Our group of ATVing guests left the Inn this morning for home, happy w/their 2 days of riding, several armed with hand-made WV coal tchochkas for their wives 🙂 The daffodils & magnolia are in bloom, as are our 3 fruit trees, & Dan even set up my giant, new Read more…
I should probably title this blog post “sex, sun, Segways, & sushi”! Thanx to Game Stop & finding wonderful Inn Sitters, Dan & I were able to have a 5-day (& sorely needed) “mini-honeymoon” in San Diego… Much as we love all 4 seasons in the mountains of southern WV, Read more…
It’s been a Very busy train day at the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre… Lots and lots and Lots of trains coming and going past the Inn thru the powdery snow… Dan, with his militarily-honed hearing, can hear a train Long before I do, & yelled “get the camera!” early enough Read more…
Today Dan & I officially started preparing for spring @the Elkhorn Inn; we went to Lowe’s and bought seeds! I’ve been shooting pix of the Pocahotas train sailing past the Inn in the snow, and reading myself to sleep with dog-eared Burpee & Park Seed Catalogs (and my wonderful sis-in-law Read more…
Unfortunately the “lack of water in winter issue”, since Mavis Brewster & the McDowell County PSD (Public Service District) took over our water supply, is still alive and well in McDowell County.Those of you who saw the first post on this blog last January, may recall that the county was Read more…
Ah, autumn in Landgraff, WV… the air gets crisp, the leaves change colors, and people steal your political signs off your property…I start this post with the unhappy news that our McCain-Palin sign was stolen from our side lawn the other day. Either a desperate McCain supporter, unable to find Read more…
After much prodding, we have finally joined the 21st Facebook Century, and now have a page, photo albums, & tons of other kewl stuff on Facebook! And I now have 21 friends! One of them is M., a friend from high school- I think she may be my Only friend Read more…
This post is mostly about FOOD – in all it’s summer glory! For starters, my husband, Chef Dan, recently made the most amazing French demi-glace I have ever eaten in my life. A truly sublime thing of such delicious, rich intensity, it turned every mundane thing it touched into the Read more…
I have just been on the receiving end of Truly Great Customer Service- from www.igourmet.com from whence Dan’s Hanukkah present came. (You must remember Hanukkah- it was a couple of months ago…) Back in Nov., with H looming over the horizon, I decided that Chef Dan, a.k.a. “Smokin’ Dan”, Landgraff’s Read more…