After our happy Railfan couple left the Elkhorn Inn on Saturday morning, Dan & I had a “foodie” weekend! My box of wonderful fresh produce arrived from www.TastePadThai.com (2 gorgeous green mangoes, fresh lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, & thai chilies, among other things!), & I cracked open Mai Pham’s Read more…
It’s “that time of year” again- The $#&%!! Festive Season- and so one’s mind turns (whether one wants it to or not) to… Shopping! This blog post is Totally about shopping, and includes a few products & merchant’s I’ve come to love… In the last 7 years- since we moved Read more…
I love fall, don’t get me wrong. It’s REALLY pretty here in the so. WV mountains when the leaves turn, and they turn late here and usually hang around for quite awhile- it’s still pretty here come Halloween. As you can see from the photos, two weeks ago Dan & Read more…
Yes, the Sweepstakes Queen of Landgraff, WV has finally launched OUR sweeps- AND a great contest, too! We have some really great prizes from the Elkhorn Inn Gift Shop, & the Contest has a Grand Prize of a $320 gift certificate to the Elkhorn Inn Inn for a two-night stay Read more…
Nothing quite so empowers one as hitting a fairly small target at a decent distance with a 20 gauge shotgun. 🙂The other night, whilst I was Facebooking & Twittering away at the computer, adding such pithy 140-character-or-less bon mots as “Train Tweets: The Pocahontas RR is chugging past the http://www.elkhorninnwv.com! Read more…
It’s finally really and truly summer at the Elkhorn Inn- & it has even stopped raining! 😀 We’ve had a wonderful spring so far, with lots of great Railfan guests from places as far away as Florida & England (they love the “Pokey” in the UK, too!), & this weekend Read more…
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…