Lisa Moir is back and her business is better than ever.
Moir is often in the news -- as a single mother/entrepreneur who opened the Blue Pig ice cream shop which immediately became known for best ice cream around; as a green-queen who farms her own lavender on the establishment's roof, has her own chicken brood for eggs, and seems to get awarded regularly for her sustainable practices; and most recently, as a survivor of an accident too horrid to recount.
Moir gets choked up as she talks to me about the incident late last May when her arm got caught in the ice cream mixer, ravaged from elbow to wrist. But it's not the accident itself that has her getting emotional but the way the community rallied around her afterward.
She said the shop was only closed for that very night. While she was bed-ridden for several months on pain killers and spent a year in and out of restorative surgeries, one of her sisters (she's one of four girls) came in from Cape Cod and camped out (literally) on her lawn in a tent to help work in the shop. Customers would even come care for her plants.
"That's the real story," Moir said, back now in her bustling shop with the blue pig out front, a new patio, and farm-fresh flavors to please all sorts of sweet teeth. "Just how much everyone contributed and cared so much."
The accident incapacitated her just as the summer season began. Moir said she had been working 15 hours a day and she blames not the machinery but human error; "it was like sleeping behind the wheel," she said. She said she's not afraid to return to the job that hurt her, but grateful. You wouldn't know all she's been through from the sleeve pulled down over her right arm -- it just looks like she scoops from the freezer case so much it's meant to keep her arm warm.
Welcome back, Lisa! Now what flavor to try?
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