Since the start of the pandemic, my life’s changed a lot. In the beginning, I was scared as hell not knowing what would happen. Every day there was terrible new news coming out from across the world. Hospitals were overrun, reports of all kinds of craziness, and then it hit the US and everything went a little bit crazy.
Social distancing, masks, and then lockdowns and closures. The final straw for me was when my love coffee shop had to shut its doors and then also went out of business a few months later. I had always loved walking my little dog, Bingo down there every morning and sitting there watching the waves and having my morning cup. Such a distant memory!
It was right then that I realized, I didn’t even have a coffee machine at home. I’d always been a cafe girl and I loved the routine but with all the madness, what was I to do?... I jumped on Google and started to search…
The first thing I searched for was a coffee machine but not much was in stock. It seems as though I was one of the last ones to the party. Everybody else apparently had the same idea and needed to get their own home machine. Every time I tried to order one I would get an error message telling me it was out of stock or site unavailable. So very annoying!
After an hour or two of trawling through listings on eBay, my husband came home and said to me “hey, there's a yard sale down the road and they have all kinds of stuff available. We should go down and take a look as it’s the Johnsons who have that huge mansion down the road.”
So I turned around and said “Ok, I need some fresh air and I’m pretty cranky as I haven’t even been able to have a coffee as yet. Let’s go get some air!” he looked at me like I was a wild animal and said “oh god, let’s get you outside. You look like you’ve got some frustration to get out!”