a new table

Every Tuesday morning a group of Dayton artists gets together at an area coffee shop for an “Art Pop-Up.” This is to help their art get exposure, maybe make a sale or two without a space fee or commission to the business, rub shoulders with other artists, and introduce the public to some fun coffee shops around town.

Part 2 of the story is that once a month four of us friends get together and we play euchre. One of the women (not me) is a really good euchre player and she is a wonderful teacher for the rest of us so-so players. We rotate houses, fix snacks, and usually finish two complete games because we talk too much. The first time everyone was at my house, we sat at the dining room table. My table is oval shaped and whoever sits at the oval ends has a farther reach than the other two players. It’s not a good table for playing cards and I don’t have a card table. 

I follow a few local artists on Facebook and one day one of them posted a photo of a card table he had made into a piece of art and he was taking it to the Wholly Ground coffee shop. He calls it “Hollywood Squares” and it can hang on the wall until you need to use it as a table. What fun! I messaged him and told him I would like to buy it, Todd and I met him at the coffee shop, visited with him and the other artists, and left with a card table. 

Sometime in August it will have its first euchre game played on it.