As y'all know- I'm a coffee addict with a capital C and capital A. Holy smokes, do I love coffee.

I'm also very particular on how it's prepared. I don't like brewed coffee. Yech and yuck. I like espresso, lattes and americanos. My drink of choice is espresso with a bit of half and half and a packet of splenda. Second choice is a straight shot of espresso down the hatch.

Remember when my espresso maker broke in January? Oh, I'm sure you don't, but pretend you do. I must have been so devastated by it that I didn't even write about it. I can't find a post anywhere about the broken espresso maker. Either that, or I was too drugged up at the time to write properly.

Anyhoo- it was quickly replaced (I mean in TWO days, and about a week after I had surgery) by this lil' baby:


PS- magnifica is right. LOVE this machine.

But that's not what I'm reviewing (even though it gets an A+). Let's talk coffee, shall we?

As particular as I am about wine (which I haven't had in over a month due to the head bonking, poor me...), it's nothing compared to how particular I am about coffee. I remember almost fainting when Michael told me that he drinks folgers crystals. I immediately went into action and bought him a coffee maker and sent him REAL coffee.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Michael , but I'm assuming you're back to the folgers? I think we brought the wrong baby home from the hospital. You simply can NOT be my brother.

Anyhoo- my coffee of choice these days is Peets- Major Dickason's blend. Deeeeelish!

I'm enjoying it right now, as a matter of fact.

In other news:
I got off my arse and gardened for a bit yesterday. My predictions of being showered and dressed by 5pm were almost spot on. By the time I finished in the garden, and then showered it was 5:05.

I got into something very nasty in the garden and my forearms, chest and legs looked like they'd been in some sort of gang fight.

Could it have been this?


Or was it this?


Up close and personal to the little prickly thing (although it looks fairly innocent from this view):


In any case- both of those obnoxious things are DEAD to me! DEAD, I tell you!

I've decided that my gardens need some RED.


I think I'm going to go out today and buy some red geraniums. I've heard that they cut down on mosquitoes, so we'll test that theory out. The bearded eye-roller and I love to sit on our back porch bench, as you know, but we do not like being eaten alive. I dunno- maybe we're too fussy.

Anyhoo, I'll post the 'afters' when I'm done, for those of you that give a rats behind about that sort of thing.

I'm feeling great today (always feel a need to post when I'm feeling good. It sorta balances out the whiny posts!)

Have a great Sunday everyone!