Wine Tasting
Lummi Island Wine Tasting August 6 ’11
Well, this has been a beautiful week on the Island and environs. Lots of sun with cool breezes, beautiful and bright colors, and the deep blue mid-summer sky with its tapestry of puffy white clouds. Yes, folks, this is what the locals have been waiting for for nearly two years, and what is generally known […]
Lummi Island Wine Tasting July 30 ’11
First, a relatively serious note, regarding the national budget nonsense. Being burdened as I am with being a recovering Economist, all of this daily drivel about “extending the debt limit” is just too much to bear. All you need to know is that BOTH so-called “sides” in this so-called “debate” are way, way, way far […]
Lummi Island Wine Tasting July 23, ’11
Sometimes a lot happens from one week to the next, and this has been one of those weeks: lots of new and interesting experiences, several prompted by visiting friends. So where do you take friends from Afar? To answer this question we have to imagine what it’s like to be a visitor in our own […]
Wine Tasting July 16 ’11 Summer Vacation Mind
In some unconscious way I guess I had vaguely imagined that “retirement” would be pretty much like summer vacation from, oh, something like sixth or seventh grade, when the just-over-two-months between mid-June and early September stretched our Endlessly in front of us. Sure, we knew that September would come around, and Back to School, and […]
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