It's not night time?

The errands from this morning are done and I went to get the mail. It's not even 4 in the afternoon and the moon is out. 

That's right: the moon is out. 

It's not the first time I've seen the night time light bulb during the day light hours. But it's the first time in a while, that I was able to be home to grab my (now listed as renewed on Amazon) Canon EOS Rebel T7i with 75-300 Telephoto Lens. 

I put the settings on automatic and landscape, and started taking photos. What I'm about to post wasn't edited much; I only did a slight filter of a sharpen and stuck my name on them. Otherwise, what you see is what you get.

I also snapped some trees and clouds.

The blown out tree is actually pretty cool. Reminds me a bit of a long lost faded photograph. In a strange way. The cloud pictures almost have a similar feeling; as if some one took vacation photos on 35mm film with the intention of adding them to their collection and ended up forgetting about it. 

Either that or I'm just making things up as I go along because the moon and sun are both out and I'm distracted by that. Plus, it's 74° out with little humidity and the rest of the country is getting either bonkered in snow or flooded out. 

On a different note, although similarly speaking because everything is up and out at the moment, I have been making my own cold brew coffee this week. I had gone to Walmart last week and purchased their own can of ground coffee, with the intention of using my Aldi cold brew maker thing. If that failed, I'd use my Starbucks French Press and make regular hot coffee. 

Wow.. way to name drop multiple things in one paragraph?

Yup. That's my life. 

It's why I get squirreled lately and lose track of things. I'm drinking smoother coffee and not sleeping well because I still have back issues. The lack of sleep is not coffee related, trust me. Otherwise the two different knockoff energy drinks I had this week would have driven me sideways mad because they were added on top of my normal intake. 

I'm oddly not caffeinated for having multiple caffeine drinks this week.

Oddly enough, the Walmart coffee doesn't say what kind of roast it is. The can states "Coffee" as its ingredients, and I know there's some YouTube videos out there saying "don't trust the coffee you buy because it's tainted if it doesn't say X or Y or says A and B". The videos also say that "some brands super roast their beans to the point you're drinking toxins or chemicals" as well as "some aren't real beans" or "other brands are something completely different". 

Like Juno said in the movie, "Beetlejuice", "Never Trust The Living". 

gif taken from YARN search

But in coffee standards, "never trust a good decent of coffee"? 

That is again, if you listen to all the conspiracy theorists naysayers online

I am willing to forgo lack of listing, if it means I can make my own iced coffee at a lower price point. Considering the Walmart brand cost me under 6 bucks after tax, ignorance is bliss for a cheap cup of java. 

Yes, I also reuse the plastic cups I get at fast food joints or gas station convenience stores. Every time I go into a lobby, I pick up more straws. That way I can get as much use out of the cup as I can, even though I know I'm wasting a lot with the liquid sipper.

That being said, home brew seems to be working. Although the instructions on the can state you need "1 heaping tablespoon per six ounces of water", I am trying to "season to taste" with the contraption I have.

In the most recent try, I put an entire cup (yes, a cup, aka 12 tablespoons) of coffee into the carafe and filled it with 6 cups of cold, filtered water. As I did that earlier today, I have to let it all chill in the fridge over night. Tomorrow I will be able to test it out, adding another cup and a half of water once the filter is removed.

If this new attempt comes out moderately well, then I know I can just scoop out a cup of grounds and add the water as normal. I've been eyeballing it because sometimes it gets too light for "medium roast" and too much can be too dark and gross. 

That also depends on how long we've had the coffee in the pantry cabinet. I recently had to throw out a partially used bag of Dunkin' Donuts coffee because it got ranked. I made the cold brew and went to drink it, to only spill out the entire carafe. It was nasty, and I hadn't had that problem previously. Lo and behold, the date on the bag was way past its expiration / "best by" date. Since we weren't storing it in the fridge or freezer, the cabinet air got to it and made it stale. 

Whomp whomp.

Which led me to try something else. 

As I said, this should be the third attempt with the Walmart brand. I'm hoping all goes well because I'd like to keep doing it this way. I make my K-Cup coffee in the morning before work and have been taking a cup of iced with me for work and it seems to be okay. Even though I haven't been doing that every single day, it's still something I look forward to. It's the little things, right?

Right.

It's about that time to wrap this up. Two posts in one day.. I haven't done that in a while and those posts are gone! Haha. Oh well... things happen! 

Until something changes, be warm, be cool, get hydrated and always look to the sky.. you never know what you'll see....

Cheers;

See also:

* "Cold Brew System" via Amazon

* Starbucks French Press (Bodum brand) via Amazon