This year’s garden wasn’t perfect, by any means, but the hot peppers- all of them in pots on the front patio of the Elkhorn Inn this year- did great! When October arrived, and frost was imminent, with the pepper plants still covered in peppers, as they always are, Dan did Read more…
Add caption Happy Purim! This year the Jewish holiday of Purim (see below for links to the history of Purim and how to celebrate it) was Feb. 9 -10, and I decided that, for the first time, I would make Hamantaschen! (Or Hamentaschen, depending on how you choose to spell it!) I think Read more…
Add caption This post is for everyone who thinks they can’t make Puff Pastry Apple Roses– If I can do it – and I am not known as “Ms. CraftFail 1959” for nothing- you can do it! I am NOT “crafty”, and most of the things I have tried to Read more…
My favorite expression for how we celebrate Hanukkah at the Elkhorn Inn is: “Go Big or Go Home”! This year, I’m happy to say, we outdid ourselves. LOL Known, by my own self-proclamation, as the “Martha Stewart of Inflatable Decor”, over the years, and thanks in great measure to eBay, Read more…
New Year’s Eve 2008-2009: Gary Bowling’s House of Art, Bluefield New Year’s Eve was fun- for the first time in 6 years we left the Elkhorn Inn on New Year’s Eve- because there was finally someplace worth going to! Friends and family from Virginia, North Carolina, and Minnesota came in, Read more…
The holidays at the Elkhorn Inn in Landgraff, WV: Picking up, wrapping, & shipping West Virginia Coal Tchachkas all over the country! Happily, we filled a lot of orders this year, & thanx to UPS, managed to get all the Christmas orders delivered by Christmas Eve! We sent coal statuettes Read more…
I recently read an article, (in the NY Times, I believe), bemoaning the existence (and popularity) of inflatable holiday decorations, due to the supposedly down-market, trailer park aura they create. This really got my dander up, as my husband & I have become Big Time Inflatable Enthusiasts, and we consider Read more…