Oh! How I miss the KITCHEN

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⏳  Dining at the Kitchen

 THE KITCHEN

AT THE DOVEGATE INN
518.695.6095

www.kitchenattheinn.com

KITCHEN at the Dovegate Inn is a restaurant offering great food at a great price.  Serving a wide range of friendly priced lunches and dinners, we strive to become a favorite.  We offer wine and beer, fresh and seasonal food and homemade desserts.  We can accommodate your private parties.

The Dining Rooms

  And after dinner, if you do not fall victim to the tempting desserts at the KITCHEN, There is the:

Ice Cream Man At 417 Rt. 29, Greenwich, NY 12834 - just next door to the Washington County Fairgrounds, and only 20 minutes east of famous Saratoga Springs, New York! 

A POEM

Oh, how I do miss the Kitchen
the people, the feelings,the food
Oh, boy, I do miss the Kitchen
There ain't nothing like it, O'Dude

Winter's cold has not slaked my hunger,
and my thirst, it hasn't been quenched
Only din-din at the kitchen will do it
so let's hurry so we can get to it

Oh, how I do miss the Kitchen
the people, the feelings,the food
Oh, boy, I do miss the Kitchen
There ain't nothing like it, O'Dude

It feels so good when we get there
walking in and saying, 'Hey, how you doing?"
and getting broad smiles and big cheers
' Course I'd be happier with a cold glass of beer

Oh, how I do miss the Kitchen
the people, the feelings,the food
Oh, boy, I do miss the Kitchen
There ain't nothing like it, O'Dude

Now my favorite meal at the Kitchen

consists of Chicken, veggies, and taters

and a cold wet Sprite to wash it all down

Then a long walk to the center of town
 

Now, I don't need to miss the Kitchen

I am only three minutes away

No, I don't need to miss the Kitchen

I can get take out day after day!!

First Trip UpNorth

Odyssey to the Sacred Basin 

{Sorry, no ffotos}

         Saturday, April 7, 2018, we left Newburgh and traveled North along the Oldie NYS Thruway, arriving promptly at the Holiday Inn exactly two hours later. We did not leave the hotel the rest of the day. We had room service deliver dinner.
       Next morning, we room-serviced breakfast, did our toilet, and went out to greet the day. The highlights, which were few in number, consisted of visiting with Phil and Judy, and stopping by the Kitchen where we did not eat. We again took our evening meal in our room at the hotel.
       Monday, we packed up and made the Hajji-reversal back to N'burgh

Beauty and the Beasts

DaDoctorSaratogaScyterSteamPunker is Schuy High

The lookout

Looking out for the lookout

THE KITCHEN logo

Bena after her bath

That's me!

My ancestor is foreground left

BW art work

DaDoctorSaratogaScyterSteampunker

New programmed video

Ben and Bena In First Snow in Black and White

Out and about in Winter's first almost, white-out storm [called a "bomb cyclone"].

Get the ball! Get the ball! Ben and Bena play fetch in the very frigid air surrounding 32 Balmville Road.

..............and so GOD created the DOG

Scyter and Cookie may they be happy with Ben and Bena

More winter B&W

Ming, The Merciless confronts Bobby Big Skull

Ben adding to the pile

with Bena watching

Black and White Reigns Supreme

Some Historical Meanderings

Lady of the Lake

     The “Lady of the Lake” is a mystery that has haunted Lake Placid for generations. Mabel Smith Douglass, a talented and accomplished professional (she was the first dean of the New Jersey College for Women at Rutgers, now Douglass College), spent her summers in the Adirondacks with her family at their Camp Onondaga property. Late one September day in 1933, before closing up the camp and heading back to New Jersey, Mabel went out onto the lake and never returned. Her disappearance remained an upsetting mystery to her family for nearly 30 years until, late one September day in 1963, Mabel was found.

     Her body, almost perfectly preserved by the very cold water of Lake Placid, was found by two divers near Pulpit Rock on a shelf 105 feet below the surface. She was found with one end of a rope tied around her neck and, on the other end, an anchor.

     The “official” ruling of her death by the coroner was that of an accident, but we now know that there is much more to the story. In one year’s time, her husband died, her son committed suicide, and she fell upon professional problems. Due to this swell of unfortunate circumstances, Mrs. Douglass had a nervous breakdown and was admitted to a mental health facility for about a year, right up until spending her last summer at Camp Onondaga. Armed with this information, it seems much more plausible that Mrs. Douglass took her own life – so, while this may not make for a very good mystery, it does make a good ghost story.

      As for Pulpit Rock, it may be Mrs. Douglas you see, or it may be the spirit of one of the two men who drowned at the base of Pulpit Rock about ten years earlier, or maybe it’s both!

Fallen Soldiers and Their Horses

As a battleground of both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, Fort Ticonderoga is a popular haunt for war-afflicted spirits. Thousands of soldiers were buried on the grounds of the fort, and through many decades both visitors and employees alike have reported hearing footsteps, hoof beats, voices, and seeing shadowy figures. Intrigued? Take part in one of the Fort’s nighttime ghost tours and maybe you’ll come away with a tale of your own!