Hoards amount of Twain 2010 and Garth Mugs Delivered

Hoards of mugs arrived by the cases at Garth Mansion today, and as usual Julie gave the UPS driver a handful of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies for the heavy delivery.  The Twain 2010 mugs are a limited edition~making only 2,010 mugs.  You can only buy them here or you can buy them downtown at the Main Street Kitchen Store.  Those mugs come in the two most popular colors, a shiny black or a satin fieldstone.  Over 24 pairs of hands touch each piece, starting from a lump of shapeless clay to a finished, twice fired, piece of Deneen Pottery.

The Garth mugs came in as well with all the new colors Deneen Pottery formulated.  It is pretty hard to bake colors in red, that is why they are so rare in the pottery world.  They have messed with it for awhile and it turned out great.  We also have some dark chocolate colored ones, as well.  Black use to be my favorite, but this red and chocolate combos are pretty cool. I realized at breakfast this a.m. the red ones are the same colors as the walls in the restaurant.  We call it tanager, after the bird.

I do not know what I was thinking the other day when I went to the market.  I know you should never shop for food when you are hungry.  But, they were discontinuing their supplier of bagels so they could private label their own.  So they were selling them at cost.  You know who bought 4 boxes of bagels.  Now, in reality this would not have been so bad, if each box did not have Nine (9) dozen bagels in each  box.  I don't add real fast, but let me tell you it is more bagels than most people want to have in their freezer.  The worst of this whole situation is the fact that we do not even SERVE bagels at Garth Mansion.  IF you know of a great French Toast recipe for them, please post it here. Then email me and I will send you a dozen bagels.  A good friend of mine suggested that  I sell the mugs at the Kitchen Store with a free cup of coffee in them and give them a bagel with cream cheese on it.  I am not that desperate yet, but don't put it past me.  

P.S. No baby llamas as of yet.