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The biggest part of it was just finding time in our schedules, which are crazy to begin with, to go in and renovate the whole shop-we did it all ourselves.' 'We've never owned a business before, so it was a very learn-as-you-go kind of thing. 'Honestly, we had no idea what we were doing,' says Jurgenson, with a laugh.

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In May of this year, that's what they decided to do-and they've been going nonstop ever since, figuring out how to open a business while creating the menu and purchasing and renovating the Albany Avenue location to adequately reflect the playfulness of their planetary theme. We would have to drive for hours, so we thought, 'Why not open our own?'' But we always wanted donuts and could never find a good donut shop nearby. 'We could finally eat, and it was our big reward. 'Part of competing was that we would always get a giant meal afterwards,' Jurgenson explains. The couple had to keep their bodies at a very low percentage of fat, but after their competitions were over, they'd indulge. What eventually turned out to be a destination for donut lovers near and far began as a pipe dream years ago when Jurgenson, a makeup artist, and Garvey, a K-9 deputy sheriff with the Columbia County Sheriffs Department, competed together in bodybuilding competitions. Six Depot of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, including flavored coffees, lattes, and nitro cold-brew. To wash all those sweets down, Cosmic serves hand-roasted coffees from No. The force behind this astronomical frenzy? Giant, yeast-risen, filled-until-bursting donuts stuffed with sinful amounts of homemade buttercream, pie filling, and other sugary decadences that are then topped with out-of-this-world sweets like fresh-baked cookies, slices of cheesecake, and shooters of caramel or maple syrup to drizzle on top. The shop is selling over 1,000 donuts per day and the family trio is working as fast as they can to keep hot, freshly made donuts filling the pastry cases-but they end up closing early most days, after running out. Two months later, the galactic-sized turnout the Kinderhook shop has experienced shows no signs of waning: Every morning, owners Jhori Jurgenson, her mother, Bonnie Tedder, and Jurgenson's partner, Jason Garvey, hope to serve everyone that shows up to patiently wait in a two-hour-long line wrapping around the block. Within just two weeks of opening its doors in mid-October, Cosmic Donuts was already having trouble keeping up with its customers' insatiable demands.

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