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It's MLK day! And technically the 3rd week of the month. But scheduling is hard and I just got back from being out of town for a month, and work schedules do not obey the commands of the brunch club. But we did make it out, in spite of it being a holiday and Missouri's version of snowy. We employed the random online thing-picker as our electronic hat, so that we might choose the place for brunch. It was almost lunch - M was hungry and was eating breakfast no matter what if J and I didn't make a decision. So we were decisive, and picked breakfast, and the electronic hat chose Kitchen House Coffee. After a slightly rocky start, in which I did not obey the essence of the E-hat, we picked the spot and off we went into the...quarter inch of snow.
Food: The menu here isn't huge, but it's hearty and delicious, and most of the eggs come from the chickens out back, so it's pretty freakin cool. J and M got the Easter-egger with meat,which is an egg sandwich with greens and bacon on a bagel. I used to study at KC a lot while prepping for exams, so along with getting recognized by the staff (I love feeling like a regular!), I returned to an old favorite of an everything bagel with their amazing home-made hummus. I was starving but that was all I wanted--I would eat a tub of their hummus plain. J and M both really liked their sandwiches, and M has expressed interest in trying the Old-English, a bagel with creamcheese and greens. One of these times, I will actually remember to ask J what she intends to get next time. For now, it's a mystery. J got...some kind of latte that started with a P that was supposed to be close to vanilla, I got the seasonal toasted marshmallow latte, which was just okay and did not taste enough like coffee, and M got a chai latte, which was, for her, much spicier than she prefers but still drinkable and she didn't die. J and I also went back for round 2 later, and got honey harvest lattes. We both agreed: not amazing but pretty decent. And it was a 2 cups of coffee kind of day. J accompanied hers with a cranberry cookie, and I had a bread pudding muffin, because it was also a bad decision kind of morning. I have no regrets my hands are only shaking a little it's *fine*.
Conversation topics included: A recap on the holidays, what we did, what we suffered, what pets we visited, what family nonsense we endured, the merits of different kinds of lip balm (wax is evil oil is good Minnesota is a lip-drying desert), and which chickens would be the best to own for temperament and weather tolerance. For posterity: the orpington is fluffy and chill and likes to lay good eggs. And the...bramah (sp?), was similarly chill and has fluffs on its feet, which makes them good for Minnesota. It also apparently made a good show when the unsuspecting chicken in the back of the shop stepped into the snow, and was then displeased that there was snow on her feets. So extra point for entertainment value. The morning finished with us reading kid books while J grabbed a box of wooden blocks and started making wooden cupcakes out of puzzle shapes. Her cupcake was beautiful....we kind of failed at the actual puzzle part.
J dropped us off after, and gave me my present, which included some awesome sci-fi and fantasy jewelry, and a gingerbread scratch-house for the cats. M is in the process of constructing this now, with "help" from the cats, because it's not proper Christmas morning if there aren't 3 people doing a 1 person job. The construction process might be the next post, if I can talk M into it.
So that is January brunch club. We'll see you again in February, by which time the ginger-house will probably have been destroyed. (M just found the directions after finishing the house lol, thus the title of this month's episode I guess.)
Love,
JAM
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