If you are a gardener like me, you are eagerly awaiting spring and the time when you ready your beds for planting a few new plants and enjoying all the existing plants throughout the seasons. Watching the birds that reside here on the property has given me hope that spring will arrive in it's normal fashion with the birth of many baby chicks.
We've been here for 10 years now and there are many plantings to enjoy, especially roses. Last year I planted 4 new roses and they are the old fashioned ones that look English plus the beautiful Peace roses. I prefer the David Austin roses when I can get them. My gardening style is formal with topiary to anchor or evergreens with a mix of herbs and perennials. Altogether I have 12 roses now and look forward to seeing how they fared the terrible ice storm.
I have also planted many trees, all of them evergreens except for the flowering crab apple. All of them are miniature trees, and do not get over 20 feet tall. We made the decision not to plant any towering trees on the property since, the first year we were here, we had to take out an old Mulberry tree that was splitting down the middle and threatening both buildings. When you have many electrical lines around, it is too hard to plant the towering trees and see them so harshly pruned by the various utility companies.
The weather is harsh here with cold winters and HOT summers. I have had a time with the evergreens and may go back to planting native trees only to ensure their survival. But in the meantime, I watch the Robins scurrying about the business of birds living in the inner city.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Valentine's Week at the Bed and Breakfast
Hello,
What a wonderful week we have had at the inn despite the high winds! Every year the Farm Machinery Show is held during this time and we have the same folks come from Arthur, IA and stay all week with us. Then on the weekends we have the folks looking for the Valentine's specials and getaways.
Everyone has had a great time, including myself, because it is so much fun to meet folks and learn about them. Bed and Breakfast people are basically people people who enjoy meeting others at the breakfast table and enjoy the ambiance of an old house, it's decor, and the good breakfasts!
We are very fortunate here to get a lot of folks who have never stayed at a bed and breakfast before and we are so honored that they have chosen us to test the waters. This property lends itself very well to hosting guests as it has very thick walls for privacy and enough room for us to be separate from the guests. We also run this like a hotel but with an extra heaping of southern hospitality!
Have you tried a bed and breakfast and did you like it or not?
What a wonderful week we have had at the inn despite the high winds! Every year the Farm Machinery Show is held during this time and we have the same folks come from Arthur, IA and stay all week with us. Then on the weekends we have the folks looking for the Valentine's specials and getaways.
Everyone has had a great time, including myself, because it is so much fun to meet folks and learn about them. Bed and Breakfast people are basically people people who enjoy meeting others at the breakfast table and enjoy the ambiance of an old house, it's decor, and the good breakfasts!
We are very fortunate here to get a lot of folks who have never stayed at a bed and breakfast before and we are so honored that they have chosen us to test the waters. This property lends itself very well to hosting guests as it has very thick walls for privacy and enough room for us to be separate from the guests. We also run this like a hotel but with an extra heaping of southern hospitality!
Have you tried a bed and breakfast and did you like it or not?
Thursday, February 12, 2009
We are danged again
Well we had wind gusts up to 75 mile per hour yesterday and once again many folks in the surrounding and the Louisville Metro area are without power. I am very fortunate not to have lost power at anytime during the past year. But I certainly feel for those who have lost power, it is a terrible thing not to be able to wash yourself, your clothes or have fresh food in the fridge. My heart goes out to all of them, and to businesses who lose income during times like this.
I personally feel folks should rally behind Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson who has asked LG&E to figure out a way to bury the lines. If power outages become a way of life for this area, something must be done and generators are #2 on the list.
As an innkeeper, power is a must for us and we would be devasted without it. What about you? What do you think and feel?
I personally feel folks should rally behind Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson who has asked LG&E to figure out a way to bury the lines. If power outages become a way of life for this area, something must be done and generators are #2 on the list.
As an innkeeper, power is a must for us and we would be devasted without it. What about you? What do you think and feel?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Another Power Outage?
Everyone here is holding their breath because we could have more downed power lines due to heavy wind gusts and strong thunderstorms which have been predicted for our area. This is the result of recent warm air (60 and 70 degree) which melted the ice left by the ice storm of late January. Danged if you do, danged if you don't sort of sernerio.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Wintertime and the living ain't easy but still great
Hello,
Well us folks here in the Metro Louisville area and Southern Indiana have mostly survived winter so far, including the great ice storm of 2009. Many were without power for over a week, and there are still just a few who are still without power, but the temperatures are at least bearable at 60 degrees.
Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson has asked the Louisville Gas and Electric Company to devise ways to bury the Louisville lines, after Louisville was without power during the great ice storm of 2009 and also on September 14, 2008 when Hurricane Ike hit the Midwest.
In the shadow of 2 recent power outages four months apart, many innkeepers are considering installing generators to their already expensive to operate homes/businesses so that they do not lose business during high demand times. When Ike hit here it was the PGA's Ryder Cup.
I would be interested in hearing from others on Mayor Abramson's ideas on burying the lines and the seemingly greater need to own generators.
Well us folks here in the Metro Louisville area and Southern Indiana have mostly survived winter so far, including the great ice storm of 2009. Many were without power for over a week, and there are still just a few who are still without power, but the temperatures are at least bearable at 60 degrees.
Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson has asked the Louisville Gas and Electric Company to devise ways to bury the Louisville lines, after Louisville was without power during the great ice storm of 2009 and also on September 14, 2008 when Hurricane Ike hit the Midwest.
In the shadow of 2 recent power outages four months apart, many innkeepers are considering installing generators to their already expensive to operate homes/businesses so that they do not lose business during high demand times. When Ike hit here it was the PGA's Ryder Cup.
I would be interested in hearing from others on Mayor Abramson's ideas on burying the lines and the seemingly greater need to own generators.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Life in today's world
Hello,
Life today is certainly a challenge from just staying warm to keeping up with the latest forums in technology on the internet. I live in Jeffersonville, Indiana, right across the Ohio River from Louisville, KY, where I grew up. I have lived on this side of the River since 1985. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever conjure up visions of life today on the super highway.
I moved to this old house in 1999,with my husband, in order to fulfill the dream of owning my own bed and breakfast and to help the struggling downtown merchants. The journey has been awesome with all the wonderful people I have met that have come to stay at the Old Bridge Inn. I was becoming lost in the world, losing faith in my fellow man, thinking that perhaps God had forsaken us all, that evil would take over the world. But upon opening the doors to the Bed and Breakfst, I discovered that there were still, indeed, good people upon the earth and they are the ones who go to bed and breakfast!
After getting the inn open, I immediately bought a computer, learned it as I went along and joined some of the online directories so folks could find us. Then through a good friend and fellow innkeeper who helped me build a website, I learned how to build websites and maintain them.
This winter has certainly been a trying one for folks in this area with the loss of power during some of the coldest tempertures in this decade, but this is a great community and we always prevail. Our home did not lose power and we are very grateful because little did we know that during the slowest time of year we would fill our rooms with good folks needing to stay warm.
Now, today, I am for the first time blogging! I would just like to say to everyone out there who is afraid of computers, email, blogging, etc. Don't be afraid. Come on in, the water is fine!
Life today is certainly a challenge from just staying warm to keeping up with the latest forums in technology on the internet. I live in Jeffersonville, Indiana, right across the Ohio River from Louisville, KY, where I grew up. I have lived on this side of the River since 1985. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever conjure up visions of life today on the super highway.
I moved to this old house in 1999,with my husband, in order to fulfill the dream of owning my own bed and breakfast and to help the struggling downtown merchants. The journey has been awesome with all the wonderful people I have met that have come to stay at the Old Bridge Inn. I was becoming lost in the world, losing faith in my fellow man, thinking that perhaps God had forsaken us all, that evil would take over the world. But upon opening the doors to the Bed and Breakfst, I discovered that there were still, indeed, good people upon the earth and they are the ones who go to bed and breakfast!
After getting the inn open, I immediately bought a computer, learned it as I went along and joined some of the online directories so folks could find us. Then through a good friend and fellow innkeeper who helped me build a website, I learned how to build websites and maintain them.
This winter has certainly been a trying one for folks in this area with the loss of power during some of the coldest tempertures in this decade, but this is a great community and we always prevail. Our home did not lose power and we are very grateful because little did we know that during the slowest time of year we would fill our rooms with good folks needing to stay warm.
Now, today, I am for the first time blogging! I would just like to say to everyone out there who is afraid of computers, email, blogging, etc. Don't be afraid. Come on in, the water is fine!
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