I am curious about how many of you know about Fair Trade items and whether that is an important factor in your decision to buy a product. Where do you spend your coffee/tea dollars and why?

I am sitting here in my office, drinking my Saturday morning coffee. Heavy cream, stevia, custom roast….out of my favorite cup. An online friend sent me this cup about 10 years ago and it is chipped, faded and stained, but I love it..although it is probably time to get a new cup. I have lost track of her, and her life, over the past several years but the cup connects us and reminds me to pray for her.

In the background the little kids are watching cartoons. The noise from the den can be overwhelming when I am trying to think, because the den is attached to the office by french doors. The rooms flow into eachother…one of the oddities about an old house. You wouldn’t put the rooms like that in a new house.

It is a sunny, 60 degrees today, and the older kids all have plans. Shiloh is heading out to look for fossils, Ethan and Matt are riding bikes over to friends’ house…Marc started a part time job with Home Depot so he is gone until this afternoon…My daughter and her husband are chatting in the other room. This is Saturday here, totally laid back and relaxed. I have made donuts for breakfast, the bread for lunch is rising in the warm kitchen.

Black coffee is for the weekdays, busy, hurried, intense. Saturday’s coffee is always luxurious, languid, and luscious.

Saturdays I have a chance to blog surf…catch up, so to speak, and read new blogs. Here are some I found interesting today.

How Can I Recycle This asks what the best use for a used teabag is..with some interesting answers

Tea Party Girl discusses table settings. How often do you do that? Me? Not often enough, unless you count tossing the forks in a heap in the center and screaming “Food’s HOT!”

Tea on Tap reviews an Organic Shui Xain that sounds fabulous to me

Hayley at Coffee Helps has a hysterically funy post about her cat. And snow. And the importance of gallantry and the defense of honor. Warning…coffee/tea spew alert with this one.
The Coffee Detective finds the best coffee makers under $100.00, if you are in the market for a new coffee maker you might want to check that out.

Have an awesome weekend. I leave you with this thought from Dave Barry:

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles. ~Dave Barry

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