Category Archives: Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia
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Granny is cookin’ up a storm!
Posted on December 22, 2012 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Claiborne House Bed BreakfastAnother odd blog article from your innkeeper at The Claiborne House Bed and Breakfast. Why? Why not. I was at the grocery store with the mobs of people, many clustering around. “Take them grandkids and git out of my hair for a spell!” I could almost hear Granny saying, and sending them off to the [...]
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Tony the Taste-Tester and the Blueberry Angel
Posted on July 12, 2012 by Shellie Leete in bed and breakfasts virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Claiborne House bed and breakfastThe Resident Taste-Tester When you own a bed and breakfast, like The Claiborne House, you are always trying new recipes. Sometimes the guests innjoy being the guinea pigs in my experiments, other times I use our Innkeeping family here. They don’t seem to mind! I will only allow this one ingredient to be shown for this top secret [...]
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Continental is not spoken here!
Posted on March 14, 2012 by Shellie Leete in bed and breakfast, Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, British Airways, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, homecooking, romantic getaway virginiaI was conversing with Mom and we were reminiscing about a trip we took to the UK. I am not casting stones on hotels there, as I know a few hoteliers who provide wonderful service and meals, but just wanted to share a story or two with you. We booked a British Airways flight and [...]
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Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail
Posted on October 15, 2011 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, birding trails, Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Claiborne House Bed Breakfast, wildlife virginiaDISCOVER OUR WILD SIDE! The Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail is a driving trail with loops off the main trail, linking some of Virginia’s best wildlife-watching areas with walking and biking trails. The trail is the first statewide program of its kind in the United States. It’s divided into three areas: Coastal, Mountain and Piedmont. I have outlined the [...]
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Most romantic husband? Valentine’s Weekend Ideas
Posted on January 31, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Bed Breakfast Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, kirk avenue, most romantic couple, Valentines virginia, Virginia is for lovers, white cedar innAfter this we played scrabble Britain’s most romantic husband? An 87-year-old North Wales man has put a fresh rose at his wife’s bedside every single day of the 60 years they have been married. Tom Shovelton also kisses his 83-year-old wife Joan and first thing every morning and before they go to sleep each [...]
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The Redcoats are coming…down the Crooked Road
Posted on October 6, 2009 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Blue Ridge Parkway, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Floyd Country Store, The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music TrailBritish journalist Paul Harris and the 1963 Buick (Photo courtesy of London Daily Mail) Only a Brit with a sense of wunderlust would rent a crapped-out 1963 Buick convertible to cruise down the Blue Ridge Parkway to begin a tour of Virginia’s Crooked Road. But that’s what Paul Harris, a writer for London’s Daily Mail, [...]
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From the Land Down Unda
Posted on September 27, 2009 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Colin Hay, Kirk Avenue Music Hall, Men at Work, Roanoke Music, vegemiteWho can it be now? Why it’s Colin Hay formerly of Men at Work! Played last night in downtown Roanoke at the Kirk Avenue Music Hall. Kirk Avenue is a fantastic small setting – you feel like you are sitting in the artists living room as they play just for you! http://www.kirkavenuemusic.com/ Your innkeepers Tony [...]
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The Lovell Sisters @ Kirk Avenue Music Hall Oct 1st in Roanoke!
Posted on September 27, 2009 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Kirk Avenue Music Hall, Lovell Sisters, Roanoke MusicThe Lovell Sisters perform at at Kirk Avenue Music Hall in Roanoke Oct 1st http://lovellsistersband.com/music Kirk Avenue Music Hall 10/1/2009 7:30 PM at THE LOVELL SISTERS22 Kirk Avenue SW, Roanoke, Virginia 24011 Cost: $10 Complete line up of artists at Kirk Avenue here. http://www.kirkavenuemusic.com/ Listen online to The Lovell Sisters here. BIO There is a [...]
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Mannheim Steamroller in Roanoke Nov 23, 2009
Posted on September 23, 2009 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Blue Ridge Parkway, Claiborne House Bed Breakfast, Downtown Roanoke VA, Mannheim SteamrollerA FAMILY TRADITION CONTINUES! CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER November 23rd at the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre! Silver is the color of MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER’S world as their 25th Anniversary tour begins. Grammy Award® winner and best-selling author, Chip Davis, the creator of Mannheim Steamroller will direct and co-produce both the East Coast and [...]
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Gas Price Map – Enter our zip code 24151
Posted on September 20, 2009 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Franklin County Virginia, gas price mapVirginia Gas Prices provided by GasBuddy.com Click here to add this map to your website. Please note that Franklin County is one of the few in the state of Virginia with the lowest gas prices. So fill up here in Rocky Mount – Kroger Gas or Sheetz is just 1 mile from The Claiborne House [...]
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