The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 6 years to get […]

I just had to do another blog post for today to tell you what a flurry it has been this week.  Last Wednesday, we joined the Smith Mountain Lake Chamber of Commerce.  By Friday, we got a call from WSLS-TV Channel 10 locally.  They wanted to come do a story about the B & B. […]

Here is an update on our progress (written by Jack). In the past two weeks since we closed on the construction loan we have poured the slab for the basement floor. We also trenched the sewer drain from the house to the septic tank and got that all connected and buried. Then we started putting […]

Even Kramer is ready to get busy!  It all happened at once.  We signed the loan and I started back to work with Virginia Tech as an Extension Specialist in Family & Human Development.  Virginia Extension is where I started in my career–so it’s full circle and I am already loving it! I worked hard […]

Today we closed on a commercial construction loan with Hometown Bank.  Since it is a commercial loan, they know we are planning to become a B & B once our home is built.  We were having to keep this part of our plans on the quiet side as we applied for home mortgages.  Thus, we […]