Americaunas or the Crazy Eyed Girl!
When Are Eggs a Work of Art?
Or Just Food, or Just Work? Jake Molina starting young…
When is food less about what we put in our mouths and more about a work of art? In a third world country there is no doubt about the answer, but here in the States, [...]
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Egg Recall Doesn’t Affect the Crazy Eyed Girl or Gracehill B&B!
Long Snowy Winter, Long Hot Summer, and Lightning Strikes Again
Rear Patio Gracehill Bed and Breakfast
It’s been a heck of a year; the worst winter we have experienced since building Gracehill and the hottest, driest summer on record since… who knows, it keeps going further back with each week that passes. Our elevation gives us a little relief with temps 5 to 10 degrees cooler [...]
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park Road Closures & Piecing the Puzzle
Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail in early spring
Pieces of the Puzzle
New Years Day 2010. Looking far too cheery for the morning after! Allen, Jodi, Ashley, and Craig
While the Cades Cove loop road or Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail are big draws for our guests at this East Tennessee Bed and Breakfast, the Great Smoky Mountain [...]
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WBIR TV, Knoxville, TN, NBC affiliate contest nets Gracehill top honors!
A Winter’s Snow at Gracehill
Local Channel 10 WBIR TV held a contest to determine the top five bed and breakfasts in East Tennessee. Any one logging onto WBIR’s website could cast a vote for the several days the contest ran. By Friday at noon, Gracehill B&B was at the top of the list with four [...]
Knoxville, TN artist-muralist, Lisa Haggerty Palmer brings vision to Townsend’s Gracehill Bed and Breakfast
Gracehill Bed and Breakfast Living Room
Gracehill Bed and Breakfast Hallway and Snack Bar Area
October 2009 brought Gracehill B&B its busiest month since opening at Thanksgiving in 2000. As the pace eased in November and December, while most folks got ready for the holidays, I decided to jump in with both feet and do two projects [...]
To Read or not to Read, Fried or Scrambled, Seasons in the Great Smoky Mountains
Scott and Jessica
This must be Gracehill’s favorite rock, see the blog of July 8th, and, one of my favorite photos of the season, took it in August. My office overlooks the back patio area and waterfall. Every once in a while, I glance outside and see either guests or wildlife. Suppose the wildlife would consider [...]
Fireworks and F-16′s, Toads and Frogs, Sunset and Me
The Frog Hunt
Fourth of July Week was our time for the Air Force, past and present. We had one couple here for five days, a third grade teacher, Lois, and her husband John who is a dentist and retired Air Force. They spent their days running the roads, seeing all they could, got in a [...]
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Bears in Cades Cove, Bat Houses, and Claiming my blog on Technorati
Weekdays in June have been surprisingly busy with guests while weekends relatively slow, which is a little odd. Have had a few drop-in one-nighters, but most of the reservations have been three to five-nighers. Almost all of our guests these last 16 days have been hikers, rather than the shop until you drop variety! Cades [...]
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Critters Enjoy Garden as Much as Our Guests
Brandy and the Gracehill Rose Garden
Have been busy these last ten days doing catch up on lots of small jobs, mostly in the office, but outside also. On Thursday Brandy, Hans, and I got in 3.5 hours each, outside, before the heavens opened back up with one heck of a storm. For as small as [...]
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Arrington’s Inn Traveler Magazine
This article was linked to our Gracehill website for awhile and I decided to repost it in a blog format. There were eight photos that appeared in the original format, seven of which are already on our website so we are leaving them off the blog. Since this article was written, Gracehill won the award for a third [...]
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Updated Website Goes Live, Innkeeper goes to bed!
Have been working almost two months on a redesign of my website www.GracehillBandB.com with Beka from Etherion, Inc. We decided to put it in Word Press to facilitate blogging. We went live today. Now starts the process of working out all the kinks. It will be a joy when it is over. Next project??? either [...]
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Gardening Overload?
Newly planted marigolds at the base of the sign at the bottom of the driveway
I will get off the gardening bend of my blogs soon; about the time I have to start pulling weeds, and spraying for black spot and powdery mildew. But, in the mean time, the gardens look wonderful. We planted the [...]
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Flowering Dogwood, Coffee Mugs and the Retirement Home
Flowering Dogwood, (Cornus florida)
In between the rains the weather has been glorious. Native dogwood blooming all up and down the road. This photo was taken about 100′ from the front entrance. Guest’s over the weekend, Kevin and Elizabeth, stretched the smile on my face. We were talking about a few of the things I carry [...]
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Flowering Thyme in our Herb Garden
Flowering Thyme in the herb garden
I was picking some fresh herbs this morning to include in one of the B&B breakfast dishes and couldn’t help snapping a shot of the thyme in bloom next to the backyard pond. Mom is itching to get the annual herbs in the ground, basil, etc., but I think we [...]
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Crested Dwarf Iris
Crested Dward Iris, (Iris cristata and Iris verna)
The approach to the bed and breakfast starts a mile down at Highway 321, change in elevation a 1000ft. The first 4/10th of a mile is “subdivision” road. The last 6/10ths of a mile is a private drive. I have planted a lot on the right and left the [...]
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Townsend Business Association
Bird's Foot Violet, (Viola pedata)
Ran a few errands today, and on the way back to Gracehill I noticed the banks along our driveway are covered with blooming Bird’s Foot Violets (Viola pedata). We hosted the Townsend Business Association meeting this evening at the B&B and had a number of business owners from town who had not been [...]
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Three Sleeping Deer
Three White Tailed Deer Just Waking Up
Wow, about 6:45 this morning, as I rolled up the window treatments overlooking the side yard, I saw three blobs on the ground. Took me a minute to realize the blobs were three sleeping deer. I have seen deer out there before, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a deer [...]
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What made it, what didn’t
Candytuff and Phlox
It’s been a week since our April 6 snow and freezing temps at Gracehill. The wisteria and redbud tree lost their blooms. What a shame, it’s what I see from my office window. The candy tuff and phlox made it, as you can see by the picture I took today. After Inn guests [...]
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A lovely Easter
Kane, innkeeper trainee, and the Key Lime Cheesecake he decorated for Easter!
Easter was lovely! Mom and I went to Easter Vigil Mass Saturday evening. I had four out-of-town friends arrive that evening to stay at the B&B from Illinois and Indiana. For brunch on Sunday, we had mini sticky buns, fresh pineapple and our award winning Lemon Goat Cheese Blueberry [...]
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A day with Kane, what a hoot!
My nephew Kane and my mom, Marilyn
I had guests checking out today, Good Friday, and none checking in till Monday which is a little unusual. My six-year-old nephew Kane was out of school, so my sister-in-law dropped him off for the day. He was just in time to collect guest keys and swipe a credit card through the [...]
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Snow in the Mountains
Bit of the white stuff on Gracehill's top veranda
Our elevation at Gracehill is 2500 feet, the highest house in the county. The ten Aprils I have had the privilege of living here we have had snow almost every time. It usually falls slowly and melts quickly, but you can’t count on it so we watch the [...]
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