Three Generations

Three Generations

by | Mar 15, 2024 | The Cock n Bull

Dating back to the 1980’s we’ve had a tie to the Anderson Acres farm. Don Staber and Jay Anderson established an arrangement for produce at that time that included potatoes, corn, zucchini seasonally. It was before most restaurants were really thinking about local...
Tugg – Damn Good Dog

Tugg – Damn Good Dog

by | Jan 14, 2024 | The Cock n Bull

I once had a dog named Django. Best friend I ever had. He was the original Damn Good Dog. When he was gone I was certain I’d never have another dog. No dog could ever be that great. And I couldn’t go through the agony of losing a dog. Never. I’ll tell you now that my...
Tongue or Tenon?

Tongue or Tenon?

by | Nov 14, 2023 | The Cock n Bull

Guests refer to it as “the tongue” regularly; that large, rounded end of the bar. In fact it’s a tenon. As in “mortise and tenon”. It’s the type of joinery that holds this, and many other, old barn together. This beam that has been our bar since 1976 was actually the...

Welcome home…

by | Jun 4, 2021 | The Cock n Bull

As I pulled my Chevy pickup into the parking lot of Village Home & Garden, Lyle Lovett was singing “remembering the coming back and not crying about the leaving” and a light rain was rinsing the pollen and dust off the windshield. That lyric has pushed...

New Year’s Day

by | Jan 2, 2021 | The Cock n Bull

“If dreams were lightning and thunder was desire, this old barn woulda burned down a long time ago”                                                                                   … John Prine   New Years Day. 2021. Sleep. Decompress. Walk. Repeat. We...

Duh…

by | May 3, 2020 | The Cock n Bull

Duh… Took us seven years. The big revelation. The “Ahh Haa” moment. Geniuses we are. Like everyone else who gets started making maple syrup, I imagine, we started on the stovetop with a big pan. Then an outdoor burner. Next an evaporator. And five years ago, we...