This week’s 'Fish out of Water' took me to Blackstone Manor Clock Repair in downtown Hopkins. When I first arrived, the ‘tick-tock’ of all the clocks instantly transported me back to the sitting room in my grandparents’ home. Suddenly I was 10-years-old, sitting on the ‘Davenport,’ dressed in my fancy clothes (trying, per strict order from my Swedish grandmother, not to mess them up) and waiting for it to be time to go to Church. The tick-tocks of the big clocks placed throughout the room, kept me company. And according to owner Mark Purdy, many of his customers are into their clocks for …
I love to cook. I love cookbooks. I love cooking shows. I have dreams of Viking Ranges and KitchenAid stand mixers. I think Ratatouille is quite possibly the best movie ever made and that Williams-Sonoma is a little piece of heaven right here on earth. I have the world’s biggest crush on Jacques Pépin and would run away with him in a heartbeat. I could go on forever but I think you get the idea. And while I enjoy cooking/food preparation/food shopping very very very much, I don't do it as often as I like—mostly at my family's request. You see, while I feel like Julia Child in the kitchen, my …
Editor's Note: ‘Fish Out of Water’ features Minnetonka Patch Local Editor Katelynn Metz (me) trying my hand at a new job somewhere in the west metro. New editions of Fish Out of Water will appear every Monday. In this second segment, I try my hand as a cable installer for Comcast in the Twin Cities west metro. *** I love television. All kinds. News. Cop dramas. Reality. Game shows. Soaps. I know the well-worn buttons of my TV remote by heart—able to switch between shows like a master channel flipper. It’s actually one of my most admired talents (so I'm told). So it seemed a natural fit that …
Times are tough, the economy is soft and many west metro locals are looking for ways to cut back—myself included. As I shelled out almost $30 for a simple kid’s trim at one of those sports-themed children’s hair boutiques recently, it occurred to me: trimming my budget could be as simple as trimming my own family’s hair. (And by family I mean everyone except me.) I quickly calculated that this snipping scheme could save the Metz clan more than $500 every year! So off to the Internet I went, in search of the answers to my do-it-yourself hairdo questions. Unfortunately the World Wide Web was…
Editor's Note: ‘Fish Out of Water’ features Minnetonka Patch Local Editor Katelynn Metz (me) trying my hand at a new job somewhere in the west metro. New editions of Fish Out of Water will appear every Monday. In this third segment, I try my hand as a forestry worker with the St. Louis Park Parks & Rec Department. It’s not even dawn, yet my alarm is blaring, demanding that I get up—quite obnoxiously in fact. Goody. It’s hovering around freezing and a wind advisory has been issued, yet I’m gearing up to spend hours outdoors. Double goody. Hat? Check. Gloves? Check. Subzero parka? Check. …
Editor's Note: ‘Fish Out of Water’ features Minnetonka Patch Local Editor Katelynn Metz (me) trying my hand at a new job somewhere in the west metro. New editions of Fish Out of Water will appear every Monday. In this second segment, I try my hand as a group fitness instructor at The Marsh in Minnetonka. I’m just going to get it out there: Exercise, fitness, working out—whatever you want to call it—it’s not exactly my forté. So much so, that when I told my mom that for this week’s “Fish out of Water” segment I would be learning to teach a group fitness class called "BodyJam," her first …
Today, Patch is debuting the first of four new video series. The first, Fish Out of Water, features Minnetonka Patch Local Editor Katelynn Metz trying her hand at a new job somewhere in the west metro. New editions of Fish Out of Water appear every Monday. Minnetonka Patch Local Editor Katelynn Metz takes her best shot at the (coffee) grind of working as a barista at a Caribou Coffee in Minnetonka.
