community – Orangette https://orangette.net Fri, 19 Feb 2016 06:06:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 August 12 https://orangette.net/2010/08/august-12/ https://orangette.net/2010/08/august-12/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:51:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/august-12 Delancey is one year old today. I took that picture, the one above, 16 months ago. Brandon had bought a 30-quart Hobart mixer a few months earlier, and we’d been storing it in our friend Carla’s basement. Our friend Sam named it Sir Mix-a-Lot. That morning, the morning that I took the picture, we had rented a big truck, wrestled Sir Mix-a-Lot into the back, strapped him in, and hauled him to the restaurant. The thing was so heavy, such a mess to move, and I had no idea how to operate it, and I was excited and intimidated and borderline terrified, and mostly, more than anything, I had no clue how we were ever going to get this restaurant…

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