From my archives.
Today let’s celebrate pink
Author: Kay
Theme Day: Shopping
Today’s Theme Day topic, “Shopping,” was selected before the pandemic turned normal into history. Around here this is what shopping looks like.
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For sale
I was late in discovering this: Nash’s farm store closed a few months ago.
Nash Huber is an organic grower in our area. His produce was available at our farmer’s market and at a tiny building in the Old Dungeness area of Sequim. Eight years ago the farm store opened nearby, offering a broad selection of organic produce along with other grocery products. The location proved too remote to serve enough buyers. Heavy snows last year also caused devastating losses to Nash crops when migrating birds, unable to browse fallow fields normally, wiped out large swaths of produce.
The store closed in February. I obviously was one of the people who didn’t shop at Nash’s since I didn’t discover it was gone until April.
Just another mountain shot
I do love those mountains.
Show stopper
Here’s another springtime bloom we’re missing these days in our forested areas, a trillium ovatum. It is found on the shaded forest floor.
This is the first I’ve seen, a standout blooming alongside a trail. It’s very showy.
Something different
At the kitchen sink I kept hearing a quail calling but didn’t see anything out the window. That’s because he was on our roof. And he stayed there for some time.
The next day we noticed two Canada geese on a neighbor’s roof and a harrier hawk not far away on another neighboring roof. We don’t usually see any of these birds on rooftops.
About a week ago a coyote ran across our yard in the middle of the day. And the local paper reported a young bear on a nearby beach.
They appear to like the breathing room they’re getting with fewer humans to contend with.
I’m a believer
Two things I stocked up on for the pandemic: Potatoes and real bacon bits from Costco. The bacon bits came in a Costco-sized bag, which means “suitable for a huge family with many hungry teenagers.” When I got the bag home, regained sanity, and realized the bag’s enormity, I portioned it out into tiny plastic tubs that I froze…lots of them.
I’m cooking more than usual and bacon bits keep stepping up to the bat. Mac and cheese getting boring? Bacon bits! Scrambled eggs today? Bacon bits! And, of course, with just about any meal from the 15 pounds of potatoes we worked through: mashed, baked, soup, home fries.
The pandemic has changed so many things. Cooking and eating are certainly among them.