Digdug Saga

Turns out that Alpine Village has a sister mall in Malaysia called Ida Cottage. Click on the aforesaid link to view the Ida Cottage cheese. Don't forget to scroll down. Yes, they have things with clocks in them, though I promise no rocking chairs. Their watering can reminds me of my mother's Desert Rose pattern of Franciscan Ware which we used as our everyday dishes. It was a wedding gift from my father who purchased it mail-order, and it was shipped from Laguna Beach to Norway via Air Cargo Express. Being Scandinavian, my father liked his coffee boiling hot from the percolator. He would then cool the coffee by pouring some of it into the Desert Rose saucer. My mother thought this crude. He really didn't speak much at dinner; Norwegians don't. He liked doing crossword puzzles between bites of Welsh rarebit or reading a famous Norse saga with missing pages called...

The Pottery Shack in Laguna beach is still a great place to buy whatever pieces of Franciscan Ware you need replacing. And where to eat brunch? Why The Cottage, of course, no matter what the Laguna ex-pats say.