For her half-birthday Beth asked me to wear this coffee beans tie! She is clearly an everyday addict, but she stops drinking the stuff before suppertime so she will be able to sleep well. We have about 50 mugs on hooks in the kitchen, and another fifteen stored for Christmas. One mug decorated with Boynton bears never gets hung up because it has the very special purpose of being set up every night for the first cup in the morning!
I'm wearing my coffee beans tie for National Coffee Day! I set up Beth's first-of-the-morning coffee every night, and she usually has several more mugs every day. I don't like coffee flavor but I'm happy to enable her habit!
One of the annual celebrations for today is "Wife Appreciation Day." Of course I wish it were styled as Spouse Appreciation Day, but the main point is that I get to celebrate my own appreciation for Beth! She is the one in the family who actually enjoys coffee, especially first thing in the morning, and I get to show my devotion to her by readying the coffee maker every night at bedtime. So we chose my coffee beans tie for today. We first became good friends around this time in 1971 at Houghton College, mutually appreciating "General Physics" with a teacher who happened to wear funny ties to class!
Today we're celebrating Mothers' Day! (Yes, in plural.) This was the first Sunday in May when all of all four local-family mothers could be together. All of them are coffee drinkers, and so Beth chose my coffee-beans tie. It was also our annual Soup Day, honoring the birthday (on 24 May) of soup-lover Robert Wollenweber. Beth's brother Mark is on a driving tour toward the Ozarks and joined us for a special surprise!
It's National Coffee Day! Here's one of our excellent coffee mugs. I prepare Beth's morning pick-me-up every night. My tie shows bags of coffee beans and steaming cups of the stuff. I think the tie's label is puzzling -- below the word Structure is a "number line" of Roman numerals . . . why??
