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Jul 18
Iced Tea Season at Last!
When I lived in Texas and North Carolina, iced tea season lasted from March to November. Here in the northwest, it’s abbreviated because of the cooler climate. Last week I declared it iced tea season, to great rejoicing. However, we needed tea suitable for iced tea. As I have said time and again, iced tea …
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Jul 17
Acting out of Fear
After the attack in France last week, one of my best friends encouraged me to avoid Nice later this year. My mother asked yet again, “You’re really still going to France?” Mercifully, my sister did not ask the same thing when I talked to her today. I know they’re speaking from concern for our welfare. …
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Jul 16
The Hard Part
As you may recall from my earlier post, Victory, the Forterra Land Conservancy has agreed to buy the Wayne Golf Course and sell it to the city of Bothell. Grants have been secured for over half of the final sales price. Now comes the hard part: What do we do with the land once we …
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Jul 16
Say It Ain’t So!
We were downtown on our monthly coffee run (for Julian, not me). We made another stop at the Spanish Table, one of our go-to joints for good, cheap wine and ingredients for paella. The first clue that something was amiss was a sign that the deli case was for sale. Then I saw the sign …
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Jul 09
Experiments with the New Equipment
So the induction range (with convection oven) and the new microwave are installed. Before we left for Portland, we didn’t have much time to play. I brought a cold home with me and called in sick on Wednesday, so both of us did a bit more experimenting. Here are our initial observations. The stove heats …
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Jul 09
More Portland
On Sunday we took the light rail up to the NW 23rd Avenue shopping district. There are shops of all sorts, including a cookware store called Kitchen Caboodle. We bought some non-metal utensils there to use on the new cookware for the induction range. Lunch was at Kornblatt’s Deli, which did a decent pastrami. I …
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Jul 09
About Last Week
“People have become educated, but have yet to become human.” — Abdul Sattar Edhi I saw this quote in a New York Times obituary for this gentleman, who was the Pakistani “Father Teresa.” It sums up my feelings this morning. Just when the horror of the Orlando shootings had dissipated slightly, we had two police …
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Jul 06
The Three P’s of Portland
We drove down to Portland for the July 4 weekend. Portland holds many attractions: A thriving food scene; access to Mount Hood, the Columbia River, and the coast; and no sales tax. On Saturday we hit three P’s: Powell’s, Penzey’s, and Pok Pok. Powell’s is one of the largest independent bookstores in the country. It takes …
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Jun 18
The Homeowner Begets
When one rents a home and an appliance breaks, the landlord will (one hopes) repair or replace the item. That’s it. When one owns a home and an appliance breaks, it can turn into a cascade of purchases I call the Homeowner Begets. Two weeks ago our microwave oven/kitchen ventilation fan ceased to function. Because …
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Jun 15
Cranberries in June
Last Saturday we had the usual get-together with our friends. The host family has three gluten-intolerant members, and one with an egg allergy. This required some ingenuity to figure out how to feed between the lines. Luckily, I looked in the freezer and found two bags of cranberries left over from the holidays. Since the …
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