lummi island wine tasting june 25-26 ’26
Open Friday & Saturday from 4-6 pm
- Fridays tend to be louder and more crowded...
- Saturdays tend to be calmer and less crowded
Friday Bread This Week
Black Pepper Walnut- 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
Four Seed Buttermilk – Includes cracked wheat and bran in the bread flour instead of milled whole wheat berries, plus buttermilk and oil for a tender bread and a little tang, honey, sunflower,- $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Maple Pecan Brioche –– A rich brioche dough made with plenty of butter, eggs and sugar, rolled out and spread with pastry cream, sprinkled with a maple pecan filling, rolled up and cut into individual pieces. – 2/$5
This week’s wine tasting
Maryhill Winemaker’s White ’22 Washington $15
Sauv blanc, viognier, semillon, albarino, pinot gris; careful early morning harvest, slow press cycle, limited oak, and blended to keep each varietal’s profile in both aromas and flavors– a complex, versatile, and tasty white blend!
Maryhill Winemakers Red ’22 Washington $15
Aromas of blackberry, cherry, and baking spice with hints of chocolate and dried herbs; ripe black currant and cherries on the palate with hints of tobacco and a rich, chewy finish.
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: The Grift That Keeps on Grifting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
Our beloved 250-yr old nation has suffered a long, Hellish ten years of concerted Republican trashing of everything noble this nation has ever stood for. Whether you call it MAGA, or Project 2025, or the Republican Party/Heritage Foundation’s traitorous efforts since the seventies, the Reagan Revolution’s trashing of “fair and balanced” news reporting, or the breathtaking hubris of modern wannabe Southern slave-owners, it has become starkly clear to the entire world that the United States of America is being dismantled and sold for parts by a small group of disturbingly emotionless billionaires.
It is also clear to everyone that the so-called “President,” family, and friends (yes, hard to imagine…) are raking in $billions on bitcoin, selling the White House piece by piece, and selling Presidential pardons to those who can afford them, while trashing the iconic landmark with cheap trinkets or destroying it completely. It is heartbreaking that any President could possibly be so tasteless or vain to do such a thing to “the People’s House” on the whim of a moment. It can only be understood as a deliberate middle finger to the entire nation by a sadistic psychopath.
Our nobly motivated Constitutional government of, by, and for the People has been beautifully symbolized since October, 1886 by what Americans have always known as New York Harbor’s Statue of Liberty. The French nation and artists who crafted it called her “La Liberté éclairant le monde,” or “Liberty Enlightening the World.”
And, indeed, she has been a symbol for the whole world, welcoming visitors and immigrants alike to our shores. She stood for something rare and beautiful that gave hope and welcome to immigrants longing for a better life. As Americans, we all stood with her and should still be standing with her, because that’s who we are.
The past year and a half have generated many yardsticks for how far we have fallen, losing respect from traditional allies and foes alike for the subversion of our values, the dumbing down of our leadership, and the shadows over what we really stand for as a nation.
Indeed, the Statue represents over two and a half centuries of competent, human, caring, and Reliable alliances, understandings, compromises, and promises. For some years now Congressional Republicans have rejected all of these values and replaced them with loyalty only to the $bottom lines of billionaires, and been largely silent as federal employees, military leaders, and Inspectors General whose job it is to keep agencies following the rules were eliminated on Day 1.
All that needs to happen to “make America Great Again” is to restore the values represented by our long history and symbolized by the Statue of Liberty. Sure, in one sense it’s just a metaphor. In a much more important sense, though it is an iconic symbol of the ideals, the meanings, and the guarantee and commitment to “certain inalienable rights” that Really made America Great in the first place.
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