Saturday, September 30, 2017

Open Houses in and around Bloomingdale scheduled for 10/1/2017

67 Adams St NW is listed at $775,000. & is open 1-4pm Sunday
The featured listing at 67 Adams St NW is a Victorian house in Bloomingdale with lovely original details, priced at $775,000. It will be open Sunday from 1:00pm-4:00pm. The listing is represented by Chelsea Traylor with Redfin. You can find more information in the links below.

The list of open houses scheduled for Sunday in and around Bloomingdale can be seen here. The same info can be seen in a map format here

*Agents, to have your open houses included in this weekly post, please have them tagged in MRIS by 10am on Friday. If you don't see your open house in the links, feel free to add in the comments. Also, if you would like your open to be featured with a picture for this post, please e-mail suzanne at compass dot com by 10am on Friday before the open.

Bloomingdale 2017 House Tour + Reception: last call for Bloomingdale artists, musicians, poets, spoken word artists and authors to participate in the House Tour's 'Arts and Letters in Bloomingdale' activities

From: Bertha Holliday 
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2017 1:39 AM
Subject: for posting on listserv/blog 

Please post attached House Tour notice.

Thanks, Bertha








two weeks from today: the Annual Boundary Stone Bike Ride!

See this Boundary Stone tweet:


four weeks from today: the Bloomingdale 2017 House Tour and Reception

Have you purchased your tickets yet?


Early bird special price tickets of $25 still available via Brown Paper Tickets through Saturday, 09-30-2017, for this year's Bloomingdale House Tour and Reception.  



So visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3051980  to purchase your Bloomingdale House Tour tickets today at the early bird discount price!
 

Click here for more information on the Saturday, 10-28-2017, Bloomingdale House Tour and Reception.






come to this afternoon's DC LIQUOR / What there is and what there was / 30-minute talk with photographer Flore de Preneuf -- at 1542 North Capitol Street NW

From: Flore de Preneuf
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:38 PM


Subject: DC LIQUOR / What there is and what there was/ 30 Minute Talk – Saturday September 30, 4 PM
  
Dear friends,

If you haven’t made it to DC LIQUOR yet, I’ll be talking about the 66 photos on the walls of the former Walter Johnson’s liquor store and taking questions:

Saturday September 30, 4:00 to 4:30 PM
1542 North Capitol St NW, Washington DC

Consider visiting then?
  
The show is open Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 6 PM, till October 15.
  
You can also read about it in the City Paper.
                              
Cheers, Flore



Flore de Preneuf


 Flore de Preneuf

Flore de Preneuf

seeking DCPS high-school-aged students needing community service hours....

From: Bertha Holliday 
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 2:19 AM
Subject:
BCA HOUSE TOUR & COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS FOR DCPS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS


PLEASE POST ATTACHED.  THANKS MUCH--

BERTHA

--

Bertha G., Holliday, PhD & Associates, LLC
Independent Consultant (Diversity Assessment, Planning, Implementation & Evaluation)
49 T Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-491-3996





tomorrow, Sunday, 10-01-2017: 1st Blessing of the Animals at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church at 1:30 pm

See this 09-24-2017 event announcement from St. Martin's Catholic Church, 1908 T Street NW:



Sunday October 1st Blessing of Animals!!


Does your pet need a sprinkling of holy water?  St. Martin’s Catholic Church, in celebration of the feast of St. Francis, invites everyone to bring their pets for a special blessing on Sunday, October 1 at 1:30pm on the steps of St. Martin’s.  Meet at the corner of North Capitol and T Street NW.


Whether or not you (or your pet) is Catholic, all people (and pets) are welcomed to come be blessed.

this afternoon: Metropolitan Wesley AME Zion Church community block party and crab feast

See this 09-24-2017 message from Metropolitan Wesley AME Zion Church:








live funk and jazz from Beat Corridor tonight at Boundary Stone

See this tweet:




today is the last day for Bloomingdale businesses to advertuse in or sponsor the Bloomingdale 2017 House Tour

From: Charlie G. Cummings [mailto:charles.g.cummings@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 11:36 AM
Subject: Last chance: Bloomingdale businesses advertise for the 2017 House Tour Festival




The biggest Bloomingdale event of 2017 will bring hundreds of prominent Washingtonians to our beautiful neighborhood

on October 28 for a full day of workshops, historic home tours, and merriment.

