News from Hi Point Coffee and Cafe 5/28/11

Hello!! Well, sorry this is coming out so late this week. Time is so hard to keep track of sometimes! Thankfully it's a relatively quiet weekend here. We had an absolutely amazing show with Megan Slankard and Joel Ackerson on Wednesday and open mic with Lenny last night and that was all mentioned in last week's email. This week? No music and tonight is a quiet night. I'm very pleased to report I'll be taking that time to go see a movie with my husband! As for brunch this weekend, we're doing a Seattle theme. This weather is just like Seattle to me. Just add more rain, little less wind and you've got Seattle spring time! This is also the weekend that Nate and I met, 18 years ago, in Seattle, in the rain, but of course outside at the Fokllife Music Festival. Our brunch dessert is a homage to that meeting, since Nate was selling strawberry shortcake at the festival, and I was buying. Rest is history. :) Whatever this Memorial Day weekend brings for you, I hope it is rejuvinating and fun! And I hope it involves a trip to Hi Point! :) Cheers! Sarah Sunday Brunch! Served 9am - 2pm Seattle-themed brunch!! Smoked salmon omelets with creme fraiche and hiratake mushrooms, served with a pile of roast potatoes and habanero ketchup. And, of course, a side of orange-ginger strawberry shortcake. 'Tis strawberry season, afterall!   No music this Saturday, but stay tuned for next week! Next Friday...Dave Berry from Jelly Bread. New Book to Read! We're reading "A Place of My Own" by Michael Pollan. I've loved his other books, including Omnivore's Dilemma. He's an absolute genius, as far as I'm concerned, and so I'm super excited about this book. It is an examination of the spaces we inhabit and creating spaces that are meaningful. I know I've had fantasies of a little cabin or space that is my own for the day I grow up and become a writer. haha! I used to want to be a writer, anyway. Right now, a space of my own would become a place to play solitaire, but I'd be a happy little clam playing solitaire in my cabin!   So...call to action, all ye would be book club members. Now is the time to go get the book and start reading! And then join us to discuss June 26th, 2pm! Here's the description of the book from Pollan's website...  A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams "A room of one's own: is there anybody who hasn't at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn't turned those soft words over until they'd assumed a habitable shape?" When writer Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was an award-winning treatise on the borders between nature and contemporary life, the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. Now Pollan turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property-a place in which he hoped to read, write and daydream, built with his two own unhandy hands. Invoking the titans of architecture, literature and philosophy, from Vitrivius to Thoreau, from the Chinese masters of feng shui to the revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright, Pollan brilliantly chronicles a realm of blueprints, joints and trusses as he peers into the ephemeral nature of "houseness" itself. From the spark of an idea to the search for a perfect site to the raising of a ridgepole, Pollan revels in the infinitely detailed, complex process of creating a finished structure. At once superbly written, informative and enormously entertaining, A Place of My Own is for anyone who has ever wondered how the walls around us take shape-and how we might shape them ourselves. A Place of My Own recounts his two-and-a-half-year journey of discovery in an absorbing narrative that deftly weaves the day-to-day work of design and building-from siting to blueprint, from the pouring of foundations to finish carpentry-with reflections on everything from the power of place to shape our lives to the question of what constitutes "real work" in a technological society. Beer and Wine List    Reds Scout 2008 Russian River - Merlot $6  Four Vines 2008 California - Zinfandel $6 Flaco 2009 Spain - Tempernillo $6      Whites Four Vines 2009 California - Chardonnay $6   Lonen 2007 Napa - Chardonnay $6  Flaco 2009 Spain - Marda $6  Sparkling Trevisiol Proseco $7 Wine Cocktails Kalimotxo $6     Cherry Kalimotxo $6       Beers $4     Sweet Grass Pale Ale - Grand Teton Brewery  Hop Box IPA    Death Valley Pale Ale - Indian Wells Brewery Mojave Red Amber - Indian Wells Brewery Jamaican Stout Bitch Creek Brown Ale - Grand Teton Brewery Howling Wolf Wheat Beer - Grand Teton Brewery   Black Out Stout - Indian Wells Brewery   Persephone Imperial Pilsner - Grand Teton Brewery  $12 Persephone Pale Ale is the new beer this week and it's very special. Seasonal from Grand Teton, it's a cellar reserve and "has the light body and smooth flavor of a traditional pilsner but twice the strength and a stronger hop presence than what is usually expected in this style of beer." It's sold in 750ml bottles (wine bottle size) and is meant for sharing!   Newsletter Photography!! Ian Kahler is our resident photographer, supplying all these awesome shots of Hi Point. We're gonna try to keep it fresh, adding new photography all the time. I'm so grateful to you, Ian! :) You can check him out at  http://westynimages.zenfolio.com