23 December 08

I never liked the marshmellos so much in mine, perhaps because of the sugary overload achieved with the cinnamon toast side course to hot chocolate that was part of the Irving ritual as I recall it. A satisfying slathering of the confectionary ingredient of course required a solid build-up of the butter layer, sufficiently applied to develop the desired final slurry effect.

Wonder what kinds of reverie Kino will take from his first westernized encounter of this holiday season. The stage couldn’t be set in much grander form at the inn where we’ve initiated a decking-the-halls protocol that seems in keeping with the stature of the property as the community’s premier heritage home. (That element of marketing spin is carry-over from our recently developed promotional brochures.) The decorating activity was prompted particularly by the hosting role we played to the historical society’s seasonal home tour. Many other efforts accompanied this ramp-up to the event including the completion of the downstairs bathroom, the repair of a fireplace and loading up of a good supply of firewood to stoke our primary heat source, the design and printing of brochures and business cards, the production of a Glenacres Inn line of picture stationery, and some major cleaning. Thank goodness for the resources and continuing support of all you Neills in advancing the cause in all this! Thank you also mother nature for providing the dramatic winter setting to embellish the decorative affects that contributed to big success of this latest hosting event. We are revved by it in entertaining prospects for the new year.

In this push to bring the blog better up to date Les and I will try to piece together a bit of a chronology of activity through picture posts. Doing this is of course challenged—enlivened!—by the ever-present squirm of 3 year old energy in the midst