ICED TEA DISASTER

My younger daughter recently wrote about making home made iced tea and having to call the coffee/tea shop to find out how to make it. Friday night I was making iced tea hurriedly while a friend was visiting. I had the tea steeped and the pitcher topped up. I was stirring the finished product with a long handled spoon when suddenly the tea came spurting out of the bottom of the pitcher as though from a spigot. I had accidentally hit the pitcher with the spoon so as to punch a nickle sized hole into it. The tea got all down the front of me and soaked a wool rug in the kitchen before I could respond; I was so surprised as to be dumb founded. I grabbed the pitcher and plunged it into the sink and threw some towels on top of the rug. What a time to have to haul out a 5'x7' rug and clean it. Anyway, I made tea again, finished the movie we were watching and then took the rug out and threw it over a railing. I gave it a cold scrub and rinse, turned it upside down and rinsed it thoroughly from the back side and in less than 24 hours it was dry and beautiful again. What an experience. I guess the moral to this story is to use a plastic pitcher. Wish I had a stainless steel one. Hmm! Maybe a trip to a restaurant supply might produce one.

It is good iced tea weather here as Florida usually is, but the weather is getting hooter and we have been having some good rains. The grass and weeds are growing faster. Weed eating isn't very exciting but a good swim is. Swimming beckons later today. The pool water feels awfully refreshing these hot days.

I finally saw "An Inconvenient Truth" and "The Constant Gardner" this week. Both were great films I would highly recommend. I recently saw "The Waitress" which I don't recommend unless you like adultery and "Wild Hogs" for a second time which I found even funnier than the first. I think I will follow it up today with "The Motorcycle Diaries" since it is here from Netflix--thanks to a 2 month free trail from my daughter. It helps fill some time since I had cable turned off for the summer. I'm reading a lot too--this and that.

Happy Sunday and Father's Day everyone. There is a small soiree at my brother's home this evening with swimming and food. I have a little something for him for Father's Day--since he does so many nice things for me.