A Ranger coming in from the cold...
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:15 am
Hail fellow Rangers!
If you have Facebook, you may have seen what happened to me over the last few months- I've decided on a name for my 'medieval fantasy inn' and debuted a Facebook page for it on Sept. 22 (gee, wonder why that date?) and am about to debut a website.
After much back and forth, including weighing whether or not I wanted to get into a legal fight with Melkor (aka Saul Zaentz' wraith dba Tolkien Enterprises), I went with "Dragons Wood Inn."
https://www.facebook.com/dragonswoodinn ... page_panel
At this point, trying to repost photos that I've put up on FB and then reorganized for the soon-to-debut Inn website is more than I have energy for.
I've actually got the old farmhouse that will become the Dragons Wood Inn in an almost inhabitable condition- the half-missing main room floor has had joists installed and plywood over that (I'm thinking of pulling all the 3" oak flooring and putting in rough 6" boards that I cut from some trees dropped on the property). A 'Craigslist freebie' 55 gallon drum with a pump has been hauled into the bathroom, so the toilet can be flushed (something not completely addressed in Tolkien's writings, but, as my wife put it, a necessity for a majority of female visitors).
The next project: patching the wall and hopefully getting the cooking fire place installed before it gets too cold. I've even bought a case of imported Irish peat for the fire place.
So, at this point, any Ranger who is interested in hanging out and/or giving a hand, the site is inhabitable. I have tentative permission from the Chief Ranger to spend much of the first week of November with my bow and arrows on the land- if anyone is interested in buying an Indiana bow hunting license and joining me- it's 13 acres with a pretty heavy deer population.
If you have Facebook, you may have seen what happened to me over the last few months- I've decided on a name for my 'medieval fantasy inn' and debuted a Facebook page for it on Sept. 22 (gee, wonder why that date?) and am about to debut a website.
After much back and forth, including weighing whether or not I wanted to get into a legal fight with Melkor (aka Saul Zaentz' wraith dba Tolkien Enterprises), I went with "Dragons Wood Inn."
https://www.facebook.com/dragonswoodinn ... page_panel
At this point, trying to repost photos that I've put up on FB and then reorganized for the soon-to-debut Inn website is more than I have energy for.
I've actually got the old farmhouse that will become the Dragons Wood Inn in an almost inhabitable condition- the half-missing main room floor has had joists installed and plywood over that (I'm thinking of pulling all the 3" oak flooring and putting in rough 6" boards that I cut from some trees dropped on the property). A 'Craigslist freebie' 55 gallon drum with a pump has been hauled into the bathroom, so the toilet can be flushed (something not completely addressed in Tolkien's writings, but, as my wife put it, a necessity for a majority of female visitors).
The next project: patching the wall and hopefully getting the cooking fire place installed before it gets too cold. I've even bought a case of imported Irish peat for the fire place.
So, at this point, any Ranger who is interested in hanging out and/or giving a hand, the site is inhabitable. I have tentative permission from the Chief Ranger to spend much of the first week of November with my bow and arrows on the land- if anyone is interested in buying an Indiana bow hunting license and joining me- it's 13 acres with a pretty heavy deer population.