lummi island wine tasting march 12 ’22

Posted at March 10, 2022

Yes, We Are Open…!

Based on today’s updated Covid data for Whatcom County, over the past two weeks new cases across all age groups have converged to very low levels, with some notable variation by subregion. Lynden continues to show the highest case rates of 233/1000 residents compared to Bellingham at 101 and our closest mainland neighbor Ferndale at 152. Case rates remain inversely correlated with vaccination rates by subarea.

Based on these continuing decline in area cases and the rapidly declining restrictions in our region, we WILL again be OPEN for wine tasting and sales on Saturday from 4-6 pm. Anyone with boosted vaccine status is welcome, please bring card. 

We will remain closed on Fridays until weekly bread pickup returns to the shop, possibly within the next month or so. In the meantime bread pickup will continue to be in Janice’s driveway from 4-5:30 pm on Friday.

 To get on the bread list, click on the “contact us” link above and fill out the form. Bread menu is sent to the list each Sunday for ordering by Tuesday for pickup on Friday. Simple, right?

If you will be visiting the island and would like to order bread for your visit, at least a week’s notice is needed for pickup the following Friday.

 

Mailing List Issues: The Continuing Saga

We are still searching for a reliable replacement for the defunct app that has been sending our subscribers the blog for many years. Last week it worked pretty well to email the link to our subscribers when we post. Then some time later (hours or days) some people still receive the whole post by email.

Conversations with subscribers suggests that some people really value getting the entire post in their email so they don’t have to click on anything to read it. Suggestions welcome from any of you tech savvy folks out there. Btw, we did have an app tip from the old friend who helped us get this blog going almost fifteen years ago, but we have not been able to make that work either because the instructions are vague and they have no pathway to talk with a real human being about fixing the glitches we have experiences with it.

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This Week’s $5 Tasting

Sea Sun Chardonnay ’20    California    $19
Blended from diverse California vineyards, this is a pretty and easy to drink chardonnay, with much to like, blended from fruit sourced from many vineyards…a good example of the growing trend of corporate ownership and production.

Sea Sun Pinot Noir ’19    California    $21
A deep, alluring red, strikingly soft and rich on both the nose and palate, with scents of baked cherries, pie crust, and silky notes of brown spice and vanilla.

Bodega Garzon Tannat Reserve ’18        Uruguay        $15
Opaque deep, dark red; opens with an enticing, delicious aroma of very ripe, dark fruit and berries stewed in their own liqueur, with seamless notes of spice, herb, and licorice .

Hartley & Gibson Amontillado Sherry Spain $14
Richly amber; brisk, medium dry; nutty to the palate; light, pungent bouquet. Serve chilled, on-the-rocks or at room temperature.

 

The Economics of the Heart: The Meaning of Meanness

If we could get really small and crawl into someone else’s head, it would be entering an entirely different Universe. Like our own sense of existence and reality, it would be seamless, continuous, and without boundaries. And we could see how all the experiences of that particular Universe are completely unique, and in their own way congruent. The only way one could be in that Universe is to be that person, or animal, or ant, or drop of water.

So we can all sit here, everywhere around this world, and see and hear what is going on in Ukraine, and have our distant, vicarious relationship with it, and suffer with the people in our way, and feel anger and sadness and futility and want to snatch up Vladimir Putin like the child he is and look in his eyes like his mother did or should have done and shake him and yell in his face and try to wake him up and become Human. Or even better, to tell him you see how much he must hurt inside to be so cruel, so separate from every other living person or animal or thing. What he is doing is unimaginable to most of us: killing people by the thousands, destroying each of their worlds, creating this ongoing suffering out of some adolescent whimsy.

What does he feel? Which of his Demons needs another feeding? Or, more briefly, WTF is WRONG with this guy?

For some reason one answer that comes up is in Marlon Brando’s haunting portrayal of Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, as described in detail in this character/plot synopsis from Sparknotes, and in the video clip above, and which rings true for what the whole World now sees in Putin:  “He (Kurtz) speaks in lofty, grandiose statements about “the Horror” of war, yet he is fully, willingly complicit in these Horrors. He has given himself full reign, freeing himself from all moral judgments—after all, what place does morality have in war?”

May the loving hearts of all beings bring a peaceful resolution to this senseless suffering.

 

Wine Tasting

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