening my eyes, I realized all the clothes in the closet were in a pile on the floor...the bracket holding the rod had come out of the wall. Geesh..I knew I shouldn't have left all of Greg's summer shirts hanging in there! Now I'm going to have to find some new brackets and maybe even a reinforcing one for the middle of the rod. Hhhmmm...maybe a new rod even...I did notice it was sort of misshappened (bowed) a little last week. Damn those winter clothes are heavy. yeah that's it..heavy clothes. It had remained soooo nicely organized after installing the shoe racks and everything...yeah must remove those summer shirts.
Have a good weekend all...oh? Is this Superbowl sunday????????
Go Patriots!
Posted by frani at 09:03 AM | Comments (2)
February 04, 2005
Friday this and that........
Yeah, I know I said i would write a post about vacuuming brewing but I think this link says it all a LOT better than I could ever explain. Besides, he has also has a wonderful vacuum pot collection on his site as well. We have a lot of the same ones too...which is your favorite??
Our eBay purchases have been trickling in ..one two or three a day. I suppose it had been doing that while we were gone last week as well, but there is still something thrilling about coming home to 9, 10 eleven packages. Yes, I am still keeping up with the recycling but I'm willing to bet the recycles guys wouldn't believe it's only a 2 week accumulation. I can learn...we certainly don't want a repeat of being admonished by the recycling guys for hoarding...afterall they do make the extra effort to back all the way into our yard now to pick up our recycling instead of making us drag it out front like normal people. I'm special.
I managed to give over 3 more shelves of my cabinet space to vacuum pots. Some obscure booze was relegated to the laundry room although I'm sure it would have been fine to pitch it into the trash. The super casual dining utensils ( ie paper plates, etc) have been piled on top of the Lennox china in their little quilted china clothes. This obviously only goes to show which of these gets used more often. The only thing that really had to get moved to the basement storage was my huge lobster pot and his sidekick I use for many corn on the cob cooking. I ask you..who can honestly say they need to have these items in their cabinets all the time? Actually I used to point them out as the indication of just how much cabinet space I really had in my kitchen!
So, the cache on the kitchen table was organized and filed with like items on the shelves.. Cory pots here...Silex there...pretty out front..uglies in the back. Uglies and pretties are in the eye of the beholder ya know. At any rate..there is room for a few more which is really a good thing...there are a few more coming.
hhhmmmm....do we really need this rice? Cereal anyone? You know I bet we have could turn the coat closet in the hall into a repository for vac pots...how stunning that would be! Must get the tape measure..
Have a fun weekend all.......
Posted by frani at 09:07 AM | Comments (8)
February 01, 2005
eBay is like a box of chocolates...
..sometimes you just never know what you're going to get! We really have never been too surprised with what we've bought...sometimes I have a little trouble with proportion even when they do give dimensions. Let's just say my visualization skills are slightly impaired...never developed or something akin to that. However, sometimes we have only a photo to go by..an experience, Sooooo if you don't ask the question, you just get surprised. We were pleasantly surprised with this little offering See him in the from next to the red one? We thought we were buying a regular sized pot and he turned out to be sooooooooo little and so cute. Yes these are the vac pots we bought recently..I have to find homes for them...I mean space..not my kitchen table.
..and yes I will get around to doing that vacuum brewing post...
Posted by frani at 10:42 AM | Comments (5)
Seasonal cliches...
Spring has sprung..the grass has riz...
Hey hey it's the first of May...
No it's only February and we didn't get a January thaw so I guess we can call this a heat wave. It may even get up to 30 degrees today! At anyrate...anything above zero leads one toward thoughts of Spring.
On the coffee front...we are drinking Australian Mountain Top coffee this morning..brewed in our brandy new Bodum Santos Electric Vacuum Brewer with timer, please. Lord only knows who would actually grind their beans the night before brewing to set the timer, but to each their own. I still the coffee we get from the vintage pots is still superior to this one though..I think we need to fiddle with either the grind size or the amount of beans we grind. Hhhmmm..that sounds rather coffee nerdy. Be that as it may, I think vacuum brewing will make a comeback..afterall they are making new vacuum pots now, even if the only improvement is speed/automatic where one doesn't have to watch it. This is the one I tried to buy in New London last week and couldn't find BUT did find here in Vermont at our local upscale cooking store. Yup, Vermonters will be on the cuttting edge...Hey home roasting has hit mainstream with our Pier 1 Imports carrying two kinds of home roasting equipment! We were impressed.
Speaking of vintage pots, um...the fed ex guy just arrived...I love ebay. Most ebay sellers just use the USPS..goodness! Only one today but the mailcarrier hasn't stopped by yet. She just loves us. I'm still keeping up with the carboard and packing innards. We won't have a repeat of last years fiasco with trying to rid ourselves of empty boxes. The days of "you never know when you'll need a good box to ship something in" are gone. Gone I tell ya!
I'll try to put together a post on vacuum brewing so you can follow along...off to open "presents"..
Posted by frani at 09:24 AM | Comments (2)