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i heart patagonia.

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wanna read about more robots? then look here no more. go to....our new blog home!

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Well well well....Here's the news! Let's see if I can organize it so I make some sense of the whole WHA-BANG! that took place.1) Mary & I went up to Charleston last Wed to do some cart/apartment searching and to hang out with Walter. 2) Walter showed us a good time filled with yummy food, bluegrass music, and Charleston education (driving tour). He also showed us a coffee cart that has been in

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YAY! aaron & I will be packing up gridge's and our furry family to move to charleston, sc in late august/early september. (pick up your jaw.) we have 2 different categories of reasons...1. personal and 2. business. let me address #2 first. we want to grow gridge's in a different way than it is currently growing. aaron & I would like to have a larger wholesale/roasting company and want to start a

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I think I am going to get a book that is titled something like "blog templates for dummies." as you can obviously see, we got a new color/layout...yea. but I want to do stuff like add photos up in the title area and get rid of the pixely arrows. I am getting bored with the template choices on blogger. there are about 5 different designs that you can get in a few colors. give me interesting

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6:30 am...watch pee and poo come from E.V.feelin' pretty good7:00 a.m. wake up for work...headache12:pm headache! boom boom boom..... I could actually see the tiny veins in my head wriggle with the pounding...thhat didn't help.12:30pm...mary doctors up some mac & chesse with bacon, gralic, and onion...& 3 tylenol...12:50pm...5 min nap1:00pm feelin' better.woot! headaches suck the monkey!

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OOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!!lookin' for a house but one there not bewants a place for 3 tanky tanks me & marya place for a grill and a yard for dog peenot to be found oh woe is me!Called Brad Sells for a place to liveHe said "sorry pops. I gots none to give.""but, I knows some house folks who do gets around...they might have a place for you & yo lady to get down."So a callin' I went. I called 14 X 4so,

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aaron just got a letter. it was addressed to Mr. Pienmeier.

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just so ya know. this is the worst blog ever. so I thought you might be happy that you at least got to see a picture of the cake I made for aaron's birthday last year. it has nerds on it.i feel like bleh. well first. i am waiting for gridgey to blog about some schtuff that he wants to blog about...i could easily do it myself but I would like to think that this is "our" blog not just "my" blog. so

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the first weekend in april, we went on our 2nd backpacking trip to joyce-kilmer wilderness in north carolina. I should have blogged about it forever ago but april was a busy month. (we were too busy winning 3rd most awesome roaster EVAR at the scaa conference...thanks for the new spelling of "ever", katie) it was a pretty intense weekend. we had to drive for about 5 hours, hike, camp, hike, and

maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09751724176587577378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22066378.post-1146523846499424332006-05-01T18:26:00.000-04:002006-05-01T23:46:03.996-04:00

yes, like natalie portman's character from V for Vendetta but instead of evey, her name is spelled e.v. we have learned so much about puppyhood in the past 5 days. really though, the past 5 days have been tough. she whines, pees, vomits, nips, jumps, barks & howls, plays, eats, and sleeps within the span of a minute. I shouldn't make her sound so bad. she is very sweet! it's so nice when she rubs

maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09751724176587577378noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22066378.post-1145477207471403342006-04-19T16:03:00.000-04:002006-04-19T16:11:44.996-04:00

gridge's has placed 3rd in the nation for the roasters choice competition! our light ethiopian yirgachefe has claimed the spotlight thanks to aaron's awesome roasting! (and good yummy beans) congratulations sweetie!

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thursday...we left late for our 6 hour drive (as expected). our snacks consisted of... juice boxes, nutty bars, p-nut butter crackers, terra chips (blah! there were too many sweet potato) and paul newmans take on mint oreos, and some other stuff I can't remember. the tunnels on the way into nc were the best part of the drive. oh yeah, be on the look out for the huge rv covered with advertisements

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so much blogging is about to slap you in the face...you won't even believe it.

