Happy national waffle day...

On this day (August 24) in 1869 Cornelius Swarthout took out a patent for the waffle iron...

Do the right thing... You know you want to!

Some time back I mentioned I liked the Coleman  all stainless French press coffee maker and was getting one...

We've had it for a while now and it is even better than I expected. It's easy to use and clean and one advantage I had not considered is that being stainless you can simply boil water in the coffee maker... No messing about with sauce pans or kettles!

Best yet, is the fact that it is unbreakable so no worries like we had with our glass coffee maker or annoying plastic tasting coffee like the other sort (plastic) of unbreakable coffee makers provide...

Bummed...

Since I've been concentrating on the weather and keeping an eye on "Colin", I seemed to have missed two very special days. Then who knew that National Cheesecake Day, International Beer day and Tropical Storm Colin were barreling down the track so quickly...

As for Cheesecake Day... Well, I did make a cheesecake yesterday, and while it was not the day in question, it did taste mighty fine. On the other hand, International Beer Day took us completely by surprise and there was not a drop on board... Bummer!

I did, however, read some very interesting stuff about beer over at Balloon Juice and you should too. If only to realize just what a great president Jimmy Carter was and how without him the whole micro-brewery thing would never have happened!