Skruben Blog

We are pleased to announce that we now have t-shirts available that sport three of our favorite Seattle Sundries images!    

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  This post is about the best, most delicious huckleberry muffins I know, but first, I want to digress a bit... Since I was a little kid, my favorite summer activity has been berry picking.  I love to pick the raspberries and strawberries that we grow ourselves, but even more,...

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This is one busy bee! All the pollen we see on honey bees goes to feed their larvae. It's the nectar they collect mixed with bees' unique enzymes that becomes the nutrient-rich honey that feeds them during the winter months. Unlike most insects, honey bees stay active all winter long,...

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  I help with the booster club for my middle school kids' music program, and we were trying to find an eye-catching way to show how much has been raised toward our fundraising goal each year. Originally I was planning to make a thermometer-type display, using clear plastic pipe filled...

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  You may remember that I posted  few weeks ago about our venture into urban chicken raising and the cute little puffballs that got us to finally commit.  Well, they've been living in a crate in my office since then, growing like crazy, and stinking to high heaven.   We've...

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