A Great Cuppa Joe

 A Great Cuppa Joe

Mike and I enjoy our coffee. 

Every morning. 

We have a Mr. Coffee. Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done. In the evening, I pour the water in the machine, measure out ground coffee I bought at the store, and set everything up so that all we need to do in the morning is hit the ON button.

Easy. I even bought a permanent filter so we don’t have to fool with those little paper ones.

When my mother moved to Florida from Ohio in May, she knew she needed to downsize. She gave people she knew Items they could use or wanted. She donated furniture and lamps to a charity. 

She gave me two special items. Two coffee grinders. Not that I’ll ever use them.

One belonged to my paternal grandmother. It is ceramic and hangs on the wall. The coffee beans feed into the top, someone turns the handle, and a glass container collects the freshly ground coffee. I don’t how much my Grandma Williams used it…if at all. Mom didn’t know. She only knew it belonged to Grandma. Grandma gave it to Mom.

The second one isn’t as fancy. It is wood and rests on a counter or table. There is a handle to turn on top and a small drawer to collect the ground coffee to brew. This one is packed with memories.

My mother remembers her mother, my Grandma Woolum, setting the wood grinder on the table, pouring coffee beans in the box and turning the grinder. I don’t remember that. 

I do remember waking up to the smell of coffee brewing on the wood stove. I remember coaxing myself to crawl from under the quilt Grandma made…out from the featherbed. (Her own mother made her a featherbed when she was a little girl so that memory is a sweet connection for me.) I loved waking up to the sounds of Grandma in the kitchen. 

Those are all tender memories.

I am blessed to have sweet memories of both of my grandmothers…and grandfathers.

Now I am blessed to have two coffee grinders from my grandmothers. 

Oh, and the book in the picture? Libby’s Cuppa Joe was my second novel. You can still grab a copy on Amazon. I think the Kindle edition is on sale. Let me know what you think about it. Or better yet, write a review on Amazon. Reviews are like gold…better than a cup of joe for authors!