The Tolland Inn http://tollandinn.com A Stylish Connecticut Inn on the Tolland Town Green Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:59:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Thanksgiving http://tollandinn.com/thanksgiving/ http://tollandinn.com/thanksgiving/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:17:49 +0000 tollandinn http://tollandinn.com/?p=1062 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 wet-suited life-guard on a surfboard out in front of us, which seemed sensible, but a little while later the Coast Guard turned up in a large inflatable–which seemed more ominous than prudent.  It turned out the Joe Biden was with me in the crowd of fools waiting to plunge.  No casualties reported.
Our THANKS: to Beth, for doing such a great job at the inn when we are away.]]> http://tollandinn.com/thanksgiving/feed/ 0 Festival http://tollandinn.com/festival/ http://tollandinn.com/festival/#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:37:22 +0000 tollandinn http://tollandinn.com/?p=1057 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:
]]> http://tollandinn.com/festival/feed/ 0 It’s really November… http://tollandinn.com/november/ http://tollandinn.com/november/#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:29:41 +0000 tollandinn http://tollandinn.com/?p=1052
]]> http://tollandinn.com/november/feed/ 0 Veteran’s Day http://tollandinn.com/veterans-day/ http://tollandinn.com/veterans-day/#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:48:07 +0000 tollandinn http://tollandinn.com/?p=1048 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 calls kept coming.  Some were clearly disappointed, but all were friendly and actually thanked us for participating!  We had a great time with them and hope they had a good stay.  We’ll do it again next year and see if we can expand a little on what we offer.]]> http://tollandinn.com/veterans-day/feed/ 0 Url-loonacy http://tollandinn.com/973/ http://tollandinn.com/973/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:20:56 +0000 tollandinn http://bedbreakfastct.com/?p=973 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 the (relative only) ease with which it can be altered. I say relative because NOTHING is as easy as presented, and everything effects something else. Still, we have a great inn, wonderful guests, and lots of reasons to get the word out, so I feel it is a good use of my time. If I can retain any of what I’ve learned, I should be able to improve the site. We find more than ever that our growing summer occupancy is made up of vacationers heading to–and then from–coastal Maine. We are a perfect place to rest for a night when traveling I84 to vacation spots up North or heading back to the Mid-Atlantic. So one of my goals is just to let these folks know we exist. Let me know if anything is missing on the new site! We’re trying a few modern accessories to assess our web success and get search engines to see us, all in hope of getting travelers to see us. Plenty more to do–and breakfast to serve this morning!]]> http://tollandinn.com/973/feed/ 0 Back from Maine. http://tollandinn.com/back-from-maine/ http://tollandinn.com/back-from-maine/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:25:41 +0000 tollandinn http://bedbreakfastct.com/?p=104 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.]]> http://tollandinn.com/back-from-maine/feed/ 0 Sinks! http://tollandinn.com/sinks/ http://tollandinn.com/sinks/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:23:52 +0000 tollandinn http://bedbreakfastct.com/?p=101

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 and faucets; Rm 2-new sink and faucets; Rm 3-new sink and faucets (the last one yet to do!;) Rm 5-bored out the original marble sink to for new faucets; Rm 6-bored out the original marble sink to for new faucets; Rm 7-found a marble sink top at an antique shop near here and bored out the marble sink to for new faucets.  Just that one more to do!]]> http://tollandinn.com/sinks/feed/ 0