Just got back home from 24 days in Elkhart County, Indiana, where I was working for FEMA Community Relations on the disaster response/recovery operation for the January floods. We had the best little team in the universe (and the most Read more…
I am writing this Valentine’s Day Blog to my husband to let the “world” know how much I love Dan, truly the love of my life. Yes, this is the man who created our home (and the Elkhorn Inn) from, Read more…
I know now, 100%, that journalists make the water run!Dan may make the sun shine and stars glow, but journalists make the water run!Thanks to Charles Owens of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, and Jessica Lilly of CBS WVNS-TV News59, we Read more…
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 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 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 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. 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 & 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, Read more…