A Graciously Hosted Smith Mountain Lake Bed & Breakfast
Welcome to the Bedford Landings blog — our little corner of the internet where we share what’s happening on the lake, around Moneta, and inside the inn. You’ll find seasonal fishing reports, local travel guides, inn news, recipe shares, and the kind of insider knowledge that only comes from living and working on Smith Mountain Lake year-round.
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Today, we earned our whetting bush! The timber framers are well in tune with this tradition and were willing to assist as we posted the bush. They congratulated us on the completion of the structural timber portion of the house. The whetting bush tradition represents...
Bedford Landings continues to take shape. It is just as we had depicted in the model that Jack built. See model in foreground. The Blue Ridge TimberWrights crew continues to be a wonderful. Here they are placing the front, and largest, bent. The photo below features...
I know it may just be a Karen moment (only funny to me), but when WSLS Channel 10 did the interview with me on Friday about Bedford Landings, it seemed (to me) much like the interview with the wives in the Apollo 13 movie. Marilyn Lovell told the other wives to just...