Last weekend Tommy and I visited my mother in Redding. Mom gave us a gift certificate for the Redding Bed and Breakfast, a delightful farmhouse run by Lacy LaMoire.
We had visions of going out dancing or dining somewhere quaint, but after a day at Burney Falls we were tired and ready just to sit in the hot tub and sip wine.
Lacy toured us through the house, which only had one other room rented out. She has a nice collection of antiques and has made headboards out of old fireplace hearths.
I’d never stayed at a B&B before, so I was expecting it to be kind of stuffy, like visiting British relatives. But Lacy was fairly quirky and had a lot of fun touches for “young people” like us.
She told us we could pick any room we wanted upstairs; however, “this is the room Tommy chose for you,” she said, leading us to the room where candles were burning and a dozen roses were in a vase on the bureau.
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