Category: Businesses

Oak Table Cafe

The Oak Table Café is one of our favorite spots for breakfast out. Mind you, there are some fine breakfast restaurants around here. But click on the link I’ve provided and take a look at the Oak Table breakfast menu. It’s not a budget option but they use a lot of fresh, local, and “from scratch” ingredients and there’s a nice selection.

The rooster

This rooster stands proud outside Over the Fence, a nifty downtown store. After we moved here and hadn’t yet done a lick of landscaping I teased my husband that we should buy the rooster to spruce up our property. DH’s aesthetic is clean lined, modern, and minimalist. Very non-rooster, which only served to fuel my pseudo longing.

I don’t even know if he’s for sale. But doesn’t he look like he wants to come home with us?

A Saturday phoenix

A fire last November at the Blue Mountain Recycling Center shut down operations. A temporary office was parked where vehicles previously backed up to offload trash and recycling operations were only available on Saturdays. Update: The transfer station will resume it normal schedule on Saturday, May 24, 2014. It will be open on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The recycling operations during the reduced hours were much the same as before the closure, including the center bin for cardboard.

Guy stuff

Dear husband had a shopping list of materials for the boat so it was time to lighten his wallet in Port Townsend, the go-to place for bronze bolts, copper nails, and the other esoterica of boats. You know what “boat” stands for, don’t you? Break Out Another Thousand.

A couple is out for a day of boating when suddenly the boat begins to sink.
Wife: “You’re the sailor, honey. Do something nautical!”
Husband: “Like what?”
Wife: “Write a check!”

Tools

There’s a barn at Lazy J Farm where tools are displayed that I suppose you could call “historic,” or at least well used. These are sister hooks which are used for lifting things like logs or hay bales.

These may be more familiar though I admit to never having used one. The longer handled tools are scythes and the shorter ones are sickles. Both are swung and employed as cutting tools. When I think about the work they did I’m glad for the sorts of labor saving devices we have today. And I’m not about to romanticize it, but I suspect that a good many of the people who worked these old tools were more fit than those of us who use labor-savers or sit entirely too much with computers and the like.