Happy Easter!

Spring is blooming! 
The cherry trees in the quad are getting ready to bloom. 

And Gloria has brought in a new local card artist with some fun cards - let's just check out a few of the new Easter cards from Fan Mail.  Oh no, it's BUNNIES!

February Chocolate

We have a big selection of Equal Exchange Chocolate in ($3.95)
Mint, Almond, Hazelnut, Panama, Orange, Caramel, Espresso, Very Dark and Extra Dark.

The current Best of America's Test Kitchen has some mouth water recipes, if you prefer to do your own.  And so do the chefs of the Food Network's magazine in their Chocolate issue

Gloria has picked up some classic and some new cards for Valentine's day.

More card arrivals!  February 10th -- here are a few!

Fall Leaves

If you aren't downtown, going on that last walk along the viaduct, eating breakfast at the Market, you could be gathering fall leaves...

Or going on a Seattle Walk.

Don't forget your bumbershoot!

U-District Street Fair is this Weekend

 

U District Street Fair 2010

Last Street Fair was a lot of fun, the sun came out, a guitar player was singing in front, spontaneously a passing oboist joined in, and Bulldog's baristas sang too!  

If you haven't been by lately, we still have plenty of magazines.   Magazines come and go, but there are always new ones showing up optimistically in search of an audience. 

Our cafe now has small tables with chairs, a pleasant respite with pastry and your espresso drink or fresh squeezed lemonade.   We have yummy sandwiches from Molly's and Equal Exchange has just added a new chocolate bar to our line up, the sea salt caramel.  And if you just want a little chocolate, there are always the cute little 25cent chocolate bites.





Gloria has ordered more t-shirts, so we should have a fresh batch of spring colors in, and she has a lovely selection of cards, many by local artists and photographers.

Cards: Bunny Season!

Spring - Cards, WSDOT, and the North Cascades

 

Spring is here, my mailbox says.  I subscribe to WSDOT's news feed on the North Cascade Highway, and after months of silence, this showed up in my email.  Even though it said snow! delays!   The birds singing, the crocus blooming, the early daffodils.... There is no more certain sign of spring than talk of opening the mountain passes.

"Our Avalanche Control Team and the Twisp Maintenance Superintendent were planning to do the assessment of the North Cascades Highway on Tuesday and then it was postponed to Wednesday and now the trip is postponed until next week. 
We've got mountain snow forecast through Thursday and the Avalanche crew can't be in two places at once, so they're going to have to stay at Stevens handling the avalanche control there for the rest of the week.  (We did control work from 2 to 6 a.m. this morning and brought down a lot of snow, but there was a lot to bring down - We got 32" of new from 6 a.m. yesterday to 6 a.m. today.)  You may also be aware, it's still snowing along the entire west slope of the Cascades - as I'm writing, Snoqualmie is still closed for avalanche control. (They've been getting more snow than Stevens today as the storm track is heavier to the south and coming in low - Snoqualmie is a 1,000' lower than Stevens, too).
When the assessment happens isn't that critical - as a matter of fact, the later it's done, the more accurately Mike and his snow wizards can make their predictions.  The assessment trip is to determine how soon the clearing can begin and what resources (people and equipment) are going to be needed. 
Oh, in answer to the question you didn't ask - it has been costing around $250,000 for the spring reopening effort.  We are hoping we won't have to rent a lot of the big caterpillars (which WSDOT doesn't own) to keep the price down, but the reopening budget is secure.  Despite the budget cutting the Governor and the legislature have done (are doing) - they all said no to any cuts to winter highway maintenance.
I'll let you know when the assessment trip is rescheduled and then what they found and what it means.
Later!"

 

Updates: Cards, New Arrivals, Calendars, Travel Mugs.

A few pictures added to the Cards page.


Weekly Magazine Arrivals - adding something new to the mix, a link to a collection of the current week's covers.  This is an experiment!  You can see some from last week, some from this week, cars & motorcycles, or weeklies & biweeklies. 

Vintage Husky Calendar -- 12 reproductions from football programs of the past, mostly the 30's and 40's, but the earliest is a game against Whitman in 1927, the most recent is a photograph cover for a 1965 WSU game, showing men in suits with purple and yellow tams riding in their boat to the game...

We still have Nikki McClure's 2011 calendar (Endeavour), and an array of Slingshot day planners (large and small).






And last, but not least, the long awaited return of the classic Bulldog Travel Mug.

October Cards and Postcards

Umbrellas, leaves, crows, black cats and the Addams family.

Blank Cards for Mother's Day

As most of you know, Bulldog has many cards and postcards, all blank. Gloria picked four that are ready for you to personalize for Mother's Day.