Monday, January 7, 2013

A Prime Number Day

This morning as I was driving into work I was trying to remember what the date was (I've been out of it for the past week - sicker than I've been in many years).  I realized it was a prime number day 1-7-13.  Not being a number person, I was proud of myself for even thinking of it.

On the weekend I started to feel better after literally spending 18+ hours per day sleeping during the week.  Whatever crud I had - it laid me low.  So I was glad when I felt better, and felt creative.  I decided to try my hand at my friend, Lindsay Ostrom's, monthly challenge.  Her challenge for January is entitled Home Sweet Home.

She asked us to look around our houses and find something that we really like that has sort of become "invisible" - or at least that's how I interpreted the instructions.  We were then to draw or write or do something to highlight that item.  She'd written her blog from a Starbucks because the power was out at her house.  What I picked up from her blog was that she doesn't like coffee.

That statement prompted me to think of my hourglass coffee maker which I just LOVE.  It's a coffee maker that allows me to brew coffee with cold water.  I got it a couple of years ago and it's the coffee I regularly make around here.  Basically, you grind your beans and put them in the basket, you pop the basket into the bottom of the hourglass.  You pour cold water over the beans.  You screw the top on and put the gizmo onto a shelf for a couple of days.  You wind up with what I refer to as coffee extract.  The extract is stored in the "bean kanteen".

To make a cup of coffee you heat water, put two cupfuls of extract into your cup and fill up with hot water.  I make mine by heating milk in the microwave, putting most of it in the cup with the extract then topping off with hot water.  The remaining milk I froth with my mini frother.  Basically, I'm making myself my own cappuccino.  LOVE IT.


Anyway, I chose to draw this great kitchen tool.  I colored it with watercolor pencils and then decided to chance it and actually added water with a brush.  I think it's a pretty accurate rendering of the item.  But I took some photos of it and will add one or two of them, too.

Ah coffee, with less acid from this type of brewing, it's yummy.

1 comment:

  1. As an added note, Lindsay Ostrom informed me that my entry was the winner! I feel proud.

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