It is midnight, Saturday, November 15, 2014. . .we are still at Pour at Four with Mark and Sue Merrill, Tom, Howie, Shaun, and Liz. They are taking things off the walls, putting chairs up on tables and turning the "OPEN" sign to "CLOSED" for the last time. Come Monday the new owner Steve will take over, keeping the name, chefs and Tom as server. . .for now. . .A liquor license will change the atmosphere. . .or will it? We will visit and find out.
As we entered Pour at four fifteen in the afternoon two ladies sitting at the bar said "They're here!"
and got up off their bar stools and headed toward us. It was then I noticed it was Jordan and Joanie DeGrande, a former first grade student and her mom. What a wonderful surprise. They had seen my Facebook posts about our "Zen" place and stopped by, heard from Mark and Sue that we would be there at four and waited to see us. We invited to sit at "our table" and we talked the afternoon away about travel, changes, teaching (Jordan is in her second year at Olympic View as a kindergarten teach, telling me it was my year that started her dream of becoming a teacher - what an honor). Carol joined us for a bit after working two days at a bazaar selling her crafts, and Liz Heath had asked to join our table, a regular patron at Pour, Liz is teary about losing her special treatment by owners Mark and Sue. I'm holding back the tears. . .though I know it will not be the same with Steve, the new owner. The Merrills are special folks. Generous of heart and spirit, offering us free tastes and sometimes even a bottle appearing on our table for our future enjoyment.
and got up off their bar stools and headed toward us. It was then I noticed it was Jordan and Joanie DeGrande, a former first grade student and her mom. What a wonderful surprise. They had seen my Facebook posts about our "Zen" place and stopped by, heard from Mark and Sue that we would be there at four and waited to see us. We invited to sit at "our table" and we talked the afternoon away about travel, changes, teaching (Jordan is in her second year at Olympic View as a kindergarten teach, telling me it was my year that started her dream of becoming a teacher - what an honor). Carol joined us for a bit after working two days at a bazaar selling her crafts, and Liz Heath had asked to join our table, a regular patron at Pour, Liz is teary about losing her special treatment by owners Mark and Sue. I'm holding back the tears. . .though I know it will not be the same with Steve, the new owner. The Merrills are special folks. Generous of heart and spirit, offering us free tastes and sometimes even a bottle appearing on our table for our future enjoyment.
We're on the lookout for a new place, but we'll return to Pour at Four under the new management and hope that it continues to provide us a cozy dine-out experience. The memories we've made there will forever warm our hearts and for that we say "Thank you, Mark and Sue".
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