The setting: A cold winter's morning. (Currently, our thermometer reads 27 degres.)

Needed equipment: A forced-air heating system, with a programmable thermostat, to increase the temperature as the inhabitants are waking. A coffee pot with a timer, set so that the coffee begins brewing as the forced-air system kicks on.

The result: The smell of newly-brewed coffee throughout the house.

Is there any small pleasure greater than that smell?

As I wake, my first thought is to give thanks!