Pizza Party Friday in LSVL
It is time for a good old fashioned pizza party in Louisville. Trace Bundy is working on his cocktail menu, and I am figuring what our farmers have for our food menu and thinking about what sort of music we will pull together. The lilacs are still hanging on even after the snow pulled so hard on their little tender petals. Tara from Esoterra is making edible creations from lilacs that are coloring my dreams a pastel purple hue, and I am gonna try to see if she'll join the party. Check out her Instagram @themedicinecircle if you want to enter the dream land. Stay tuned for more details...it'll be this Friday night. Ticket link will come out soon.
We still have a few tickets left for Kirsten Shockey's Fermentation classes on May 25th, 31st and June 2nd in Lyons from 6-8 PM. She is here for the month from Oregon and it is a real treat to be able to host her in our shop for these three sessions. Wether you are a pro canner and fermenter or have always wanted to learn how to put fruit up for the winter or enhance the flavor and nutrition in your cupboard, then come on down! She's the best there is, and will also have copies of her many books available. Her husband Christopher who is also an accomplished author and fermenter will be present as well. His work with ciders is stunning. I have 3 free tickets to give away to these events in exchange for a poem. The poem has to be about lilacs. First three poems in my inbox win. Songs or painting will also work. Think lilacs. Here's the ticket link to the classes TICKETS HERE
Speaking of flowers, we have gorgeous hanging baskets available in Nobo and Lyons from Anne Cure for your spring pleasure. Don't write the poem about petunias, but they are gorgeous.
Yesterday I served coffee to a woman nearing the close of the day that I recognized from Red Letter Books, my favorite book store nestled between Penny Lane and Top Hat Supply on Pearl Street. Her husband sold me hundreds of books over the years and I recalled to her his beautiful pencil markings in the books, and his funny folded leg and reading glasses on the tip of his nose mannerisms when he'd ring me up. We chatted long about the amazing underground poetry scene in Boulder that is as interwoven and thick as mycelium from Naropa across Allen Ginsberg to Shambala Publications and at coffee shops near and far. I pulled my favorite art book off the shelf and passed it to her, a copy of Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures, and she turned it open to discover her husbands pencil marks inside.
Here's Lilacs by....yeah...Waxahatchee