A Fresh Cup of Coffee
Continuing Coffee Breaks and Conversations
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Scripture and a Snapshot - Victory
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Wednesday Hodgepodge - Spring Season
Yes, we do our own taxes. The first couple years we were in the USA we went to a tax preparer, and the first year after moving to a new state we went to a tax preparer. I use a tax preparation software, of course.
Something I've found very taxing lately is all my coughing spells. I guess it's something of a chronic cough at this point, because I'm no longer congested and have no other symptoms, and it is allergy season. Most of the time it's fine, but if I get started coughing it can be really hard to get under control and it's exhausting and even painful. My ribs are quite sore, in fact!
Loyalty is so important. Laughter and sense of humour are essential! Honesty is another essential.
3. Do you meal plan or do you mostly wing it? Share your dinner menus for this week.
I try to meal plan but I'm not very good at it. Most weeks I plan the meat dish for dinners and figure out the veggies as I go. This week I haven't had a great plan to start off, but I hope my weekend meals will make up for it! Monday is always leftover day. Tuesday I also had leftovers as hubby ate out with everyone from his work. Wednesday evening we will have "breakfast for dinner" which will be bacon and eggs. I haven't got anything specific planned for Thursday or Friday but it will be something quick and light for when we get home from church. On Saturday we are planning to have friends over for lamb and beef kebabs. (Lamb is my traditional Resurrection Sunday meal, but we're having it on Saturday instead.) Our son and his family are coming for Sunday dinner, and he asked for Country-fried steak. Not a traditional "Easter dinner" but that's what we're planning!
I love Thomas Sowell. So smart and he makes economics easy to understand and even humorous. I think I agree with this statement when it comes to finances and economics in general, because there usually aren't any "perfect" solutions to money and resource problems. It's kind of like "there's no such thing as a free lunch". Everything has a cost of some kind, and you have to decide where and how to spend and invest your resources to get the benefits that you want. The hardest part is that we don't have a lot of say in some of those decisions, like how much we pay in taxes and how those tax dollars are spent by our government.
When I managed the small batch coffee roastery, I got to take home a pound of coffee every week, and I got to drink coffee all day at work.
I haven't been very productive since getting back from my Canadian trip. I've been fighting that cold and cough, so that's my excuse. I finally got taxes done - just under the wire again, just like every year. I always plan to get it done early in February, even if I don't actually file until later, but it's been a few years since I managed that. We did well with state and local taxes this year, but got sucker punched by federal taxes. Sigh. Taxes kind of sucks the joy out of spring, doesn't it?
In happier news, I've got a vacation house booked for a weekend in the summer for our family get-together and that was a positive thing to check off on my to-do list! That's something to look forward do a few months down the road, and coming up very soon, we're looking forward to getting together with friends and with family this weekend, and to meeting up with a cousin of mine that I haven't seen in ages next weekend.
Is it springtime where you are? We're thinking about Spring Colours at Wednesday Quotes right now, and you can join in by sharing your post with at least one quote at WQ - The Colours of Spring.
WQ - The Colours of Spring
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Scripture and a Snapshot - A Mighty One Who Will Save
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Tell Us About . . . Seasonal Changes: The Seasons of Parenting
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Everyday Images #59
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