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December 01, 2005
This and that...
Thanks Fans, for all the nice comments on the recent home improvements. I hope our new property tax assessment isn't outrageous. Snort, it's one of those double edged swords...we'd want it appraised high for sale ( but we aren't selling yet)and low for taxes...we'll see. The city did the re-assessments this past summer. The "footprint" of the house is the same so it really shouldn't be a huge increase..just bring it up to "fair market" which is what our taxes are based on. Whooppee!
We've been in CT all week; haven't done much of anything except Tuesday I snuck ( snuck?) off to Stamford to deliver coffee and see some grandchildren.
Damn those Sudoku puzzles....I have spent an inordinate amount of time on the couch...I think I may need to buy some more erasers. Then again, what else am I suppose to do in a hotel room?
Funny incident yesterday...the head of housekeeping came to the room as she often does to secure scheduling for who's room needs cleaning and when. She commented on how good it smelled in here...coffee. Hehehe...of course this lead to a coffee discussion and how as a child in Puerto Rico, she and her siblings would help her mother roasting coffee in the back yard with beans from their own trees. She found coffee here in the US to be intolerable when she first got here and she gave me the name of some coffee she has found "instead". Of course I told her about our roasting and even the fact that we very much like the coffee we get from PR and in fact on 2 occasions we have received coffee beans from private homes in PR. I sympathized with the work involved shucking the beans before roasting too. Sometimes I don't notice the coffee smell about us but then again not many people travel with grinders and brewers and a few bags of coffee beans either.
BTW..Coffee of the day is Kenya Peaberry brewed in a 5 cup Bodum vacuum brewer (blue)
Off to Sudoku...have a good day all.
Posted by frani at December 1, 2005 10:11 AM
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very cool brewer! And I bet your brain will live forever after doing all of those Sudoku puzzles! I can't figure them out at all :)
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at December 3, 2005 12:54 AM
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