The Patchwork Quilt Country Inn

On August 7th 2009 we will start letting guests bring there friendly pets to the Inn. We will let pets 20 pounds and under stay inside the Inn with the owners and pets over 20 pounds will stay in the kennel that we are going to set up in the bard. Please visit the ( About the Inn) section on the website for policies, cost and restrictions regarding your pets. We will have the policies completed by August 5th 2009. Thanks Ed

Will I am here to give and update on the progress of the new kitten. We took all the baby’s to get check and updated on there shots. Come to find out the little one is 6 weeks old and a male (Which Samantha thought was a female) My daughter nursed him back to health and did a great job. As far as getting along with the out side barn kittens we were way wrong. Ma ma did not want a thing to do with him but we tried as of now he stays in side in our office, way far away from Shimber our German shepherd. He has a blast playing with his new toys. Come to find out don’t walk by him he loves the feet. He plays with anything he can get his little mouth on even pens and paper. But I love it when he purrs he is so soft to cuddle with.  More to come and I will let you know his progress. Tammy

We have just sent out our 2nd newsletter about the Inn and all the changes we have made. We will be calling it The Patchwork Quilt Country Inn buzz-letter. I hope you take the time to read and comment on it. Thanks Ed

Please Click Here To View The Buzz-Letter

I’m not sure if you’ve had a chance to see the garden quilts in the area but if you are in the area this is a must see. Please click on the link for information pertaining to the tour. http://www.amishcountry.org/quiltgardens/ and http://www.amishcountry.org/Quilt-Gardens-Tour-2009

                         My life here at the Patchwork Quilt Country Inn has been the biggest challenge of my life. My Husband and I bought this beautiful Inn in Feb of this year 2009. I will not lie it has been a very busy road to tarvel  for me. How I came to learned about B&B’s was my husband, Ed would take me to a lot of  B&B’s in this country and others and I experienced what a B&B was. I never know that people rented the rooms out and offered a great breakfast. Well a  lot has been done to the Inn since we bought it and it looks so beautiful thank you “sexy”, I love it and so do our friends. How I manage to stay strong and hold it all together, there is this one man who taught me how to work my butt off and walk that extra mile to get were I wanted to go, or who I wanted to become and that special  man of my life that I married 25 years ago next month August 17th 2009. I want to say a special thank you to my husband “Sexy”, I have not told you this enough that I love you so much and thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything, with out you I would be lost. My life here now that Ed is working on otherthings,  has been hard and fun but worth every long day. My daughter Samantha and her girl friend Heather have been a very big help. Becoming a Innkeeper has been a wonderful experience and I love it, I get to meet new people that become new friends that come back to visit us often. At first they are our guest but by the time they leave they are our  friends and that is what I enjoy the most. I was very afraid of trying something new, I have been so used to construction I was sure I would do that for the rest of my life. Being an Innkeeper is a lot to handle to say the very least. I  have to make sure that our breakfast is the best and no one goes away hungry, In deed that’s what I always do. The rooms have to be cleaned to my standers (and if you know me that is very high) and comfortable for when the guests or friends arrive. I will be here blogging so I hope all you Innkeepers and everyone else that blogs come and blog along with us. There is much more to come. Tammy

In this category of the blog site we will be issuing redeemable coupons to be used for your upcoming stays at the Inn. The specials we will be offering will be at random and only can be found on this part of the site. Furthermore we will be Twittering free gift certificates that will be redeemable for a one night stay in one of our beautiful standard rooms which also will be transferable to a person of choice by the winner. The gift certificates will be redeemable on any date excluding blackout dates and subject to availability. To be eligible for the gift certificate you must become a member of the Patchwork Twitter family.  I will be updating this category on how to follow the Inn on Twitter. The coupons will become available as of the July 25th 2009 so keep checking back. I will also be sending them via Twitter as well as the special. The first Twit will be at 11am August 10th 2009 so join and be ready. Thanks Ed & Tammy McKean

A new kitten showed up out of the blue the other day. We found it tucked under the finder of my truck. The kitten seems to be about 4-5 weeks but it is hard to tell due to malnutrition. The kitten seems to be blending in just fine with the other cats at the Inn. I will keep the blog updated with the kittens health.

I am very happy and proud to say after all the hard work Kevin has done ,we have reached the pinnacle of the Internet. As of late last week our website WWW.Patchworkquiltinn.comis on the first page of goggle on nine types of key word and key phrase. If you know anything about getting on page one of goggle you know that this is very hard to do. I want to take time to thank Kevin for all his hard work. Thanks little bro.

It just amazes me on all the different types of birds that life at the Inn. My wife Tammy is very active with them to say the very lest. On an average we go through about 20 pounds of seed a week. That right a week. For the longest time I thought it must be the raccoons or some other animal eating all the seed but to my amaze as I watched the bird more closely it was the birds. From time to time a raccoon will try to get to the feeders but with no luck. As mentioned in the last posting in The life as a Innkeeper I mentioned we painted the exterior wood on the Inn. My wife was very careful to make sure we did not damage the bird nests and we where forced to clean and paint around them. Let me tell you that is a task of it own. The mother and father birds would dive bomb us to protect the chicks. We have had three new animals arrival last week at the Inn a mother cat and two kittens. The mother showed up first to make sure thing where safe and on day two she brought the kittens. Being the animal lovers that we are with in a day Tammy had a cat house and all the little goodies that go with it set up in the barn. Do not get me wrong we needed some hungry cats. Like any farm we have mice and field molds. Since the arrival of the cat they have brought us many gifts (if you know what I mean) to the back door around 8 mice and over a dozen of the field molds. Needless to say they are part of the family now. Other animals that consider the Inn home are two mother raccoons one of the mothers and three cub coons live in the bard while the other mother and one cub lives in a old tree just outside the main door of the dinning room. Must guests enjoy them as well as the cats. This blog category is truly for Tammy and I hope she will start writing in it. She truly is the one that takes care of all the little animals and knows all the different types of birds at the Inn.

It has been far to long from the last posting but as always there seems to be more work to be done in a day then hours given to us. We have just completed putting a new roof on the Lodge and rec room and repaired other areas of the roof on the main Inn and barn. Must of the last 3 weeks where dedicated to exterior items. We painted all the exterior wood and replaced the main exterior columns at the dining entrance. Since we purchased the Inn I have cleaned the gutters and downspouts every month so it did not take me long to figure out I need to install gutter guards so I did that as well.  We then cleaned what we could of the old owners junk from the barn. Just to let you know how much junk there was it took a 40 yard dumpster (no joking) The old owner was a real collector of junk. But we all know the saying one man junk is a other mans treasure I just would have hope he took his treasure with him. Other items worked on where fixing all the drains so the water would drain off the driveway and repairing the concrete stairs to the dining room and the computer room. As always Tammy is working her tail off with the cleaning of the Inn. I swear she must start at one end of the Inn and A week later she right back at the same area doing it all over again. I am not sure what kind of grass we have but it grows like a weed. If rain is even in the forecast it well grow three inches. Until the next posting thanks for reading the blog and take care Ed