May 13, 2010: The news is still full of the “bad economy”. Let us help you to have a wonderful vacation, enjoying lots of things, while spending little. Gillum House Bed & Breakfast has turn-by-turn routings to many things (can be customized – no longer turn-by-turn but will get you to your particular interests) to [...]
May 8, 2010: Happy Mother’s Day tomorrow to all you Mothers. I had my Mother’s Day early and it was wonderful! Our youngest daughter and her friend came in from Chicago for my daughter’s birthday. She took us to a baseball game – the three of them went to a CUB game and I went [...]
Continue reading about May You Have a Wonderful Mother’s Day
April 29, 2010: I had planned to tell everyone about how awesome the US Air Force Band Concert was at Lincoln High School (there were over 1000 people there!) on April 25 – also our 35th wedding anniversary, but a phone call we received this afternoon changed that. Our oldest grandson is in the Navy. Last [...]
April 24, 2010: We have had a very interesting couple here for 5 nights to celebrate their anniversary. They had read my blog about the ramps ad wanted to try them. So their second breakfast was potatoes and ramps, sour cream scrambled eggs, toast, and venison brats and bacon. They liked them so much they [...]
April 16, 2010: Mother’s Day is coming very soon. Gillum House Bed & Breakfast is just 22 miles from both the Anna Jarvis House and the Mother’s Day Shrine (same distance, slightly different route). In 2009, the West Virginia Association of Museums visited the Anna Jarvis House in Webster and the Mother’s Day Shrine in [...]
April 13, 2010: I have been having a great time baking. A friend asked for a bagel recipe recently – “I have one and I even know where it is!” Wrong! The recipe I could envision was for pretzels. Soft pretzels. Yes, I went through a bagel phase after finding a very easy bagel recipe [...]
Continue reading about Would You Like Some Homemade Pretzels?
April 11, 2010: Mother’s Day is just around the corner! Winter seemed as if it would never end and here we are, Easter has come and gone and Mother’s Day is less than a month away! The Gillum House Bed & Breakast is located just 22 miles from the Anna Jarvis House – Birthplace of [...]
March 16, 2010: The Air Force is coming! The Air Force is coming! We have a special reason for celebrating the fact the United States Air Force Band and the Singing Sergeants are coming to Shinnston on April 25 – it is our 35th wedding anniversary. Emma Patterson, Shinnston’s Office Supervisor has been working on [...]
March 6, 2010: The Shinnston Development Authority supplied the volunteers to be the vendors for Fairmont Federal Credit Union’s presentation of Mad City Money on March 3 at Lincoln High School. We arrived at 7:30 A.M. to set up tables with our “merchandise” and receive our instructions – checks had to be filled out correctly [...]
March 4, 2010: Sorry you missed it! All you X-country skiers missed a great chance to do a wonderful rail-trail. We rarely have enough snow to X-country ski. And this was the year! Almost all gone! Even my sidewalk is almost down to cement again. We are predicted to have temperatures in the 50s this [...]
February 27, 2010: Last night I looked out the kitchen window just before I headed off to bed. I left the kitchen singing – Sleigh bells ring, are you listenin’? In the lane, snow is glistenin’….. It was a most beautiful sight! The snow looked like it had diamonds scattered all over the surface. I [...]
December 22, 2009: We got hit with a lot of snow December 18 & 19, somewhere between 15 and 18 inches, but the streets of Shinnston were clear for traffic Saturday. Public Works started plowing Friday and kept up with the snow all day Saturday. At 11 PM Saturday night they were loading that plowed snow into [...]
December 19, 2009: Cross-country skiing anyone? We are having one of our rare “big” snows! We actually have enough snow on the trail for cross-country skiing! And the span is in, with railings, across the washout. It is supposed to snow into Sunday with snow showers after that! We may have our first White Christmas [...]
October 17, 2009: There is joy in Mudville tonight – otherwise known as the Gillum House. A kind lady in Maryland saw a doll on eBay and in searching for info about the maker found our web site and sent me the link to the item. It is a wood carved doll made by my [...]
October 17, 2009: November is a month that West Virginia honors Veterans. I received the following message from Maxine Weser, Director of the Bice-Ferguson Memorial Museum in Shinnston: On Friday November 6th, we will have a West Virginia Humanities program at 7 pm. The portrayal will be of Col. Ruby Bradley of Spencer, WV…the most decorated [...]