The Best Winter Antique Show Ever!

It's coming up this weekend - the Best Winter Antique Show Ever! Well, that's my opinion, anyway. As antique shows go, this one's possibly the most amazing antiques show of the year, and it happens in Winter, not Spring, Summer or Fall.

The 42nd Annual Guilford Antiques Show, benifiting the Hyland House Museum, is this weekend, February 26th and 27th, 2011, at the Elizabeth Adams School, 233 Church St (Rte 77 - Exit 58 off of I-95), Guilford CT.

The show features upward of 50 dealers and objects from the 18th to the early 20th centuries: furniture, American folk art, paintings, oriental carpets, estate jewelry, pottery, early iron, garden furnishings and more ... collectibles for every wish list.

Pictures are worth a thousand words - For a taste of what temptations you might find take a look at photos from past shows.

Come to the Shoreline this weekend, take in this Antiques Show and browse to your heart's content. Bring your wagon or SUV and take home things you just can't live without. Hours are 10am-5pm on Saturday, February 26th and 11am-4pm on Sunday, February 27th. Free parking on site, and a cafe to boot!

Admission is $8 per person - We have a few discount coupons here for our overnight guests, and you may also print a discount coupon from the web site.

Dinners at the Farm - 2011

Dining doesn't get any fresher than this! The Dinners at the Farm, New England farm dinner benefit series, have announced the farms and dates for their 2011 season, and we have already begun receiving reservations here at the Tidewater Inn for overnight accommodations.

Barberry Hill Farm in Madison CT is your destination for dinners on July 7, 8, 9 and 10 and again on July 14, 15, 16 and 17. White Gate Farm in East Lyme CT is the place to be for dinners on August 11, 12,13 and 14 and again on August 18, 19 and 20 (21st is already sold out!).

For details, menus, tickets, and more follow the links, above, to their website home and details pages. "Dinners at the Farm" is a summertime experience unique to the CT shoreline area and an activity you won't want to miss.

Celebrate Cherished Relationships

Valentine's Day - a time to Celebrate our most Cherished Relationships.
I love the new Hallmark Valentine's Day commercial on TV this year: "Valentine's Day is not a day to say 'I Love You.' It's a day to say 'I Love Us.' To celebrate the One we have become." Wow! Now that's an enlightening thought, and I applaud whoever came up with it.
Yes, I believe it's true. It is all about the "Us" in our relationships, the oneness. So, this Valentine's Day, and always, celebrate all your most cherished relationships. If you're without a spouse or boyfriend/girlfriend right now, you still have other, and perhaps even deeper, relationships to celebrate ... dear friends, parents, children, brothers and sisters, and more.

Someone needs to write a song about this, don't you think? ...

To one and all of you who are in my life, I celebrate Our relationships. I Love Us!