Pecan Pie Coffee

     My siblings and I enjoy exchanging small inexpensive gifts at Christmas.  It is fun and interesting to see the often clever (and admittedly often useless) items we receive. The spirit of this custom, which just evolved over the years, is in spending more thought than cash.  Baby sister, who recently joined the half-century birthday club, gifted us with this delighful coffee; I saved it for a leisurely Saturday morning, an unusual weekend day in that absolutely no outside obligations infringed on our enterprise - a day to linger over the morning paper, bake some cookies, cradle a sleepy puppy and maybe enjoy a competitive game of Scrabble. All these occupations were enhanced by the cold snowy wind that howled outside the cozy house, and the lovely warm smell of a pot of Pecan Pie Coffee wafting throughout.