Hammer Coffee

When you think of the KGB, you might have visions of the Hammer and Sickle. When you think of KGBlend coffee from Daz Bog, you probably don’t think of a hammer and Zip Loc bag.

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If you were up with me at 4 am this morning, your would have seen me smacking KGBlend coffee beans with a 16 ounce hammer. The unfortunate beans didn’t have the dignity of spinning around in a coffee grinder (that’s in storage while we build our house). Instead, the beans were dropped into a Zip Loc bag, sealed shut, and pounded for ten minutes with a rubber handled Eastwing.

If I had paid more attention to what coffee bag I was grabbing as I flew down the grocery isle in pseudo-shopping spree winner mode, I would have had an actual cup of coffee this morning.

Instead, I sat in the dark and lingered over a hot cup of “coffee-flavored water beverage.” And that’s after I poured the water back and forth through the strainer 10 times.

If you plan on living 30 miles from the grocery store, I have one piece of advice, buy a bigger hammer.

Heavyweight Boxer in the Cave

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Joe Harris was on my cave tour today. Joe is a retired heavyweight boxer nicknamed “Cut and Shoot.”

“Joe was a heavyweight contender during the 1950s. He won his first 23 fights, including consecutive wins against Willi Besmanoff, Bob Baker and Willie Pastrano, and was named Ring Magazine‘s progress of the year for 1957.

Before the bout Roy was on the cover of Sports Illustrated.[4] In August 1958, Harris was given a title shot by world champion Floyd Patterson. Harris knocked down the champion in the second round of their fight, but was himself knocked down four times…” (Wikkipedia)

After the cave tour, Joe and I sat and talked about boxing a bit.

“Joe, give me one piece of advice about boxing,” I begged.

“Duck” Joe replied without missing a beat.

He went on to give me some of his best boxing advice, and I was thrilled.

You never know who is going to be on your cave tour. What fun.