Sunday Winners!

Today was an eventful day. I had the busiest Sunday I've had in months.

The Fools showed up carting food and good cheer and had a little get together today. I didn't know Dale "Glug" and Heather "Legs" were expecting a child. She's due in October. I think she said the 3rd or 4th. She's got a cute little belly already and is looking very good.

Walt's daughters are here. One from Florida and the other from Denver, and they all stopped by today. It was good to see everyone having such a good time.

Nascar was interesting. There were a few wrecks and both sheets had a winner. Try to show up when Holly and Shane are here, maybe they'll buy rounds in celebration! I don't know if Holly knows she's won but I'm guessing Shane doesn't have a clue. It'll be fun to see his face when he shows up the next time.

~Jeanie~

New Comments

Hi everyone!

I've had a few questions about our new baby. Rick and I named her Edy Elizabeth after her grandma Edy. She just turned 4 months old and I'll post a picture on here to show her off.

Edy and Proud Papa Rick
Taken 3/27/08 @ 8:40 PM

I sent out a few emails to let people know about our blog and I've gotten quite a few responses! I'm excited and if anyone wants to look at the comments all you need to do is click on the particular post you'd like to see the comments for.

Thank you to everyone who emailed me and thank you to all of you who sent us a comment! Please, keep 'em coming. We just love it!

Tomorrow is Friday and our busiest night of the week. I'm looking forward to seeing our Friday crowd again this week. Tuesday night darts were great once again and Wednesday night cards had a good turn out. Lee took everyone out and secured 1st place but Kim got 2nd and Tom took 3rd.

The weather has been interesting lately. It's been teetering between winter and spring now for a couple of weeks. One week we'll have 68˚F weather and the next it's snowing. It's snowing right now as a matter of fact.

Again, thank you to everyone who sent me a reply email and also thanks for the great comments too!

~Jeanie~

Spring has Sprung!

Hello readers! It's officially the first day of spring today and that means things should be picking up around here.

St. Patrick's Day was much busier than I thought it would be. Dad came down to help out. It started out slow enough but got much busier when our neighbors came to visit.

The Hamaker Reunion is officially set for the 4th of July weekend. July 4th, 5th and 6th. I'm getting excited for that one. The 4th of July is always fun, but I think it'll be even more fun now that we've got a reunion going on that weekend.

I was just told that the first day of spring is ALWAYS on the 21st, but my calendar says it's today, so I'm going to run with that, but if it REALLY is tomorrow... Happy First Day of Spring TOMORROW. Shows you what I know about holiday's and dates. ;-)

The dart league on Tuesday is going great. Everyone seems to have a good time. Poor Stacy got a hat trick during cricket. It's a good thing except we don't give out complimentary drinks for cricket hat tricks. Poor Stacy! Lucky US!

Well, have a great first day of spring either today or tomorrow.

~Jeanie~

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Hello everyone.

It's one of our favorite customers birthday today! Happy birthday Kat! She stopped in last night so I don't know if we will see her again tonight. It would be nice though. Then she could have her free beer!

Nothing much has been going on lately. We've scheduled a few parties for the summer and I'll start posting that info when they get closer.

The Barn will be hosting their annual golf tournament in June. The time to sign up is NOW. It will be held at Tomahawk, June 21st at 8:00AM. We should have some prizes and food at the Barn after the wonderful day of golf. The menu has not yet been decided and probably won't be until we get a lot closer to June.

Easter is coming up real quick. There are no Nascar races this weekend because of Easter.

Speaking of Nascar... Jeff Burton won the race, helping Bob win the pool on the second sheet this week.

Well, I can't think of anything else I need to post so I'm going to get going.

~Jeanie~

Hello... Our First Post!

Hello! I'm starting a new blog for The Barn bar in Piedmont, South Dakota.

For those of you that don't know who we are, I'll give you a little background. My parents, Edy and Robert, bought this place over twelve years ago. It was the families dream to build a golf course on the property and we've been slowly piecing it together over the years.

There was a barn on the property that my father converted into a small bar to help make ends meet as we worked on the golf course. He and my mother agonized over a name for some time before they agreed on The Barn. Extremely imaginative! It really is! I'm not being sarcastic.

We are a small local bar with our regulars and irregulars. We also have a driving range we operate in the summer months so one of our sayings is, "The only place where it's legal to drink and drive."

The Barn is located in Piedmont, South Dakota. Before you go looking it up on a map, let me just say, we are at the foot of the Black Hills between the cities of Rapid City and Sturgis, South Dakota. Sturgis is famous for the motorcycle rally held there every August and we get our share of the people coming to visit the hills. It's approximately sixty miles driving distance to Mount Rushmore and about the same distance to Crazy Horse. There should be enough references to famous places in that last bit to give you an overall idea where we are before you look on a map.

We used to have a website, but let it lapse, so I'm starting this blog for any of our repeat customers or new customers that might have something to say or want to know what's been going on at The Barn lately.

I hope to hear from some people so don't be shy and post some comments!

~Jeanie~