Summer-Part 4

Well, I'm finally getting my last summer photos up, and since I haven't been around much since I got back for the summer I have several photos that are from the last few weeks. I should be getting those up ASAP so look for them.

8-6-09

Spilled coffee inside the cabin, something I wasn't actually aloud to bring in (no food in the cabin this summer). But I accidentally kicked my cup while sitting on my bunk.

Guess what I was reading this morning.

8-7-09

Hey there's my leg...awkward

8-8-09

Hard to see but there is a spill on my t-shirt.

8-9-09

Ok this days sequence of photos was funny in retrospect but aggravating at the time. I set my cup of coffee on a janky card table we had under the kitchen tent. The table was not sitting on a level surface. So I bumped the table and my coffee spilled into the puzzle box. Well I moved the cup and began to wipe up the spill. But that shook the table again, causing another spill. You can see this began a vicious cycle. I repeated this 4 more times! Ahhh

8-13-09

If you look realy close, I spilled the water while trying to fill the french press.

Summer - Part 2

These are some more updates from the summer. Probably a third round will be coming soon.

6-20-09

Looks like I spilled some on the picnic table.

6-21-09

And a spill on my journal

6-22-09

Accidentally kicked my cup one morning when I left it sitting on the porch.

7-1-09

Dripping from my chin...

to my shirt.

7-5-09

And this is from the beginning of my first break from camp. I spilled coffee on the floor of the Coffee Ethic, my fav coffee place in Springfield. There was actually a bunch more spills on this trip to the Ethic but my camera died. If I remember right, I was drinking the Sumatra, and it's always good...made on the Clover.

Summer - Part 1

Hi All, 

I'm sure I've lost anyone who read this, but I'm back from a summer in the wilderness. As promised I took lots of photos. I didn't catch every spill, but I hope I don't leave anyone disappointed either. Here are just a a few of this summers spills. 

6-7-09

On the ground.

This is where I made coffee every morning.

Here is the mug I used a lot this summer.

6-9-09

It's hard to see, but there is a drip on my hand.

6-14-09

You can see the spill on the bottom corner of my Bible, and my sweet bruise.

6-17-09

Backpacking Breakfast

This weekend I went backpacking in the Paddy Creek Wilderness with 2 friends. It was so nice to finally go. This was the third weekend I've tried but thunderstorms and more have interfered. Well Friday night we rode out a storm in the car and finally set up camp late. Woke up on Saturday morning, everything was wet and dreary. What better to get you ready for a day of hiking than a cup of coffee. We made breakfast and I whipped up coffee in my Jetboil (fun, because it was the first time I got to use it). As we were packing up the car, I set the cup of coffee on the trunk of my car and it slip off and spilled on the ground. Luckily I had already drank most of it. However somehow I still managed to get it all over me and my car. I don't even know how I got it on my back? Much thanks to Jen for sending me the photos.





Coffee: Some kind of coffee packets I bought from Target. They worked really well for camping.
P.S. After ridingout the storm, the rest of the weekend was beautiful!

A funny thing happened on the way...

I walked with a friend to church Sunday morning. It was beautiful! However whenever I try to do more things at the same time (i.e. walking, talking, drinking coffee) I can get uncoordinated.



Coffee: I want to say it was beans form Belize, but the Mudhouse website doesn't list that as something they sell? I guess I can't remember what kind I bought.

Early Morning Emergency

Saturday morning I couldn't sleep (it seemed like the birds outside my window were in a marathon screeching contest) so I ended up going to walmart at 6:30 in the morning. Well I got back home around 8:30 and I was starving and had no coffee yet. So I quickly whipped up one of my favorite breakfasts, two eggs fried on toast, and ground some coffee beans. As I was filling the coffee maker with water I realized that we had no filters. I had to get creative. Though I didn't resort to brewing coffee in a stock, I stuffed in a paper towel. I was waiting for the disaster, but it worked surprisingly well. The spill actually came when I was trying to poor the water in the coffee maker. I enjoyed my coffee and breakfast on our AstroTurf covered stoop, where I also dripped egg yolk on my shirt. This kind of grosses me out a little.








Coffee: Guatemalan from Equal Exchange.
I need to buy coffee in smaller amounts.