Yes, we even have a store.

July 19, 2011

  With the tourist season in full swing, we have again stocked the shelves of the oak Hoosier with treasures. Our guests like taking a “bit” of Nebraska back home with them. We have our Indian beadwork, chokecherry products, embroidered dish towels, felted trail totes, knit scarves, mittens, and note cards by Russ Finch. We [...]

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From sea to source – a journey up the Sacramento River

April 7, 2011

It was no April Fool’s joke when we were on our jet ski at Lake Minatare.  The air temperature was 53 degrees and the water temperature was 44 degrees, but we didn’t have a choice.  Our mission was to clock 10 hours on the brand new jet ski in order to get its preliminary check [...]

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An Unexpected Twist on an Old Favorite. . .

March 28, 2011

Sometimes it is not always the best thing to try to get all of the baking done for your guests at day break.  Especially when you start the morning off a little groggy, so that your stout black coffee can’t bring you out of the fog.  But as the saying goes “ Sometimes good things [...]

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Cold outside; Warm inside

February 20, 2011

Brrr…17 degrees outside and it is 3 in the afternoon. I guess that is close to the high for the day. Just yesterday it was warm and sunny. That is February weather in Nebraska. Yesterday we had a Barnful of guests, when a local PEO chapter held their monthly meeting and a brunch here. Egg [...]

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Rolling banks of fog…

February 1, 2011

Rolling banks of fog fell across the bluffs this morning, but now the sun is shining across a white landscape. Can’t work outside in January and February, so we have been busy inside. For a long time, we have felt that the Pony Express Room was incomplete without a pair of chaps. Well, we now [...]

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Chasing Away the Winter Blues

January 18, 2011

Christmas and the holidays have slipped away, and what is left is the quiet, cold days of January. Holiday decoratrion are packed away, and things seem a little plain. But what a wonderful time to make new plans for the new year, and reminise about the past. Also a great time, because there does seem [...]

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January 12, 2011

This renovated 100 year old barn is just minutes from Scottsbluff and Gering.

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