Subject: Crafty Bastards this Saturday and Sunday!
From: darnknit@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:50:40 +0000
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Friday, September 25, 2015
Bloomingdale resident & artisan Rania Hassan: Crafty Bastards this Saturday and Sunday!
See the message below from Bloomingdale resident Rania Hassan, who is participating in this weekend's Crafty Bastards at Union Market.
Subject: Crafty Bastards this Saturday and Sunday!
From: darnknit@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:50:40 +0000
Subject: Crafty Bastards this Saturday and Sunday!
From: darnknit@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:50:40 +0000
Open Houses in and around Bloomingdale scheduled for 9/27
26 Bryant St #1 NW offered at $629,900. Open 1-4pm
The featured property will be open on Sunday from 1-4 pm at 26 Bryant Street #1 NW and is offered at $629,900. The listing is represented by Roby Thompson III with Long and Foster Real Estate. You can find more information in the link 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 10 square team dot com by 10am on Friday before the open.
Wicked Bloom Social Club, 1540 North Capitol Street NW, opens tonight!
Stop by!
Here is a pic of the interior from Bloomingdame:
opening show tonight at Unified Scene Theater, 80 T Street NW!
See these tweets:
#BloomingdaleDC: Our grand opening show will be this Friday at 8:30. Get tickets here! https://squareup.com/market/the-unified-scene-theater/our-first-show-a-grand-opening-extravaganza-featuring-shawnmikael-s-and-the-haddington-club …
1:56 PM - 21 Sep 2015
#lowticketwarning: only 10 tickets remain for our very first show tomorrow night. Better grab 'em quick, Scenesters! https://squareup.com/market/the-unified-scene-theater/our-first-show-a-grand-opening-extravaganza-featuring-shawnmikael-s-and-the-haddington-club …
1:23 PM - 24 Sep 2015 ·
Thursday, September 24, 2015
update on the missing dog Peanut from 2nd & Bryant St NW
See this Thursday evening, 09-24-2015, update on the missing dog named Peanut:
An updated Facebook page.
An updated Facebook page.
We went on a dog track tonight to see if we could limit our search perimeters but we learned that this dog can be anywhere in DC. The dog track led us from 2nd St. and Bryant St. NW all the way west through embassy row to 24th St. NW and then all the way back east to Bloomingdale and even farther east.
That was when we decided to end a 3.5-hour track, and also when I got a text saying she was sighted at Delafield and 14th in Petworth.
Please continue to spread the word. Please. This dog has stamina and seems to be going all over the place.
introducing Bloomingdale-based Little Wild Things City Farm -- which will have a stand at this Sunday's Bloomingdale Farmers Market
See this message from Mary Ackley of Little Wild Things City Farm.
Note that Little Wild Things City Farm will have a stand at this Sunday's Bloomingdale Farmers Market on the 100 block of R Street NW.
Little Wild Things City Farm is an innovative sub-acre urban farm in Washington DC specializing in organic microgreens, vegetables, and herbs. Little Wild Things partners with property owners to turn underutilized spaces into beautiful urban micro-farms that produce a bounty of healthy, fresh produce. Together, these spaces add up to Little Wild Things City Farm. Little Wild Things is the dream of engineer-turned-beginning farmer Mary Ackley who discovered and followed her passion for sustainable agriculture mid-way through her career in the US Foreign Service.
Note that Little Wild Things City Farm will have a stand at this Sunday's Bloomingdale Farmers Market on the 100 block of R Street NW.
Little Wild Things City Farm is an innovative sub-acre urban farm in Washington DC specializing in organic microgreens, vegetables, and herbs. Little Wild Things partners with property owners to turn underutilized spaces into beautiful urban micro-farms that produce a bounty of healthy, fresh produce. Together, these spaces add up to Little Wild Things City Farm. Little Wild Things is the dream of engineer-turned-beginning farmer Mary Ackley who discovered and followed her passion for sustainable agriculture mid-way through her career in the US Foreign Service.
