My daughter’s very first island friend wanted a lady bug birthday cake. Her mother Rita, my very first island friend, started asking me questions about fondant and cake decorating.…
Every week or so, my friend asks me if I need eggs. If I say, “Yes,” I often find a carton on my kitchen table when I get home from work. …
Over an impromptu picnic dinner, our friends explained how they reverse-engineered a grapefruit-basil martini they’d enjoyed last summer at Backdoor Kitchen, one of my favorite restaurants in Friday Harbor. …
On the 3rd of July, my husband ran to town to buy one more pork butt for our 4th of July party. We already had two, but as he measured spices for the rub, we tried to remember just how many people we’d invited to come. …
Summer on San Juan Island almost makes you forget all about dark at-four o’clock-San Juan Island-winters. Warm days where light dances on the the harbor until 10:00 pm can sometimes make us forget about bedtime for the kids. …
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