Joomla! site syndication http://foggybottomcoffee.com 2008-11-20T16:44:57+01:00 http://foggybottomcoffee.com http://foggybottomcoffee.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2008-09-01T14:48:43+01:00 http://foggybottomcoffee.com http://foggybottomcoffee.com/content/view/47/ I admit it. The reason I began using Fair Trade coffees in the shop was because I found out they were a higher quality coffee. Being a little guy in the big world of coffee, one of my key niches is to create an outstanding cup of coffee. It’s about the only advantage I can grip. Good coffee starts with a good bean. Any worldly, social benefit kind of thing from buying Fair Trade, well, that’s ok too. So I thought I should probably read up on Fair Trade (which I kept calling “Free Trade” by mistake) for when I was asked a question. Around Dexter, these people are going to ask questions. They care. I started with the Fair Trade Certified website: http://www.transfairusa.org (http://www.transfairusa.org/content/about/overview.php) The overview gave me these insights: Fair Trade farmers get a guaranteed minimum price and an additional bonus per kilo for certified organic coffee. More and more I’ve been thinking it’s important to keep the chemicals out of my body. Workers on coffee estates are paid a living wage and forced child labor is monitored and strictly prohibited. Farmers form co-ops and act as their own brokers cutting out some of the middle-men (and their cut). Fair Trade co-ops decide democratically how to use their Fair Trade funds. Fair Trade money also goes into the communities for things like education, medical, business training, and organic certification. Wow. While I had my head buried in my own deal here at the shop, I didn’t realize people around the world were struggling to get ahead too. The world suddenly got smaller, or my heart suddenly got bigger. Something like that. Then came the stories. text/html 2008-08-27T09:49:18+01:00 http://foggybottomcoffee.com http://foggybottomcoffee.com/content/view/46/ Like to watch NFL football? Think you know which teams will win? Combine those two and join us for the NFL season where your extraordinary football predicting skills can win you big stuff here at Foggy Bottom. How does it work? It's pretty simple. On your next visit here, pick up a special secret invite card at the front counter. (It's secret because it contains our private group code, special because we only give you special things) Then head over to League.com and join our group. Make your picks each week, then go watch the game(s). Scoring is automatic, it's all free -- and when you win, you become even more famous here AND we'll award you with something you crave on a daily basis. Remember, you need to stop in here first to get your League invitation. No purchase necessary, but you know we're just saying that. (By the way, this not fantasy football, just a simple pickem pool that *anyone* can play and win!) text/html 2008-08-01T06:27:58+01:00 http://foggybottomcoffee.com http://foggybottomcoffee.com/content/view/45/ April 4th was my birthday. My mom told me how I was named. It involves an old wives tale. Back in the day, it was thought that of the two fallopian tubes of a woman's uterus, one was designated for boys and the other one produced girls. If a woman was missing a fallopian tube then all she could produce would be either all boys or all girls depending on the surviving tube.Here are the four kids my mother birthed (in order of appearance); Larry, Marcia, Sandy, Doug. After Marcia was born, mom had some kind of partial hysterectomy which took out one of the fallopian tubes. Well, the wisdom of the day then said that whichever baby you had next would be all you could produce from then on. (Are you still with me?) text/html 2008-07-30T08:56:47+01:00 http://foggybottomcoffee.com http://foggybottomcoffee.com/content/view/44/ By Doug (content/view/39/50/) Somebody get a gun. I think I’m Ol’ Yeller.There is spittle at the corners of my mouth and I’m heaving for air. I’m less than 5 miles into a 30 mile ride and my legs started hurting before I reached the end of my driveway. It’s mid-July. I’ve been training since March and I wonder if it has done any good at all. There is (oh, I’m going to guess) a 17 mph headwind with gusts up to 23mph. I’m lurching along Dexter-Chelsea Road in slow motion and my knees sound like Rice Krispies. The hills, even the gradual inclines are killing me today. The Michigan humidity is like a heavy cape I can’t shrug off. text/html 2008-07-05T06:36:05+01:00 http://foggybottomcoffee.com http://foggybottomcoffee.com/content/view/43/ We believe our community will thrive when we support each other which is why we helped build DexterCommerce.com, an image gallery of every business in Dexter, Michigan. It gives visitors a way to see what our city looks like and it serves as an online directory to give local businesses more exposure. If we missed you, please drop us a note and let us know. (Or if the image we snapped wasn't to your liking... send us a better one!) View the gallery (http://dextercommerce.com)