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6 responses to “A Favorite Daily Routine”

1. Martina

   07 December 2018

   After the guests leave,and everything is put away, the feeling of satisfaction of an appreciated meal and the love of family and friends.

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2. Diogenes

   07 December 2018

   Corey, you write so well. And your silver looks beautiful. Elaborate glassware seems to have fallen out of favor in the States – 8 settings of used crystal (you name it Waterford or Baccarat) will sell for a song these days. As for meals, I’m afraid we are good friends of the micro onde!

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3. Kathie B

   07 December 2018

   Uh-oh!
   Farmboy Husband sits in his Amish bent-wood rocking chair while I lie propped-up on the couch, and we eat dinner as we watch the PBS News Hour (and, if the meal runs late, then “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune” as well). We still use mainly the Melmac dishes we bought with wedding money over 50 years ago, and the stainless utensils we obtained with a book of Blue Chip trading stamps! But what matters most is one another’s company.

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4. Ali

   08 December 2018

   Ah! The grinding of the coffee beans, the heating of the milk and then the frothed milk…and the first sip of coffee…yes…
   Ali

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5. Barbara St. Aubrey

   08 December 2018

   My routine is morning anxiety – did I leave a couple of mouthfuls of coffee in the pot from yesterday – please, please just two mouthfuls I can heat in the microwave for 10 seconds, while I ground beans and make a fresh pot of drip into a ceramic pot that had been a white tea pot and that the white china filter cone perfectly fits. While water boils a look-see out the window to see if there are any deer still in the yard. If not after the coffee is in my cup, out onto the patio, summer or winter, to smell the air, check on birds, see the condition of grass and trees, do they need water or is the turn of the season showing. Look and listen then be silent for a bit and back inside for toast with honey and the day begins.

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6. Stubblejumpers Cafe

   11 December 2018

   My husband is always up before me and has the coffee made, and sometimes even delivers it to the bedside table. I prop myself up in bed, turn on a lamp, and read a book while drinking just one cup of the black brew. After I’m up a while, I usually wash the supper dishes from the night before and dry and put them away, and maybe sweep the kitchen floor before checking my email while eating two slices of buttered toast. It’s so nice not to have to rush off anywhere.
   In the mid-afternoon I trudge, now that it’s winter, through snow to the barn where I feed the cats and refill their heated waterbowl. Then I walk a mile or two down the road — there are no close neighbours and traffic is rare — while listening to favourite podcasts. Sometimes I see moose, a deer, a coyote, a rabbit, a fox. Not many birds this time of year, except in the yard at my feeders.
   When I come in, I sometimes make a cup of tea and watch the chickadees, woodpeckers and white-breasted nuthatch at the feeder outside the window, before starting supper.
   These daily activities are routine and I’m so grateful to have time for them and in between, a lot of freedom to follow my nose.
   Life is good.
   -Kate

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