lummi island wine tasting july 3 ’26
Open Friday July 3 from 4-6 pm
(closed on the 4th)
Friday Bread This Week
Barley, whole wheat & rye levain- Nice mix of bread flour, fresh milled whole wheat and rye. A fair amount of black pepper and toasted walnuts give this bread great flavor with just a bit of peppery bite to it. Works well with all sorts of meats and cheese- $5/loaf
Spelt Levain – Spelt is an ancient wheat w/ a nutty, slightly sweet flavor and is made with a levain before blending with bread flour, spelt flour, fresh milled whole spelt and whole rye. – $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Chocolate Croissants! – The traditional laminated french pastry made with sourdough and another pre-ferment to create the traditional honeycomb interior, rolled out and shaped with delicious dark chocolate in the center. – 2/$5
This week’s wine tasting
Quinta de Aveleda Vinho Verde ’24 Portugal $14
Loureiro, Trajadura and Alvarinho blend; apples, lemons and a touch of ripe pear fill the palate. It is an off-dry very young white wine, refreshing and crisp with a mineral aftertaste…a longtime local favorite!
Alto Moncayo Zisnero Garnacha Spain $16
Ruby red; aromas of cherries and currants; pleasant freshness with notes of laurel and toast, balanced acidity, lingering palate.
Stoller Helen’s Pinot Noir ’19 Oregon $25
Elegant nose of heady floral, baking spice, and red fruit, which gives way to secondary notes of earth and black raspberry. The palate is layered and vibrant, which carries red fruit flavors and a ferrous minerality through a long finish.
Economics of the Heart: Corruption, Self-enrichment, Abuse of power, and Defying the courts.
Every American in the last 250 years has known what the “Fourth of July” stands for. We have taken pride and joy in it, marched in parades for it, lit firecrackers and sparklers in summer twilight, picnicked and barbecued with friends and family, and wholeheartedly sang the Anthem, the Battle Hymn, and America the Beautiful together.
We knew we were uniquely blessed and proud, happy, grateful, and committed to doing whatever it might take to preserve this blessed nation and its freedoms. It seemed Solid, Strong, Safe, and Reliably committed to a Constitution which defined the rules.
No surprise it has been gut-wrenching to experience it all being ripped to pieces not by armed enemy nations, but by a domestic coup outlined and described in great detail by Heritage Foundation’s manifesto known as Project 2025 and made public in February of 2024 for all to see, and we wrote about it here in a number of posts. P2025 was designed from the beginning to do away with Constitutional government and replace it with essentially a business plan to privatize control of Federal Assets in the greedy hands of those already had most of the nation’s wealth but somehow needed it all.
The United States of America, the richest and most powerful nation on Earth was the target for the massive power grab and no-holds-barred reorganization, looting, defiance of oversight, of the federal government. They systematically replaced the competent, lyal, intelligent career civil servants who have kept the lights on, laws enforced, regulations followed, and the work of the nation done to high standards with deeply unqualified, less-educated, untrained, unquestioning, mean-spirited, and yes, traitorous opportunists.
Fast forwarding through 18 months of White House defiance of Congress, the Constitution, federal laws, individual rights of citizens, asylum seekers, people of color, and critics of all persuasions to today brings us to a surreal world. The conjoining fiascos of the White House so-called” fight night,” the reflecting pool disaster(s), the deliberate demolition and despoliation of the White House, its grounds, its art, and its history.
It’s all about Destruction, Insult, looting billions from the Treasury, selling secrets, pardons, and favors through bitcoin and family. It is not governing, it is using the power of the United States to hurt as many people as possible as much as possible. The bottomless greed and cruelty lie directly at the feet of the card-carrying sadistic psychopath who always lies and whose only enjoyment in life is making people suffer.
Below are links to a few quotes from a couple of thought-provoking recent Salon articles by writer Heather Digby Parton, whose perspective we have found ourselves nodding and agreeing with for several months. Below are a few brief quotes from each article to tease your interest.
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/30/how-donald-trump-hijacked-americas-birthday/
“throughout these last 250 years, many have looked to America as a beacon of hope, opportunity and freedom from places that had too little of all of that… this weekend’s “celebration” in the midst of what is more and more looking like a slow-motion ethnic cleansing all the more disorienting. The Supreme Court’s ruling, issued June 25, allowing the deportation back to failed states and war-torn countries of millions who have made lives here drives that point home.”
“It’s tempting to say that the (July 4) celebration has become a metaphor for Trump’s second term — but then everything from the tariffs to the Iran war to the Reflecting Pool is the same metaphor, which pretty much says there’s no need for metaphors. Because of course, our national 250th birthday celebrations would be botched. Everything is.”
And from: https://www.salon.com/2026/06/30/how-donald-trump-hijacked-americas-birthday/
“It’s a cruel quirk of fate, or maybe just a tragic irony, that we are celebrating America’s semiquincentennial during one of the most surreal periods in American history. We’ve certainly been through tougher economic times, and our latest war in the Middle East is not as ambitious as even the ones we waged earlier in this century. But I don’t think things have ever been as downright strange on both a domestic and global level as they are in the era of Donald Trump. Celebrating the Declaration of Independence under these circumstances is downright phantasmagoric.”
“In 1976, having come through the tumultuous period of the Vietnam War, Watergate and massive social change, the country seemed to be in the mood to pretend they had all never happened. The bicentennial celebrations took place over the course of a couple of years and memorably included the 26-car American Freedom train, which carried historical artifacts across the country. There were concerts and festivals in various venues on the Fourth that featured superstars including the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, The Who, Elton John and Elvis Presley. In retrospect, it presaged the flag-waving and jingoism that were at the heart of the Reagan Revolution.”
“Reports from middle American towns — like Lawrence, Kansas, which has welcomed the Algerian national team, and the Algerian fans who have gathered there — may just tell us more about ourselves than the crass, political pageant taking place in Washington. Perhaps the ideals of the Declaration do still live in the hearts and minds of ordinary people who can see the shared humanity in all of us. Maybe, just maybe, this joyful embrace of the world and the sport that binds it together more than any other is the first real sign that, for zthe noise and ugly divisiveness of the Trump era, there is still hope for us yet.”
The breathtaking magnitude of the grifted/grafted $billions being stolen by the Tweetster, his family, cronies, Congressional co-conspirators and federal administrators at every level for their own selfish enrichment has become increasingly obvious, documented “news.” Taken together with the ongoing cruelty of disappearing/torturing entire families of innocent immigrant refugees, a growing majority of Americans want their Constitutional government back, with improved checks and balances, ethical/reliable administrators sworn to protect everyone’s right to vote and have their vote correctly counted and implemented.
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