Coffee anyone ?

[Alaskan]

It was storming till around 1am here. So tired, going to start second pot of coffee before my interview.

Good luck!

 

[SageHill]

Done teaching for a bit. So last night lo and behold we got a whopping -- yes whopping 1/2 inch of rain!!!!!
Complete with strange noises and light in the sky --- LOL thunder and lightning (we hardly ever get t-storms).

 

[Baymule]

Pouring down here. I just took a bunch of pictures for the family trying to get their modular home delivered, showing that the ground was solid. Ready for delivery. NOT NOW.
Haven’t fed dogs or sheep. They are not coming out of their shelters! Food would get wet anyway. Church st 6:00 and I leave 15 minutes till. 4:40 now. I might be taking care of animals after church.

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. I didn’t make it to church last night. Got 4 1/2” of rain in 3 hours and my road was flooded. Now it’s a foggy white out. Supposed to be sunny next 3 days, then more rain.

 

[Mini Horses]

Thankful decent weather here! There is some sprinkly rains floating thru late day, they say. That's ok, just not downpours.

Woke up with spotty aches. Must have slept tense. Some stretches seem to have helped. Probably from resets last 2 days....diapers....which led me to wonder -- WHY?? Why so many types & sizes, why are kids needing size 7, why even all the trash this creates? No one is potty training now?

When my children were born you had one type. A long rectangle of white cloth!!! You washed and reused. You learned to fold differently as they grew. Eventually, you had soft dust rags left. Now we need thousands of expensive, nasty trash fillers at huge landfills.

Ok -- time for more coffee.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

- WHY?? Why so many types & sizes, why are kids needing size 7, why even all the trash this creates?

Truth right there!!

And, since we're on the coffee thread - another landfill filler - coffee pods! We use the refillable ones. I did the math once and between DH and I we drink daily (at the very least) 6 cups of coffee between us. That's 2,190 pods that would go to the land fill. That's just from the two of us.

"Single-use coffee pods and capsules are more popular than ever. In 2023, according to the National Coffee Association and Statista, a market research firm, 27 percent of U.S. coffee drinkers used a single-serve coffee machine to prepare their coffee on a given day. If we do some rough math based on the 63 percent of daily American coffee drinkers, that means that somewhere between 50 and 60 million used coffee pods are thrown out or recycled every day."
"Some pod brands have recycling programs, which is great, but it means you need to collect and mail your pods to them. For other pods, you can toss them into recycling bins yourself, but you first need to disassemble the pods and clean them. And not all communities and waste management systems accept coffee pods in their recycling."

The refillable ones aren't expensive. Just a tiny step to empty the grounds (for composting) rinse and refill.

Stepping off my soapbox now, lol.

 

[fuzzi]

Truth right there!!

And, since we're on the coffee thread - another landfill filler - coffee pods! We use the refillable ones. I did the math once and between DH and I we drink daily (at the very least) 6 cups of coffee between us. That's 2,190 pods that would go to the land fill. That's just from the two of us.

"Single-use coffee pods and capsules are more popular than ever. In 2023, according to the National Coffee Association and Statista, a market research firm, 27 percent of U.S. coffee drinkers used a single-serve coffee machine to prepare their coffee on a given day. If we do some rough math based on the 63 percent of daily American coffee drinkers, that means that somewhere between 50 and 60 million used coffee pods are thrown out or recycled every day."
"Some pod brands have recycling programs, which is great, but it means you need to collect and mail your pods to them. For other pods, you can toss them into recycling bins yourself, but you first need to disassemble the pods and clean them. And not all communities and waste management systems accept coffee pods in their recycling."

The refillable ones aren't expensive. Just a tiny step to empty the grounds (for composting) rinse and refill.

Stepping off my soapbox now, lol.

I collect coffee grounds at work for my compost bin. Filters are fine, but I can't do pods. A few years ago we used coffee filters with coffee inside. They had red plastic tape to hold it together. It didn't decompose, so I still find red plastic bits in my compost pile.

 

[SageHill]

WHY?? Why so many types & sizes, why are kids needing size 7, why even all the trash this creates? No one is potty training now?

Guess not! Yup same here - we used cloth diapers -- still have some around in their second life as the best dust rags and polishing rags ever and DS is 42. DS and DDIL are having their first in Sept - think I'll check into diaper services (do they even exist any more?) for them.
No coffee pods here. Tried a few machines and it was just ok. Well - the one with the best choices was way too $$$. We just feed our machine beans and it does the rest.

 

[murphysranch]

I did the diaper service with both kids. Started out with Sears disposable diapers cus FIL worked at Sears. But dd had so many diaper rashes, that I went to cloth. What a difference.

We use refillable pods too. Just rinse out, let dry, and reuse. The three of us drink our coffees at different times of the morning, so the pods work for us.

 

[Weldman]

Headed to visit Dorothy & Toto. Getting this piece of equipment will allow me to reach statewide.