We stopped in for lunch at the Yardley Inn of the Friday before Easter. If you get there after 2:30 you are limited to their bar menu. We got there just in time for lunch. We got a great seat with a view of the river.
Our waitress was one of the best we ever had in terms of service and overall cheerfulness. They bring out a pretty good assortment of bread and miniature corn muffins that were especially tasty. Our son ordered a shrimp cocktail which was 5 Jumbo sized shrimp for $13. He also ordered a dish of pasta for $8. My wife and I both had the Crab meat with potatoes and Ratatouille with a caper sauce. ($15 each) That was excellent. For desert I had an Oreo chocolate pie as did our son.
The total tab came to about $86. It was definitely worth it. We also found that they have a couple of rooms for parties. One of them will host about 30 people and has a view of the river.It’s definitely one of those places where we want to go back to soon.
For more information, see the Yardley Inn site at http://www.yardleyinn.com/
Langhorne Borough is having a 5k run/ wk walk to benefit the memory of Clayton Thomas on Saturday, April 19th 2008, Rain or shine.Location; Maple and Bellevue AvenuesTime: Reg 7-8 am, walk 8 am, run 8:30 am
Registrations are available at the Langhorne Coffee House. You can also contact the Langhorne Borough Business association at http://www.lbba.info/
NOTE – if anyone from the run wants to post additional contact info here, please feel free to do so.
“On Monday, the hotel was sold to the highest bidder, Doylestown car dealer Jack Thompson, who laid down $830,000 for the building and all its contents, including the liquor license and an array of antique furnishings.“We want to refurbish it and bring it up to standards,” said Thompson. “It’s beautiful; it just needs to be taken care of.”Thompson said he’s not concerned about the unpredictable river swallowing up the hotel again. The foundation is very stable, he said, and has survived both time and water.
The new owner intends to begin the renovation project later this spring, once he settles on the property.”
We are fighting a losing battle with those nasty little brown stinkbugs. Apparently they came over from Asia and are in the area to stay. During the winter months, they tend to find their way into houses and live in the walls. If there are any cracks or openings they then find their way into the house.
These things are ANNOYING. The sit on a wall or other surface and just sit there. Once in a while they will buzz around the room, crash into a wall and fall to the floor.
The really bad thing about them is that they are odiferous, an offense to the olfactory senses. In other words, they stink.
Battling these things is a pain. To deal with the immediate infestation you need to trap then one by one. However, if you aren’t careful they will raise a stink.
Sucking them into the vacuum doesn’t work very well. The vacuum will stink. You don’t want to crush them and throw them in the trash because the trash, and possibly your hands, will stink.
We’ve found a couple of things that work. (1) Catch them with a bit of saran wrap or the equivalent. Roll that up into a tight ball. The Saran Wrap is pretty good at locking the scent in. (2) Get a decent wad ot toilet paper and catch them without crushing them. Ball it up and flush them down in the sewer with the rest of the stink.
For the longer term I’m going around the house checking for cracks at the baseboard, windows, light switches and any other area they can get in. By sealing that up, you will reduce the infestation inside the house. Once the summer comes and they have left the walls, it’s time for Mister Caulk Gun and a lot of caulk. That will help keep them out for next year.
I have read that you don’t want to use insecticides. Supposedly you will then have carpet beetles that will eat the dead bugs and then your woolen clothes. There are some traps that are supposed to work.
I went outside just after noon this afternoon. You could smell a strong smell of skunk. I looked over at our fenceline and the perpetrator was on the other side, about 15 yards from me (Waaaay too close for comfort). I watched him for a little bit with binoculars from the other side of my truck windows. He ambled along the fence for about 10 yards, then sat down. After a couple of minutes, he went another 10 yards and then stopped. He walked back along the fence and over to a burrow about 10 yards into the neighbor’s property.The main problem is that (1) it was walking and acting erratically and (2) it was out during the middle of the day. Both of these are possible signs of a rabid animal.I called both our township and Bucks County Health and Human Services. Neither could offer any real help other than to hire a professional exterminator. I was a bit surprised and disappointed considering the seriousness of rabies. I believe only one person has ever survived exposure to rabies without having received the vaccination or shots.
The gentleman at the County was helpful otherwise. He mentioned that the main carriers were skunks, racoons, bats, foxes and feral cats. I was aware of the first three but wasn’t aware of the latter two. We do have a fox that comes through occasionally but it seems to be pretty healthy. Oh well, just one more thing to be aware of.
This summer Bucks County will have four hazardous waste drop off dates for residents. While this program is nice, I really wish it was just a little easier to dispose properly of hazardous waste.I believe you are limited as to how many computers you can drop off. There are two things you should keep in mind when dropping computers and monitors off
- Keep a record of the serial number and the fact that you dropped it off at a properly designated drop off point. If the machine should ever turn up in an illicit landfill, you will have proof that you acted properly if the EPA should prosecute you (that has happened in the past with some waste disposal companies)
- The hard drives should be physically removed or destroyed. Simply erasing or formatting them does not adequately remove sensitive information.
