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Ready, Set, June
June is bustin’ out all over! It’s been one string of blooms to another, wisteria to rhododendron, phlox to peonies to clematis. Here in the Poconos of Northeastern Pennsylvania the weather has taken its good old time to warm up and brighten up with sunshine. That...
Got a Good Book?
When you travel to a Bed & Breakfast you most likely remember to pack a book, after all you are headed out for a relaxing vacation, right? If the B&B you are headed for is the James Manning House you are certainly going to find plenty of reading material in...
Inside Info?
The neighbor says to me, “I like your boat”. “Thank you”, I return. Her reply, “Do you know something that I don’t?” And we both laughed, anything to break up that dreariness on a rainy, cold and dismal day changing the usual commentary to the weather. It’s so nice...
Green is Good
Spring has sprung, the grass is green, and so the flowers are now seen. Just a little humor for the bright and peppy way the season makes one feel. So far spring around the inn has been a sea of bright yellow forsythia blooming and assorted varieties of daffodils and...
Imagine Spring
Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye Now, this Second Day of February, Two Thousand and Seventeen, the One Hundred and Thirty First Annual Trek of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club.... Punxsutawney Phil, the Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of All Prognosticators, was awakened...
Mad for March
What does the month of March signal in your mind? Is it wind, the advent of spring, muddy paw prints, the sun glaringly showing the streaks in the windows, or daylight savings? Do you think of Julius Caesar, the Ides of March and his feeling of Doom? How about some...
New Gallery in Town
Small towns could stagnate. However, we feel lucky to live in a small town that continues to change and grow and promote the arts. Last year a wonderful addition brightened our town: The Great Wall of Honesdale. A very large blank wall was covered with art...
We’re “Happie”
Happy New Year! Well, I suppose you think I need to move on with things, that New Year's was a few weeks past. Instead I’m choosing to be positive, each day is a new day, put them all together and it’s a new year! That’s how it goes in a “Happie” place. That’s...
Anticipation and Preparation Usher in December
December finds the inn to be bustling with holiday preparations. Cookies have been baking and the decorating almost finished in anticipation for our annual Open House. This year we will be once again hosting the local high school Chamber Choir to sing Christmas...
Priveledge
Election Day 2016! Finally, coming to an end of this crazy year of campaign. I'm very glad we live in a country where we have a choice. I am not interested in how you vote or how you voted. The important concept is that you have a right to learn the values, ideas...