lummi island wine tasting aug 21-22 ’26
This week open Friday & Saturday 4-6 pm
calm waters, always soothing….
Friday Bread This Week
French Country Bread – A levain bread made with mostly bread flour, fresh milled whole wheat and a bit of toasted wheat germ. After building the levain with a sourdough culture and mixing the final dough it gets a long cool overnight ferment in the refrigerator. This really allows the flavor to develop in this bread. Not a refined city baguette, but a rustic loaf that you would find in the country side. A great all around bread – $5/loaf
Multi Grain English Muffin Bread – English muffin recipe baked as a loaf that turned out great. Bread flour, spelt, whole wheat, and oatmeal with buttermilk and butter for a nice light, tender crumb. Great toast or sandwiches. $5/loaf
pastry this week…
Muffins – Four muffins 4 per order includes 2ea of:
Cinnamon Roll Muffins- Made with all the traditional muffin ingredients: flour, sugar, eggs and butter with a brown sugar, butter, pecan and cinnamon filling that is swirled through the batter and then topped with a streusel made with more butter, brown sugar and pecans and as if that isn’t enough topped with a cream cheese glaze. Yum. Feed your cinnamon roll fix!
Banana Muffins – Butter, sour cream, eggs, sugar, and bananas; roasting the bananas first helps intensify the flavor and a streusel topping brings a nice crunch!
This week’s wine tasting
Maryhill Viognier ’24 Washington $14
Carefully picked and slowly pressed to extract vibrant aromas of melon, pear, and apricot with traces of pineapple and grapefruit, continuing into a sensational and crisp fruit finish.
Kiona Lemberger ’22 Washington $14
Perfumed aromas with traces of orange zest and flower, with notes of blueberry; an agreeable palate that pairs particularly well with spicy foods!
Rocks of Bawn Cab Sauv ’20 WA $20
Blend from several WA vineyards delivers bright fruit flavors, silky tannins, nice balance and intensity.
Economics of the Heart: The War for American Democracy Heats Up
USS George Washington continues Tweetster’s disastrous war
The coming midterm election is like no other since the Civil War. In that instance, slave-owning Southerners rebelled against the Constitution by attempting to abandon the Union and start their own nation where slavery would be the undisputed law of the land.
We all know how that turned out. National tension over the issue was so significant that by the time of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Maine entered the Union as a free state, and Missouri entered as a slave state, along with stipulations that no other slave states would be allowed from the vast mid-continent territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803.
All of us who grew up in Maine paid particular attention in school to these bits of history. Those of us who grew up in Bangor often walked past the downtown statue of Hannibal Hamlin, a Bangor native and Lincoln’s VP.
Over the next several decades, the legality of slavery in some states and its illegality in others led inexorably to the Civil War and the elimination of slavery in every state. Nevertheless persecution, beatings, murders, and countless other miseries of black citizens continued until and still continue in many parts of the South despite the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
The coming mid-term election on Nov. 3 comes at a time when the US government has been taken over by a conspiracy of ultra-wealthy, white, self-entitled, fundamentalist so-called “Christian” men who are persecuting, rounding up, incarcerating, and murdering innocent people. At the same time, this same group (“Project 2025”) and the so-called Republican Party has been systematically dismantling Constitutional rights of citizens, immigrants, foreign visitors, women, and people of any skin color or shade other than White.
Between now and the election, no opportunity should be missed to fight for candidates at all levels of government who will preserve the Constitutional rights that have defined the United States of America for 250 years.
It is no exaggeration to say that if these idiots are not stopped, the future of all Life on Earth is in serious peril.
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