My lovely sister Mary read my coffee post with dismay.  She realized that I was struggling to cover the coffee question for the trip and acted quickly.  An oddly wrapped package arrived just a day before the road trip to Delaware and I brought everything to the beach house.

Lo and behold:  a slick coffee grinder with storage space for the beans (about four cups worth) seamlessly integrated with a jar for holding the ground coffee.  The detachable handle provides leverage and the ceramic insides provide a better grind than my electric machine at home.  Mary is my coffee savior.

Even better, I had the wit to fill it with coffee before departing Hastings!  Good thing, as my wife, Dad, and I have very different ideas of what makes a good cup.  Here you see me grinding away.  The joyful results follow.

I enlisted my wife to take photographs but the oddity of the tablet proved too much.  My other lovely daughter, Lia, found it all a giggle and assured me that everything would improve with a better picture of her.  Thus one whimsical picture of us both, over coffee, and a final one of her.  No coffee, no dad.  Just shamelessly upgrading the post with a smile.

Thanks, Mary.  :-)