La Marzocco

Sorry, folks. Didn’t mean to leave everyone hanging for so long. Hopefully we can have a couple updates this week.

It is official: Shawna has purchased an espresso machine. She got a smashing deal on a La Marzocco. Yeah, impressive. Thankfully I’m not in charge of coffee... I’d never heard of the brand. Apparently it’s the Rolls Royce of espresso machines. Don’t I feel stupid.

The machine is a chunk—it weighs 250 lbs. It’s larger than your average kitchen appliance, too. So, due to lack of room elsewhere, we have been forced to store the contraption at Ma and Pa’s until the shop opens. It’s in a safe place and it has Dad pretty excited, so it shouldn’t be too much of an inconvenience. Fact is, Dad stole the machine’s manual the day it arrived and proceeded to read it that evening. Odd duck, that Dad. (This trait obviously has nothing to do with his vast mechanical knowledge which has time and again saved us from our never ending mechanical pickles. Obviously. Just a personality trait. No sense the rest of us attempting to emulate.) He thinks he should store the machine in the kitchen. Ha! And Mom can use the floor for counter-space? Not Likely.

We’ve received mixed messages concerning customers’ thoughts of our products. One day we hear they want breakfast stuff. Another day we hear they want a product we made for a short time in the beginning. Very strange. Perhaps the messages being relayed to us only reflect a very minor populace? Probably very likely. Perhaps when Sweet Thing actually opens its own shop we will be able to use customers’ vocal statements as field research. Until then, though, a guess is as good as relayed information.

Kindra has created some “new wares”. She is anxious that they would be tested and reviewed. Hopefully that can be done soon. Wouldn’t want to keep her in suspense too long.

This will be all for now. We would have pictures but have somehow managed to separate blogger from camera. Hopefully that situation can be rectified before this blog becomes a bore. Apparently words don’t excite everyone to the extent they do me.