Welcome friends - past, present and future! It has been a long and interesting journey from simple beginnings in 2006 opening with 3 rooms, a simple website, home-made brochures by “yours truly”, and a single home phone number - to a new Logo branding, call-forwarding to my business cell phone (I have entered into the modern world now), opening a 4th guest room, the Garden Gate Tearoom addition in 2008, a retail component this summer and now our new interactive website with a blog!

The tea venture has been a good decision for us and it has proven to be a real joy sharing the decadence and graces of “Afternoon Tea” with local residents and tourists young and old alike. It has allowed local day guests to be able to share in the same peaceful, home-away-from-home ambiance that our more long-distance overnight guests are privy to (and be just as well-fed too!) The Garden gate Tearoom has its own blog separate from this one and all things “tea” will be posted there.

Have fun checking out this new website of ours. We think our website designer is terrific and has done a great job of capturing the same “Haven” essence of the old site with the much better administrative functionality of this new one. Don’t forget to turn the music back on for those who liked it. I am aware that in the past it was very annoying for the musical background to keep starting over every time you went to a new page so we fixed that for you.

We REALLY want to hear your comments on what you think of our new site, especially if you have been used to seeing our old one. I look forward to reading your thoughts, ideas, comments, etc. I will fill you in on neat little tidbits, local happenings and stories whenever they come my way, so let us know if you want to be on our automatic email list when there is a new post. We’ll get you on board.