Winter Wonderland Coffee Swap Package

I received my WWCS package from Ingrid on Christmas Eve. I sent her an email right away to thank her, but want to give her a public thanks for such a wonderful package.
Sorry about the flash on the yummy Caribou Coffee Chocolate Mocha bars. There is also some tasty Kona Coffee plus playing cards from Alaska where she lives. Those are a good addition because we play Liverpool Rummy when we have enough people and it takes two to three decks for a game.
This is what was inside the wrapping paper. More coffee, a mug, and two skeins of very exotic yarn. I love the Zoo Yarn and am going to have to come up with something special to make with it. I even get to know the names of the animals it came from! The card with Linus on it is pretty awesome too. I get to hear Linus reading the passage from Luke's gospel from A Charlie Brown Christmas when the card is opened. I love this card, along with everything else! Thank you so much Ingrid!

Ideal setting to drink coffee

Our weekly "Getting To Know You" post for the Winter Wonderland Coffee Swap is about our ideal setting for enjoying the perfect cup of coffee. My ideal setting is my back porch on a beautiful morning. This is my favorite rocking chair to sit in and enjoy my coffee and yard. I am happy to be out there alone or to share the time, space and view with my family and our dogs. Sometimes I take my knitting out with me, but sometimes it just sits idle in my lap as I take in the view, the birds, and the beauty of it all. This time of year I am much happier drinking my coffee inside the house and am really happy with the coffee Hubband brings me most mornings before I even get up.

Boy, I hope midnight means my time zone

Since Anne is a well practiced hostess of many dish cloth swaps and is one of our co-hostesses for the WWCS, we have mini-contests each week about our relationship to coffee. The idea of this is so our secret spoilers can get to know us a little better and what we might like. (Hi unknown spoiler person!)
So this week is all about when we started drinking coffee, why, and when the real passion of/with coffee began. Without further delay, here is a little new information about me (and maybe a few family members). When I was a small child (less than sixth grade) I would occasionally taste my mom's coffee but I never thought it tasted very good (maybe in retrospect it was the sugar). I never tasted my dad's hot coffee because he was long gone to work each morning by the time I got up. (I believe he may have spirited coffee off to work in a thermos; I certainly heard stories about all the thermoses going through the security x-rays unsuccessfully.) However, I do remember his iced coffee on a hot summer Saturday afternoon. It was yummy and I loved watching the milk hit the coffee in the clear glass and the awesome swirlyness. That was yummy coffee, but not quite as good as my brother's ice tea. Lucky for me he was around every day to make it for me. Good thing he also taught me how.
I first really started drinking coffee around the time I was a senior in High School or so. I worked at a Denny's restaurant and it was always there and to be pretty OK coffee. It was at this time I learned that I do not really care for sugar in my coffee unless the coffee is ice cold and also has milk added to it. Part of the starting to drink it then was about the caffeine, but it was also a social thing in a lot of ways. Drinking coffee and hanging out with friends as well as with co-workers on the job. It was also the smell of coffee that I loved and always had since I was little. Plus there is nothing like a nice warm mug to wrap your hands around! But it was also definitely about the caffeine after I started college while working full time!
My true passion for coffee began in 1981, shortly after John opened The Salt Lake Roasting Co.. The smell of the coffee roasting was enough to make me salivate walking down the street, and the taste Morning Thunder was my first true coffee love! of I started drinking his coffee whenever I could (but obviously not at work),and have never bought the likes of Folgers for my kitchen cupboards. Small batch roasting truly makes a difference! Oh, and SLRC is a very cool place to hang out in Salt Lake City. Just ask my girls and they don't even drink coffee!

Winter Wonderland Coffee Swap

Yes, this is another swap! Another one involving yarn and coffee. I love coffee and yarn, so how could I not join?

Registrations for this swap actually open tomorrow, the 24th of October. Thus, you too can sign up here if you want to get in on the fun!

I just can't decide which button I like the best!

Knitters' Coffeeswap Three

There is a new swap/exchange out there, Knitters' Coffeeswap Three. You know, coffee, yarn, and a few other goodies thrown in. Life is good.

SWAP QUESTIONS
1. Whole bean or ground?
Whole Bean
2. Fully-loaded or decaf?
Fully loaded
3. Regular or flavored?
Regular
4. How do you drink your coffee?
Black
5. Favorite coffee ever?
Hmm, the iced coffee I had on teh plaza on a hot afternoon in Rome.
6. Are you fussy about your coffee or will any old bean do?
Kind of fussy. I like dark roast coffee. Usually dark enough I can see the oils. Along thr lines of French Roast or Esspresso roast.
7. Favorite treats to have with your coffee?
Having it brought to me in bed first thing in the morning. Sitting on my deck enjoying my yard while I drink it.
8. Anything else about your coffee preferences?
Not that I can think of right now.
9. Yarn/fiber you love?
Soft. Pretty. Not Scratchy.
10. Yarn/fiber you hate?
Scratchy. Stuff that feels icky.
11. What's on your needles?
Umm, a sock. A shawl. A dish cloth. A scarf. Another scarf. Maybe another sock. Probably something else that I can't think of because I am trying to.
12. Favorite colors?
I like most all of them.
13. Allergies?
Cigerette smoke, strong perfumes.
14. Anything you really love, really don't like, or just need to get off your chest?
Not that I an think of right now.