lummi island wine tasting feb 11 ’22
Wine Shop Schedule Update
Based on current Covid data for Whatcom County, no wine tasting again this weekend.
Whatcom County continues to be a Covid hot spot. On the bright side, new cases across the County have fallen off by almost 70% during the past week, and case numbers are lowest for residents over 65, and next lowest for those between 45 and 64…you know…our base! Interestingly, vaccination rates are highest in the 25-49 age group (92%), next in the 65+ group (85%), closely followed by the 50-64 group (78%).
The bad news is that because the Omicron variant is by far most contagious variant so far, it has spread virtually unimpeded across the country, the fastest by far, finding ready hosts in the unvaccinated. Compared to the first wave two years ago, the Omicron wave has raced across the world in the space of only a few months. New cases are falling rapidly, and deaths are expected to follow them with about a two-week lag. If those trends continue, risks are expected to fall rapidly over the next several weeks as herd immunity grows from new vaccinations and from acquired immunity from having had the disease.
We are beginning the process of restocking our shelves, and will be updating our online order/pickup selections over the next week, and hope to be open for sales soon.
Friday Bread This Week
For the time being Bread Pickup will continue to be at Island Bakery. If you are on the bread email list, you will have received order and pickup info from Janice. Pickup is in her driveway out on West Shore Rd, with a fire pit to keep the Usual Suspects comfy.
Current expectations are that bread pickup will likely return to the wine shop when we reopen.
Mailing List Issues
Well, this week we will try posting this brief missive via a new app suggested by a “trusted source” who is responsible for getting this blog started in the first place back in ’09. At the moment we have no idea how or whether it works. If it does, great! If it doesn’t we will follow up with an email tomorrow (Friday).
Fingers crossed!
lummi island wine tasting feb 4 ’22
Wine Shop Schedule Update
As we mentioned last week, no wine tasting again this weekend.
Whatcom County continues to be a Covid hot spot. On the bright side, cases across the County have definitely fallen off during the past week, and case numbers are lowest for residents over 65, and next lowest for those between 45 and 64…you know…our base!
We are beginning the process of restocking our shelves, and will be updating our online order/pickup selections this week. Predictions are for new Omicron cases to continue declining rapidly as the variant burns through the County, but we want to see a significant drop in Covid cases in the area before we do.
Friday Bread This Week
For the time being Bread Pickup will continue to be at Island Bakery. If you are on the bread email list, you will have received order and pickup info from Janice. Pickup is in her driveway out on West Shore Rd, with a fire pit to keep the Usual Suspects comfy.
Current expectations are that bread pickup will likely return to the wine shop when we reopen.
Mailing List Issues
Well… last week our brief missive was delivered Friday morning as intended. Maybe we’ll get lucky again this week…?!
Economics of the Heart: The Paradox of Entitlement
https://www.toonsmag.com/tag/josh-hawley/
We have long held the belief that Feudalism is the default organizational structure of human beings. There’s only so much Stuff out there, and it takes a lot of work to find it, acquire it, and manage it. For thousands of years decisions have been made by Entitled Elites that reserved the bulk of community resources to their own interests, leaving the dregs for the masses. Most of us, if given a choice, would rather have the options of the elite than not.
The fantasy we grew up with is that here in America everyone had the same chance of achieving enough political autonomy and economic freedom to live lives of relative comfort and security. Social and economic freedom and autonomy were more than one person’s bank account; they were the measure of the mutual success of our economic system.
Today Jennifer Rubin posted a brief note about Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) recent machinations that points out an interesting paradox in the ongoing Culture War between Right and Left in our country. Her opening sentence pretty well captures the topic: “In a body full of MAGA sycophants and Ivy League-educated senators spewing anti-elite rhetoric, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) manages to stand out.”
There are a couple of eye-rolling takeaways here. First, Hawley is criticizing the Biden Administration for its overly hawkish position on supporting Ukraine’s right to self-determination, while second, asserting that Ukraine is not worth going to war with Russia. And after a blistering commentary by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, he tweeted that “This (rebuke) from an Administration that has coddled Russia from Day One and now brought Europe to the brink of war…”
Second, and even more of a head-scratcher, is that there are a bunch of Republican Senators who rode their Ivy League degrees to Congress even while they continue to decry those institutions as bastions of the Liberal Elite. What seems most clear is that these Maga Ivy-Leaguers are cynically using their “elite” educational backgrounds they as tickets to entitled positions in the New Post-Democracy Feudal America they want to rule.
Clearly, their shared sense of Entitlement is the glue that holds their movement together.
lummi island wine tasting Jan 28 ’22
Wine Shop Schedule Update
As we mentioned last week, no wine tasting again this weekend.
And as we also mentioned last weekend we are considering reopening for wine tasting and shopping on our usual schedule (4-6pm) next Friday, February 4…right after Groundhog Day (our favorite Cross-Quarter Day!).
However, Whatcom County continues to be a Covid hot spot. The good news is that: 1) cases have definitely fallen off during the past week; and 2) cases are lowest for residents over 65, and next lowest for those between 45 and 64…you know…our base!
We will be watching this closely over the next week, and will also start restocking our shelves– but we want to see a significant drop in Covid cases in the area before we do. In the meantime we are considering several changes in our operations this year. For now, given the high transmission rate for Omicron, we are being cautious about crowd management.
Friday Bread This Week
For the time being Bread Pickup will continue to be at Island Bakery. If you are on the bread email list, you will have received order and pickup info from Janice.
Current expectations are that bread pickup will likely return to the wine shop after we reopen.
Don’t know about you, but the nasty weather, the Snow, the Rain, the Fog, the Gloom and the Cold for the last month seem to be weighing heavily on the psyche. Not to mention Russia, China, Ukraine and politics at all levels. More to the point…can Mercury Really stay in Retrograde for years at a time? Isn’t there a Law against that??!
Mailing List Issues
Well… last week our brief missive was delivered Friday morning as intended. Maybe we’ll get lucky again this week…?!
Stay safe. We miss you!
lummi island wine tasting* jan 21 ’22
Wine Shop Schedule Update
*Sorry, no wine tasting again this weekend or next.
Our present intention is to reopen for wine tasting and shopping on our usual schedule on Friday, February 4…right after Groundhog Day (our favorite Cross-Quarter Day!) We then expect to continue our usual hours from 4-6pm on both Friday and Saturday each weekend, weather and Covid permitting.
Fingers crossed!
Friday Bread This Week
Until we reopen, Bread pickup will be at Island Bakery. If you are on the bread email list, you will have received order and pickup info from Janice.
Current expectations are that bread pickup will return to the wine shop after we reopen.
Mailing List Issues
We have still not found an adequate solution to the increasing failure of the email service that delivers our weekly missive to our subscribers, but hope to resolve it before we open. In the meantime, some time may pass between when we post and when you receive it. (As we write, it is now about 9:30pm on Thursday, Jan 20).
Stay safe. We miss you!
2072 Granger Way