Brevity by Dan Thompson for November 01, 2017

They’re furrowly committed to becoming field-to-table purveyors…

but while their business will be growing,

they’re just getting in at ground level.

They’ve barley gotten started, but by buying the old mill,

at yeast they don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

As a rye gesture, he gave her a bunch of old flours for her birthday…

and bought some bran new bread, to toaster..

It was wheat.

Say…. Firefox says something isn’t spelt correctly.

There isn’t a grain of truth to that!

True Grist

I didn’t understand a single thing they said.

Down by the old (not the new but the old)

Mill stream (not the river but the stream),

Where I first (not the last but the first)

Met you. (Not your sister but you.)

With your eyes (not your ears, but your eyes)

Of blue (not brown, but blue).

In other words, plain old, run of the mill flour.

That’s a coincidence – while watching yet another of TCM’s plugs for their wines last night, I was thinking that “curate” deserves the Overused Word of the Year award.

(An OWY ?)

And now, here it is again.

(And, used to perfection!)

Water wheel drought?

Cable Mill in Cades Cove, (Smoky Mts.) is still an operational grist mill.

Grits are the gist of the grist.

Seems kind of half baked