DC Water 1st Street Tunnel update
To: Vickey.Wilcher@dcwater.com; Thomas.Lindberg@dcwater.com
Subject: FST Community Update
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:08:50 +0000
Greetings First Street Tunnel (FST) Stakeholder,
Please see below for important project related information:
- Construction Update: Heavy construction activity is underway at all four Construction Staging Areas in the Bloomingdale neighborhood. We plan to work on Monday, October 12, Columbus Day and on Saturdays as needed. Beginning in October, we will need to place a large sewer pipe across First Street at Thomas Street NW. We will have one lane of traffic open in this area at all times for six to eight weeks. Flaggers will be in place to direct traffic. The new pipe (force main) in is required to transport stored tunnel flow into the existing sewer system. We are pleased to report that the project is 64% complete. Although, we still must recover days in the work schedule, you can check the current project schedule at this link: (https://www.dcwater.com/workzones/projects/first_street_tunnel/attachments/Division_FST_Geographic_Schedule.pdf). We feel confident in the day to day progress being made and want to thank Bloomingdale residents for your continued cooperation.
- Aerial Photos: Recently, a few members of the Project Team flew over the area on a helicopter, the resulting in some interesting aerial photos. Check our web site: https://www.dcwater.com/workzones/projects/first_street_tunnel/aerial.cfm Can you find your house?
- TBM Activity: Lucy resumed mining activity underground the week of September 21st—Lucy will proceed under First Street near Channing Street and down to Bryant Street NW in the next couple of weeks. We will post the weekly progress of Lucy on our web site: https://www.dcwater.com/workzones/projects/first_street_tunnel/attachments/mining_process.pdf. In addition, we will flyer First Street with a door hanger so direct abutters are aware of the progress of the tunnel boring machine. The TBM will move underground below First Street from Channing Street to Rhode Island Ave. NW over the next few months. The mining of the entire length of the tunnel should be complete by the end of 2015.
- Adams Street and Flagler Place Construction Staging Area-the FEMS Doorway Murals are being installed, the first set of doors were installed this month, the second set of doors will be installed in mid-October and the final set in early November. You can see the images on our web site: https://www.dcwater.com/workzones/projects/first_street_tunnel/perception.cfm
- Bloomingdale Civic Association House Tour: On Saturday, October 17, 2015 DC Water is pleased to participate and will open our First Street Tunnel site office at 2036 First Street NW for interested visitors. Please plan to stop by and speak with members of the Project Team. For more information about the Bloomingdale House Tour, please visit: http://bloomingdaleneighborhood.blogspot.com/2015/09/bloomingdale-house-tour-art-show.html
- Next Public Meeting: Please join us at the next Tunnel Forum community meeting on October 22nd at 7PM. The meetings are held at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 160 U Street NW. Please note that there will be no Tunnel Forum meetings in November and December. Tunnel Forum meetings will resume in 2016, the first meeting will be held on Thursday, January 21. We will alert you regarding any changes in date, time or location in advance of future meetings.
- Would you like to see the project up close? If so, please save the date and set aside about 2-2.5 hours to see the project. DC Water and SKJD are proud to host a FST Hard Hat Tour for FST community stakeholders on Saturday, October 24, 2015.
About the Hard Hat Tour:
You will have the opportunity to see first-hand the main mining shaft, the tunnel boring machine (Lucy), visit other construction areas and speak to the senior construction staff. The purpose of Community Hard Hat Day is to allow the FST Team to provide the community an opportunity to learn more about this important environmental project.
For your convenience, three separate tours will be offered: 9:00 am; 12:00 noon and 2:30 pm. If you wish to participate, please set aside two to two and one half hours on that day. All tours will begin at the main mining shaft site at 2507 First Street, NW, in the SKJD construction trailer, located at the far end of the site, along the McMillian Sand Filter silos; and will begin with a brief safety training since participants will be required to adhere to project safety protocol.
Parking is available at the lot across from the main mining shaft site adjacent to the Army Corps of Engineers entrance or at the Bryant Street lot, corner of 2nd and Bryant Street NW.
Please note that participants for each time slot will be accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis. Keep an eye out for the Hard Hat invitation and reserve your place, the official invite will be sent out by DC Water soon!
