I just read in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph (which sometimes even winds up on our doorstep Not Wet) that Stowie, McDowell County’s Official Landfill Mascot, went to Charleston yesterday for McDowell County Day. (If anyone out there has good pix of Stowie, please email me & I’ll post it). This 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…
Can you sing the theme song to “Green Acres” in Hebrew? The vegetable garden has grown quite a bit since Dan first built it in 2004, & I am ever threatening to put up a sign in Hebrew that states “Kibbutz Goldstein-Clark, Volunteers please go to the Office”, in the Read more…
Five years ago when we bought the flooded mess that we (Dan) would turn into the Elkhorn Inn, there was nothing out front and to the sides of the building (as well as inside the building) but mud & debris. And by debris, I mean rusted appliances and moldy furntiure, 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…
The pictures below tell a story. Look at the pictures and see if you can figure out the story. Then scroll below and read the story and see if you were right! Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a Prince and his Princess in Read more…