Thanks for sticking with me. I hope my teaser last week inspired you to come back today. Cooking For the Stars is a little like Dancing With the Starts, except it’s cooking instead of dancing, and “for” instead of “with,” and there’s no audience phone-ins, or Judges scores, or a giant set, or dazzling bright lights, or microphones, or celebrity hosts, but other than that, it’s exactly the same. So, since I promised good things, let’s not waste any time. (more…)
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Introverts, Extroverts and Know-It-Alls
Posted in Autumn, Baer House Inn, blogging, breakfast, Family, food, friends, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, travel, vacation, words, writing, tagged America, American government, breakfast, extroverts, foreigners, government, guests, introverts, jerks, New Zealand, opinionated, opposites, people, personalities, personality-types, politics, religion, rude, taboo, taboo subjects, travel on September 2, 2019| 8 Comments »
I think it’s pretty safe to assume that we all know we should not discuss religion or politics when in the company of strangers. I also think it is safe to assume that most people are either somewhat introverted or somewhat extroverted if not completely so. We all know people who are one or the other or some mutant form of both. And, of course, we all know a know-it-all. You know, those people who have an opinion about EVERYTHING and usually express it loudly and in such a manner so as to sound like an authority on the subject. The people who make you eventually go: (more…)
Adventures in Innkeeping – The Fun Never Stops
Posted in Baer House Inn, blogging, breakfast, drinks, driving, Family, Fiction, food, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, travel, weird facts, writing, tagged Australia, breakfast meats, coffee, coffee cups, guests, hotels, hunting, innkeeping, link sausage, links, parking, parking lot, parking lots, sausage, wine, wine glasses on July 8, 2019| 18 Comments »
When we decided to buy an inn, I had no idea we’d see or hear so many really unusual, weird and scary things. On several occasions I’ve found myself saying, “now I’ve seen it all,” only to realize that I was in fact mistaken. Just about the time I think it can’t get any weirder, sure enough, it does. (more…)
Well That’s Weird
Posted in beer, blogging, drinks, Family, food, friends, Holidays, humor, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, trivia, vacation, Vicksburg, weather, weird facts, writing, tagged 4th of July, Congress, funny, history, hot, hot dogs, Independence Day, lazy, lazy days, Presidents, rum, sarcasm, summer, US Presidents, watermelon on July 1, 2019| 10 Comments »
So here it is July already. 2019 is just zipping right along isn’t it? We’re already past the longest day of the year and diving head first into those REALLY hot summer days leading up to Fall. (more…)
It Seemed Like A Good Idea – Until I Got To the Store
Posted in blogging, Christmas, Family, Fiction, food, health, humor, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, love, toys, writing, tagged babies, baby, baby clothes, baby supplies, bankrupt, blankets, bottles, clothes, diapers, grandchildren, moms, money, mothers, newborns, pacifiers, pregnant, Shopping on June 24, 2019| 12 Comments »
My husband and I are going to be grands. Sort of. Neither of us have any children of our own, but we do have nieces and nephews, the oldest of which is having a baby. So, it’s our first grand niece or nephew. That’s pretty darned exciting! (more…)
It’s Not Just A Day Off
Posted in beach, blogging, Family, food, friends, Holidays, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, success, travel, vacation, words, writing, tagged America, American Civil War, American flag, BBQ, confederate, fallen soldiers, family, heroes, history, Memorial Day, military, patriotic, patriotism, picnics, remember, sacrifice, servicemen, soldiers, veterans on May 27, 2019| 4 Comments »
I believe I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating, I am very patriotic. I love patriotic songs. The patriotic holidays are some of my favorites. I have the utmost respect for our country, our flag, and the incredible people willing to sacrifice their lives to protect the freedoms of everyone living in this country. And I don’t mean just the Americans either. I mean EVERYONE living in his country.
I believe patriotism is in my blood. Why? Well, because “Patriotism or national pride is the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland.”(en.widipedia.org) That’s how I feel. Despite the flaws, I love this country. I feel a sense of devotion to the homeland that I have grown very attached to. I consider myself lucky to be living in this great nation. (more…)
That’s Cool But We Don’t Know What To Do With It.
Posted in authors, blogging, books, Family, food, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, success, Uncategorized, words, writers, writing, tagged book shelves, boxes, categories, categorizing, classifications, classify, compartments, files, filing, gadgets, groups, Home Depot, new-fangled, outside the box, random, shelves, Shopping, supermarket on May 13, 2019| 6 Comments »
Have you ever noticed that people like to put things into categories? It’s just human nature I think to want to classify stuff into known categories. Everything needs to go into a box, or a file, or on a shelf. Ever look at something and wonder what the heck it is? If someone tells you it’s a new-fangled object designed to do thus and such, your brain automatically wants to file that information into a group of knowns. That’s usually when people say something like, “Oh, it’s sort of like a thingamajig?” We ask because we have an inherent need to relate the new thing to an old thing. (more…)
I Want To Eat Healthy But I’m Poor
Posted in breakfast, dieting, drinks, Family, food, friends, health, humor, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, writing, tagged being poor, cage-free, free-range, grass-fed, grocery shopping, healthy eating, juice, money, organic, organic food, poor, soda on May 6, 2019| 10 Comments »
Have you ever noticed that everything on the latest health food or diet craze is not within your financial means? All of the “healthy” food is at least three times more expensive than the not-so-healthy choices. I try to eat healthy and “clean,” but I’m on a very limited budget.
A Land and Sea Adventure
Posted in beach, beer, blogging, blooms, breakfast, Caribbean, cruise, Disney, Disney World, drinks, Family, food, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, travel, vacation, Walt Disney World, writing, tagged Bahamas, brunch, Caribbean, Castaway Cay, Cayman Islands, characters, clowning around, collages, Cozemel, Disney cruise, Falmouth, Good Hope Great House, Grand Cayman, Hell, islands, Jamaica, moonshine, photos, sangria on March 11, 2019| 8 Comments »
As you may remember, I mentioned earlier that I traveled not too long ago and, for subscribers to my newsletter, I also mentioned that I’d be blogging about my journey. At the very end of January we spent 3 days at Disney World (yes – again) followed by a 7-night Disney cruise. (more…)
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