As always, please don’t forget to avail yourselves of the 24 Hour FST Hotline—1-844-FST-INFO [1-844-378-4636]—if you have any questions or concerns about the project.
We appreciate your participation and support in this very important project
Sincere Regards,
The FST Outreach Team
Tom Lindberg, DCCR First Street Tunnel - Public Outreach | DC Clean Rivers Project | DC Water | 5000 Overlook Avenue, SW | Washington, DC 20032 | t (202) 787-4738 | f (202) 787-4478 | Email: thomas.lindberg@dcwater.com | FST web page: http://dcwater.com/workzones/projects/first_street_tunnel/
Vickey M. Wilcher | Public Outreach Officer | DC Clean Rivers Project | DC Water
micro greens pop-up at the Bloomingdale Farmers Market Sunday
Subject: Fwd: Micro Greens Pop Up BFM Sunday
Sundays 9-1 • 100 Block of R NW
Hi BFM fans, Rain or Shine, drizzle or clouds or sun, we are open Sunday.
NEW PRODUCER POP UP: Come meet Mary Ackley, Bloomingdalian and urban farmer, owner of Little Wild Things. She grows the best microgreens i have ever tasted. I was NOT a microgreens fan before I tasted hers at the DC State Fair a few weeks ago and now I am hooked, (as are a number of restaurants who buy long trays of microgreens every week.)
She grows a huge variety: Micro Broccoli, Micro Arugula, Micro Rambo Radish, Micro China Rose Radish, Wheatgrass. Sunflower shoots, Spicy Mixed Microgreens (Arugula, Pac Choy, Red Cabbge, Mustard, Mild Mixed Microgreens (Broccoli, Red Cabbage, Kale), Pea Shoots, Giant Garner Mustard are available as live packs in circular take home trays you can keep cutting over the course of a week or two or in clamshells, already harvested for you.
Micro greens are smaller than baby greens and bigger than sprouts: they can be sweet or spicy and they are beautiful, Weird but true: they have 3-4 times more nutrients than bigger leaves of the same plant. They make salads pop, add flavor to tacos, wraps, sandwiches, smoothies, soups.
An update from Caitlin about Number 1 Sons:
"Exciting news! New thing at the pickle stand!
Kraut Rellenos are kraut-stuffed peppers. We got bushels + bushels of Hungarian Hot Wax peppers from Bigg Riggs Farm. We stuffed them with our already fermented Clean Kraut. Then we fermented the stuffed peppers in kraut juice + some chile flakes. Sour, spicy and so delicious! Make a great snack or is the funnest addition to charcuterie, cheese plate. We'll be selling a few in a bag or a tall container.
Other updates, perhaps equally exciting --
We have more varieties of our Chili Bears coming. We're getting a wide variety of peppers from The Farm at Sunnyside and fermenting them with wine or beer. We're doing lots of small batches depending on the peppers we get from Casey + Stacey that week.
If our cucumber delivery comes in this week, we'll have Half Sours + Crispy Koshers. We have all our full sour pickles, including Super Sours! The Cucumber season is starting to wind down so stock up..."
I have a Truck Patch chicken defrosting in the fridge and I am musing about these recipes.
Here is a tip: I always salt chicken a day before using it and I also rub it with lemon in advance as well. Then I decide how I will prepare it. I like this better than wet brining a chicken. After a day, the salt does not make the chicken taste salty, just more flavorful because it has had a chance to move deeply into the flesh (yay, osmosis).
Collard greens and onions make a nice pasta dish here. Green Tomatoes are starting to appear on the stands and did you know that they make a fine frittata? (I will give you a fried green tomato recipe in October.)
Finally, I am always looking for good recipes for those gorgeous deep blue Italian plums that are the last plums in the season. Wonderful baker Dorie Greenspan never fails me and here is her Spiced Plum Cake recipe. It uses ginger and cinnamon and Chinese 5 spice powder and it is very quick to whip up and bake.
Garner has a pop up flower nursery at the stand with huge mums and lots of flowering perennials.
BIKE HOUSE 11-1 Bring back those bikes.
