2008 Miller in May Home and Garden Tour

The 2008 Miller in May Home and Garden Tour is happening this Saturday from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. The Miller Neighborhood is bounded by Villa and May (East and West) and 10th and 16th (North and South). The area is one of Oklahoma City's Centennial Neighborhoods - beginning in 1907. This is the 10th Annual Home and Garden Tour and a time when the Miller Neighborhood Association will be celebrating 25 years! Here is a bit from a recent NewsOK.com article... The mansion was once home to the George and Nellie Miller family, for whom the Miller neighborhood was named. It is one of 10 homes that will be open May 19 to celebrate the Miller Centennial Ninth Annual Home and Garden Tour. As part of the celebration, the neighborhood also is holding its Third Annual "Art on the Boulevard” with area artists displaying their works in the median of Miller Boulevard. The 160-acre farm now known as the Miller neighborhood was first purchased by Luke Ellison in 1890 for $200. It changed hands several times before George and Nellie Miller bought it in 1901. In 1905, Miller started platting the area, which now is bounded by NW 10 and NW 16, May Avenue and Villa Avenue. The final platting was completed in 1907, just months before Oklahoma statehood. Miller donated two strips of land for the use of the Oklahoma Railway, which connected the neighborhood to virtually all parts of the growing Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The Linwood streetcar line ran in the middle of the median of NW 12 all the way through the neighborhood. Its location meant no resident of Miller was more than three blocks from transportation. The article goes on and is worth the read. This is a great event to attend and will give you a chance to see some of the heart of Oklahoma City living. You can purchase tickets at the following locations: Garden Gate Antiques 23rd Street Antique Mall Western Avenue Antiques Mockingbird Antiques French Cowgirl or at any of the featured homes/gardens the day of the tour. Tickets are $8.00 in advance and $10.00 on tour day. If you would like more information, you can contact one of us at Cafe Evoke Catering and we can get you more information. We look forward to seeing everyone on May 17th for teh 10th Annual Miller in May Home and Garden Tour. ...be bold Tagged: cafe evoke, coffee catering, coffee, home and garden tour okc, miller in may, oklahoma, oklahoma city The Global Exchange Fair Trade Store is your Online Source for Socially Conscious Gifts

Seeing Light at the End of a PVC Tunnel

See that?? That is progress. Notice that in the picture you have no sense of the rank, stale water smell that goes along with large holes to the sewer main. I have never been so happy to smell that stuff in my entire life! Let me tell you something - our house was built in 1920 and we still had clay pipes down there! So, that god like machine that is going to fix it broke the old pipes away and they are going to put in nice, new PVC pipes. I have no idea of the "green" nature of using such pipes but at this point, I just want to feel like my house in in 2008 - not back in the 20th (earlier I'm sure) with no running water! The only drawback to the giant dirt mounds in our back yard is that our house will be one of 8 featured in the 2008 Miller in May Home Tour that is happening this Saturday. Think anyone will mind if we tell them our story? I mean, surely they will understand that after 2 weeks with no drainage of any kind, we just had to do it! So, now that this is fixed - getting fixed I should say - what to do about my broken MacBook monitor? This old school monstrosity on my desk is not going to cut it.. ...be bold Tagged: cafe evoke, coffee catering, coffee, espresso, tea, oklahoma, oklahoma city The Global Exchange Fair Trade Store is your Online Source for Socially Conscious Gifts

For Today - A List of Post Titles I Never Got to Finish

1. Morbid MacBook Monitor 2. Old School meet New School (a tale of two generations of computers coming together) 3. Still No Sewer! 4. Evoke Goes LIVE at the 2008 Decorators Show House at The Brownstones 5. World Fair Trade Day - TODAY! 5. Monday #2 with no sewer - is today the day? 6. Gas, Big SUVs, a silver trailer with Evoke Logos... 7. Totally Pissed Off - bathroom breaks, bad monitors, broken bike parts, you name it.. Now you are all caught up on things that have been going on since my last post. On we go! ...be bold Tagged: cafe evoke, coffee catering, coffee, espresso, tea, oklahoma, oklahoma city The Global Exchange Fair Trade Store is your Online Source for Socially Conscious Gifts

Oh, it's Monday...

So, Jenni and I were in Dallas, Texas last weekend for a friends wedding - it was a great time. I got to see two great friends marry each other, spend some time with my wife, sip some Texas coffee, and watch all the action from the SCAA show via live feed. It was great. Well, during Sunday's USBC, I decided to try and hook up my new MacBook to the TV in our room. It was an awesome TV and I thought that it would be great to kick back and watch it on something other than the computer screen. Unfortunately, I could not get it to work and when unhooking the video cord, the computer slipped and caught the edge of the TV stand (one of those metal frames that hold the flat screen) and it cracked the top left corner of the screen sending black skid marks all across it. Bad news.. I am heading over to the local MAC store to have them tell me the damage. I was looking online last night and saw that several people paid upwards of $700.00 for a new screen for their laptop - something I cannot afford to do. I mean, really, it is only my business computer! So, for the time being, I think I will have to figure out a way to run the screen off my older PowerBook. That is something that I will have to learn today at the MAC store. I will keep you updated. Oh, it's Monday... ...be bold Tagged: cafe evoke, coffee catering, coffee, espresso, tea, oklahoma, oklahoma city The Global Exchange Fair Trade Store is your Online Source for Socially Conscious Gifts

Cafe Evoke Catering + Friday News!

