Oyster Blog

Two winters ago, on a cold November day when it was raining sideways and REALLY slow in the retail store, we started thinking about delicious fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. And so we started making them (from scratch!) to sell in the store. We make them with 1/2 wheat flour, 1/2 white flour, real butter, and real vanilla. They're real good. Granted, we probably sell most of them to the resident cookie monster, aka Adam the wholesale manager: But they're also developing quite a following with the local crowd. In the words of one customer, "They taste like someone's mom...

Nearly 60 kids participated in the fishing derby last weekend. They had lots of fun and made lots of mischief, but unfortunately, between them they only caught 30 fish. Here are some of the lucky fisherkids: The biggest fish caught measured 19 inches. If you didn't catch any fish, then hold up your M&M's! Clearly that's too much gum for a 4 year old to eat all by herself, which is why her brother, in the background, has a gum-eating grin on his face. As at any proper Hood Canal function, there were plenty of oysters to barbecue. And only...

Everybody knows this guy! But who knew sand dollars have such hairy bottoms? This is what they look like BEFORE you see them for sale in jewelry-supply stores. Interesting fact: last spring researchers at the University of Washington discovered that a sand dollar larvae will clone itself, and split in two, when it smells a dover sole... the theory being that the sole will only be able to eat one of them. Maybe this will give Michael Keaton some ideas for a career comeback.