MUSIC AT MARKET: Reed Appleseed -- the right name for the first musician of the Apple centric Fall, isn't it?
New this Week
- Kraut Rellenos at Number 1 Sons.
- Baby Ginger, French Fingerlings at German Butterball spuds at Mountain View
- Broccoli at Truck Patch.
- NEW flavors of Chile Bears at Number 1 Sons
- Cider rules at Reid -- SIX types of cider!
- Butternut Squash Lasagne at Cucina -- Vegetarian.
- Bryan's turkeys are storming the greenhouses to clear out the summer greens.
At the Stands
REID ORCHARDS: Probably the last week for peaches. Asian pears, plums, seedless grapes, Concord grapes. Did you say apples? Honeycrisp, Gala, Ginger Gold, McIntosh, Fuji, Macoun, Roxbury Russet, Cox Orange Pippin, Bramley, Pinova and Cortland apples plus some antique varieties that Conor always puts on the truck. Ciderhouse rules: UV apple, apple, honeycrisp, apple grape, apple cherry and pear cider. A lot of people think Reid makes the best cider in the region.
I think this is the last week of peaches. Ciderhouse rules: UV apple, apple, honeycrisp, apple grape, apple cherry and pear cider.
MOUNTAIN VIEW ORGANICS: Baby Ginger is back. Lotsa Tomatoes. Fresh garlic, Padron and Shishito peppers to blister. Shiny, thin, long Japanese eggplants. New potatoes in various colors, baby leeks. Carrots with greens, Hakurei salad turnips and greens, baby beets, Swiss Chard, baby boy choy, summer squash. Pale green Hungarian and Italian frying tomatoes. Purple onions with their greens. Gorgeous heirloom and Cherry Tomatoes.
CUCINA AL VOLO PASTAS, SAUCES AND SOUP: Butternut squash lasagne, Puttanesca sauce, roasted pepper sauce, pesto, burrata and swiss chard with parmesan rivoli, brisket ravioli, ribolitta (Tuscan vegetable soup) Bring your jar back for a dollar off your next purchase. Dry Pasta. Have you seen those gorgeous Vermillion Beet and jade Green Spinach freshly dried pastas? If you don't eat them, make necklaces of them.
Remember to keep the Pesto and Panna Cotta cold and in the fridge.
TRUCK PATCH: Broccoli and Green Beans and lots of unusual Fall Squash at the stand. He loves to grow those heirloom tomatoes: Stripped German, Aunt Ruby, Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Roma, Big Reds, Stripped Zebra, Great White, Valencia. Armenian serpentine cucumbers. lettuces, kale, Swiss chard, Green Beans, Beets, Eggplants. Stacia says: Gorgeous flowers. I saw tomatoes seconds on sale last week -- great for canning and roasting and gazpacho.
TRUCK PATCH MEATS: Pastured Pork! - Bacon, Bone in and Boneless Pork butt, tenderloins, bone in and boneless pork chops, spare ribs, breakfast and savory sausages, and whole chicken and chicken parts. Pastured Pork! - Bacon, Bone in and Boneless Pork butt, tenderloins, bone in and boneless pork chops, spare ribs, breakfast and savory sausages, and whole chicken and chicken parts. Yes, you can reserve your Thanksgiving Turkey.
NUMBER 1 Sons: Number 1 Sons will be bringing their brand new Drink Dang kombucha in a few weeks. I have been waiting since Memorial Day when I tasted it.They have a lot of news at the stands this week. The Chile Bear hot sauces have some new siblings: lemon balm pepper, Baltimore fish pepers, Jamaican chocolate peppers. I am just about finished with the original three and am excited to try these new ones. .These new Chile Bear hot sauces are wonderful -- mild, medium or hot, with lots of layers of flavor and spice -- not just spiciness. The flavors are the best I have had.
Full sours, half sours, District Dills, Kicky Koshers, Crispy Koshers. Pepperpatch Okra from Garner's okra. Grill a Pimento kimcheese sandwich this weekend and don't forget your pickle. Try your own with Keswick Pimento and Sons kimchi. Deep fried pickles are good too.
