Casey Face is about a month away from taking her horse/food cart out into the middle of town and launching her coffee/canteen food company in the street for people wanting the best coffee and tea and some breakfast food, cakes, and sandwiches. I’m already hooked on her tea.

I saw Casey at the Farmer’s Market yesterday. She’s getting nervous. Me too. She’s also getting very close to opening day, now probably March.

The teachers at the local high school – just across the street from where Casey hopes to locate her cart – are bugging me to know when she’s coming. I have to confess I had no idea how much hard work goes into a launch like this, only a true dreamer would ake it on.

She showed me the work she and Dan Rogers have done this week on the interior of the food cart. Casey is an interior designer, and she is putting her training and skills to good use. She joked that she might be done if I had come to help her paint again. Yes, said Dan, but I’d mess it up if I came. I’m not getting great reviews for my painting. This is why Maria doesn’t like to see me doing it.

She did a beautiful job, though. She’s trying to figure out how to get a registration for an old decaying horse trailer with no papers. She’ll figure it out. I’m getting nervous too, a bit. I’ve seen for weeks now just how hard Casey is working to make her dream come through. I can’t wait to be there; Casey is impressive, tough, innovative, and determined. Casey is using actual tiles and setting them herself. Stay tuned. It’s getting close.

Two views of the horse trailer she is restoring for her food cart.