SPONSOR OR ADVERTISE

The deadline for placing an advertisement is this Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017.

The House Tour presents you a great opportunity to highlight your business to 100s of guests and show your support for Bloomingdale to our neighbors.


Sponsorships and advertisements are featured in the sparkling House Tour program, as well as on the BCA website for an entire year.

Funds raised through the House Tour are invested back in our community through college scholarships for Bloomingdale youth.


Charlie Cummings is here to help you and your business take advantage!

Please let me know if you’re interested in purchasing an advertisement - I’m available by phone (574-310-2290), email (charliegcummings@gmail.com) and can also meet you at your business.

Every two years, the House Tour opens the eyes of Washingtonians to our village's charm and beauty, elevating the prominence of Bloomingdale homes and businesses to the more than 4 million people who live in our region.

this Thursday, 10-05-2017: Common Good City Farm's "A Night on the Farm" 2017 -- farm-fresh food, drink, raffle, auction and live music !

See this tweet:




5D CAC Annual Awards Banquet Flyer -- Friday, 10-27-2017

From: Barnes, Dianne (SMD 5E09) [mailto:5E09@anc.dc.gov]
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:48 PM
To: Garnett, Eddie (SMD 5E01) <5e01 anc.dc.gov="">; Williams, Patricia (SMD 5E02) <5e02 anc.dc.gov="">; Thomas, Bradley Ashton (SMD 5E05) <5e05 anc.dc.gov="">; McClelland, Katherine (SMD 5E06) <5e06 anc.dc.gov="">; Holliday, Bertha G. (SMD 5E07) <5e07 anc.dc.gov="">; Barnes, Dianne (SMD 5E09) <5e09 anc.dc.gov="">; Pinkney, Sylvia (SMD 5E04) <5e04 anc.dc.gov="">; Sierra, Horacio (SMD 5E08) <5e08 anc.dc.gov="">; Powell, Hannah (SMD 5E03) <5e03 anc.dc.gov="">;
Subject: 5D CAC Annual Awards Banquet Flyer
 

Community Awareness:  Please review and share.

 Respectfully Submitted By,
 C. Dianne Barnes, Commissioner
 Cell: 202-409-7155
 Email:  5E09@anc.dc.gov
 






Friday, September 29, 2017

RedHenDC bar stools with no wait

See this tweet:




Delicious Hurricane fundraiser at @BoundaryStoneDC on Tuesday, 10-17-2017

See this tweet:




Bloomingdale Farmers Market this Sunday: pizza beans and Collection Truck for Puerto Rico

From: Robin Shuster
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 1:19 PM
Subject: Pizza beans and Collection Truck for Puerto Rico

Biggest news:  Puerto Rico Donation Drive, Produce Plus ends SATURDAY — it will be completely over Sunday but our Bonus Matching Program restarts Sunday to fill the gap.

 
 

Hi Friends,

It really will be Fall for a few days before Summer fights back next week.  Bye bye Peaches --Reid's tables are full of pears, grapes and lots of interesting apples.  I am glad DC has such a long transitional season, so I do not have to say goodbye to the tomatoes and eggplant and corn and squash, peppers and okra, while I am  thinking about recipes with apples and Fall Squash and beets and turnips and all of our beautiful potatoes. And I am always excited to have more greens because they prefer the cooler weather.  Carrots also prefer warm days and cool nights which sweeten them up.


Try this cheesy, creamy baked Ziti move on Smitten Kitchen's 
Pizza beans with Garner's October/Cranberry beans and Keswick Mozzarella.

Puerto Rico Donation Drive Truck will be parked on Sunday 9am-1 pm on the north side of Florida Ave between First and R NW.  See the details about what is most needed here for the Sunday collection and thanks to organizers Marta and Jean Christophe. 