KESWICK: What I like about the Keswick stand is that they have such a huge range of cheeses. Cheddar, Calverley, Wallaby, Vachino Bianca, Bovre, Tomme Sweet Tomme , Carrock. Some are Jersey cow milk, some are a mix of Jersey and goat milk Sample them all. And if you love yogurt, be sure to check this. Mark's Pimento Cheese is top of mind because I saw a fabulous Pimento Kimcheese burger picture in August.. Chileheads, alert. I get your Dragon's Breath. Cream cheese? No, it is quark, what cream cheese aspires to be.
WHISKED: Jenna says: Our special pie this week is Mexican Chocolate Cream. It has a silky smooth chocolate custard, spiced with cinnamon, and a crunchy graham cracker crust. This pie is a big hit at the farmers' market, and we're excited to bring it back.
Apple Blackberry Pie, Classic Apple Pie,Peach Pie, Peach Raspberry Pie, Salted Caramel Apple Pie, Sea Salt Chocolate Chess Pie. Savories: Kale Pesto Parmesan and Corn, Bacon Cheddar Quiches.
PANORAMA: Baguettes and croissants, breakfast pastries and lots of breads. Breton specialties like Kouign Amann and the new Crois-Nut.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 they serve you at Citronelle. 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.
GARNER: Black eye Peas take the place of those divine baby limas that are done for the season. Toss them into simmering water until tender and sprinkle with sea salt and olive oil. Addictive. Sweet Corn, Heirloom tomatoes, Early Girl tomatoes, green beans, yellow beans, Romano beans, Eggplants, Japanese, Italian, Ghostbusters, Sicilian. Red, Orange and Green bell a Chile heads: look here hot peppers (Jalapeño, Anaheim, Poblano, Serrrano, Cayene, Habañero). Candy onions, tomatillos, cherry tomatoes. Carrots, zucchini and summer squash, cucumbers, kales, savoy cabbage, black eye pes. Swiss chard. Cut herbs. Red and green okra.
Lots of pretty mums and perennials -- it is a garden pop up.
Please spread the word about the Produce Plus checks. We will have more checks on Sunday for Produce Plus! And it is the last week to use your Produce Plus checks at market before they expire.
Robin and the Teds and Stephanie
Bloomingdale Farmers' Market
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DC Cultural Tourism: Art All Night: Nuit Blanche DC -- including North Capitol Street -- Saturday, 09-26-2015
See this item from today's DC Cultural Tourism's Communique:
Art All Night: Nuit Blanche DC The free festival is an all-night exploration and celebration of contemporary art, encompassing five of DC’s most vibrant neighborhoods: Congress Heights, Dupont Circle, H Street NE, North Capitol and Shaw. Watch as DC’s creative community re-imagines public and private space and invites us all to see our city anew. Festivities start Saturday, September 26 at 7pm and run through 3 am, Sunday September 27.
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another package theft
See this 09-24-2015 message from a Flagler Place NW household:
We still seem to have really persistent package thieves. We've had so many things go missing that we've lost track.
Is anyone else still having an ongoing problem? We can't figure out what's going on. Things appear to be swiped almost immediately after delivered.
The Bird Is out of the Cage Freedom and Divine Will - Self-Realization Community's Celebration of Life Sunday, 9-27-2015 10-1130AM at Samsara House 2023
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:42:49 -0400
Subject: The Bird Is out of the Cage Freedom and Divine Will - Self-Realization Community's Celebration of Life Sunday, 9/27 10-1130AM at Samsara House 2023
From: wakeup@samsarahouse.org
To: wakeup@samsarahouse.org
It's Alive!
Nice work. Your event, The Bird Is out of the Cage: Freedom and Divine Will - Self-Realization Community's Celebration of Life Sunday, 9/27 10-11:30AM at Samsara House 2023, is up and running and ready for action. Go ahead and check it out.
View the event.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
135 Adams St NW to be converted from a single-family dwelling to a two-family flat
Washington Business Journal reporter Michael Neibauer spotted this DCRA permit with a Bloomingdale street address:
- 135 Adams St. NW: Conversion from single-family to a two-family flat.
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