vacation all i ever wanted, vacation had to get away

Our employees are all taking turns taking vacations.  Alas,no vacation for us.  That is okay.  We love traveling, but having the coffee shop is pretty damn fun!  The last couple weeks have just been extra-hectic, so I have travel on the brain.

I've been having a good time playing baker for the last couple of weeks.  I put out many of the same things, but tried some different variations.  My favorite is the lemon bread that was out today.  There will be another loaf tomorrow.

In the midst of all the baking, schedule juggling, coffee slinging, and life living, we were broken into last weekend.  It certainly was not a pleasant call to receive from the alarm company at 3:30 am, but I would much rather deal with a night time break-in than a daytime hold-up!  We had a window totally smashed into tiny pieces, some stolen money, and a moment of feeling defeated.  Jeremy cleaned up most of the glass in the early morning hours, I came in to open, and it was business as usual Saturday with some tree trimming, and getting the window boarded up added in.  Thank you for every one's well wishes all week, and to The Light Shop for helping to trim up the bushes/tree.  Unfortunately we are not the only ones who this has happened to recently.  Many businesses in Waldo have been broken into over the course of the last few weeks, and I heard that houses in the area are starting to get hit too.  Sigh.  Everyone just check over your property for vulnerable spots, and be aware.  It may not stop it from happening, but it can't hurt.  But...our new window is installed, and we keep going, going, going.

The only other major piece of news I can think of is that we will be closed all day on Monday, July 27th.  Our air conditioner is a 25-year-old, energy-sucking, on-the-verge-of-total-collapse heap.  So, on that day, we are getting a new, energy-efficient unit installed!  They also will be putting vents in the kitchen so that it is not so hot back there. Hooray!  We are sad to close down for a day, and apologize for any inconvenience that might create, but we are terribly excited to replace that system.  We toyed with being open, but there will be no AC, and a good portion of the work they need to do is right in the path we have to walk about five-hundred times a day through the kitchen.  We will just play catch-up that day, and see everyone Tuesday.