Of course during winter, we don’t do much to our garden areas but spring is just around the corner and with the opening of our inn coming up as well, we will be planting soon. Fortunately, we have some well maintained areas between the suites and main house that we may only tweak a little. [...]
Archive for February, 2009
The Gardens
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged B and B, Bed and Breakfast, garden, inns, Nature, organic gardening on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Support Structure
Posted in renovations, tagged B and B, bathrooms, Bed and Breakfast, inns, renovations on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The upstairs portion of the main house of our Inn consists of three bedrooms but only ONE bathroom! We wanted to change that and put a bathroom in each bedroom. The problem became, ‘where do we find room for now bathrooms upstairs in such an old house?’ Greg the problem solver went to work on ideas [...]
Who?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged B and B, Bed and Breakfast, birdwatching, environment, inns, Nature on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Barred Owl that’s who. We spotted one the other day at the entrance to our drive. It perched in the location we first spotted it for at least a couple hours. Long enough for us to come back, grab a camera and snap some photos. Here is the best one:
Thank God for our National [...]
Family Matters
Posted in renovations, tagged B and B, Bed and Breakfast, Family, inns, painting, renovations on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have been blessed to have many of our multitude of family members come and help us with our many projects involved in getting out inn ready for business. Reid and Cathy Dusenberry havecome up from their home in North Carolina on several occasions to lend their hands to our efforts. One of the first [...]
Step On It
Posted in renovations, tagged B and B, Bed and Breakfast, environment, Flooring, green building, inns, renovations on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After searching our options, we found the perfect materials for the flooring in our suites. In our East River suite (formerly known as the Dalmatian suite) and Chesapeake suite (formerly known as the “Roman” suite) we went with bamboo. Morning star Bamboo to be exact. The stranded varieties are the most environmentally friendly. Every time it is [...]
Remember “Sanford and Son”?
Posted in renovations, tagged bathrooms, Bed and Breakfast, environment, green building, Recycling, renovations on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the things that you learn to get used to when going through a renovation such as ours, is that there are going to be several appliances, fixtures, etc. that just get strewn about the property. So, having a commode sit outside our front door has become ordinary! Of course, we are trying to [...]
The eagle has landed!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged B and B, bald eagles, Bed and Breakfast, birdwatching, inns on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last month we wrote about Greg spotting an American Bald Eagle off our pier. Well we have spotted one again and this time we had a camera handy! (Well actually Greg’s stepfather Winston did. A big thank you to Winston!) Winston got the shot from his binoculars that have a built in camera. Too cool!
Here’s [...]
A New Kitchen
Posted in renovations, tagged B and B, Bed and Breakfast, inns, kitchens, renovations on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the bigger projects we plan to undertake is to not just redo the kitchen but move it entirely. The original kitchen is pretty nice and in a central location but we find that it isn’t as functional as we want. Here is a couple of photos of the original kitchen:
While the kitchen is [...]
Ode to Pat and Clement
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged B and B, Bed and Breakfast, Family, inns, painting, renovations on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We can never express how grateful and fortunate we are for our families and the help they have provided for us in getting our endeavour up and on it’s way. The financial assistance has been immeasurable and the help with getting our myriad of projects big and small done has been…..well, let’s just say none [...]
Check it Out
Posted in renovations, tagged B and B, Bed and Breakfast, inns, Library, renovations on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the first real look into the main house, we’re going to start with the library. We call it the library because it has shelves. As well as some books left behind by the previous owners. Books by Danielle Steele and Ayn Rand right next to each other (to be honest, the Coke and Dalmatian rooms [...]
