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Pleasantville

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Pleasantville

Hey all......just needed(!!!!) to update the status of where we are in regards to our new Pleasantville venture. We are working very hard to get it done. Anyone that has opened a business knows that things come up that can hold back and or stop the process. We have had a little of both but are back on line and look to be operating in the next several weeks to the beginning of April. We still have to get through the approval/inspection process but hopefully this isn't a big deal. So please hold on, tell your friends that we are coming, and keep your eyes on blackcow facebook and blackcow web site. We ARE coming Pleasantville and we are very excited to bring what we do to such a great little village. See you in a few.............xo

Black Cow

December 29th, 15 years ago on a beautiful Saturday morning the Black Cow opened it doors the first time for business......crazy!

The following was written by my good friend Danny Livingston in '02. I found it nestled in my hard drive and wanted to share. I think you can apply all of it to today with a few name changes......enjoy and thank you all for 15 years of smiles/tears/hugs/winks/kisses/guffaws galore, and just all around love and goodness.....I tell people I have 1000+ really great friends that I love very much.....xo

The Black Cow

By Danny Livingston 7-9-02

So,

In this town

Where the cotton flies free

There’s an aromatic, wide awake

Place to drink tea

And java, and cocoa

Coffee’s of all sorts

A sanctuary, if you will,

For the Sunday NY Times Sports

Where you’re greeted by name

As you walk thru the door

No matter the mood that your head

Felt before

You feel better!

Things will be all right

All strengthened, of course

By your handshake with Mike

The Black Cow

Where artists and bankers

Can stray from the day

Sit on warm wooden chairs

And conversate away

Or just soak in the music

Let your stressed mind take five

Let the coolness of whipped cream

Slowly open your eyes

And not to brag

But the easiness of Croton on Hudson

Exaggerates here

For all are included

No ego’s rest here

Kim(’02) helps you choose

Something different to drink

You sit down,

Rest your tush

And should you opt to think

Go ahead!

Or if not

Sip alone

You know how

Where the doors and minds are all open

Enjoy your morning

Black Cow

Nothing to do with coffee but relevent.......

This article falls under and relates to the discussion of "organic" based on USDA guidelines. It's total BS created to enable monster agribusiness to be "ORGANIC"...You don't always get what you think you're getting and just because there's a barn and setting sun on the package doesn't mean it's good healthy food...Read it and learn/weep........Remember when organic was truly organic......

READ THIS!

Coffee!!

This from my good friend Peter Gordon Lavery Esq.........

It was on this day in 1850 that the French writer Honoré de Balzac (books by this author) died, a death that was probably fueled by his coffee addiction. Balzac drank between 20 and 40 cups of intense Turkish coffee every day.

Balzac produced a huge body of work, nearly 100 novels, stories, and plays that are known as La Comédie humaine. He worked for about 15 hours each day, and he sustained himself with massive amounts of coffee, pipe tobacco, and food.

Balzac suggested drinking strong coffee on an empty stomach as a writing method. He said: "Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink — for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder."

Balzac had been married for five months at the time of his death, but his wife had gone to bed and his mother was the only one with him when he died. He was 51 years old.

Good drinking to all........

Dog Days

We are in the dog days of summer. I love summer, I love the hot humid weather, I also love the periodic heavy summer thunder showers. We haven't had one for some time and we are due. Things are a little too dry for my liking. The last two weeks of August are the slowest of the year for business with the first two weeks of the new year coming in a close second. It's this time of year that Peggy and I always freak out looking at the dailies($$) thinking what's wrong, what happened. Then we get a hold of ourselves and remember it's the last two weeks of the summer. September comes, school begins, new staff and schedule and all cranks right back up again. It's always in the fall that I also think of new ideas, try new things. Through my life I always changed living situations in the fall, moved away, traveled. It still resonates in me. I have lots of ideas and really want to get them out so keep your eyes open things may start happening, time and money are my obstacles. My kids are getting older, moving on to bigger and better I can only hope, this is weird time in my life. We have been in business 15 years come this October 15th. We signed our lease, began work and opened the doors for day one December 29th 1995........Crazy!.......A guy came in the other day selling some kind of internet ad thing. I obliged his sales pitch and he asked me how long we have been in business. I said 15 years, he continued with his pitch. I politely moved him along and he said as he was leaving, he wished me success with my business. I chuckled, 15 years I would say we are established/successful(?). He won't be getting my business, not paying attention. So with September approaching I hope to bring all my Black Cow folk some new fresh ideas to carry us into the next 15 years.........xo