BARISTA

  The notorious relationship between the barista and the customer is a dark legacy of sorts.  The ba

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my fav coffee place (sorry stumptown, but you're my close second)

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Due to technical difficulties on my home internet this week, I have been parking myself in the corner of my cafe, kinda incognito, as I use the wi-fi.  I have gained new perspectives as I sit back and listen to the conversations going on at the counter and the groups speaking around me.

A group of 4 women, in for the first time, talk amongst themselves about how much they love their crepes and how long it has been since they have had one.  One lady shares her recipe and explains that our hungarian crepes are like hers, because she adds cinnamon to her recipe.  Cinnamon in a crepe? The other ladies try it and decide it DOES work. They also look at my hours and decide they can stop in for breakfast more often!

The group of nursing students are parked on the couch, as they are every week, and they quiz each other on medical conditions. Some conditions involve profuse bleeding, some on how to cope with death.  At first these conversations make me a little uneasy while others eat, but I realize you can't or shouldn't control all conversations in a cafe.  It is part of what brings it to life.

The students discuss not meeting at the cafe on Fridays because the "church ladies" take over the shop so they'll have to find another spot.  I intercede, (cuz they know me anyway) and explain the church ladies have changed their schedule and please plan on keeping us in mind for Fridays.  Customer base rescued! 

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The Pantsless Brother (TPB), who was so concerned about Mrs. Scatter overexposing his predicament about getting gas out of his pants, recently said, "So you haven't written for a coupla weeks." Charles Deemer commented on Mr. Scatter's recent post about ? in no particular order ? hairy beasts, barista whelps, a little town some miles south [...]

OMG!!!  HI GUYS!!!!  HOW ARE YOU? ME?  I'M REALLY REALLY WELL... IF BY WELL YOU MEAN THE BARISTA FORGOT TO GIVE ME DECAF IN MY MOCHA... AND I HADN'T REALLY EATEN TODAY.... AND I'M A CRAZY JITTERY BALL OF GIGGLES AND TICKS... sigh....  no.  I didn't come down off my caffeine high that quickly.  I just remembered how obnoxious it [...]

We're making all our tables, counter tops and benches ourselves - or rather, I should say, with the help of a lot of our friends! This week we learned how to make biscuit joints to put the planks of our tables together.


It goes a little slow because it takes 10 hours for the glue to dry. Each table gets clamped together while drying, and we have only so many clamps, so that adds to the time delay.

Reid and Rachel have been helping out almost every day. We've been having tons of fun making the tables and Reid is well on his way to becoming the next member of the Hall of Records family. Lucky for us, he's the total package; cook, barista, server & loves vinyl. And regardless of all that, we just really like them. :)

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