Posted in Birthdays, blogging, drinks, Family, friends, Holidays, Jansen Schmidt, success, vacation, writing, tagged 4th July, active duty, armed forces, day off, grateful, Holiday, Independence Day, military, thank you, vacation, veterans, whine, wit on July 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
This week, I’m taking a quick break from blogging. I hope you all have a delightful Independence Day and a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has or still serves in our armed forces.
I’ll be back next Monday with my usual wit or whine session. Until then:
Word of the day: Thalassic
Fun fact about me: I need to schedule more fun days off.
Original post by Jansen Schmidt, June 2017. Image courtesy Google Images.
Posted in authors, Baer House Inn, dogs, drinks, Family, food, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, vacation, Vicksburg, writing, tagged Baer House, Baer House Inn, Baer-Williams House, chairs, common, eating, historic inns, innkeepers, innkeeping, inns, Mississippi, observations, questions, relocating, Vicksburg on June 26, 2017| 16 Comments »
Photo courtesy P. Rickrode
So, we’re coming up on two years now since we made the big cross-country move and relocated to Mississippi. Innkeeping has been rewarding and challenging and . . . a real learning experience that will forever change the way I stay at hotels, motels, and/or B & B’s in the future. (more…)
Posted in acting, Caribbean, costumes, dessert, desserts, Disney, Disneyland, drinks, Family, food, friends, Holidays, humor, Jansen Schmidt, love, vacation, Walt Disney World, writing, tagged actors, Captain Jack Sparrow, Disney, Disney geek, Dole Whip, Johnny Depp, magic, Magic Kingdom, magical, magical places, pirate ride, Pirates, Pirates of Caribbean, video, Youtube on June 5, 2017| 9 Comments »
I subscribe to a lot of Disney related websites, blogs, newsletters, etc., because, hey, I am a Disney geek. That’s right, I love all things Disney. Well, almost all things. I’m not a fan of Dole whips. (more…)
Posted in authors, Disney, Family, Fiction, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, love, singing, vacation, words, writers, writing, tagged Abraham Lincoln, California, Cap'n Crunch, Coca Cola, coconuts, cowboy hats, cows, facts, Father's Day, hummingbirds, large hats, lottery, Mark Twain, odd facts, patents, Tom Sawyer, trivia, weird facts on March 27, 2017| 12 Comments »
Yes, I’m doing it again. I’m posting odd, bizarre, strange, weird facts that will boggle your minds. And, because I believe no zany fact is ever complete without my obscure and witty commentary, I’ve added that for your enjoyment. Feel free to pass along these tidbits of information to your friends and loved ones. (more…)
Posted in authors, Baer House Inn, blogging, Family, Fiction, humor, Jansen Schmidt, vacation, words, writing, tagged annoying, annoying phone calls, blocked calls, do not call, free stuff, phone calls, random, random calls, rejected calls, sales pitches, salesmen, telemarketers, unsolicited calls on March 20, 2017| 16 Comments »
Lately I’ve noticed a super large increase in the amount of unsolicited phone calls on both my home (the inn) phone and my cell phone. Despite being on all of the “do not call” lists, auto rejecting, and blocking unwanted numbers every – single – time, I continue to get annoying phone calls from telemarketers. All day long. (more…)
Posted in authors, beach, blogging, bucket list, Caribbean, cruise, Disney, drinks, Family, goals, Holidays, humor, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, St. Thomas, vacation, writing, tagged adventure, adventure vacations, British Virgin Islands, cruising, Disney magic, everglades, fears, first time, Florida, Florida everglades, Ft. Lauderdale, hurricane, New Orleans, Pat O'Briens, rainbow, rainbows, Roosevelt Hotel, snorkeling, Tortola, Uber on December 12, 2016| 8 Comments »
Have you ever set out to cross something off your bucket list? Well, I do and recently, I did. I finally took a Disney cruise. Not my first cruise, my first DISNEY cruise!! Needless to say, I was very excited.
