Improvise, adapt, overcome

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

Well-said by George Bernard Shaw. (And is that why we say his middle name every time we say his name?)

Another topic another time. For now, lets look at the picture attached to this post. During our recent stay in Deer Lodge, MT during which our broken alternator was replaced, we discovered much to our dismay that there was no coffee maker in the room and no coffee shop open on this Sunday. Ah, well, in the spirit of Recon Platoon (see link attached to the title of this post), we improvised, adapted and ultimately overcome the coffee dilema.

Safeway had the water, (no telling what you will find in water in a mining state) the coffee and tea mugs, the sugar packets, the coffee and the cup strainer. Our somewhat sparse room had the microwave and the T.V. to while away the time.

If you too become stranded without proper caffination, this will do:

Get the one cup strainer. Buy a favorite coffee and grind it in store at perc level so that the grounds don't fall through the strainer. Buy some water so you're not stuck drinking what people 50 years ago mined up from the depths of earth. You insert the grounds in the strainer which has a lip to keep it on top of the cup. You microwave the water in a second mug. Once you get it nice and hot, you pour it through the strainer resting on top of the second cup. Voila!

Ahhhhh.........caffeine she murmurs..........and the truck waits......and we have become "unreasonable."