Trikes and Coffee Pots

TRIKE-TIME: We took Owen out on the trike the other day.  We have a great spot right near our house that is blocked off to traffic, and has the perfect downhill slope so you don't really have to push him.  He doesn't know how to pedal or steer but he still thinks it's fun!

COFFEE POT: a sad thing happened last weekend.  Joey's 15 year old coffee pot officially died.  We thought we were going to have to say goodbye last winter when the carafe broke, but I found a replacement at a thrift store just in time and it gave us just over a year more together.  The coffee pot was handed down from his dad when Joey went to undergrad, and then made it all the way through medical school (LOTS of coffee required).  It was worked twice as hard when I came into the picture ;) and then just couldn't survive the coffee needs of residency.  We saw the warning signs when the clock kept resetting and then it took it's last breath this weekend when Joey tried to brew a pot after an all night shift.  It's the end of a 15 year era, the coffee pot will be missed.  Joey keeps saying he'll throw it away...it is still sitting unplugged on the kitchen counter.  I should probably throw it myself before we have to bury it in the backyard and have a memorial.  

Hard to say goodbye...