Home Brewed Dreams

If you are at all interested in the art of home-brewing I highly recommend that you check out my sister's incredible blog about making beer.  I can't believe the intricate knowledge she's had to gain to proceed on this journey, which seems to be her destiny!

Which is why someday we want to renovate an old barn:
and turn it into a family-run rustic old roadhouse/vegetarian restaurant and brewery!

fix up the old barroom:

We'll have a fireplace, rosy lighting and antique fringed lamps, handmade wooden barstools and booths, nooks and crannies, candles, vintage beer mugs, a dusty old stage with velvet curtains for musical acts and vaudeville and talent shows...

Darin wants to run a cozy pickining area with campground/cabins for people to spend the night so they don't have to drive intoxicated.


and beautiful country walking paths everywhere:
It will be a completely extraordinary experience to visit our Roadhouse, which I kind of want to call the Mermaid Tavern after John Keats' poem:

Souls of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?

How fun would that business be to run!?

Here is the first tasting of Addie's yummy home brew back at Christmastime:
Can't wait to see how this new batch of brew turns out!
Let's hope we're on the way to our dreams coming true...

barn image found here
old bar interior image found here
barroom crowd photo found here
cozy campground photo found here


Comments

Kaylie said…
I love daydreaming about renovating old buildings! Everytime I see an abandoned building with peeling paint, I half-wish it will remain abandoned until I am older and have the money to take it in to turn into a crowded craft shop full of ribbon and vintage buttons! I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed Taking Woodstock and Whip it. You should definately check out Demetri's stand up. He is very quirky and entertaining to watch.

Also, your last few posts have been full of such fun! Thanks for sharing your adventures!
February 5, 2010 at 4:01 PM
Andrea said…
oh I would totally be at that roadhouse, you got me at walking trails! all the best things rolled into one :)
February 8, 2010 at 8:05 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

pretty baby

Image
have you all seen the 1978 movie Pretty Baby?  addie has been telling me about it for years and finally darin and i watched it. i directly fell in love with the lush new orleans ambience, and you all know i fancy old brothels . the hats, slips, corsets, bloomers, petticoats, stockings, eyelet lace and cleavage...i was dying. the subject matter is somewhat difficult. brooke shields plays 12-year-old Violet, growing up in the brothel with her mother's (a glorious Susan Sarandon) nonchalant guidance.  saucy young Violet is over sexualized and objectified, and the film doesn't seem overly concerned about that fact. i kind of appreciated that indifference, as if glimpsing some other world with a completely different set of values, without judgment. however the scenes are shown with such grace and beauty that you get the feeling the director Louis Malle was somehow getting off on the whole thing. i guess that's what i found a tad disturbing. if
Read more

"I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin..."

Image
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belong to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. It struck me, when I read Song of Myself several years ago, that thirty-seven years old , that magical Whitmanesque age, was still in the future for me. How exciting that felt! To know that this wonderful age that was such a pure and boisterous beginning for the bard, was something I could look forward to. To know that I could set forth on new adventures, and sing the praises of the earth, and be wild and merry and voluptuous and bold. Now and forever. and especially at 37. And so suddenly I am here! That lu
Read more

handmade homes take to the open road

Image
i want this to be us so bad...rollin away in a fairytale bus made of wood and wheels, porch and books. this is from another book in the series of rad 70s handmade house books that i've written about before and missa wrote about here  ( raddest houseboats ever, ever, ever ) this one is all about handmade hippie houses on the road. we have it at the bookery in the locked case; it's a collectible and thus way out of my price range. but i still get to look at its gloriousness. these photos of the pages look much better than mine, found in this wonderful little delight here , check these caravans out: standing in the mist with its little terra cotta pots and windowpanes, killing this fairytale heart a mine. i can picture joey and emily in this one, our neighbors. and this one can house addie and art, and we'll drive cross the prairies together. this covered-wagon one seems the most fun of all. roll back the canvas and sleep
Read more