Category Archives: Bed Breakfast Virginia
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Just ignore the blood, sweat and tear stains…
Posted on January 24, 2011 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, Blue Ridge Parkway, Claiborne House bed and breakfastJanuary = Renos at The Inn SO MUCH FOR OUR WINTER SLUMBER! “A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.” Grover Cleveland As you may or may not be aware owning an inn requires tons of maintenance and that is just the day-to-day stuff, never [...]
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Lovers of Life!
Posted on December 16, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, espn smith mountain lake, roanoke hotel, southern livingWe recently were privileged to have special guests, friends who we haven’t seen for years stop in for a visit here at The Claiborne House! Our Special Guests Innjoying Breakfast at The Claiborne House Art was the first person we met when we moved to Port Orchard Washington from Australia in 1994, learning that he and [...]
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I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts!
Posted on October 30, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, Claiborne House Bed Breakfast, Franklin County, Ghosts and more, high street cemetery, smith mountain lake va is for loversTelling ghost stories around a campfire is so much fun and of course who can forget the s’mores. Your innkeeper decided to address the issue of ghosts at The Claiborne House Bed and Breakfast in this blog, as I have never done so before, I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts! (“Good Even-ning!” Entry to [...]
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Remarkable Trees of Virginia – Book Review
Posted on August 25, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Bed breakfast blue ridge, Bed Breakfast Virginia, Blue Ridge Parkway, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, remarkable trees of virginia, Virginia is for loversRemarkable Trees of Virginia In a new book, author and lecturer Nancy Ross Hugo, Virginia Tech Department of Forestry extension specialist and professor Jeff Kirwan and photographer Robert Llewellyn beautifully document the oldest, tallest, most historic and best-loved trees in the Commonwealth. From the Introduction Trees aren’t the only things that sometimes get bigger than [...]
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Sweet Cherries – Pick ‘em May 26th at Levering Orchard!
Posted on May 25, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, Blue Ridge Parkway, Claiborne House Bed Breakfast, Levering orchard, Mabry Mill, pick cherries va, Virginia is for loversEXTRA EXTRA! CHERRY PICKIN’ JUST ANNOUNCED – MAY 26th! and…Cherry Orchard Theatre at Levering Orchard near Fancy Gap There is a very special place as you head down the Blue Ridge Parkway toward the NC line from The Claiborne House Bed and Breakfast – called Levering Orchard. Your innkeeper is in no way saying this is [...]
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Now is the time – to Do Nothing, All Nothing, All the Time
Posted on March 12, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, do nothing, Motorcycle blue ridge mountains va, Virginia is for loversIF you’re wearing a cast right now, this advice comes too late, but file it away for next winter: There’s nothing wrong with doing nothing. In fact, I think this could be a whole new travel sector. ‘Do-nothing vacations’. No cell phones, internet, business meetings, and no historical buildings, no tourist attractions, no surfing or skiing [...]
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. . . somewhere else!
Posted on March 9, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Roanoke VA, Smith Mountain Lake, snow blue ridge mountains, Virginia is for loversA local photographer (Teresa Bernard at Studio Belle Visage) http://www.photosbyteresa.com/ happened down our street on Tuesday and took this photo as we received 4 inches of the white stuff. It all had melted by noon the next morning. (Click image for larger view) “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. . . somewhere else!” is [...]
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Color has taken possession of me
Posted on March 5, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, fall virginia, Virginia is for lovers“Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever… Color and I are one. I am a painter.” Tony (aka the outside innkeeper and maintenance-man extraordinaire when he is not working I.T. at his other job) is in right now [...]
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Virginia is for B&B Lovers
Posted on February 27, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, Blue Ridge Parkway, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Motorcycle blue ridge mountains va, Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia is for loversClaiborne House Bed and Breakfast in Blue Ridge Country VA – Meet Virginia she’ll take your breath away! Book your room today – see our website for special rates and packages: http://www.claibornehouse.net/VIRGINIA IS FOR B and B LOVERSLife is too short for bad coffee…Your innkeeper Shellie at The Claiborne House Bed and Breakfast
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Lose the Phone, Sit Awhile
Posted on February 20, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, front porch tales, philip gulley, Virginia is for loversLose the Phone, Sit Awhile By STEPHEN MILLER Porch Talk By Philip Gulley Harper One, 170 pages, $15.95 Philip Gulley is a Quaker pastor from Indiana with a charming sense of small-town life — and a shrewd sense of life in general. “Porch Talk” is a collection of short personal essays ranging across various topics, from [...]
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