Hudson Valley Wedding Season

As May 1st approaches so does the wedding season in the beautiful Hudson valley. 2010 is a popular year filled with great potential. At the Bykenhulle House we have been working hard to plant, mow, paint, dust and simply be ready for a great season. If your wedding is approaching with in the next two months now is a great time to get your marriage license, go over your day of schedule and menus, plan your ceremony program, and remember have fun (bridal showers, baccalaureate party etc.).

Summers Dwindling

So as the Dutchess County Fair has approached I am realizing that summer is coming to an end yet again.It feels as though it barely begun with all of the bad weather in June and we were busy with events in July and now we are here, the end of August. The bed and breakfast is doing great and I can wait to get in to the fall season. Fall around here is great with the air cooling off, the bright vibrant colors of the trees starting to emerge and the bustle of tourist and friends always around. I hope to be serving many great apple, peach and pumpkin dishes, with warm oatmeal and spice spiked foods including apple cider.

The Blinking Clock...

If any one is interested in becoming an innkeeper or if you wonder why things in a b&b aren't always perfect this entry will hopefully shed some light of understanding for you. I read a review of a neighboring inn on trip advisor and found that one of the comments involved the guest making a remark about many things unkempt but that the clock was not set. Now at first I felt bed because there stay was generally bad but then I started to think about the blinking alarm clock and the attention to detail that it shows. So, as I was in my guest rooms later, I realized that after the power had gone out( a few days prior) that my clocks which were plugged into the wall and that they were blinking. As I re-set them in all five rooms I realized what a pet-peeve this was turning into. Now this again seems trivial but any one who has been in the north east this past June knows that we have had more rain than ever causing more power outages than normal. Do you know what its like to have to sit there and re-set five clocks every other day. At first its not so bad but then if you hit the hour button one to many times and you've re-set the alarm clock three times because you are tired from all of the baking, laundry, bed making, itinerary planning etc. So, as not to bore you with the blinking clock, I just wanted to share what I found comical as I went about my day. It reminds me of skit that Steve martin wrote involving the man who was sentenced to purgatory to pull Cotton out of the aspirin bottle, frustrating and futile but necessary.