Coffee Beans - Fresh from Costa Rica

Do you have a personal shopper?

I don't mean asking a daughter to pick up a loaf of bread at the grocery store.

Or asking the husband to bring home a teak vase from Jakarta.

Or even asking the son-in-law for coffee from Bogota.

I like to do my own shopping, but I have entertained the fantasy of having a personal shopper once or twice.

And once or twice I have had something like a real personal shopper.

 Last week I received a bag of coffee beans fresh from a plantation in Costa Rica. I had asked some church friends...if they might have a little extra room in their suitcase???

The fact that they took the time to choose some coffee for me while touring in Costa Rica was a delight. The coffee was very good--not so good that I would order a large shipment on-line the next day, but extra good because of the loving thoughts I had of my personal shoppers. I made it one cup at a  time, drip style, so I could it enjoy it freshly brewed and never cold or burned.

My friends emailed me a few photos from the plantation they visited. I have never seen coffee growing, although a tour or two of the coffee farms in Colombia is definitely on my bucket list.

Columbian or Costa Rican--I have coffee every day. It is the one safe drug I take, along with that daily aspirin dose. I need it to get me going every morning. Or at least by noon!

How many cups of coffee do you need in the morning to get you up and running?

My attempt at staging my Corelle cups filled with steaming Columbian brew on my coffee table.