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Autumn Splendor East TN Style (Skip the cellophane, we are celebrating this
September/October with the bottomless cookie jar. Home baked
family recipes, everything from gingersnaps to white
chocolate/peppermint topped sugar
cookies!)
Fall Display at Gracehill Entrance
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Fall has always been my favorite season of the year. Don't get
me wrong. There are few experiences as nice as open windows on
the first day of spring, smelling the new earth and watching
spots of color burst forth weekly. But with fall, it's like
Someone took a paint
brush and with broad strokes covered the whole canvas as far as
the eye can see with brilliant crimsons, oranges, yellows and
golds. Too bad winter follows. I suppose winter just makes fall
a little sad and spring that much nicer. I recently read an article about the free perks of staying at
most bed and breakfasts as opposed to a big city hotel. At Gracehill you aren't paying for parking and you don't need a
valet, you're 50' from the front door. Breakfast is not only
provided, it is not a round piece of hard tack with a hole in the
middle. Wi-Fi is not only free, there is a complimentary
computer for guest use. Snacks are 10' out your bedroom door not
10 flights down in the gift shop open from 8AM to 8PM. Free long
distance phone service, okay not France, but surely you have
friends in the United States... You won't have to wait in line
for the treadmill, my 82 year old mother will happily jump off. We're not located in a questionable area of
town unless you don't like bears. Don't like the pillow? Ask for
a harder or squishier one. Spend the whole weekend walking around
in our robes and set the trend. Need the room
de-feathered or distilled water for your CPAP machine? There is
no charge for the mini bar which is really a maxi bar. Need a
special diet? Let us know ahead of time. Buy a steak and grill
it here. Free satellite, videos and equipment. Need a
concierge 24 hours a day? We can tell you where to go, how to
get there, how long it will take AND the change in elevation
during the trip. Enough! You get the picture. Wherever you
end up this fall, make it a bed and breakfast. Blessings from
mizkathleen@
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Egg Recall Has No Effect on the "Crazy Eyed Girl!"
Americaunas or the "Crazy Eyed Girl!" | 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, for some people, the
answer is harder to discern. It's not only how we present our food, but
increasingly, where we buy it and where they bought it!
As
the world becomes more and more aware of the origins of our food, I'm
happy to say at age 11, Jake Molina, the nephew of my friend and
Gracehill Wizard Extraordinaire, Julie, has started raising
chickens. We are the grateful recipients of the product
thereof! Jake's mom Dawn
says, "I don't know if ours could be called free range chickens because
they are not always free to range. We have lots of coyotes and
neighborhood dogs that want to eat them. They have their big yard to
roam and scratch in, but we only let them range when we are outside.
They definitely could be called cage free though!" Beside the
Americaunas, Jake also has Buff Orpington, Rhode Island Reds, Silver
Laced Wyandottes and Golden Comets. They hope to get some Black
Copper
Marans that are prized by French chefs. Ooh la la! (Americanized
version. My sister the French major says they would say, Oh la la
la!)
When Are Eggs a Work of Art? | Or Just Food, or Just Work? Jake Molina Starting Young... |
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Count Sheep Not Calories w/this Award Winning
Recipe
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Gracehill Bed & Breakfast
1169 Little Round Top Way
Townsend, TN 37882
Kathleen Janke,
Owner-Innkeeper
(865) 448-3070
toll free (866) 448-3070
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