Thanksgiving
We had a short get-away over Thanksgiving! Our first holiday away from the inn in 29 years. Susan’s family all gathered at her mom’s house on Nantucket–another first. I did the “Cold Turkey Plunge” at Children’s Beach. An hour of standing around in the cold, sixty seconds in the water. I noticed they had a ...
Festival
This year the Friends of Tolland Library are hosting the annual Festival of Trees, a fund-raiser where table-top Christmas trees are auctioned. We do one every year and try to come up with something different each time.This year’s is a music box made of antique chestnut wood from the walls of the inn:
Veteran’s Day
The asoociation PAII ran a nice program on their site for B&Bs to offer rooms to Vets on November 11. Though we aren’t members, we signed on and were very pleased with the experience. There are way more veterans out there than rooms in the whole nation, and long after our rooms were filled the ...
Url-loonacy
Still working on the new web site! It has been a fascinating, frustrating experience. Little by little it is coming together. With all the attention to detail, I worry that the over-all effect isn’t as appealing as I’d like. I suppose that is what actual web designers do(!) The nice thing about this site is ...
Back from Maine.
Spent four nights (!) away from the inn at Cape Neddick, Maine with friends. The air was in the eighties, the Atlantic was in the fifties. Beth ran the inn for us and did a great job as usual(!) No lightning strikes this time.
Sinks!
The summer of the sink continues! Here’s a glimpse into the glamorous world of innkeeping. I decided to up-grade the sinks here, some of which were picked up on the side of the road twenty-eight years ago as we started all this. So… (isn’t this exciting?) new commercial sink in the kitchen; Rm 1-new sink ...
