1847 Blake House Inn B & B

Gearing Up for Fall

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

As October approaches, I’m already pulling out the Fall decorations and will slowly start to decorate around the Inn. My goal is to get one box/bin done per day. At that rate, it should take me about a week to decorate everything.

With all the rain we have gotten in the past week, it looks like the trees may stay green a little longer.  However, when I’ve been able to run outside, I have seen just a few trees that have changed color early.  Also, my two gigantic Sycamore trees are starting to drop dead leaves all over the parking lot.  My lawncare guys were here on Friday and blew all the leaves into a long pile that they will bag the next time they are here. By Sunday, the parking lot is already filling up again.

Typical peak leaf season is between the 2nd and 4th weeks of October and we look to be on-target for that this year.  I don’t think we’ll see a whole lot of color until the end of the second week, or early into the third week.  But temperatures are dropping into the 40’s at night this week so I could be proven wrong. This week, I’ve been pulling out the down comforters and adding those to the guestbeds.

The middle of October is mostly booked, but we do have some rooms available so take a look at our Availability Chart if you’re looking to come to the area. It is up-to-date.

Downed Tree

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

This morning, I was awakened by the doorbell ringing and at first, thought it was my son’s friend picking him up early for school. But my son was in the bathroom so I ran downstairs to the door to see a fireman standing there. Uh oh!

The only time the fire department is here is when the fire alarm is going off in the Inn so my heart started to beat fast, thinking there was a problem in the Inn.  Fortunately that was not the case.

A Bradford Pear tree in my yard, located just behind the Inn’s sign had broken off and fallen over, taking a power line with it and landing halfway in the street.

The two good things about this downed tree are that 1) the power line it took out only goes to the street light at the end of my driveway and not the power to the house and 2) the City cleaned up and hauled away half of the tree; the half in the street.  So I only need to have the other half removed, which should cost me a lot less.

What I learned from this is that these types of trees are known to do this type of thing. They get top-heavy and topple over for no apparent reason.  This happened at night so nobody was around to be injured.

Fun stuff!