After visiting 213 distinct coffee/tea shops these past 9 years, we thought we had seen it all, but were wowed by the size of Living Room’s space, big enough to accommodate church services on Sundays; probably big enough in fact to house three average size shops.   Adding to our pleasure was the array of comfortable seating options from couches to sofas to armchairs to pews to wooden chairs.   Their table offerings ran from two seaters to sizable rectangular ones that could accommodate eight.  They have an array of lighting with lots of windows, ceiling lights, and a few stand-alones.  It’s mostly exposed wooden floor but there are also attractive rugs.  In sum, to our pleasure they have homey touches galore; the only downside physically is that they are closed on Sundays – the day we almost always bike – for church. 

Discussion topics included DM’s telling us of the tear-drop trailer his wife J and he recently acquired, and their search for the best routes to go south given the winter challenges of the Siskiyous; DS relaying the solstice rituals he helps lead at his co-housing community, including the writing down of behaviors each would like to get rid of and throwing those papers in the fire; M’s expressing his frustration with the Oregon legislature for not taking on the reducing of carbon until 2021; and Howard’s joy at the OMSI exhibit that his wife P and he took their grandchildren to: Exquisite Creatures, in which artist Christopher Marley displays front and center the intricate beauty and shapes of the natural world.  

On the humble side, we do need to admit though three of today’s four braved the snow forecast three weeks ago, you would have thought we’d all do better today in today choosing our clothing and gear, because the ride back was a cold and wet one and our clothing displayed definite vulnerabilities.

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