25th
April
2008
Tea parties at Gilded Pine Meadows B&B are always an adventure for us. We spend about 2 hours setting up the room and setting the tables. I spend 4 or more hours prepping and cooking.
We hold about a dozen or so a year. As per request we’ve had birthday parties, employee parties and lady’s clubs. This however was the first time we accommodated a Grey hound…
BUS! The view from the front porch
The view outside our parlor window.
The parties last 2 or 3 hours.
Eric with ladies. The ladies invited Maggie in at end of party.
Ladies, scones, tea and…bus! Farewell tea ladies!
This party was for 21 ladies which is our max. After the party it takes us two or more hours to clean and reorganize the home. We first sit, eat scones and clotted cream, and guzzle iced water.
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21st
April
2008
I love this store. All my lace comes from here. I also buy tiny, silver tea-spoons from this store. Please know we do not sell advertisement on this blog. Granny Gingham’s is on Elkhorn Ave. down town Estes Park. I hope you get a chance to stop in and see Joyce the owner.
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19th
April
2008
We started the morning off at the gym. I fast-walked 20 minutes on the tread machine while Eric did a full work out with weights and other apparatuses of torture. The afternoon was spent cleaning the yard, washing windows and, an occasional Maggie distraction.
Royal Crown Cola
With temperatures in the mid 70s spraying Maggie was a pleasure.
Click for window washing solution
I raked pine needles and Maggie opportunity watched. We’ll add a canopy to this rustic gazebo mid-May, once the snowy weather is behind us. I’ll hang baskets of herbs around gazebo the first of June.
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18th
April
2008
We have been line-drying our clothes for over 20 years. So, when we opened the B&B, drying our guest’s sheets on the line was a no brain-er. Who would of thought our guests would notice and comment on the fresh scent of their sheets.
Not to sound like a sound bite–The clean/dry and naturally ionized air gives the sheets a fresh scent–a testament as to why people came to Estes in the late 1800’s to cure themselves of consumption (tuberculosis). Click for more info on the health benefits of ionized air.
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8th
April
2008
It’s beautiful this morning! Great way for our guests to remember Estes Park. They found a new home and are closing on the sale of old home in Long Island, New York over the next month.
I’m going now to cook up a Mexican breakfast of black beans, queso fresca with scrambled eggs, skillet potatoes cooked with scallions and tomato. I’ll put avocado on the side with sour cream. Yummy.
I started the beans at 5:30 this morning, and baked homemade gluten-free bread last night.
We always ask our guest for their diet preference.
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