The Smell of Fresh Perked Coffee

I like probably more than the actual cup. I love the warm, cozy feeling it brings to my house when it is cold outside. It is February 2017, and in my area 29 degrees. Winter has become my favorite time of the year. I have had one of the best winter seasons of my life I think. I can't remember when I had such a great winter, full of rest, full of coziness.....

I like the alertness Matcha Green Tea brings to me, but I have to admit the taste is horrid. I always have something flavorful to chase it down with. Coffee is a bit better for me in taste. Why drink the Matcha Green Tea if it tastes so bad? Well.....I drink it especially for the health benefits I have read about and the keen mental alertness I feel that is so unlike drinking coffee. There is no let down feeling after Matcha Green Tea up feeling, just a mellowing out kind of feeling. I drink coffee and feel a brief stimulation of alertness, but then a steep downhill feeling, something like eating too much sugar.

Brewing some coffee now, which is what motivated me to another blog post right now. Still crocheting, working on a hat that is one of my favorite patterns for beanie, the shell stitch beanie. I now have them in several colors and will be listing them over the next few days.

I have a regular assembly line going where I keep the hats until they are listed. I have a place to put them while they wait for picture taking, and then a place to put them while they wait to be listed, and then a final place for storage until they sell. This is the same for all my crochet items. It is just that I am so focused and interested in making the hats at the moment that I mention them here. I am trying different patterns, yet I collecting also my favorite patterns.

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The hat below is the popular "messy bun hat." See more photos of this hat here:
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Price: $25 

Fond Memories: Bonanza

I like watching the old Bonanza "shows." This morning at 4:20 a.m., sit here crocheting a hat and watching an episode. They all have "names" of which I did not know as a child.

My fondest memory about these episodes is sitting on the couch with dad. I was around 6 years old as I was in first grade when we lived in this particular house. I sat one one side of dad, and my younger sister who must have been about 3 1/2 years old at the time sat on the other side.

It was Sunday night. Mom went to church on Sunday night. Dad was babysitting me and my sister. We usually sat with him, watched several T.V. shows together, ate snacks, etc.

Bonanza was one of my favorites to watch as well. Dad made up a little game for us to play together. In some of these episodes, the beginning was they showed all the players, the father and his three sons riding in on horses. Each one would have a close up shot and then their names given. We called them by their star names of Ben, Little Joe, Haus and the older brother, of whom at this writing I cannot remember his name. I knew all the names back in those days, and apparently my little sister knew the names too.

The game was who can guess which one they will show first. It was always different. Sometimes, they would show Little Joe first, sometimes the father (Ben) and other times Haus, or the oldest brother.

Dad turn took turns between my sister and I giving us both a chance to guess before they popped on the screen. There actually was no prize given to the winner, just a big laugh or "I got it right" kind of feeling of whoever guessed it correctly. Dad played the game as well.

The game before Bonanza just seemed to set the "fun time" and "enjoyment" for the episode. Dad seemed to get a thrill more when Debra or I guessed it correctly than when he guessed it. He would laugh and and give us a special hug, so I guess that was the "prize."

During a commercial, dad would go into the kitchen and bring us all back some kind of simple snack. It was like a night at the movies in our living room on Sunday night when mom was gone to church.

I enjoyed it immensely.

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The above hat can be seen at this link: Crochet Pretties Shop
Price: $35