Interested in getting diesel fuel to Puerto Rico?  I donated to this vetted GlobalGiving Fuel Relief Project.  

We are open heat, rain or shine.
  • Great Broccoli at Truck Patch
  • Fresh cider at Reid
  • Mozzarella at Keswick is not just for the new flush of tomatoes-- melts on a zucchini or the Pizza bean casserole. 
  • Mountain View has baby ginger this week and it may be the last week.!  No skin, no fiber, floral, the best.  Great for syrups, sodas, stir fries, pickling, freezing. Use  a stalk to flavor some stock  or stir a cocktail and you can use the leaves to wrap fish or chop finely and use as an herb.
  • Reserve your Thanksgiving Turkey at Truck Patch with Stacia. Nope, it is not too early.
  • Pear, both Asian and Bartlett
  • September Fruit Salad Season: melons, berries, peaches, pears, grapes and apples.  Add mint.  You might even like to add some fresh baby ginger....just saying...
  • Fry up some Peppers aand onions as a base for sausages or rice or pasta:we have an amazing selection of peppers among the stands: the flavors are not your boring old bell peppers.
  • We have lots of corn for boiling, grilling American or slathered with mayo, hot pepper, grated cotija or parmesan in a version of Mexico City Style (or off the cob as smoky, creamy, limey Esquites). Corn salad is really good. Corn Soup is amazing and remember to save your corn cobs because corn cob stock is one of those secret ingredients that heightens the flavor or everything.  Like Turkey stock after Thanksgiving.

MOUNTAIN VIEW ORGANIC:   May be the last week for Baby Ginger. Nice to see their greens again: swiss chard, bok choy. Check out the Asian varieties of eggplant and squash. Attila, the Hungarian pepper whisperer, loves his hot and sweet peppers.  Shishitos. Sweet Potato Greens.  Potatoes. Shallots. Onions in yellow, purple and white. Squash and zucchini. cherry tomatoes and beets.  Radishes (eat the greens too). Salad Greens. Mountain View loves growing unusual varieties and everything is certified organic.

REID: 
Concord grapes, pears, UV cider (Honeycrisp, Apple Grape and Apple Cherry ): Apples: Conor has samples of all the apples soTaste taste taste. He brings lots of unusual heirloom apples as well as favorites like Fuji, Gala, Honeycrisp, Mutsu.

NUMBER 1 SONS.  Stock up on cucumber pickles while they last. Super Sours. Half Sours, Crispy Koshers, Distict Dills, Kicky or Krispy Koshers, Honey Habaneros !  Snow Kimchi,Clean Kraut, Stinking Kraut, Ripping Rosetido, Hot hearts, Kale Chi, Kicky Kimchi. 

KESWICK CREAMERY: Check out those Keswick cows parading around their pasture at their F
acebook page. They are featuring some interesting cheeses this week: The Cocoa & Coffee which is rubbed with cocoa and Zeke's coffee and aged 3 months. Creamy and yes, it has a coffee finish. Or try their excellent mixed milk Morbier which was featured at a wine/cheese pairing this week.  Mozzarella for the new flush of tomatoes and for creamy, cheesy Fall dishes as well. Yogurt, ricotta, quark, and 15 other cheeses.

 Ask Sarah to suggest new cheeses for your cheese plate with the local apples, pears and grapes.
 

WHISKED!: The perfect desserts for your parties and picnics are Whisked award winning pies. The Fall Apple pies lead the September parade, followed by irresistible Lemon Blackberry, Cookies and Cream, Bourbon pecan, Sea Salt Chocolate Chess, Cranberry Walnut.

TIP: The New Fall Quiches are perfect lunch or brunch dishes: Three Cheese with Caramelized Onions, Kale and Feta. Butternut Squash Onion and Thyme. And don't forget the dozen different cookies.


CUCINA AL VOLO. Try the new Butternut Squash Ravioli with a simple butter and quickly sauteed fresh sage sauce. The homemade burrata ravioli always sells out fast. The eggplant norma sauce makes a good veggie sidedish and a number of customers use the mushroom sauce as a mushroom soup...

