I have a brain tumor

Well that's a surprise. Not sure how it's all going to play out. Surgery pending. Will keep you posted.

YSIHF (3): Barbequeuer's 12 Days of Christmas

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST:

Barbequeuer's 12 Days of Christmas

And a finger lickin' good secret sauce
2 Grimy grills
3 Grease fires
4 Ball-park franks
5 Mushroom clouds
6 Empty gas tanks
7 Well-done pork chops
8 Bags of charcoal
9 Flame-kissed t-bones
10 Singed-off eyebrows
11 Sauce-stained aprons
12 Crispy bratwurst

[BIHR] Books I Have Read [7]

Here's an update since the last posting. Been reading Zane Grey and fairy tales:

147-Barnaby Rudge--Charles Dickens (part)
148-About Orthodoxy--Gilbert K. Chesterton (part)
149-Betty Zane--Zane Grey
150-The Border Legion--Zane Grey
151-The Call of the Canyon--Zane Grey
152-The Day of the Beast--Zane Grey
153-Desert Gold--Zane Grey
154-The Blue Fairy Book--Andrew Lang
155-The Brown Fairy Book
156-The Crimson Fairy Book
157-The Red Fairy Book (Master Thief p. 384)
158-The Green Fairy Book
159-The Gray Fairy Book
160-The Lilac Fairy Book
161-The Orange Fairy Book (The Girl-Fish p. 896)
162-The Pink Fairy Book
163-The Violet Fairy Book; Three Wonderful Beggars
164-The Yellow Fairy Book The Invisible Prince
165-Silas Marner--George Eliot
166-The Last Trail--Zane Grey
167-With Lee in Virginia--George Alfred Henty
168-The Last of the Plainsmen--Zane Grey
169-The Light of the Western Stars--Zane Grey
170 The Heritage of the Desert--Zane Grey

TWIDI(5) More coffee -- chocolate mint coffee

I have discovered a new love--chocolate mint coffee.

I buy Eight O'Clock coffee beans (100% Columbian/Arabica)--excellent coffee. I buy Chocolate Mint beans from the local Berres Brothers coffee specialty shop. I grind one unit of regular coffee and one unit of chocolate mint, and mix thoroughly.

WOW! Love it.

By the way, here's what I do for non-fattening sweetener: I buy Equal in the large blue container (it's white and fluffy, used for baking), and non-dairy creamer. Then I mix them 50-50 in a container. It is quite palatable and doesn't have the same bite that Equal in the yellow packets, or the other sweeteners, seem to have.

Wow it's been almost a year since I last posted!

TWIDI (4) How I make ground coffee

Coffee ground from beans

We have one of those nice little grinders. I put three teaspoons of beans (not necessary to be heaping) into the grinder, then grind it fine. Put it into the coffee pot with three cups of coffee by the carafe markings.

Nice, I like it.

Oh, and keep your coffee beans and ground coffee in the freezer.

Funverse #12: Ides of March Poetry

There once was a Roman named Julius
Who acted the part of a foolius.
When they warned, “Ides! Beware!”
He refused to take care,
And he promptly got poked by one Brutius.

--By Me

2/27/07