Annville Inn's Piano Tuner Extraordinare

The piano in our music room gets tuned several times a year by an expert piano tuner who comes here from Philadelphia. Meet Bob Haymes, piano tuner for famous performers! Bob, who is a tuning technician for Jacobs Music, the Stineway dealer in Philadelphia, has tuned concert grand pianos for many orchestras and performers. Bob has tuned pianos for Aretha Franklin, BB King, The Four Tops, Roy Clark, Dave Brubeck, Wenton Marsalis, and The Philadelphia Orchestra to name just a few of the well-known artists who trust their performances to Bob's perfectly trained ear. Bob and his beautiful wife Grace are also frequent guests of the Inn. This weekend they were here celebrating Grace's birthday!

We have been burning our wood stove in the conservatory practically non stop! Guests are enjoying the outdoor hot tub (at 105 degrees) in the midst of snow and ice! Others are snuggled up in our theatre room enjoying a movie on a cold winter's night. Four of our guest rooms have fire places--perfect for a romantic evening. This is the place to be! Don't forget that every February, we are drenched in chocolate...we bring out our chocolate fountain and all kinds of goodies to drench in rich chocolate all month long!

Late Arrival (smile)

Here you see some late arrivals at Annville Inn. The larger bulbs are hyacinths, flowers that shoot up early in the spring following the crocus. Hyacinths (hyacinthus orientalis) are extremely sweet smelling. Normally, Craig plants these in early fall, October to November. These, however, were late arrivals, going to bed in late December. They will still come up. The photo of the smaller bulbs is of two varieties of tulips that went to bed at the usual time in November.

These bulbs are only a few of the over 3,000 spring bulbs planted in our three acres of gardens! Need a get-away, a respite before spring hits? Then call the Inn and book a cozy room to snuggle in during these cold days of winter. Today, we have guests curled up in the theatre watching old movies and other guests enjoying the heavy snow that is coming down--they are in the conservatory, surrounded on three sides by glass, sitting in rocker chairs in front of a roaring wood burning fire.

One couple is putting together a jig saw puzzle at the conservatory's puzzle table, located only inches from the winter storm, but they are warm and snuggly inside, and sipping hot cocoa...just as I am while I write this. Winter is fun at Annville Inn!