Author: Nathan Allan

  • How an outdoor enthusiast could spend the day in Olympia

    There are so many natural wonders to see in our area that it can be quite overwhelming! Depending on what passes you already have, and your time restraints, we have some suggestions for you. Potential Day Trips Nisqually Wildlife Refuge, just a short ten minute drive north of the Inn, is a spectacular and diverse…

  • Baked Oatmeal

    Baked Oatmeal

    We don’t make this recipe often, truth be told, because Nathan doesn’t like oatmeal and has a hard time serving it.  It is always well received by guests, and on more than one occasion by self-proclaimed “oatmeal snobs” to be the best they have ever had.  Baking it in the oven gives the flavors a…

  • The Inn is almost painted!

    The Inn is almost painted!

    It may have taken most of the summer to do, but the old part of the Inn is almost painted! It took a lift, from Sunbelt Rentals, frugally rented on a Friday and returned by 9am on the Monday, to get the tower and “street facing” side painted over a very long weekend. Originally when…