7 Gables Pension

I just have to do a separate post on this place.  If you like Shabby chic with a little french influence this 7 Gables Pension is for you.  Even better if you like Wine tasting want to be able to walk around.

Located in Prosser, washington  a small town, with small downtown, that has several antique shops.  It has a big industry though, and thats wine.  Its basically a farming community with a big growth of this industry.  They have and are continuing to build a area called Vinters Village, when completed, it will be a large amount of wine tasting houses and restuarants along with some places to stay.

7Gables is part of the Vintners Village and was recently written up in Sunset magazine. Sitting on 6 acres the B&B is quiant and quiet. The house is a restored farm house, which recently had 4+ bathrooms added on.  The grounds are beautifully maintained, with a picket fence surrounding the main property, and a wrap around porch to relax on and  take it all in.  The home is filled with charming antique and new furnishings mixed together.

There is a huge garden that she grows the produce  used for meals in the house.  Becuase she grows a fair amount of produce, she sells to some of the local chefs and business'. In talking to the owner Debbie, and getting a sneak preiview, she will be opening an antique shop in late July early August where she will have many pieces of restored and painted pieces & pieces similar in style seen in the house, and a bit of a farmers market- selling some of their garden produce. I look forward to making a trip back when she has this open.

These little piggies are soft sculpture and all three are attatched. They were so cute sitting on our bed

when we arrived.

Debbie has a lovely kitchen with modern appliances where she makes the most wonderful breakfast for the house guest.  I understand she does special events as well at the house such as bridal teas.  I can't wait to go back, and now that the secret is out, I'm sure it will be harder to get in to.

A weekend in the Washington Wine country

This is a view from the Silver Lake Winery in Zillah/Toppenish area of eastern Washington  We were able to sit and enjoy this while we sipped Rosa Rose' and had a delightful lunch on thier patio.  They have beautiful grounds up at the tasting room.  The grass is rich green, theres a lovely rockery fountain, and large trees mixed in that offer dappled shade to relax under.  Just walking into the building is a relaxing experience.  We hit this beauty on the way home as a last stop for our group before we all went our own way.

We started our weekend over in Prosser.  We were staying at the 7Gables Pension, which is a sweet little B &B  right near Vinters Village.  7 Gables is a 1904 farm house that has been refurbished and decorated in a French Shabby Chic style.  It has 6 unique bedrooms most have baths.   If you are tall (the 6ft and over group) you may be challenged because of the gables in the top floor rooms.  Some more than others.

 Regardless its a lovely place to stay and the proprietress Debbie, is fabulous.  We had planned to walk everywhere but shortlyafter arriving a huge thunderstorm started and the rain was coming down in buckets. For the lack of umbrellas, we opted to make our first stop with the car.  We went over to the Alexander and Nicole tasting room and had some of our favorites, and viewed the changes going on there.  Then we hopped back in the car and parked at Wine O' Clock for lunch.  This was one of those long leisurely lunches you rarely ever have. 2 hours of  pure joyful conversation, sharing and tasting each others food, and wines, ports and cordials, followed by desert and coffee. The staff here are helpful and pleasant. The owners are even better.  The food was incredible. I had a corn soup which was not thick like a chowder, and a salad, and snagged a piece of artisan pizza with pesto, grilled eggplant and pine nuts.

A goat cheese cheesecake intrigued me enough to order it, i didn't realize it was chocolate flavored as well as chocolate sauce, I'm not a big fan of chocolate in general, but the goat cheese made it a bit tart and now I would actually like to make a goatcheese cheesecake one day.

This was followed by a quick walk to  Airfield.  They have this patio at the entrance with tables for sunny days and the fountain has a bit of a pond on the bottom. The owners daughter was our pourer for the day.  She had this dog named Jack's who is a pretty good sized dog.  He was a rescue and appears to have some kind of retriever background among others.  As the day warmed after the earlier showers, he jumped into the pond to take a dip. It was quite a surprise.

They have incredible library room, that knocked the socks off our group.  I think a little jealousy factor went around as we took it in. They had clever chandelier made from Wine glasses. We were quite a long time. Finally we dragged ourselves out of Airfield and headed over to Millbrandt.  We snuck in before they closed for the evening.  After that we were all feeling like heading  back to the B&B.  We made it back to  find that we had a lovely happy hour set out for us, we added left over wine & pizza from our lunch, plus the wine our proprietress had left with our cheese and cracker plate. 

We were like a bunch of young-uns' partying up on the porch of the house.  A few blocks away was a classic car show going on with music.  So we wandered over there about 9:00. A few of us really needed the walk.  The men drooled over the Cobra that was there, and several other cars.  My husband gave up his muscle car for me, he's always telling me, He had to choose between his car or the girl.  Glad I won over the car.  = D  Someday I hope he can find one and refurbish it for himself.  We then stumbled around and made it over to restuarant to diffuse the liquor with a little more substantial food.  Then we  danced outside to the band for a bit and wandered home about midnight.

Sunday morning our proprietress made a delicious breakfast of yogurt with fruit and nuts, followed by pastries with fruit filling, and and egg dish with asparagus, gruyere and ham.

We had coffee out on the porch, then wandered down to Chukar Cherries.  Came back to the house for a bit saw the tiniest little kitten they rescued in an alley, and then it was time to leave.  We headed to Gamache which is next door to the b&b.  Then we all left for Silver Lake winery.

It was delightful  way to spend the weekend. Especially since it was my 31st wedding anniversary with my lovely husband who gave up the car for a girl!