(I originally wrote this on New Year’s Day but had some technical difficulties…now here it is!)
It’s the first day of 2010…a grey, gloomy, cold day. We both woke up feeling tired and depressed (no, we didn’t party the night before unless you count watching an episode of old Star Trek), but we had pancakes for breakfast and then Mike lit the fire in the woodstove and we made coffee…life’s not so bad after all!!
Speaking of coffee, for Christmas I bought Mike (and me, I guess!) a hand coffee grinder at O’Hurley’s General Store…here’s a picture:
…You put the coffee beans in the top and turn the wheel for a minute or so and the ground coffee comes out into the drawer at the bottom.
…So, in the grand scheme of things, does this save much energy? Is it worth the manual labor? Maybe it’s silly and insignificant (after all, how much energy does an electric grinder use?) but it’s a step in the right direction…it gives a certain amount of psychological satisfaction. Some people say they enjoy the ritual of making their espresso every morning (not to mention the Japanese with their tea ceremony), so maybe this fits into that category.