What could I possibly write about everyday? There’s only so much of the Pistol anyone can take. Someone said she created her photo album pages using everyday cues, For instance, she looked at her coffee and create pages involving coffee.
So that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to write about coffee. I don’t drink coffee.
But my Mom did. She was an artist and drank 15 to 20 cups a day while she was painting. One day, I noticed she rinsed her paintbrushes in her coffee instead of the water.
“Deedeeann,” she called, (That’s me.) “make me coffee, please.”
On my way to the kitchen it struck me. Did she like the taste of the cream or the color of the coffee? So began my experiments.
First, I tried flour. Did she notice any difference? No.
Baking soda? No.
Baking powder? No.
Ice cream? Well maybe, she asked me to make another cup. Not really my goal.
If I wanted to get out of being the sole coffeemaker, I would have to take drastic action. Mayonnaise.
I was out of the rotation for several months until she forgot and then the experiments started anew.
I don’t know where the Pistol gets it.
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I posted on my blog every day of 2013 using a ‘word of the day’ desk diary word for inspiration. Yes it can be done!
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If my only job was to be a blogger, I expect I could post every day. I expect maybe about a third of the posts would be worthwhile. As it is, I try really hard to post once a week, and that seems to be about right, but then blogging is important to what I do, or so I’m told — that whole “author platform” thing. Certainly that’s why I started doing it. But after doing it for a while, I discovered I enjoyed it and the people I’d connected with as a blogger, so I’m happy to continue, and I post when I can. As a blog reader, I don’t know that I would want to read daily posts from anyone. I think once a week is plenty, and once a month — with really top quality posts each month — is perfectly a delight.
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Ha! You are evil. π
I don’t think I could post everyday. I tired posting three days a week and that proved too taxing. I just post when I feel like it, but try to keep them in some sort of order. Good luck on trying to post every day!
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Unfair – you have really funny coffee stories. (and if this one goes in rotation….)
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Always willing to help, are you? LOL
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I posted 363 out of 365 days last year, missing only due to illness. I’ve posted every day this year so far, but I’m going to miss a few due to surgery so that streak is about to break. It really isn’t hard with some imagination, but frankly, I only do it out of habit. There’s no need to publish that often and I’m eventually going to slow down.
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I try to post everyday and mostly I do so, but for me going on the blog is the first order of business each morning.
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Oh I hope you post every day if this is a preview of what’s to come. As for me posting everyday. I probably could but my travel makes it difficult.
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I couldn’t post everyday. What the heck would I say? My life consists of sitting in this chair clicking these keys all day long. How many ways can I describe THAT process? Ha ha.
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I love your new cat picture!
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Yuk
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I’m an artist but don’t drink coffee; however, I would be happy to participate in a daily posting with you about coffee…surrendering my digestive system to your whims…just jesting with java…
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Sure let me know what your thinking about at dee.tequila@yahoo.com
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I like posting every day. I set a blogging goal for myself of getting to a post a day…right now I should be a post a month. I beat the goal and have posted every day but one since I started. On the weekend I have a structured blog line that I post in with an outline of topics. Some mornings I have to think about what I’m going to post, but so far the ideas are there. I also post first thing in the morning during the week so it gets the mind going. I don’t get comments like my fellow bloggers though.
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i am new here and have not clue what the pistol means but like the way you presented the ideas of coffee and the way you painted the images in here.
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The Pistol is my young nephew who has earned the name through his antics. Thanks.
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I used to make my father coffee with cigarette ashes. he noticed once I threw a few butts in.
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Now that’s greatness!
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For the love of all that is caffeine … please tell me you did not put mayonnaise in your mom’s coffee…?!? Wicked!!! And she let you back in the rotation? Obvious work of a pure artistic genius (who was apparently desperate for caffeine!)!!
Love your style, BTW … Thx!!!
PS – if you want to ‘develop’ a taste for coffee … try eating chocolate coated coffee beans (no, really – it’s a food product, typically found in gift baskets) after a night of insomnia … π
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Ha classic! I used to put a couple of extra scoops of coffee into my Mums when she would ask me to make one for her, in the hope that it would taste so bad she would never ask again. Eventually it worked!
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The first clue should have been that she dipped her paint brushes in the coffee. Anyone who likes to drink coffee and turpentine can put up with a lot. I think you were on the right track, but I think you should have added bacon, lettuce and tomato to the mayonnaise and red dye no.4. I’ve never tried painting with coffee, but it does seem like a good short cut. When painting I used to use a little of this, no: more of that, no: more of this until everything always turned brown; never knew how I accidentally mixed red, blue, and yellow together over and over. Coffee would have been a lot easier.
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I love the BLT idea. I could add ice and make it a bacon, lettuce, tomato in a cup. With coffee, it’s truly lunch on the go. Ronald McDonald and Starbucks look out, the Sandwich Coffee Latte is the next big thing. Next week the Tuna Smoothie.
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