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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Theme Day: Shopping
Category: Businesses
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.
Land of plenty
Like many other places, Sequim was subject to panic buying in March. I knew something was up one day at Costco when I was in a checkout line where virtually every shopping cart but mine had massive packages of toilet paper.
Costco was out of toilet paper for a couple of weeks but they’ve now amply resupplied.
I still don’t get why TP became such a thing. But there’s certainly been plenty of internet humor about it.
Docked
The Black Ball Coho Ferry isn’t going anywhere these days. It is our transport to and from Victoria, British Columbia. The Canadian border is closed, at least until April 30th.
Details
Windows don’t have to be flat and ordinary. I like this detail on our local Olympic Medical Center.
The new addition
It looks to me as if the expansion to Sequim’s Olympic Cancer Center is complete or close to it. This new area includes more space for infusion rooms and offices. Here’s what it looked like last year.
Murchie’s, Victoria
On Monday I showed you our morning scones at Murchie’s in Victoria. In addition to offering edibles on site, Murchie’s sells tea, coffee, and accessories. The tea choices are extensive and I’ve found enduring favorites. Boxes of teas are shown here along the wall to the right, and most of them share space with small, open jars that allow shoppers to sniff the various teas. Murchie’s has standard black and green teas along with blends.
For tea lovers who like to brew an entire pot, Murchie’s sells a selection of tea cosies, warmers to cover a pot. This is one of the cutest I’ve seen.
Of course, there’s also a nice selection of tea pots, cups, and mugs. One of these pots is going to come home with me if I’m not careful.