small green machine

many years ago, my mother bought me a small, green coffee making machine. a drip machine, possibly braun or krups. i don’t know where she got it — maybe williams sonoma. anyway, it has been in and out of use since that time. i am guessing it was about 1991. one day the carafe broke. i bought a replacement, but the color of the plastic rim didn’t match. it was white, and the machine is green. so, ok. in the last decade or so, this coffee maker has been stored somewhere in case there is company and i need to make an alternative coffee. a pot of decaf. in those days i was drinking caf all the time, any time. now – no way. i use a beautiful glass bodum given to me by my beloved. it creates about two cups, not official 8-oz cups, but two proper coffee cups. it’s enough. i drink it in the morning, and that’s it, usually.

we put on a thanksgiving feast this year, and i took out the green machine to entertain. things have changed! only two and a half takers for decaf; the rest herbal tea or black tea that has been “de-caffed.” it was necessary to buy paper cone filters, which i am enjoying. long ago there was a gold filter, but i got rid of it. it seems rude and inauthentic, but i can’t prove this.

so, the green machine is still out. i have been using it. but it makes too much coffee. it lasts all day long in my poor, dented llbean thermos. it is dented because one day in a stupor i thought i could use it as a hammer to hammer something. it is dented, and i am miserable about it. i can’t find any on ebay. i think i’m going to put the green machine away tonight or tomorrow.

i’ll take it when i next entertain, maybe. i think my mother is coming for dinner soon. she might want some decaf.

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