When it’s cold and raining, I worry about my neighbor dog, who never gets to go indoors, and nearly-naked baristas at upstart espresso stands.
I checked out underwear-wearing coffee girls on Broadway in Everett on last week’s drizzling “Fantasy Friday.”
The young lady at the gaping window was clad in a slinky white slip with an exposed garter belt. The back garter was unhooked, but I digress. She said it was freezing when they got busy and needed to open both side windows.
There was a small space heater near her strappy-sandaled feet.
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Speaking of espresso, T and A Latte opened Friday on W. Marine View Drive in Everett.
Succumbing to the exotic espresso craze?
Nope.
T and A stands for Tasteful and Appropriate.
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Erik Farrar, a 2005 graduate of Lake Stevens High School, will begin getting a sore tush Wednesday during a cross country bicycle ride to raise money for those with disabilities.
He is riding in an event called Journey of Hope with University of Washington fraternity buddies from Pi Kappa Phi. In 1988, Push America created a bike ride called Journey of Hope, which has raised more than $500,000 each year for the disabled.
“We’re not riding to get somewhere, but rather to get to someone,” Farrar said. “After each day of riding, we’ll be spending time with the very people we’re riding for and hopefully brighten their days (and our own) while spreading a message of acceptance and empathy.”
To find out how you can help with his effort, visit http://secure.pushamerica.org/erikfarrar.
His father, Marc Farrar, said the young riders are a great bunch of guys.
“They like to call themselves ‘a fraternity of gentlemen,’ ” Marc Farrar says. “I have to agree.”
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It’s a sad time for Rick O’Connor. We wrote about the account representative for the Everett AquaSox May 8 because he has an extensive collection of memorabilia from the movie “Back to the Future.”
On June 1, a fire at Universal Studios in California burned a set from “Back to the Future,” a King Kong exhibit and a street scene used in movies and TV shows.
“The flag is still flying at half-staff at my house,” O’Connor says.
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Melancholy fact: Each week I include a Fun Fact, but this week, it’s just too melancholy. Gary Hatle of Everett visited his mother’s grave Saturday, on a poignant anniversary. His mother, Marinda Hatle, 94, died April 21.
She married Edwin Hatle on June 7, 1938, and Saturday would have been their 70th wedding anniversary. Edwin Hatle died in 1972.
All these decades, Gary Hatle said, his mother never looked anywhere else for companionship.
“They are back together, side by side,” Hatle says. “She was waiting to go home to Daddy.”
Columnist Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451 or oharran@heraldnet.com.
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