The entire journey turned out to be one “first” after another, starting with Thanksgiving day in New Orleans. (more…)
Posted in authors, blogging, costumes, Family, Fiction, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, redneck, short story, vacation, words, writers, writing, tagged Alfred Hitchcock, beard, blood vessels, Buzz Aldrich, Cousin It, Eiffel Tower, Giethoorn, kangaroos, lunar walk, Muppets, nonsense, Psycho, random, reindeer, San Francisco, trivia, ventriloquist, WWII trivia on November 7, 2016| 7 Comments »
So, tomorrow’s the big day; America’s getting a new Commander in Chief. I don’t know about you, but I for one am terrified to see the results. Either way, I’m going to be holding by breath for the next four years.
But, enough about that. Let’s let that fracas happen tomorrow shall we? Today, let’s have some wacky fun. I’ve already told y’all how much I like trivia, so here are some more totally random oddball facts for you to do with what you see fit. Feel free to laugh, scratch your head, research, whatever.
Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints.
Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because more Muppeteers are right-handed, so they operate the head with their favored hand.)
Female kangaroos have three vaginas.
During World War II, the crew of the British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their vessel for six weeks. (It was a gift from the Russian government.)
The first man to urinate on the moon was Buzz Aldrin, shortly after stepping onto the lunar surface. (So he was holding it all that time and needed to relieve himself? Seriously? I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sure peeing isn’t what I’d have been doing if I stepped onto the moon’s surface. I mean no gravity. Think about that. Where’d it all go? On to his space suit? But hey, whatever.)
In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over it while running away from a fire. (I can’t make this stuff up.)
In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. (He was by the way, in case you’re wondering.)
The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no roads; its buildings are connected entirely by canals and footbridges. (And don’t you just want to go there now after seeing these pictures?)
The first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as seven inches.
Lt. Col. “Mad” Jack Churchill was the only British soldier in WWII known to have killed an enemy soldier with a longbow. “Mad Jack” insisted on going into battle armed with both a medieval bow and a claymore sword. (God bless “Mad Jack.” I wonder if he also wore a kilt?)
There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice. (But, seriously, don’t do that.)
So there you have it. A whole bunch of useless knowledge to clutter up your brains. I know, silly, but, I took your mind of the political circus for a few minutes anyway, huh?
What crazy thoughts do you want to share? Any random weirdness happening in your world? Who wants to go with me to Giethoorn? Have kayak will travel.
Thanks for stopping by. Until next week – here’s to random weirdness.
Word of the day: Lytta
Fun fact about me: I fed a reindeer lettuce when I was in Alaska.
Original post by Jansen Schmidt, November 2016. Photos courtesy Google Images.
Posted in acting, authors, Baer House Inn, blogging, bucket list, costumes, drinks, Family, Fiction, food, friends, goals, humor, Jansen Schmidt, love, musical theater, resolutions, singing, theater, theatre, vacation, Vicksburg, writing, tagged cabaret show, Dancing, Detective Comedy Dinner Theater, dinner show, dinner theater, historic Vicksburg, murder, murder myster, murder mystery dinner theater, mystery, tourism, tourist, tourist season, whodunnit, zany fun on August 22, 2016| 18 Comments »
Well, it’s been a year now and we’re getting to know the bed and breakfast routine pretty well. We’re also becoming familiar with the highs and lows of tourist traffic patterns here in Vicksburg. Vicksburg is very much a tourist town, but I think it’s pretty accurate to say we definitely have a tourist “season,” and thank the good lord for that.
Posted in awards, Baer House Inn, blogging, camera, Family, friends, goals, humor, Jansen Schmidt, love, moving, romance, success, vacation, Vicksburg, words, writers, writing, tagged Baer House, Baer House Inn, bed & breakfast, bed and breakfast, business owners, Chamber of Commerce, Grit Magazine, guests, made up words, Marilyn Jones, Mississippi, P. Rickrode, small business, small business awards, testimonials, travel, travel bloggers, travel magazine, traveling, Trip Advisor, urban dictionary, Warren County, weddings on July 25, 2016| 18 Comments »
I know what you’re thinking – bizi what? Biziversary. Yes, that’s a made up word. I thought of it all by myself, but I think it might catch on and some day make it into the urban dictionary.
Biziversary. Let’s break it down: part 1; biz, short for business – part 2; iversary, annual celebration of something important, in our case, the Rickrodes buying The Baer House Inn. That’s right – it’s our biziversary. We’ve owned The Baer House now for a year! (more…)
