Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[ronott1]

I have a copy of the Moka Express, but those genuine Bialetti's sure make some nice coffee.

What's with the filter paper though?

That was this mornings coffee. There is a place that sells a Chemex replacement cloth filter, but it was in the $25.00 range. The trick with the paper filter is to run some hot water through it pre brewing to take out the paper taste.

Moka pot for espresso in the PM.

 

[Bunnylady]

The airport says it's a steamy 91o F (33o C) out there. The thermometer on the back porch is reading 104o, but since the sun is on that side of the building, you can't trust it. Whatever the actual temperature is, I'm definitely enjoying the chance to be inside and chill a bit. Can't help but wonder how people survived this weather before AC, though.

I'm counting myself blessed that it has NOT rained so far today, so things are drying out a little bit. I'm getting a little tired of getting covered in mud every time I go out to work around the animals - where's Mike Rowe when you need him?

 

[vehve]

The airport says it's a steamy 91o F (33o C) out there. The thermometer on the back porch is reading 104o, but since the sun is on that side of the building, you can't trust it. Whatever the actual temperature is, I'm definitely enjoying the chance to be inside and chill a bit. Can't help but wonder how people survived this weather before AC, though.

I'm counting myself blessed that it has NOT rained so far today, so things are drying out a little bit. I'm getting a little tired of getting covered in mud every time I go out to work around the animals - where's Mike Rowe when you need him?

I wouldn't mind a bit of rain for a change (Although 2 weeks ago I was complaining about the never ending rain). I'd like +25C days, with an hour of pouring rain at 3 in the night. Is that too much to ask?

 

[Bunnylady]

I wouldn't mind a bit of rain for a change (Although 2 weeks ago I was complaining about the never ending rain). I'd like +25C days, with an hour of pouring rain at 3 in the night. Is that too much to ask?

25C days are lovely, but when the temps at night aren't getting lower than 27, it gets rough. You walk out the door, and it's like someone dropped a blanket fresh out of the dryer on you, only it isn't quite dry.

And I don't know what "pouring rain" means to you, but here, if it lasted for an hour, that would be about 3 inches (7.5 centimeters) of rain. And of course, at this time of year, it comes with an embellishment of lightning and thunder. That gets a little hard to sleep through.

 

[vehve]

Quote:

I wouldn't mind a bit of rain for a change (Although 2 weeks ago I was complaining about the never ending rain). I'd like +25C days, with an hour of pouring rain at 3 in the night. Is that too much to ask?

25C days are lovely, but when the temps at night aren't getting lower than 27, it gets rough. You walk out the door, and it's like someone dropped a blanket fresh out of the dryer on you, only it isn't quite dry.

And I don't know what "pouring rain" means to you, but here, if it lasted for an hour, that would be about 3 inches (7.5 centimeters) of rain. And of course, at this time of year, it comes with an embellishment of lightning and thunder. That gets a little hard to sleep through.

We seldom get those tropical like rains, I do remember one summer when we got about 100mm in 2 hours. That was pretty cool, I was walking through the city center with about half a meter of water in the streets. The annual rainfall for Southern Finland is about 600-700mm (24-28 inches)

 

[vehve]

And the thunder is no issue with over a foot of insulation in the walls, and over 2 in the roof.

 

[Bunnylady]

Several years ago, my family vacationed in a house on Hatteras Island. Hatteras is one of the barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks; they are little more than a glorified sand bar that just barely manages to be above the high tide mark. To the east, of course, is the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west the Pamlico Sound is at least 20 miles wide. Since beach houses usually aren't occupied during the cooler months, most of them have little in the way of insulation. One night, about 3 a.m. we got bounced out of our beds by a series of thunderstorms. With all that warm water around us, the storms just kept regenerating; there were frequent close lightning strikes and constant, very loud thunder. You feel thunder like that, you know? Building codes require that beach houses be built on pilings so hurricane storm surges can (hopefully) pass underneath them, but let me tell you, it makes them sway like trees in storm winds! By the time the weather settled down (almost 2 hours later) we all felt a bit shell-shocked . . .

 

[chickisoup]

And now we are under a tornado watch!

Well, since it is clearly no longer politically correct (thus not allowed) to wish everyone a blessed Sunday (like we have done for how long?), I have to also assume it is also not allowed to tell you that I will remember you and yours in a little prayer for the safety from the storm, so I won't.

 

[ronott1]

Well, since it is clearly no longer politically correct (thus not allowed) to wish everyone a blessed Sunday (like we have done for how long?), I have to also assume it is also not allowed to tell you that I will remember you and yours in a little prayer for the safety from the storm, so I won't.

That's ok. It's the quoting thing that is a problem, mostly because is causes arguments.

The Expresso was very tasty. The chickens are ok today--It is 102 currently here. Real 102, no heat index.

 

[Alaskan]

(Cutting and pasting posts was too problematic for me today, so, here are all the things I wanted to respond to)


1. Yes! Yes! Let us have a "what units should we use" war!

We can start doing all temps in Réaumur, and all length in rods! Rods I say, RODS!


2. Up where I am at we usually have only drizzle. But, last night we had THUNDER! (It started right after I got onto church, so I don't know about lightning) it was a hoot though, the thunder would crash only right after a line like "great is the power of the Lord" and then a giant thunder. And wow! So much rain! A proper super heavy rainstorm, like what you get down South.

3. Hurricanes..... And wobbling houses..... When I was little I lived in Galveston, in an old house that survived the 'Great Hurricane' (was that 1900, or 1910?, anyway). That house was up on piers and would rock very impressively in every big storm. As a kid I remember being scared, and not wanting to go to sleep. My Mom told me that the entire house rocking was God rocking me to sleep. Yep, worked like a charm....I stopped being scared and passed out, and that house didn't fall over, it is still standing.

4. I had so much fun with the poultry today. The ducks that had been in the toy room (and impressively stinking up my house, yep, the spouse was not pleased) were finally put outside. I sat and watched them explore their new place. They went from a very large rubbermaid tote to an 8x8 space with some growing stuff. They were most excited by all of the bugs. They even found one earthworm!

5. I dislike all children...except for my own. I love my own kids....but other kids, we currently have some neighborhood kids that keep showing up at my house (the same ones I am teaching). Barf, barf, barf, ultra barf. luckily they are leaving on the 31st. I know lots of other families love all of the kids showing up and running through their house... But...... BLACH!!!! I am very glad that I live remote, and only have a few close houses...and, as of the 31, we will be back to my kids being the only kids up here.