Since we are now harvesting plenty of cherry tomatoes, I’m on the lookout for ways to use them and this recipe for Marinated Tomatoes from the Two Peas And Their Pod blog seemed to fit the bill perfectly. Since Cindy just got home from her knee replacement surgery, I thought I would treat her to salmon as she is a fish lover and I served the marinated tomatoes as bruschetta.
On Thursday, my back was hurting me bad (from the bed I think) so I skipped breakfast, the croquet game, and exterior history tour done by the others. Here are some pics from Bev and Steve.
We began the next day with breakfast in the Greenbrier's very elegant main dining room which had a buffet.
Since my buddy Dave has announced that he is giving up most of his blogging, it got me to thinking about mine. I believe my blog is as they were meant to be - my journal - where I can go back and find recipes, pics, our travels and so on, thus I have no intention of quitting right now or I would miss all of that documentation, plus it gives me something to do. I have recently been posting every three days but I don’t have many folks stopping by to read quite a few of them and so I had an epiphany. I can keep writing up my blogs to get the documentation I need but I don’t have to publish all of them but rather just the ones that I think you will find interesting and hopefully about more than just food.
Greenbrier Hotel pic from the web.
It’s been seven years since we visited my hometown of Fairmont, WV so we used the 80th Birthday Party of my cousin’s wife (Ruth) as a good reason to go. It’s a 450 mile and 7½ hour (plus stops) trip on interstate (I-40, I-81, I-77, I-79) and divided highway (US-19) for the entire trip so pretty easy driving. This is our trip plan:
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2025 WV Trip |
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day |
Leave |
Arrive |
Lodging |
Activities |
Food |
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1 |
Greenback, TN |
Morgantown, WV |
Hotel Morgan |
Drive to WV |
Colasessano's |
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2 |
Morgantown, WV |
Fairmont, WV |
Hotel Morgan |
Ruth BD party |
Bourbon Prime-breakfast |
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3 |
Morgantown, WV |
Fairmont, WV |
Hotel Morgan |
Tour WVU, visit Dick & Ruth |
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4 |
Morgantown, WV |
Fairmont, WV |
Hotel Morgan |
Tour Fairmont, Dick & Ruth |
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5 |
Morgantown, WV |
White Sulfur Springs, WV |
Greenbrier Resort |
Drive to Greenbrier |
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6 |
White Sulfur Springs, WV |
Greenbrier Resort |
Bunker tour |
Sam Sneads |
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7 |
White Sulfur Springs, WV |
Greenbrier Resort |
Croquet, Lewisburg shopping |
The Forum |
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8 |
White Sulfur Springs, WV |
Greenback, TN |
Drive home |