Thanks Jackie!

What a fun Friday night! Jackie Barrett and friends packed 'em in! Way to go Jackie! Looking forward to Dan Shanahan this Friday. Come join us!

Ribbon Cutting

It's Official.....We are officially opened! Actually, we have been opened since September, but today was our Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting. Our kiddo's felt it was important to miss an hour of school and join us for this momentous occasion. (What kid wouldn't?) Our front facade improvement is almost complete...our amazingly GREEN awning arrived yesterday. Pretty cool...just in time for warm weather?

Just another Friday night?

Okay, so last Friday I got to Green Plow around 6:45, a bit later than I wanted. As I drove down the alley I saw Jason Jackson, one half of our evening's duo, packing some equipment into the shop. Or at least it was a guy with a hat that in the dark looked a little like one that Jason wears, even if the guy was maybe a little shorter and stockier than Jason.

When I got inside I realized, of course, that it wasn't Jason. "Strange, I thought Robin and Jason only played as a duo." Then I realized that there was only one musician. It turns out that Robin and Jason had a family emergency and were unable to perform that evening, but they made numerous phone calls and were finally able to find someone to take their place. That was Leif James, the guy with the hat. Among the phone calls they made were one or two to Mandy, which we didn't get because the phone was in the car. I guess you just never know quite what to expect. This week I expect to hear Allan Byer on Friday night, and I am really looking forward to it, but you just never know.

Pat

Finca la Josefina

Today we introduced a new Colombian coffee down at the Green Plow: Finca la Josefina. It is bright and well balanced, with a long and pleasant finish. This coffee came to us courtesy of my friend Bobby at 11 Roasters in Bend. I have been reading about the grower of this coffee and I am looking forward to getting more from them, not just because the coffee is outstanding, but because they also seem to care about treating their workers well.

So far the Finca la Josefina has had a very warm welcome in the shop, but I only have a little bit, so come in and enjoy it while you can, or e-mail me at pat@greenplowcoffee.com and I can send you a pound or so.

Pat

Thank You to the Community of Redmond

We sure love getting to know the wonderful people of this community. We want to send out a thank you to those of you who donated during to the biosand water filter collection during Thanksgiving. We, the community, donated enough to purchase bags of concrete, sand and gravel for a soon to be constructed biosand filter in Rwanda. If you want more info on this organization check out www.biosandwaterfilters.org. Thank you, generous ones!

You know you're in trouble...

You know you're in trouble when the backup grinder for your backup grinder quits working.

The Friday before last, when we got to the shop to get ready for our CinderBlue music night, our bulk grinder was making a horrible "chunking" sound. This was bad because CinderBlue always draws a large crowd and, being evening, we expected a higher than average number of decaf orders and, since we were already down one espresso grinder, the bulk grinder was acting as our decaf grinder.

No problem, my father in law was at my house and joining us soon, so I made a quick phone call and had him bring out little grinder from home. We made it through the night and ordered parts for both grinders thee next day, but... on monday our home grinder quit working. Mandy made an emergency trip to the store so we could get through the week. After spending a couple of hours on thursday fixing grinders, we are now back to maximum grinding capacity, at home as well as at Green Plow... at least for now.

CinderBlue fills Green Plow again

We hosted local band CinderBlue for the second time last Friday and I think I had even more fun than the first time they came. People began showing up even before the band did, and gave the band a very enthusiastic response... and that was just for their sound check. We are extremely thankful for our friends at Paulina Springs books who have loaned us some of their folding chairs both times that Cinder Blue has played (we are searching for some for our back room that we can pull out when we get big crowds). I had my camera in my pocket, but we had a couple of other people taking pictures so I never pulled it out, so you'll just have to come see them when they come back next month.

-Pat