I added a little tinder and then fanned them with my hat. Within seconds there was a flame. I added some small sticks so I could get a fire started for coffee.”
–D.C. Adkisson (Mal de Ojo)
Mornin’ to yuh, Pard. Hope yuh had a good week. Oh, the quotation, well, Pard, once in a while I have to do some advertisin’. Yuh realize since ol’ Louis up an’ died several years back there’s been no one to take his place so I’m givin’ it a try. I will say, I think my books are worth the time to read. So there–I’ll toot my own horn for a spell.
Did I forget the coffee? Come on…it’s sittin’ there in the pot on the stove. I’ll mosey on over an’ get yuh a cup. Hope yur ready for it, ’cause it’s black, hot, and strong. Yep, it’ll make yuh sit up an’ say “howdy.”
Remember me a-tellin’ yuh that we went to my wife’s 50th reunion of her college class? That brought back some memories of how some of us would hang around in the cafeteria drinkin’ coffee. Now back in that day I didn’t have much money. I’d try to keep a dime a night for a date. Good thing Annie wasn’t hard to please, but my mercy, she had me to gaze at, but what I was sayin’ I would keep a dime and we could share a coke from the snack room, or maybe some coffee. Now if’n yuh want bad coffee those ol’ coffee vendor machines made the worst of the worst.
Sometimes, back in the day, we would go out to get a cup of coffee. Back then it was dime for a bottomless cup. I’d drink about five cups figurin’ that was equal to a hamburger and coffee. Ha, I remember a few times goin’ and askin’ for a “pine float.” Ever had one of those? Yep, glass of water and a toothpick. Not very n’urishin’ but if yuh drank enough water it’ll fill yuh up. I read once person once said, “Coffee is the cheapest meal one can get.”
Yuh know we’re in the month of November–the Thanksgivin’ month. Be sure to be thankin’ the Lord for all His blessin’s on yuh. Even the small ones, like that coffee yur drinkin’, well guzzlin’, this mornin’. Yep, the Lord sure is good to us even in the midst of these tryin’ times and those fools up in Washington. Why thinkin’ they’re wise they’ve become idiots, and thinkin’ they’re progressive they’ve put our country back forty years or more. Just yuh be thankin’ that yur in ol’ Ira’s kitchen drinkin’ his coffee an’ enjoyin’ a good mornin’.
Check that cinch, now before yuh go to mountin’. Don’t want to see that coffee burstin’ back out of yur gizzard should yuh fall off.
Vaya con Dios.