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The Weekly Newsletter |
Menus and Stories for May 14 - 18, 2007
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| Tye visits the azalea |
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Sometimes it seems like Tye is a person. This morning she lolled in the Lily of the Valley bed, licking dew off the leaves, brushing up against the little white stems, grazing on the Iris.
She is a dog, but she sent me a Mother's Day card anyway . What a sweet child.
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New disposables on the way |
Jack showed up recently with a whole line of disposable products that are very biodegradable and environmentally friendly. We'll be bringing them in over the next bit of time. We use a LOT of these things, and feel bad about them sitting in landfills forever. This is one more thing we can do to help.
Oh - check out our "These come from Trees" stickers on the paper towel holders and napkin dispensers. I saw them at another restaurant and went on line and found them and bought them and have been handing them out. You can get some too. One sticker is supposed to save 100 pounds of paper each year. THAT will make a difference.
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These come from Trees |
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| Garden beauty |
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This morning was a lovely one at home. Usually my garden is loaded with Iris blooms. This year, due to the freeze, there are only a few. Makes me that much more appreciative of each one. There is no mass of color, just bits of brightness here and there, each one spectacular.
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Dinners to go |
Dinners, as you know, come with a freshly-made green salad, salad dressing of the day, and made-right-here bread of the day. We take reservations until noon or so. Please order by phone (252-1500), by FAX (252-02002) or stop in to speak to one of us in person.
As a reminder, every time you order a dinner to go you are eligible to enter our drawing. Just drop a card in our drawing jar (a business card works or fill out one of the cards that we have right here) and, at the end of the month, we'll pull one card which will be good for two free dinners-to-go.
Maybe you'll win next month.
Order a lot? Enter a lot!
Good luck!!
Here's this week's menu:
Monday May 14 Pistachio and Swiss Chard-stuffed Chicken Breasts 10.25
Tuesday May 15 Grilled Malaysian-style Mahi Mahi 11.25
Wednesday May 16 Roast Pork stuffed with Apples and Plums 11.25
Thursday May 17 Chicken and Spinach Crepes 9.95
Friday May 18 Salmon Filet in Lemon Chive Sabayon Sauce (!) 13.75
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Our website |
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| Special casserole of the week |
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We make a special casserole each week. Order before noon on Wednesday and we'll have yours ready to pick up between 4:30 and 6:00 that very afternoon. Order a full for 9 portions or, if your gang is smaller, opt for the half-sized one, which serves 4 or so.
Would you like to add a salad and bread? Just ask and we'll fix 'em for you.
This week's offering is:
Mexican Lasagna made with Local Beef
Full 34.00
Half: 17.00
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New glass |
It's been a good time for me at the glass shop. I've had fun making glass ornaments, and, more fun than that, glass floats: round orbs with a bit of thickness that can make their way to a pond. Here's a glimpse of some blue ones.
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| More glass |
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And here are some yellow ones.
By the way, we've decided to have another staff art sale. This time it will be in summer. Stay tuned for the date - probably in mid June. I'll have glass galore (I've been busy!) and other folks will have other things. Yay!
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New spring magnet fun |
Have the birds been serenading you lately? The ones in my yard are a delight, trilling and warbling and keeping up a lovely cacophony. The other day I sat outside on the deck trying (in vain) to find the one bird that was singing so beautifully. Ah well. I never saw it, though the flute-like song continued. Do you know what it might have been? It's three notes. A pause. Three more notes, slightly lower than the first three. Another pause. Three more notes. Another pause and then one more double note.
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| A Note From Laurey |
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May 14, 2007
Oh good morning to you!
I’m writing a little early this week since I’m going to Seattle for the weekend. It’s my birthday on Monday and Chris has some things planned for us out there. Whee!
My sister’s birthday is on Friday. As I wrote this newsletter it was fun to write May 14 – 18. My day is the 14th, hers the 18th. This is our week! She’s coming to visit next weekend and we’ll share a dinner celebration with each other (and a couple of May 16th people too.)
I’ll be 53 this year. Add the numbers together and you get 8, which is more like how I feel. Okay, maybe 10 or, at the most, 14. I had a close friend who was in her 80s when I met her. She told me often how shocking it was when she looked in a mirror and saw her reflection which did NOT look like the 17 year old she felt she was. This is not exactly the way I react when I look in a mirror, but it does surprise me to see so much white hair (silver hair). This is what 53 looks like. At least this is what this 53 year old looks like.
My mother did not make it to 53. So it seems particularly important to me that I have. She was the youngest. I am the youngest. I’ve thought about her and this and age and life and these sorts of things for much of this past year, wondering what it would feel like to cross this important threshold. As it is turning out, I’m, well, just crossing it without a whole lot of hoopla. I’ll be on a plane for much of Monday, coming home from the weekend in Seattle. Chris will be with me and we’ll probably sit and read or talk or snooze. The days before Monday will be full of visits and dinners and a soak in a spa. But Monday, fittingly, will be just a quiet travel day.
Sunday is Mother’s Day and so, of course, I think about my mother and my book and these months spent working on and birthing this child of mine, this book, this tribute to her. I really wanted to have the book produced in this year, my 52nd year, my mother’s last year. It’s been a year of her, really.
I’m liking the times I’ve had to share my stories with you, here and there. I like reading out loud, telling these stories to people I know and don’t know. I have a good line up of readings this summer, as you know, so I get to think about her some more. Which seems fine and good and okay. It keeps her with me.
Anyway – do take some time to think about your mother if it suits you. And if it is your birthday on the 14th, or the 18th or the 16th or any time around now – Happy Birthday.
I’ll be in touch next week.
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Tye and her duck |
I love this little slightly blurry girl. And her duck. Happy Mother's Day to you and your children, whoever they might be.
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