The dates and locations are
- Lower Makefield Corporate Center: May 3rd
- Upper Bucks County Area Vocational Technical School: June 21st
- Middle Bucks Institute of Technology: July 19th
- Bucks County Technical High School: August 16th
- Quakertown Community Pool: September 27th
Resources
Water will be released from Lake Nockamixon into Tohickon Creek on March 15 and 16. This should provide some class 3 and 4 rapids. So, get your surfboard… ooops, wrong blog.. Get you whitewater craft, safety gear and get ready for some funMore Info:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/pa-dcnr-plans-whitewater-release-bucks-countys-tohickon-creek_492817_1.html
Bucksview Blog – Bucks County Pa: March 2008
We stopped in for lunch at the Yardley Inn of the Friday before Easter. If you get there after 2:30 you are limited to their bar menu. We got there just in time for lunch. We got a great seat with a view of the river.
Our waitress was one of the best we ever had in terms of service and overall cheerfulness. They bring out a pretty good assortment of bread and miniature corn muffins that were especially tasty. Our son ordered a shrimp cocktail which was 5 Jumbo sized shrimp for $13. He also ordered a dish of pasta for $8. My wife and I both had the Crab meat with potatoes and Ratatouille with a caper sauce. ($15 each) That was excellent. For desert I had an Oreo chocolate pie as did our son.
The total tab came to about $86. It was definitely worth it. We also found that they have a couple of rooms for parties. One of them will host about 30 people and has a view of the river.It’s definitely one of those places where we want to go back to soon.
For more information, see the Yardley Inn site at http://www.yardleyinn.com/
Langhorne Borough is having a 5k run/ wk walk to benefit the memory of Clayton Thomas on Saturday, April 19th 2008, Rain or shine.Location; Maple and Bellevue AvenuesTime: Reg 7-8 am, walk 8 am, run 8:30 am
Registrations are available at the Langhorne Coffee House. You can also contact the Langhorne Borough Business association at http://www.lbba.info/
NOTE – if anyone from the run wants to post additional contact info here, please feel free to do so.
“On Monday, the hotel was sold to the highest bidder, Doylestown car dealer Jack Thompson, who laid down $830,000 for the building and all its contents, including the liquor license and an array of antique furnishings.“We want to refurbish it and bring it up to standards,” said Thompson. “It’s beautiful; it just needs to be taken care of.”Thompson said he’s not concerned about the unpredictable river swallowing up the hotel again. The foundation is very stable, he said, and has survived both time and water.
The new owner intends to begin the renovation project later this spring, once he settles on the property.”
We are fighting a losing battle with those nasty little brown stinkbugs. Apparently they came over from Asia and are in the area to stay. During the winter months, they tend to find their way into houses and live in the walls. If there are any cracks or openings they then find their way into the house.
These things are ANNOYING. The sit on a wall or other surface and just sit there. Once in a while they will buzz around the room, crash into a wall and fall to the floor.
The really bad thing about them is that they are odiferous, an offense to the olfactory senses. In other words, they stink.
Battling these things is a pain. To deal with the immediate infestation you need to trap then one by one. However, if you aren’t careful they will raise a stink.
Sucking them into the vacuum doesn’t work very well. The vacuum will stink. You don’t want to crush them and throw them in the trash because the trash, and possibly your hands, will stink.
We’ve found a couple of things that work. (1) Catch them with a bit of saran wrap or the equivalent. Roll that up into a tight ball. The Saran Wrap is pretty good at locking the scent in. (2) Get a decent wad ot toilet paper and catch them without crushing them. Ball it up and flush them down in the sewer with the rest of the stink.
For the longer term I’m going around the house checking for cracks at the baseboard, windows, light switches and any other area they can get in. By sealing that up, you will reduce the infestation inside the house. Once the summer comes and they have left the walls, it’s time for Mister Caulk Gun and a lot of caulk. That will help keep them out for next year.
I have read that you don’t want to use insecticides. Supposedly you will then have carpet beetles that will eat the dead bugs and then your woolen clothes. There are some traps that are supposed to work.
I went outside just after noon this afternoon. You could smell a strong smell of skunk. I looked over at our fenceline and the perpetrator was on the other side, about 15 yards from me (Waaaay too close for comfort). I watched him for a little bit with binoculars from the other side of my truck windows. He ambled along the fence for about 10 yards, then sat down. After a couple of minutes, he went another 10 yards and then stopped. He walked back along the fence and over to a burrow about 10 yards into the neighbor’s property.The main problem is that (1) it was walking and acting erratically and (2) it was out during the middle of the day. Both of these are possible signs of a rabid animal.I called both our township and Bucks County Health and Human Services. Neither could offer any real help other than to hire a professional exterminator. I was a bit surprised and disappointed considering the seriousness of rabies. I believe only one person has ever survived exposure to rabies without having received the vaccination or shots.
The gentleman at the County was helpful otherwise. He mentioned that the main carriers were skunks, racoons, bats, foxes and feral cats. I was aware of the first three but wasn’t aware of the latter two. We do have a fox that comes through occasionally but it seems to be pretty healthy. Oh well, just one more thing to be aware of.
This summer Bucks County will have four hazardous waste drop off dates for residents. While this program is nice, I really wish it was just a little easier to dispose properly of hazardous waste.I believe you are limited as to how many computers you can drop off. There are two things you should keep in mind when dropping computers and monitors off
The dates and locations are
Resources
Water will be released from Lake Nockamixon into Tohickon Creek on March 15 and 16. This should provide some class 3 and 4 rapids. So, get your surfboard… ooops, wrong blog.. Get you whitewater craft, safety gear and get ready for some funMore Info:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/pa-dcnr-plans-whitewater-release-bucks-countys-tohickon-creek_492817_1.html