lummi island wine tasting may 8 ’26
Open Friday 4-6 pm
Spring comes…the world shines
Friday Bread This Week
Pain au Levain – Made with a nice mix of bread flour, freshly milled whole wheat, and rye flour. After building the sourdough and mixing the final dough it gets a long cool overnight ferment in the refrigerator to develop the bread.- $5/loaf
Cinnamon Raisin – Made with a poolish of bread and fresh milled rye flour fermented overnight before adding bread flour and fresh milled whole wheat and rolled oats, honey, and milk, raisins and cinnamon mixed into the dough for a hearty rustic loaf. – $5/loaf
…and pastry this week…
Individual Cinnamon Rolls – Made with a rich sweet roll dough full of eggs, butter and sugar, spread with pastry cream, sprinkled with cinnamon/sugar, rolled up, and sliced into individual rolls for baking. – 2/$5.
This week’s wine tasting
Decoy Chardonnay ’23 California $16
Blended from several CA central coast vineyards; aromas of sweet mandarin orange and white peach; juicy and vibrant palate of tropical fruit flavors with a hint of oak from its time in barrel.
Zenato ‘Alanera’ Rosso Veronese ’23 Italy $17
Dark, inky color; rich, focused nose of ripe berries, dusty oak and waxy vanilla bean. On the palate delivers extracted flavors of cherries, strawberry, clay, and hints of crushed mint, soft tannins, and rounded finish.
Angels & Cowboys Proprietary Red ’22 California $22
Attractive nose of red berries, orange peel, spices, and crushed stone; medium to full-bodied and succulent, with silky, mellow tannins and flavorful finish.
Economics of the Heart: Adapting to Chaos
The Tweetster’s little foray against Iran, morphing as it has as if from some lost, dark Lovecraft novel, has been oozing unrest “over, under, around, and through” our planet’s networks of life, commerce, politics, economics, and society. This constantly unfolding canvas of chaos seems to have cloned itself from the larger, better organized, and catastrophic disaster of Project 2025. Like many spawns of unlikely unions, it manifests unpredictably moment to moment on the whimsical turns of a sociopolitical card game where the rules constantly change with the whims of the dealer.
Browsing today’s NY Times (recently resubscribed as hints of truth are reappearing) revealed some interesting surprises with somewhat hopeful threads. Where 2025 sowed confusion, conflict, cruelty, anger to mask and distract from Project 25’s purposeful destruction and looting of our 250 yr-old rules-based Constitutional government, 2026 has doubled down on brutality against immigrants, students, people of color– you know, everyone who is not a wealthy, white, Christian, male billionaire.
Economics, Stocks, Bonds, and Policy
There’s been a lot going on American politics that does not fit neatly into traditional macroeconomic theory, particularly with regard to balancing investments between stocks and bonds. Generally one buys stocks betting that their value will increase over time, and buys bonds when at least you earn a little interest even if the stock market crashes. E.g. during the “stagflation” in the Reagan years, I was able to put my meager savings into a bond fund at 17% interest.
Several business reporters have observed over recent months that a significant number of investors regularly seem to know about planned changes in federal economic policy about a hour before the markets opens, using a tip from their pals in the Administration about a pending policy announcement, buy or sell related stocks for enormous profits on their very generous donations to the Tweetster.
The economic chaos being created by the T’s war on Iran, together with Netanyahu’s relentlessly brutal extermination of Palestinians and all their supporting infrastructure in Gaza and Lebanon, has for years now showcased a relentless and merciless genocide to mostly innocent working families.
On a somewhat brighter note, during today’s reading I ran across a reference to an improbable and unlikely Republican politician named Tom Barrett. After looking at his blog I was surprised to find everything I read to be entirely honorable, caring, and in service to his constituency and our country. If this were a multiple choice questionnaire from the Republicans, I would happily check “more like this one!”
** Perhaps the first sighting of a notable departure from the old cartoon where the little girl in the kitchen with her mother looks up and asks, “Mommy, is it true that Republicans have hearts of stone…?” And the mother looks up thoughtfully and says kindly, “No dear, it’s not. Republicans don’t have hearts…”
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