Ideal Bite

Tonight, I hosted a little Sunday dinner with some friends - tomatoes and basil and CSA produce and lots of good stories and chats in spite of the mad torrential downpour and lightning storm that drove us indoors.

In a complete change of pace from my normal offering of copious amounts of wine with dinner; tonight, I decided to try to beat the infernal August heat by starting with gin and tonics. Sadly, my freezer is the size of a child's lunchbox - with no room for ice trays - which is why I found myself buying ice at the local supermarket this afternoon.

Buying ice seems so idiotic to me. It's water. Probably tap water. Frozen.

The whole "buying water" concept in general has always seemed stupid to me. Don't get me wrong - I like my water. I grew up being forced to drink a ton of it, and I continued on in adulthood. In fact, all that water I drank as a kid was water from a well. And when I wasn't drinking well water, I drank it directly out of a mountain creek (and THAT was laced with giardia so my brother and I have a slight tolerance for the bug...).

All in all, I have never considered water to be something worth PURCHASING unless I was in a bind on a road trip.

Which is why I was glad to discover my faucet filter - I no longer have to buy bottles of water or keep filling my pitcher to ensure that I'm not throwing something nasty into my system. Instead, I flip a switch on my faucet, and viola! Instant, clean water.

I think it even traps the giardia.

-Heather... off to do some dishes and drink some Brita-ed water while watching Entourage...

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