Holiday
Greetings from Rock Eddy Bluff Farm in the Ozark hills.
Kathy and Tom and
all the critters wish you a wonderful holiday season. May you
find peace and a sense of renewal to start the new year.
The
hills have put away their greenery for the winter now, and that
comfortable
feeling of solitude is descending into the barren woods and across the brown valley
below. Even the river seems more tranquil. Inside, the wood fire is burning
steadily.
The season is one which lends itself to reflection and casting away accumulated stresses from
the warmer months.. Walks in the woods end with a gentle anticipation of
the warmth indoors and the comfort of a good book. We
invite you to come and share the many joys of winter at Rock Eddy.
We
know our guests won't mind if we share their feelings.
Recent Thanksgiving guests who have returned for many visits
left the following: "We
have danced on the bluff with moss and juniper berries and we have known joy.
/ We have sat together around a fire under a star-embedded sky, and we
have known love. / We have meditated on creation within sunny limestone
caves and we have known peace."
Stuff like that gives us a warm feeling to
begin the holidays. Thanks
J.T. for sharing!
.. quick!
Gifting is easy if you give a certificate
for a getaway at Rock Eddy
Bluff 
Farm.
We'll mail them out post haste.
There are two ways to purchase a gift
certificate: call us at
1-800-335-5921 or order on-line at by clicking
here, on the gift image, or at our website, rockeddy.com.
No
Name Cabin. No, it isn't finished yet. Yes, we are still
taking your name suggestions... remember? Win a stay at the cabin when it is
completed. Just send us an e
mail
to hosts@rockeddy.com and
let your imagination run. We offer two reasons why the work is going slowly:
It is much more work
than we anticipated, and we have been dawdling at
bit. Perhaps laziness overcomes us at the no name cabin. Folks who see it want to be among the first to stay there. The
view of the valley from the porch swing is awesome.
Easy
salmon chowder recipe hits the spot in
winter. It is a yum yum dish and will bring compliments.
And, it's so easy! To
try it yourself Click
Here.
The
old ways are fun....sometimes!
Witness the number of guests that love our 1880's Line Camp Cabin. Here is
a fun website to educate you on some of those old methods. Want to make sauerkraut
this winter? Make soap, butter, cure a ham, build an outhouse? Remembrances
of olden times are included too. It has been said that when a person dies,
a library burns. This site attempts to record many of the old ways and
stories from our now-gone relatives. You'll find the Old Timers Page at http://waltonfeed.com/old/index.html
Memories
of last fall linger into winter as gentle recollections beside the
wood stove. In golden October we took a few days just t
o
ourselves. We stayed in the old cabin to watch the leaves fall, cooked
over an open fire, and took long rides in our horse-drawn spring wagon. It
was rejuvenating. It was our own small vacation without leaving the
place. Here is what we think is a fetching photo of one of our wagon
rides. Click on the photo to enlarge it.
Clear,
cold nights are tops for star gazing. Here in the country,
observing the multitude of stars and constellations is easier because of the
reduced light pollution from towns. But on good, clear nights you should see
landmarks in the heavens from almost anywhere. This handy website allows you
to enter your location plus the date and time, then shows you what you can find above you. http://www.heavens-above.com
Have fun!
Happy Holidays from the Ozark hills,
Tom & Kathy Corey
1-800-335-5921 
It
is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others. -John Andrew Holmes
"If
you live to be a hundred, I want
to live to be a hundred minus
one day, so I never have to
live without you." -Winnie the Pooh
