Category: Businesses

Chickens, eggs, and potatoes

Many people around here raise chickens. I bought a box of beautiful, pastel eggs from a neighbor yesterday. These are chickens from a big flock at The Farm, a little stand on Sequim-Dungeness Road.

The eggs were sold out the day I was there but I picked up a delicious bag of Russian fingerling potatoes. The onions looked great but I ran out of change. I’ll go back.

No ordinary pancakes

I went to breakfast at the Oak Table Restaurant with friends recently. Two of us had pancakes. Susan, at the left, had potato pancakes – always a treat. I had a German pancake, a treat on steroids. As you can see, it’s the size of a dinner plate, a big, delicious souffle-like dish that’s a cross between a custard and a traditional pancake. It’s served with lemon wedges, powdered sugar, and butter. More than half came home with me for a shared breakfast the next day.

Oak Table has two comfortable dining rooms, attentive service, and a menu filled with reliably good food. It’s rarely as empty as shown above. This shot was taken on a snowy day.

Happy birthday, COHO!

Our local MV COHO ferry celebrated her 60th birthday yesterday. The COHO is the Black Ball Ferry Line vessel that travels a 90 minute passage between Port Angeles, Washington and Victoria, British Columbia, my favorite means of international travel.

In her 60 years Black Ball notes that the COHO has carried over 26 million passengers and 7 million vehicles. She has a reliability record of 99.99%.

A chief reason COHO does so well is that she is taken out of service for maintenance for a month each year. She’ll be in drydock in 2020 from January 6th to February 6th.