May Come and Gone
I cannot possibly catch up in any detail all that's happened on the mountain over the past month but I'll try in to do so in a shortened format.
The main meteorological even has been rain and more rain. While this has resulted in a verdant spring, it has had a deleterious effect on the spring mushroom crop.
Several weeks ago we had the first tornado touch down in Alleghany County in thirty years.
This is why, naturally, that one should not be resident in a mobile home while tornadoes are running around your neck of the woods. The four folks in this one (actually in the one that stood on this foundation before the tornado move it and them northward) were subjected to a short-course in the process of natural selection.
Speaking of wind, we had a group of street preachers show up in Sparta several weekends ago. Standing on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse and directly across from the coffee shop, they shouted vox clamantis in deserto until their voices gave out, got back into their trucks and left without saving a single soul. Exciting stuff.
Hambone is now helping me in the shop of Saturdays. He's not much better with the cash register than I am and rang up a $4000 cup of coffee for a customer yesterday. Business is really picking up! I'll fire him if he cuts his hair.
Here's Nili, the inventor of our banana-chocolate-raspbelly smoothie, The NiliBerry. She also the decorator of the etc. menu board.
Jimbo, a disabled veteran who knows more about bugs and why trout eat them the law should allow, conducted a fly tying demonstration in the Community Room recently. In the near future, he will be running the shop for me one day a week
We are now hosting a jam session on Saturday afternoons. These mountains are heavy with excellent musical talent.
We are now selling eggs produced by organically fed, free-range chickens. The chicken are raised by Joe-Joe, a svelte 320-pound former Wake Forest football player who owns a farm here in the county and runs a agency from an office above the shop that insures professional athletes (NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, etc.) against career-ending injuries. Great guy.
The Alleghany News finally ran a newspaper article on Backwoods Bean two weeks ago. They were holding out for an advertising quid pro quo but never got it. Ho hum.
We had foreign visitors in the shop this week from Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and Detroit. They are always surprised to find that they can get a real espresso in such a remote place. I am always surprised to hear their voices.
Later.
The main meteorological even has been rain and more rain. While this has resulted in a verdant spring, it has had a deleterious effect on the spring mushroom crop.
Several weeks ago we had the first tornado touch down in Alleghany County in thirty years.
This is why, naturally, that one should not be resident in a mobile home while tornadoes are running around your neck of the woods. The four folks in this one (actually in the one that stood on this foundation before the tornado move it and them northward) were subjected to a short-course in the process of natural selection.
Speaking of wind, we had a group of street preachers show up in Sparta several weekends ago. Standing on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse and directly across from the coffee shop, they shouted vox clamantis in deserto until their voices gave out, got back into their trucks and left without saving a single soul. Exciting stuff.
Hambone is now helping me in the shop of Saturdays. He's not much better with the cash register than I am and rang up a $4000 cup of coffee for a customer yesterday. Business is really picking up! I'll fire him if he cuts his hair.
Here's Nili, the inventor of our banana-chocolate-raspbelly smoothie, The NiliBerry. She also the decorator of the etc. menu board.
Jimbo, a disabled veteran who knows more about bugs and why trout eat them the law should allow, conducted a fly tying demonstration in the Community Room recently. In the near future, he will be running the shop for me one day a week
We are now hosting a jam session on Saturday afternoons. These mountains are heavy with excellent musical talent.
We are now selling eggs produced by organically fed, free-range chickens. The chicken are raised by Joe-Joe, a svelte 320-pound former Wake Forest football player who owns a farm here in the county and runs a agency from an office above the shop that insures professional athletes (NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, etc.) against career-ending injuries. Great guy.
The Alleghany News finally ran a newspaper article on Backwoods Bean two weeks ago. They were holding out for an advertising quid pro quo but never got it. Ho hum.
We had foreign visitors in the shop this week from Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and Detroit. They are always surprised to find that they can get a real espresso in such a remote place. I am always surprised to hear their voices.
Later.
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