Archive for March, 2010

Comments Off on Reminder from Pat: Last chance to order Easter Truffles!

Reminder from Pat: Last chance to order Easter Truffles!

Hi all–it’s Spring!  (Is that hail I hear on the roof??!) Janice and I are making up some batches of truffles for the Easter bunny to deliver this weekend for pre-orders, with any extras (usually not many) for sale in the wine shop on Saturday while they last (usually not for long!).  If you’d like […]

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Wine Tasting March 27 ’10

was a great weekend for wine and for delightful, high-spirited guests, including Seattleites Shelli (see her very interesting jewelry and art)  and friend Leslie, and psychologist couple Aaron and Jordan. All had wonderful smiles and great laughs that played off each other like old friends, very Festive! Jordan had those soles that carry great quantities […]

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Wine Tasting March 20 ’10

Living in the comparative isolation of Lummi Island and running this campy little wine shop has its challenges, the main one being to attract enough people to make it sustainable, to borrow a word from my Day Job (nursing an Institute of Sustainability into being at WWU). In the Early Days in ought-five and ought-six […]

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Wine Tasting March 13 ’10

It has become fairly predictable that our afternoons are very low key from 1 till nearly 4, with the Happy Hour crowd (their idea, not ours) all arriving en masse around 4. But last week was different, beginning with Leigh and Brian arriving around 2 (egads!). That took awhile to get my head around, or […]

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