In the News

The Grafton 123 was featured in the 'Food & Fodder' section of Wednesday's (yesterday) Dominion Post. Amanda DeProspero did a great job of capturing the essence & mission of The 123. Thanks, Amanda! Keep up the good work :).

In the News: WBOY Restuarant Road Trip

Here's the link to the story:
http://wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=73391

It's been my experience that a lot of reporters are too busy looking for the facts that they think they already know and completely overlooking the real story. Karen has never been guilty of that. Thanks, Karen, for doing a great job.

We're In the News

"Coffee House Brings Art, Music, Visitors to Grafton"

It's in The State Journal.
Here's the link:
http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=67151

News Coverage - The Governor's Visit to Grafton

I have a lot to catch up on, but I'll start with the news:

• WBOY: New Businesses Open in Grafton
  We get a tiny bit of a mention:

"After the ribbon cutting, Manchin took took a walking tour of downtown Grafton to check out several of the town's new businesses.

He stopped by the Grafton 123 Coffee Shop, which opened a couple months ago, and a new Cajun restaurant that will open next week.

Manchin says he is encouraged by the investment he sees in communities like Grafton."

For the record: We've been open for more than 9 months now. :)

You can click to watch the video at that link, too.

• The Times West Virginian (Fairmont): Governor Finds Plenty to Like During Grafton Visit

His visit made the front page of the paper. Click here for a link to the picture.

• We made the front page of the Dominion Post (Morgantown), too, but there is no open link because everything is viewed by subscription to their site.

In the News!

The Grafton 123 House of Coffee made the 'Good News' news on WBOY tonight!
Here's the link:

http://wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=56210

If I can figure out how to post the video over here, I will, but right now you can click over to the news story and read it or click to watch the video (video link is right underneath the coffee cup pciture).

Meghan King Johnson

Meghan King Johnson has a beautiful voice.
It's taken me quite some time to post these pictures, but only because we've been busy (yay!).

If you didn't see Meghan last week, I'm sorry you missed it.
However, you're in luck:
We liked it so much, we wanted to do it again.

March 7 beginning at 7pm, Meghan has agreed to play for us again.
Don't miss it this time; it'll be worth it.

My favorite parts were the sing-along songs ;)

Front Door - Overhang Support Columns

Here's where I get to show you how those squares of concrete with anchor bolts are put to use.

PC stood these columns Saturday morning in the rain. He was happy to get them out of our garage and we are both excited about more visible progress (my interior progress is much slower, though not quite invisible - I'll tell you more about inside later this week).

Here's the first one standing:



He had the base plates of each column lined up perfectly on the trailer so that he could pull them over the edge and line them up exactly where they needed to be to get the anchor bolts in place before standing them.



Perfect fit!
PC did a great job planning everything out (I'm not surprised; he's very good at this type of thing).








Yep, they all four went up, but these are all the pictures for today. May is a very busy month and I have a million other things I have to get done today - including a couple of hours of sanding at The 123.

Check out the TaylorCountyWestVirginia.blogspot.com to see a sampling of the international attention Grafton has been getting and why May is so busy - and there's lots more to come!

Granny Sue & The 123

I posted this same picture last fall, only the trees were bright red. I thought I'd capture the same scene this spring. The white blooms are just beginning to be replaced by young leaves.

I see this everyday when I'm down there working, but imagine my surprise when I saw this caboose over at Granny Sue's blog! And not only the caboose, but Granny Sue stopped by and took pictures of The 123! (Go to Granny Sue's post "Tale of a Tired Storyteller: Grafton")

I wasn't even there to meet her. She was on her way to Rowlesburg and it looks like, from the ladders against the side of the building in her picture, that PC had run off to the hardware store for something. I was at the high school for a baseball game. I hope to catch her in June when she visits again for a telling at Tygart Lake State Park.

The ladders were there for this:

Our temporary sign, just to let people know they can surf over here and see what all the activity is about; with all the outside work, it's obvious that something is going on.