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Spa services at Ohio Bed and Breakfast

Innkeeper — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:17:29 +0000

The lovely reception area at Soothing Touch Massage

As many of our guests have experienced, we offer in-room massage services at The White Oak Inn. These services have been provided by the excellent and professsional ladies from Soothing Touch Massage in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Recently the business was purchased by one of its long-time employees, our very dear friend Kim Dean. Kim has been coming to the inn to provide massages for our guests for a number of years. She has relocated the business to a larger facility to allow more services and additional therapists. All of Kim’s massage therapists are licenced and insured.

Although most of our guests prefer to enjoy a massage in the comfort and privacy of their own room at The White Oak Inn, some of them enjoy it so much they decide to continue enjoying the services of Soothing Touch when they aren’t staying at the inn. Ian and I recently went for a visit to see the new office. Kim and her talented husband Greg have renovated and decorated the Victorian style building to reflect a calm and tranquil atmosphere, and provide comfort and privacy for their clients. Soft music plays in the background. Small water fountains trickle gently. Live plants and flowers abound. An eclectic collection of art graces the walls. It’s soothing, comfortable and relaxing – exactly what the whole massage experience should be.

In addition to standard massage, Soothing Touch will be offering hot stone massages and body wraps. A small gift area sells massage oils, lotions and essential oils. Gift certificates are available.

For those guests who book a massage at the inn, the therapist will arrive shortly before your appointment time and set up her table in your room. She’ll start soft music, perhaps light a scented candle. The tables are heated in the winter time. You will undress to the degree of your own comfort and slide under the sheet on the table. And then the bliss begins….

We love to see the faces of our guests after a session with Kim or one of the other therapists. The best description would be that they ooze into the room. Totally relaxed. All stress gone. Guests who have never experienced a professional massage before will rave about the experience.

I think I’ve just talked myself into booking a massage with Kim right now!

Your table awaits!

New website coming

Innkeeper — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:48:06 +0000

I know I haven’t posted in a while. I feel like I just hibernated for the last couple of months. But don’t worry, I’ve been a busy little bee while I’ve been in hiding. I’ve been experimenting with some new breakfast and dinner recipes. Would it be boasting to say the fresh tomato pie and chocolate raspberry truffle cheesecake are to die for? We’ve also been working on a new updated inn website that we hope to roll out in about 2 months time. We had some great new photographs taken by our friend Ken Love, of Ken Love Photography and got a few nice pictures ourselves after the recent snow storms. Attached is a montage of some of Ken’s pictures taken in and around the inn. Hope you enjoy them.

Pictures around the White Oak Inn

Images from White Oak Inn

Meet Dougal, the Inn’s new mascot

Innkeeper — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:12:39 +0000

The White Oak Inn Mascot

Santa came a little early and delivered a 15 lb. bouncing baby boy to The White Oak Inn.

He’s 12 weeks old. Lab and we-don’t-know-what (and couldn’t care less).

He is going to be a GREAT inn dog. He is the calmest 3-month-old puppy we’ve ever met. He greets people with a wagging tail, doesn’t jump up on them and doesn’t bark at them.

Last night was our staff Christmas party. He had to meet 20 strangers and he took it all in stride. Didn’t get hyper. Sat or laid calmly at someone’s feet all night long. Didn’t mooch food. Opened his gifts carefully and gave thank-you kisses to everyone.

He has been here for less than 48 hours and he already knows his name, has learned to walk on a leash, understands “no” and is close to housebroken.

He has even tried to make friends with the inn cats, although the response was less than warm. Still, we’re sure they’ll come around.

Thank you to the Richland County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center for taking good care of him until he got to his forever home.

Video-taping the inn

Innkeeper — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:42:51 +0000

We decided we needed a video of the inn for our website. The problem with still photographs is that you can only see the room from one angle. But with a video we can give people a sense of what they’d experience standing in the room and looking around. The videographer came today. He started the taping by interviewing us, asking questions about the inn, how we came to be here, what fun things there are for guests to do during their stay. All the basic stuff we’ve answered hundreds of times over the years. But just sitting and blabbing to a camera is really disconcerting. We’re going to come off looking like goofs. And our animals will probably steal the show. Bijoux our orange cat saw us sitting outside on the bench and climbed right up between us. We went to film the sheep and Butterfly ran over and tried to eat the camera. All the kittens came tumbling out of the barn to see what the excitement was about and get in the pictures. They’re all much cuter than we are anyway.

And me, I’m glad it’s over and I can get back in comfortable clothes, and sit here and plan menus for the weekend. Local strawberries are in season so you can bet we’ll have plenty of dishes using those over the next couple of weeks.