Thanks to writer Joy Richardson, Cafe Evoke Catering had the opportunity to be written about in this Friday's edition of Friday News! You can subscribe to Friday News for only a few dollars and have it delivered to your home each Friday. I'm sure you can also pick it up at stands around their Oklahoma City area. Please let us know what you think about the article! We would love to hear from you. ...be bold Tagged: cafe evoke, coffee catering, coffee, espresso, tea, oklahoma, oklahoma city The Global Exchange Fair Trade Store is your Online Source for Socially Conscious Gifts

World Fair Trade Day

World Fair Trade Day is May 10th, 2008: World Fair Trade Day, May 10, 2008, is an international celebration and promotion of Fair Trade. Celebrations are spread throughout 70 countries worldwide. IFAT member organizations, along with Fair Trade shops and networks, host events - including Fair Trade food tastings, talks, music concerts, fashion shows and much more - to promote Fair Trade and campaign for justice in trade. Many communities are celebrating World Fair Trade Day over a period of two weeks, from May 3 to May 18, America’s Fair Trade Fortnight. With you, we hope to involve more churches, synagogues, schools, villages, towns, and cities in Fair Trade than ever before. This year, groups are trying to set the record for the biggest coffee break in history. During this time, people from all over the world will "get together" to sip some Fair Trade coffee, tea or other beverage at the same time - May 10th at 3:00 pm Eastern / Noon Pacific. This would be a great time to bring some Fair Trade Certified coffee or tea with you to work, school or wherever you happen to find yourself and make some for your friends and family. You can get all the information you need right here - tool kits, what to do, how to report your event, and so much more. So, if you are interested in being a part of this record, head on over to the site (the "right here" link above) and check it out. You can also leave a comment on this blog and I will get your questions answered. Fair Trade is a good thing and needs as much support as possible to make the program even better. So, join in! I will have more information coming soon about where you can come if you are in the Oklahoma City area and want to have coffee. I am trying to get in touch with local coffee companies and Fair Traders in the area and will also try to see if Evoke can get something together as well. So, stay tuned for that. If you are not in Oklahoma City, check online for more happenings in your area. ...be bold Tagged: cafe evoke, coffee catering, coffee, espresso, World Fair Trade Day, oklahoma, oklahoma city The Global Exchange Fair Trade Store is your Online Source for Socially Conscious Gifts

Oklahoma at it Again!

This time, Oklahoma is in Executive Traveler! In an article suitably titled Oklahoma (Better Than) OK, author Libba Young talks about the great things the all new Oklahoma is presenting our country. Oklahoma City’s revival cannot really be referred to as a “Renaissance” per se. If there’s a word for a city that’s making a comeback when there is really nothing to come back from, this is the word to describe what’s going on in Oklahoma City today. The city is celebrating it’s centennial by luring sports teams, building river and canal systems, and hosting Olympic qualifying events. What a pleasant surprise to find world-class museums, exquisite dining, luxury hotel accommodations, and a thriving nightlife in a city that lives in the country’s history books for the Great Land Run of 1889, and in its memory as the site of the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Happily, Oklahoma City looks forward. This is a great article to find out some of the hot places and activities that Oklahoma City has been working on over the past several years. What gets me excited is that people other than Oklahomans are noticing these attractions and are giving them the props they deserve. The article picked out great attractions like Pops, our new water taxi's (although their link goes to the Fr. Launderdale version) that run along the Bricktown Canal, a few area restaurant hotspots, museums, and other great things. It was a positive article from a "a luxury travel magazine for the business traveler focusing on corporate retreats, client entertainment, and luxury destinations" I think OKC is going somewhere and I believe that it will end up being a great place for people to come and enjoy themselves, a great place to be, and a great place to live. Thanks to Jenni and to OKC Talk for bring this article to my attention. Here are a few other places where you can find Oklahoma being in the world spotlight: Area guest ranch, inn make National Geographic stay list New York Times Front Cover Forbes | Recession Proof Cities SouthernLiving | Best Exits Off I-35 GreenSource | A River Runs Through It ...be bold Tagged: cafe evoke, coffee catering, coffee, espresso, tea, oklahoma, oklahoma city The Global Exchange Fair Trade Store is your Online Source for Socially Conscious Gifts