This is my absolute favorite photo from St. Paddy’s night in Bluefield WV: Chef Dan, The Other Dan, and Terry (a.k.a. BluefieldView), flatfootin’ outside Gary Bowling’s House of Art, to the banjo, guitar, & uke of the great George Robertson Band playing “Fox on the Run”…We had a really fun evening, Read more…
As readers of this blog know, Dan and I are planning two very special events at the Elkhorn Inn for May: our “WV Wine-tasting Weekend” May 14-16, and our “Dueling Dining-Car Chefs” Weekend May 28-30 with railroad historian and author of “From the Dining Car” & “Dining By Rail” James Read more…
I just won an amazing pair of shoes- “shooties”, actually, as one correctly refers to a shoe-bootie: the Carlos Santana Chula Ankle Boot (pictured above) with a round toe, reptile printed fabric upper, and smooth leather patchwork detailing. These babies will give petite little me 4 inches of height, but, having a Read more…
May 14-16 the Elkhorn Inn will host a “West Virginia Wine-Tasting Weekend”, including two Chef Dan dinners, each accompanied by 3 different WV wines! We aim to prove, once and for all, that there are not only Great wines from West Virginia, but ALSO Great food with which to accompany them! Read more…
We disembarked from Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of Seas into a Freezing Cold Florida! Bundled back into my winter coat, I waited for Dan to get the car with my teeth chattering! Granted, Florida was NOT freezing cold by 10-degree-below-zero snowdrift WV standards, but at 40 degrees in the sun, it Read more…
We just got back! Refreshed, re-energized, and ready for the 8th season at the Elkhorn Inn! It all happened rather suddenly: we found a wonderful Inn-&-Puppy-&-Kitty-sitter who could take care of the Inn for 2 weeks in Feb. (Saint Terry), & so Elisse (me) began Tweeting franticallywith @CaribbeanJim from http://www.cheapcaribbean.com/, & Read more…
My tongue is hanging out and I’m exhausted. After weeks of licking my lips over the Burpee and Park’s seed catalogs, fantasizing over their color photos of Jumbo This and Giant That, dogearing the pages with my favorites, and then freezing up the computer with 25 pages (more color photos! OMG!) Read more…
Yesterday, in the midst of our newest snowstorm, I ran outside on the front porch as the Pocahontas passed the Elkhorn Inn and snapped pix thoughtout the day… even in the dusk… When I downloaded them, the “dusk” ones were totally black- you couldn’t see a THING! The flash on our Read more…
That banging sound you’ve been hearing is undoubtedly my head slamming against the wall. My computer finally crashed & burned last week, something it’s been threatening to do for awhile now, and this time it knocked me for a loop, disappearing (temporarily, I hope…) 8 years of business email addresses Read more…
We’re just a couple of wild & crazy, wine-lovin’ Xploradors- with hopes of Xploradoring Chile! Xplorador Wines is hosting the “Experience the Harvest 2010” Sweepstakes, with a chance to win an amazing trip to witness the grape harvest in the heart of Chile’s wine country, and as Dan and I Read more…