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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This week was SUPPOSED to be the week that we start making our house look real by raising the timbers. However, the timbers didn’t come. Blue Ridge TimberWrights discovered some defects in the timbers called “Shakes.” There is a photo here that shows...
We generally awaken between 6:00 and 6:30 but some nights we toss and turn all night with the sound of wind or rain on the hangar tin roof. Relaxing, you say? Not anymore! It means there is a storm, it means a wet subfloor and a wet basement floor! But by morning,...
The past two weeks have been brrrrr cold! Snow, then wind, then rain, then freezing in the basement! We wrapped the completed first floor with plastic. That was like wrestling an octopus in the wind! Despite that, Jack has been working on building steps from the...