Bean's Progress
I realize that I haven't given an update on the Backwoods Bean shop itself lately. I've often thought of it but put it off until tomorrow when things will be in less of a mess. But, of course, they never are. So here's the update in all its nakedness.
This view is from the front door towards the bar area. It's the focal point when you enter the shop.
Here's the back bar with drip coffee machine, grinder, blender and the La Pavoni PUB 2V espresso machine with its cover plates removed. The menu board is a bit of digital fiction at this stage.
To the right of the bar area is the Reader's Corner. Wawa's Wall separates it from the bakery. The oven is hidden from view in the alcove in the back, right corner.
Beyond the bar and opposite Reader's corner is a display case taken from an old drug store somewhere up in Virginia. The obvious intent of the case is to display arts and crafts for sale. A less obvious intent is that it hide the door to the toilet from view!
The photographs temporarily stored in the case are of the Reverend Benjamin Franklin Fincher and his lovely wife, Letitia. In addition to finding them to be beautiful old portraits, I also find a certain strangeness and gallows humor in a preacher of near certainty in the Christian faith to be named in honor of Ben Franklin, one of our most famous Founding Fathers and a Deist (at best). In any case, Ben and Letitia are, by happenstance of being discovered in a junk shop, the honorary Guardian Angels of Backwoods Bean Coffee Shop.
You may have noticed a row of ceramic coffee cups sitting atop the display case. These I bought today in a group of 120 cups from the Alleghany Cares Thrift Shop for a grand total of $10. Yup, three for a quarter. Eight and a third cents a piece. And these were just the pick of the litter!
In addition to serving as decoration, I do have a plan for them. I cannot serve coffee in reusable vessels (coffee cups). But I can sell reusable coffee cups. So if someone wishes to purchase one of the ceramic coffee cups (for, say, a dollar) and pour the coffee sold to them separately in a paper cup into the aforementioned ceramic coffee cup now in their possession, who is to stop them?
The Lord works in mysterious ways I'm certain Reverend Fincher would say.
This view is from the front door towards the bar area. It's the focal point when you enter the shop.
Here's the back bar with drip coffee machine, grinder, blender and the La Pavoni PUB 2V espresso machine with its cover plates removed. The menu board is a bit of digital fiction at this stage.
To the right of the bar area is the Reader's Corner. Wawa's Wall separates it from the bakery. The oven is hidden from view in the alcove in the back, right corner.
Beyond the bar and opposite Reader's corner is a display case taken from an old drug store somewhere up in Virginia. The obvious intent of the case is to display arts and crafts for sale. A less obvious intent is that it hide the door to the toilet from view!
The photographs temporarily stored in the case are of the Reverend Benjamin Franklin Fincher and his lovely wife, Letitia. In addition to finding them to be beautiful old portraits, I also find a certain strangeness and gallows humor in a preacher of near certainty in the Christian faith to be named in honor of Ben Franklin, one of our most famous Founding Fathers and a Deist (at best). In any case, Ben and Letitia are, by happenstance of being discovered in a junk shop, the honorary Guardian Angels of Backwoods Bean Coffee Shop.
You may have noticed a row of ceramic coffee cups sitting atop the display case. These I bought today in a group of 120 cups from the Alleghany Cares Thrift Shop for a grand total of $10. Yup, three for a quarter. Eight and a third cents a piece. And these were just the pick of the litter!
In addition to serving as decoration, I do have a plan for them. I cannot serve coffee in reusable vessels (coffee cups). But I can sell reusable coffee cups. So if someone wishes to purchase one of the ceramic coffee cups (for, say, a dollar) and pour the coffee sold to them separately in a paper cup into the aforementioned ceramic coffee cup now in their possession, who is to stop them?
The Lord works in mysterious ways I'm certain Reverend Fincher would say.
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