Hello and happy Boxing Day! I hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas and that you are safe in your homes and snug as bugs in rugs. The weather has been frightful almost everywhere and I truly hope you all made it safely to your destinations. But, if not, I hope you made the best of the unexpected situation and that Santa Claus found you anyway. He’s known for that.
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Leftovers
Posted in Baer House Inn, breakfast, eating, Family, food, friends, goals, health, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, money, resolutions, soup, weird, writing, tagged burritos, eating, food, leftover food, leftovers, meal planning, meal prep, meal preparation, meals, random, recipes, reheating food, reusing food on November 14, 2022| 2 Comments »
Meal planning is oft times challenging. Trying to come up with something for dinner for your family night after night can be a chore. I enjoy cooking but not necessarily every single day. I already fix breakfast for inn guests most mornings so a lot of times, by late afternoon, I’m not really interested in cooking again.
(more…)Binge Watching Nonsense
Posted in alcohol, beer, blogging, breakfast, chocolate, dessert, desserts, dieting, dogs, drinks, eating, Family, food, friends, health, humor, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, pets, positivity, redneck, soup, travel, weird, writing, tagged binge watching, country veterinarians, Critter Fixers, Disney+, exotic foods, food shows, Gordon Ramsey, Gordon Ramsey Uncharted, National Geographic, National Geographic channel, random, streaming services, traveling, tv, veterinarians, Youtube on September 5, 2022| Leave a Comment »
A while back I blogged about not being able to find anything to watch on TV despite paying $600 a month for streaming services and having over 10,000 channels at our disposal. Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating a little, but you get the drift. Finding a new movie or series sometimes takes some trial and error. Unless you’re looking for a little something to watch just for the fun of it.
(more…)The Broken Lightbulb: A Spooky Tale
Posted in Baer House Inn, blogging, Family, Fiction, friends, history, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, Mississippi, Paranormal, redneck, travel, vacation, Vicksburg, weird, writing, tagged Baer House, Baer House Inn, ghosts, haunted, haunted B&Bs, haunted inns, historic inns, light bulbs, locked doors, Mississippi, random, spirits, traveling, unexplainable events, unexplained, unexplained phenomenon, unseen forces, Vicksburg on August 8, 2022| 12 Comments »
Here at the inn, I have a policy: if a room is not made completely up and ready for someone to check into it, I keep the door to that room either shut or locked until it’s ready to go. I don’t like snoopy guests – and they are, every single one of them – to peek in and see a dirty or unfinished room. I just think that’s unprofessional. I’d rather have those snoopy guests wonder what those rooms look like than for them to see an unmade bed or a vacuum cleaner sitting in the middle of the room or towels stacked on the dresser. Hey, my inn, my rules. I want to present it in its best light.
(more…)What Time Is It Anyway?
Posted in April, blogging, Family, friends, goals, health, humor, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, travel, Uncategorized, weather, weird, weird facts, writing, tagged clocks, Daylight Savings Time, jet lag, loss of sleep, random, sleep, spring, spring forward, time, time change, tired on March 9, 2020| 8 Comments »
I’m all messed up. Daylight Savings always affects me, no matter if we’re springing forward or bouncing back. Losing sleep, gaining sleep, whatever, my body always feels like I’ve traveled across several time zones, slept 3 hours in each before moving on, sometimes forward, sometimes back. And it doesn’t help that I just returned home 3 days ago from a different time zone. I spent almost 2 weeks one-hour ahead of my normal zone, returned to my regular zone, then sprang ahead for Daylight Savings. I’m all mixed up. I feel like I need sleep all the time. (more…)
Stairs Are Hard
Posted in Autumn, Baer House Inn, blogging, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, travel, vacation, writing, tagged baggage, creativity, downstairs, elevators, heavy baggage, historic homes, historic inns, luggage, old houses, random, staircase, stairs, suitcase, technology, upstairs on October 7, 2019| 6 Comments »
In case you haven’t figured it out already, I own an historic home. It was built in 1870, which means, it has stairs. It also means it has no elevator. Because, guess what? There were no elevators in 1870. The first electric elevator didn’t come into existence until 1887. (That’s your history lesson for the day.) (more…)