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Ms Wiz hosted a big tournament yesterday at USN. About 180 people competed for the glory of an AAU medal. I was going to compete (to help represent the school; not because I really like competing), but Wiz wanted a right-hand man who she could yell at without worrying about hurting their feelings...like ME!So, my day started at 6:30am. feeding the tonkey-tonks, eatin' granollie, getting my travel

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gridge's celebrated its 2nd birthday about a week ago...monday, march 20th to be exact! the festivities included free drip coffee all day and 4 drawings for some gridge gear. we had lots o balloons and decorated the window to make everybody feel birthday-y...no cake though...there should have been cake. people were unexpectedly thanking us for the free coffee. not just like normal thanks that the

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Whooooo! Aaron & I JUST got home from our very first backpacking trip. We are really pooped...but had a load of fun. It wasn't really all that hard of a hike to and from the camp site. The footing was kinda rough (lots and lots and lots of rocks, big and small, sticking up everywhere!) so it was hard to look around and see the area while we were hiking. There were several spots where there were

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I am learning how to roast coffee on our loverly sasa samiac! my brain has those little confused/overwhelmed bubbles popping above it. in the most simple form it is really just cooking some beans over a turning gas oven. in more complex terms it's watching, charting, observing, obsessing, smelling, in a targeted amount of time with some temperature marks at certain times, in hopes that yer green

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i never thought i would have enough money to just go out and buy a pair of shoes. ROCKET DOG my lovely! it was kind of like buying a pair of jeans that already have that hole in the knee without workin for it. (but not as steewwpid) they are "pre frayed" and a little of a rip off to ye ole converse...but there was something very satisfying about being able to spend 35 bucks and not pee myself in

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fair trade (and organic) produce has at long last made its way to cookeville. I really never thought it would happen. yes, there are a few shops 'round here that carry fair trade products...besides gridges... things like chocolates etc. but not produce! and specifically mangos! (is it spelled with an "s" or "es"?) anytime gridgey & I have looked at fair trade brochures and other informative

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we just got home from a free night at garden inn! it was of course very nice. we basically had the whole place to ourselves...there was only one other couple there. breakfast was blackberry custard french toast, four cheese egg souffle with fire roasted peppers, applewood bacon, and gridge's coffee (of course). here are some photos for you to see.

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Well...Mary has been hardcore New Skete'n the crap out of dog research. It seems as though the hunt is on for a new family member (hunt meaning breed & timing...I'd like to find my spot, get out the cooler, and become part of the blind before i take any shots... while Mary is patiently waiting behind me with throwing stars and mortars). The extent of MY research has been watching "8 Below;" the

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Our toilet still leaks...or something other than the toilet. We have called 2 different plumbers numerous times and from what they have demonstrated, they don't need to work to make money. So, I have moved on to calling a third person to help. I guess it's a good thing that the leak doesn't smell like poop. Why does it seem like a lot of people just do as little as possible... I feel like Aaron &

maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09751724176587577378noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22066378.post-1140415278956856262006-02-20T00:44:00.000-05:002006-02-20T01:04:42.073-05:00

Ok... so it was really last week (I'm living a week in the past, so I can get my timing right).We spent last sunday doing 2 very cool/ultra coffee geeky things.1) we cleaned the scoop arms of my Sasa Samiac (the cool swooshy arms that swirl my hot beans). After being covered with years worth of coffee oils (gridge & bongo), they are shiny and clean!2) ok..Mary actually did all of number 1. That's

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Aaron & I seem to be having trouble with this whole blogging thing. We really just decided to do it so we could say we have 1 million and 3 things to do instead of 1 million and 2. Yes, Walter... I will send you some coffee. I put it on my actual list of things that will get done. Is the song "Geronimo" by Keith Dunn?We attended our first city council meeting this past Tuesday! It was kinda cool.

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Welcome one and all to the first ever posting that has been. You might be wondering some of you on a daily basis (or so) what has become of them... and we will tell you!? This shall be a correspondence section for some of you and for others as well. Most will love it. The amount of matter will vary from time to time. Thank you.Dictated but not read.

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