TIP: No time to cook? their fresh pastas cook in less than 4 minutes. Grab a sauce and you can put together dinner in 10 minutes.  Add a salad or cut up some tomatoes and cucumbers and Mozz.  Finish with a Whisked Pie or cookies.

TRUCK PATCH FARMS:  Not to early to talk Turkey with Stacia. Bryan prides himself on his turkeys. Heirloom tomatoes, okra, green beans, many varieties of summer squash. Arugula, mesclun, spinach, kale, chards, eggplants, onions, chives, butternut, acorn and other Fall squash.

Meat Department:  SAY YES to Pork sausages, bacons, pork chops, salt pork, chops, pork sirloins, pork steaks, country ribs, spare ribs, butt roast, boneless shoulder roast, boneless and bone-in loin roasts.

TIP: Brine pork in Number 1 Sons pickle brines.
 

GARNER: Gala Melon.  Corn.  Sweet Potatoes. Many varieties of eggplants, Summer squash, peppers in green and red, okra, basil, potatoes, primo red tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers for slicing and pickling, beans, chard, garlic, candy onions. green beans. Greens.  Red, white and Yukon spuds. Parsley, Mint, Cilantro.  Make Pesto with them. Kales. Swiss Chard. Limas. October beans. Black eyed Peas all love to be dressed in a lemon vinaigrette with chopped herbs.  Cranberry beans. Black Eyed Peas.

TIP: Suffering Succotash. NOT. I call the Lima beans American edamames. Toss them into simmering, salted water, drain, dress with salt and olive oil.  I HATED succotash as a child but now I love a simple saute of parboiled limas with diced zucchini and corn kernels, red peppers and tomatoes.  Dressed with olive oil and lemon, basil or mint, and I usually add some hot peppers of some kind.

 

PANORAMA : French breakfast pastries like palmiers, almond croissants plus the plain and chocolate crosisants, baguettes, the olive oil buns that grace the 25 dollar hamburgers at Central and the Rustiques.  Sandwich breads, too.  If they are out of a bread you crave, ask them to save one for you for next week.  Late risers:  they have lots of whole wheat, multigrain and sourdough boules and loaves that sell out early.  So reserve what you want!  Email if you do not see something you want, please.

Robin, Teds, Danielle

The Produce Plus Program ends Saturday, September 30.  The checks are completely worthless after Saturday, alas.  But you can go to our 14&U FM at the Reeves Center tomorrow Saturday September 30 for your last checks and to spend your remaining checks.  Please use all of them.

We have distributed Produce Plus checks to about 200 customers every week at BFM, double 2016. so that more of our neighbors can eat fresh fruits and vegetables from June-September. 
The Produce Plus Program has been a great success, connecting low-income District residents to fresh produce at farmers’ markets in all 8 Wards of the city. Perhaps the program’s biggest accomplishment was demonstrating the demand for fruits and vegetables. (Hard to believe that anyone doubted that, isn't it?)

Our privately funded Bonus matching program restarts this Sunday so that we can help fill the gap now that Produce Plus has stopped. Ask us about it at the market table.  We will match up  SNAP, WIC and Senior FMNP checks up to $10 per market week. Our Bonus tokens are good for meat, cheese, eggs, fruits and vegetables.
 

Bloomingdale House Tour and Reception 2017 early bird ticket special ends tomorrow, Saturday, 09-30-2017

See this 09-29-2017 message:

Can you please post the following for our early bird special?



soliciting solar lamps and lanterns for Puerto Rico relief

From: jean-christophe Deverines
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:35 PM
Subject: Help there be light in Puerto Rico.

Help there be light in Puerto Rico Now. 

There is a curfew in PR 6pm to 6am. People live in the dark. Light is crucial to people in PR right now. Without electricity solar lamps are the best option to have 5-8 hours of light after dark. Below are examples of solar lamps I bought online between $8-$10 online. 

I am holding a collection drive everyday at our house 44 Rhode Island Ave NW (sabrg91@yahoo.com) of the week.

