No yelling this time and we’ll get back to talking about meat very soon, I promise.
After Saturday’s hurried pace I thought I should wrap things up and let everyone know how Day 2 went. The pace for the entire day was far nicer for me, it started with a 3 hour hike out at Pt. Pinole with the family. This put me home with just enough time to shower, pack up and get out the door. I knew HWY 80 would be packed, back out through El Sobrante I went. The temperature hung out at about 76 degrees all the way, very nice. The Lafayette Bookstore is right off HWY 24 and very easy to get to, I even got to park right out front. Not like Berkeley, where you need to park, then hike in. Stephanie and her husband Mark were out front relaxing. Owen our publisher/author showed up and got things moving. Ellen showed up soon after. Dave, Mr. Bookstore owner, set up about 20 chairs, made the place real official looking. Owen announced he was going to do a demonstration on how to make tea properly, since he was born in Michigan after all.
It was time to begin! We had our schtick down pretty well after Saturday’s long haul. Each author got up and got to read a selection from the book, Owen demonstrated his fancy tea makings and after we did a little question & answer period. We even got to talk about our worst screw up ever. Stephanie panicked when she couldn’t find the legs or wings on a turkey breast and I shared about the time I country fried a pork spare rib. Eeek.
Unlike Saturday, this jaunt was only an hour and a half or so. It was a good time had by all, we got to sign books and talk with customers that wandered in. Speaking of wandering in, Big D and the Bitner family showed up! Very nice cause we went out to dinner aftwards, enjoyable.
Owen is smart, very smart. He chose the best authors’ best writings to publish. How can you go wrong with that? I suppose you could, but not very bloody likely. The layout and design of the book has been very well thought out. The indexing (a very important point, it’ll make or break you) is done 3 different ways. You can search by blog, by title of recipe and by main ingredient. 3 indexes pally boy, that’s very cool. This book is filled with recipes and stories both silly, serious and prolific. This book will do well.
Owen has most certainly learned a lot and will continue doing well. If you are interested in purchasing a book here, please place your a Order.

Here we find Owen placing the cozy over the tea pot, he’s got 3 of those suckers.
And that, pretty much handles that. I’m sure there will be more public signings down the road. Take care and keep yer ears peeled.
Biggles