Valentine’s Day, President’s Day weekend in the valley
Posted by Admiral Peary House in Local Events & Attractions on February 8, 2010
You’d have to be living in a dark hole somewhere not to know that it’s Valentine’s weekend this weekend. But it’s also President’s Day on Monday which means a 3-day weekend for lots of us and an opportunity to get away. We still have rooms available for one or two nights this weekend if you’d like to share some special time with your mate at our cozy Bed and Breakfast, but you can tailor the romance to include as much or as little as you’d like. If you’re not so interested in one of our great value Valentine’s Escape packages, here are some alternative things to keep you going in North Conway and Fryeburg this weekend.
- Arts In Motion will present Almost, Maine at the Leaura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center right here in Fryeburg, Feb 12 & 13 at 7:30pm and a matinee performance Feb 14 at 1:00pm. This wonderful tale centers around the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine, where on a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost. The NY Times calls it “…a whimsical approach to the joys and perils of romance. Magical happenings bloom beneath the snowdrifts”; Broadway.com, “Utterly endearing…It’s hard not to warm up to ALMOST, MAINE. A crowd-pleaser.” and the NY Sun, “A snowy charmer…These nine tales of love in the time of frostbite have a winning glow that proves surprisingly contagious.” Tickets available either online at the Arts in Motion website, or at the door – $12
- Come on up and spend a wonderful evening with guitar great Sonny Landreth, performing at the Stone Mountain Arts Center Feb 12th. Eric Clapton says, “he is probably the most underestimated musician on the planet and also probably one of the most advanced.” SMAC tickets online here. Don’t forget to ask us for our 10% SMAC discount when you book your room!
- Also at SMAC on Valentine’s Day is the ever popular, Stone Mountain LIVE, featuring special guests Susan Werner and Harry Manx together with Carol Noonan and the Stone Mountain Boys, fronted by guitarists Duke Levine and Kevin Barry.
- Ski Sunday afternoon for just $25! Sleep in a little, enjoy a delicious breakfast, maybe do a little shopping, then head up to Wildcat Mountain and enjoy an afternoon of fun.
- Take a sleigh ride. Head on over into the foothills of Maine for a magical sleigh ride over snow-covered fields. Enjoy the ride by itself or go for the Bonfire package which includes a stop in the woods to build a fire, roast marshmallows on sticks made from the surrounding forest and some hot chocolate. Valentine’s Day is pretty much booked up but other times are still available.
Great skating nearby…. about 400 acres worth of ice rink!
Posted by Admiral Peary House in Local Events & Attractions on January 29, 2010
The waters are receding and river road is open. My fears of the pavement being washed away were not realized. Although the road may not be as smooth as it was last summer. The Weston and Sherman farms have the largest sheets of smooth ice I’ve ever seen, I know the local kids that play hockey are already out playing. Here are 2 pictures of the Weston bridge pylon and the ice dam. The camera didn’t really show the height of the ice, behind the bridge pylon, very well. It looks like it is about 15 feet high and according to Maine department of transportation is about 1/2 mile long.
In other news, I’m going to tap a new keg of beer tonight. This is the recipe that I’m working on for the Boston Brewing Company contest, Longshot. We’ll see how the new beer tastes and if it follows the beer guidelines for an English ESB. Keep an eye out for brew class dates. Brewing is fun and really satisfying. I’m amazed each time I taste a home brew beer at the quality. I know that sounds silly, but the way the wort changes through fermentation into beer still fools my taste buds. I can look at a food recipe and pretty much figure out the taste of the final dish just from looking at the prep. Fermentation however does some really different things and so far it’s still like opening a Christmas present, always a fun surprise.
Flooding on the Saco
Posted by Admiral Peary House in Local Events & Attractions on January 27, 2010
This has been an interesting winter thus far. Not that much snow, bizarre temperature fluctuations and recently a bunch of rain. We ended last week with negative temps, -8F on Sat and 2F on Sun. Then up to 50F on mon with rain. This caused the Saco ice dam to shift the river a bit and flood the road between Weston’s farm and Sherman’s farm. On my way to work I thought I should test drive the new camera and see what the river was up to, much to my surprise it was up… a lot! I sent these pictures to the local NBC station and they showed them on the noon broadcast. Then Hilary trumped me and was interviewed (the link is on our facebook page) by channel 13. It looks like the road may be closed for the next week or so, therefore if you’re coming to visit, go via 302 not the East Conway road. Anyway, take a look and see what a raging Saco looks like.
Pardon our Dust …!
Posted by Admiral Peary House in Miscellaneous, bed and breakfast on January 25, 2010
So we’ve moved. Welcome to our Blog’s new home, right here on the Admiral Peary House bed and breakfast website! And as with all moves there’s still some settling in to be done. We’ve unpacked all the necessary stuff – the posts, comments, photos etc., but we still have some tweaking to do to the look and feel. And as there’s a website update somewhere in our future soon (I’m getting itchy fingers but it has to wait until after tax time!) we’ll probably wait till we know what the site looks like before altering the blog. The good news is that we’re finally home and even better, hooked up with all the other social sites that the marketing experts tell us we need to be. At least I think we are …..
So let's try this again
Posted by Admiral Peary House in Miscellaneous on January 13, 2010
Well folks, our poor blog that we started almost as soon as we moved into the inn, nearly 7 years ago, had been so neglected in favor of Facebook over the last 6 months, that I took it offline. Bad thing to do apparently, as our organic position on Google shows (can you say dropped like a stone?) So now we’re back and anxious to keep it up this time. Best of all, rumour has it that we can link our wordpress account to Facebook, thereby only having to post once! True? Don’t know, but this post will be the test.