Write before stopping by. 
        
Sunday We’ll be at the Bloomingdale Farmers Market (Florida NW and 1st street NW in DC.) from 8:30am to 1pm. 

Come by and donate. 

- Portable Solar Panel Power LED Bulb Lamp Outdoor Camp Tent. 

- WinnerEco Portable Solar Powered LED Bulb Lamp Spotlight. 8.29

- Solar Panel Powered LED Light Bulb Upgrades Portable 1.5W. 


And between $25 and $30. 

- Camping Lantern, 4 Pack Outdoor Rechargeable Solar Lanterns. 

-  Solar Lantern, AGPtek 5 Mode Hand Crank Dynamo 36 LED Rechargeable Camping Lantern Emergency Light, Ultra Bright LED Lantern - Car Charge.




Bloomingdale resident and top musician Raul Del Moral invites you to his Dope Yoga event -- with live music! -- Sunday, 10-08-2017

See this event announcement from Bloomingdale resident and musician Raul Del Moral.

Here is the link to the Eventbrite announcement.





ANC5E07 Commissioner Bertha Holliday's response to DC Water's announcement regarding the 1st and Rhode Island Avenue NW utility relocation efforts


From: Bertha Holliday
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 5:01 PM
Subject: for posting on listserv/blog

Please post attached (announcement & my response) re 1st & Rhode Island utility relocation efforts associated with NW Boundary Tunnel.

Bertha

--

Bertha G., Holliday, PhD & Associates, LLC
Independent Consultant (Diversity Assessment, Planning, Implementation & Evaluation)
49 T Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-491-3996

Co- Director
Bloomingdale Village Square Project
"Building Community Identity & Sense of Place"
www.bloomingdalecivicassociation.org

Commissioner, ANC 5E07
Washington, DC
www.berthaholliday.com
5E07@anc.dc.gov.

Member At Large, Executive Committee, Division 45 (Psychology of Culture, Ethnicity & Race)
American Psychological Association

Fellow, American Psychological Association


Creative Grounds: It's National Coffee Day

See this tweet:




at Boundary Stone Saturday night: Beat Corridor !

See this tweet:




lunch is being prepped at DCity Smokehouse

See this tweet:




the DC HPRB provides a thumbs-up to Square 519's nomination as a historic landmark

See this DC Preservation League tweet from yesterday:




still time to sign up for The Unified Scene Theater's Improv for Business Leaders class

See this tweet:


 

Thursday, September 28, 2017

all-you-can-eat tacos at El Camino

See this tweet:




missing the ivy turn red

See this tweet:


DCity Smokehouse is still serving while the patio/sidewalk construction continues

See this tweet:




happy anniversary, Boundary Stone

See this tweet:




Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Help there be light in Puerto Rico.

From: jean-christophe Deverines
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:35 PM
Subject: Help there be light in Puerto Rico.

Help there be light in Puerto Rico Now. 

There is a curfew in PR 6pm to 6am. People live in the dark. Light is crucial to people in PR right now. Without electricity solar lamps are the best option to have 5-8 hours of light after dark. Below are examples of solar lamps I bought online between $8-$10 online. 

I am holding a collection drive everyday at our house 44 Rhode Island Ave NW (sabrg91@yahoo.com) of the week.

Write before stopping by. 
        
Sunday We’ll be at the Bloomingdale Farmers Market (Florida NW and 1st street NW in DC.) from 8:30am to 1pm. 

Come by and donate. 

- Portable Solar Panel Power LED Bulb Lamp Outdoor Camp Tent. 

- WinnerEco Portable Solar Powered LED Bulb Lamp Spotlight. 8.29

- Solar Panel Powered LED Light Bulb Upgrades Portable 1.5W. 


And between $25 and $30. 

- Camping Lantern, 4 Pack Outdoor Rechargeable Solar Lanterns. 

-  Solar Lantern, AGPtek 5 Mode Hand Crank Dynamo 36 LED Rechargeable Camping Lantern Emergency Light, Ultra Bright LED Lantern - Car Charge.