Coffee Matters

You may recall that our coffee pot turned up missing on the last trip.  Most likely it's serving as an artificial reef somewhere at the bottom of the Buffalo River.

Fortunately, Cowboy Coffee can be made in any old kettle and that's how we got by last Spring.  Cowboy Coffee is just boiling the water and the coffee together in one pot.  The secret is how to make the grounds drop out before you pour it.   Here are some well known methods:

-  Splash cold water on the surface
-  Add eggshells
-  Shake salt over it
-  Put the grounds in a sock

The reasons it's a "secret" is that none of those things really do anything.  You just need to show all the people who are standing around with empty coffee cups that you're doing something.  They're going to end up straining the grounds out with their teeth anyway.

I think everybody seemed perfectly happy about the Cowboy Coffee method and we're going to go with that for awhile.  For one thing, it's a lot easier and faster than waiting for the percolator - which has to be positioned just right over the fire to work.

But we do want a proper coffee pot and another benefit of the Cowboy Coffee method is there are a lot more options for good looking coffee pots without the perc than with them.

So here's the new club coffee pot which will debut next month on the Fall trip:



We made sure we got one with both an upper and lower handle on the back.  Because while searching for giant coffee pots we discovered this:





All-those-in favor-all-those-opposed-APPROVED!"

Here is a preview of our new coffee tipping machine in action...

Next project:   figuring out how to hook it up to Proud Mary.

Spring Trip 2019

We're still licking our wounds about letting the Fall 2018 trip slip away.

It was the first time we have missed a trip in twenty-eight straight Spring/Fall seasons.  The only other time we skipped one was right after our first trip - and that was only because we had not yet converted to the twice-a-year format so we didn't really "miss" one at all until now.

The good news is that the trip this Fall will now be a celebration of two things:  Trip #30 and the beginning of a new streak.  We love recognizing special occasions here at the RRCC.  We will probably have a ceremony.

Here's something else we'll celebrate.  This Fall we are going to paddle the section that was Floyd's very first RRCC trip back in 2005.



Not because this will be his last.  Floyd will be doing river trips forever.  It's because it will be Sister's first.



Floyd and Sister will have their own ceremony on the island at the mouth of Cedar Creek.  Floyd will ceremoniously pass her the RRCC Orange Dildo.




The section itself is one we have intended to do twice now and never made it.  The first time we redirected to the Buffalo (poison ivy / UFO bar) because of flash flood predictions.  The second time was when we cancelled last fall.  So the planning is all done and you can read about it here:

https://rrcc.blogspot.com/2018/04/duck-river.html

Except this will be a Friday-Sunday two-nighter so we will put in at Carpenter Bridge on those maps.


Also here are the photos from the Spring 2019 trip to get you in the mood (right click to open a new window if it doesn't work):

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ay1rvvS2sL16Wt4P6