Hello and Welcome! Come on in and I’ll get you a mug of super strong dark roast, a cuppa tea, some cocoa or other beverage. It is gorgeous out there, if not really warm. A few stray clouds, but plenty of sunshine. Oh, where are we? Some of you may recognize the photo at the top as being from Cape Cod.
A quick word about coffee – There still may be one or two of you out there that remember me offering a strong French Roast but now it is a strong dark roast. I mix pretty close to a third each of French Roast, Sumatra and a single origin Medium Roast, usually something named after an island. I still like a bit of the strong, burnt taste of French Roast, but the Sumatra adds a smooth, silky richness, like a strong dark (80% or more) chocolate. The Medium Roast adds that aroma that we all love but the dark roasts lack. I brew it in an old school percolator. Yum! I get spoiled and think most coffee is too weak…
Busy work week…
The first half of the week was pretty normal. It was walking the dogs and such, but then I drove down here Wednesday evening. I brought cats, but not dogs. Thursday was wet after work, but Friday was nice.
So I was able to get a little more into my exercise routine than I have recently. I ran Saturday, Tuesday and Friday. I did strength exercise two days. It is nice and I am feeling better from it.
Sunrise On Friday morning is below…
I did a little music (I wrote a song and am mentally trying to figure out how it will be recorded). I read a lot and did some writing. I had massage on Wednesday. As I said, dog walks and such early in the week. Not so much the end – I did walk some since arriving on the Cape, particularly on Friday, but haven’t been out as much as I’d like. My run took me on the beach access roads, but I haven’t been on the beach or in the woods.
Anyway, as you may guess, that last line, together with the first paragraph about being gorgeous out there,is a hint that I need to get outside!
Thanks for visiting. If you have a coffee share, I will try to stop by.
Natalie the Explorer is the host of the weekend coffee share and she is doing a wonderful job. Stop in at this week’s main share page or go to the InLinkz-Linkup to see all of the other shares!
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That’s a nice sunrise on the water & to be there walking & enjoying it would be awesome. The chocolate in the coffee sounds good. Sometimes I mix 1/2 coffee & 1/2 hot chocolate. #Weekendcoffeeshare
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It is always nice to be by the water and I take every opportunity to be by the water when I am on Cape Cod.
By the way, I have tried to leave comments on your blog but for some reason I have issues leaving comments on everything except WordPress. Hope your move went well! Are you close to the water or more in the mountains? Anyway, I am sure closer to the water than you were ;)
Hope you are having a great week!
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Beautiful sunrise.
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Thanks, it was very nice :)
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That does sound like a strong coffee preference! Have a great week, Trent!
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Yes, and preference is the right word – I’m not a total coffee snob and will drink what is put in front of me, but if I can have my way…
You too, have a great week!
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Glad you’re having some good weather! I hope you were able to get some beach and forest time. It’s been chillier than usual here (it’s 42 as I type this) but sunny and pleasant. My exercise today will be planting all the plants I bought yesterday.
Have a great week!
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I did get a long woods walk in, but the rain arrived before i got beach time. Oh, I had a ton to do and still enjoyed the weekend :) Hope you had a good weekend as well, despite the cool (for there) temps. Have a wonderful week!
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There is nothing enjoyable about a weak cup of coffee.
The Friday sunrise picture is lovely. Happy Sunday, Trent.
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No, coffee must be strong! Thanks. Hope you had a great weekend and have a wonderful week :)
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Loving the coffee chat this morning. Just had mine brought to me. The clocks have changed here. Definitely needed it to get going!
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Our clocks changed two weeks ago and I don’t think I’ve recovered yet…
I hope you have a good week and aren’t too thrown off by the time change.
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Now you got me thinking about enjoying a super strong dark roast coffee on Cape Cod. Life is good. Thank you for your weekend coffee share.
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yes, life is good, and it is made better with good coffee ;) I hope you had a great weekend and have a wonderful week
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Hey Trent,
As a confirmed tea drinker, I’m still “developing” a taste for coffee and now have days when, after multiple mugs of strong tea, I still want something stronger so out comes the coffee. I know that I don’t make it as strong as two of our three adult kids make it, but I’m gaining on them slowly.
I do not enjoy the acidic after taste and stomach impact so this keeps me from just diving in and brewing up thick, chewy coffee when I do make it.
Do I lose points for always adding milk and occasionally a bit of sugar?
Your week sounded wonderful even though your weather must still be a bit of a challenge to enjoy.
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I really didn’t drink much coffee until my 30s, but when I started, I went directly to the “hard stuff”. That being said, I put a half spoon of raw sugar and tiny splash of half-and-half into my first cup in the morning. I refill before it is empty, so the sugar and 1/2-and-1/2 is more and more diluted as the morning goes on…
We had a few cool days and a little wet weather (Thursday and most of today), but for the most part it is much closer to spring in New England, so i do enjoy it… I even saw crocuses.
Hope your weekend is going well.
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I agree that most coffee is definitely too weak!! Coffee has to be strong. I just finished a cup of a strong dark roast that I made in my smaller French press. I use a smaller French press in the afternoon. I only have one small cup then, stronger than the 1-2 cups I have in the morning. In the morning I make my coffee in a bigger French press. Yesterday I visited a bigger store in a multicultural area that had a lot of interesting coffee. Mos too the packages were huge 5lbs, or bigger. They were all whole beans, and at the moment I don’t have a coffee grinder. I might invest in one though, just to try some of those interesting imported coffees.
Have a fabulous rest of your weekend!
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I do have a French press but have only used it a few times. The coffee seemed a little weak, yet it held a bigger caffeine kick. I think I need to experiment to get it just right. I also had a grinder, but haven’t used it in a while and don’t even know where it is any more. I should get a new one, but I want a hand cranked one instead of the electric whiz type I had. I do like experimenting with different coffees, so I’d be with you checking out some of those imports.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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