Posted in authors, blogging, breakfast, driving, eating, food, friends, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, success, trivia, weird, writers, writing, tagged being prepared, crash dummies, do better, doing better, Edwards Air Force Base, excellence, experiments, failure, internet, Murphy's Law, not working, overpacking, random, volunteers, weird, wrong on November 9, 2020| 6 Comments »
We’ve all heard of Murphy’s Law. We’ve all probably made reference to it at least once in our lifetime. If you’re not familiar with the expression, basically it means everything that can go wrong will go wrong. But I bet you didn’t know that time has distorted the law’s intended meaning entirely. It’s quite the opposite of the commonly used version.
(more…)Posted in Baer House Inn, blogging, breakfast, drinks, eating, Family, food, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, love, romance, social media, toys, travel, underwear, vacation, weird, weird facts, tagged B&Bs, bed & breakfast, bed and breakfast, disrespectful, forgotten, forgotten items, innkeeper, innkeepers, innkeeping, left behind, lost and found, normal, purple, weird, weird people on September 21, 2020| 11 Comments »
I’ve been in the innkeeping business for a little over 5 years now and I am still amazed at how many times something totally new and unexpected happens. Just about the time I’m sure I’ve seen everything, along comes something completely new and – dare I say it – more weird.
(more…)Posted in Barbie, blogging, books, Christmas, dogs, Family, Holidays, humor, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, reading, resolutions, social media, toys, writing, tagged Barbie, bikes, books, cars, cats, Christmas gifts, Christmas list, Christmas presents, Christmas wish list, elf, elf of shelf, gifts, kids, letters to Santa, North Pole, pets, please, puppies, reindeer, slime, trucks, weird on December 30, 2019| 8 Comments »
It’s official. 2019 is going, going gone! What a year it has been. I’m looking forward to 2020. Nothing significant happening, just another chance to have the best year of my life. For those of you who do not follow me on Facebook, or who do, but did not see my post from last week, I’m making some changes in 2020. Here’s what I posted: (more…)
Posted in Baer House Inn, Family, friends, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, social media, travel, vacation, Vicksburg, words, writing, tagged Americans, crazy, different, diversity, foreigners, hotels, motels, people, personality, politically correct, tourists, weird, weird people on July 29, 2019| 8 Comments »
Times they are a changin’ my friends. I can’t tell you how often I’ve had conversations with people about how things were so different when we were kids. I’m sure this is nothing new. I’m sure my parents probably had these same conversations with their friends and I’m pretty sure the next generation will have these conversations with their friends. And so on.
Posted in authors, Baer House Inn, blogging, books, breakfast, Christmas, Family, Fiction, food, grammar, health, hill billy, Holidays, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, redneck, sports, travel, Uncategorized, Vicksburg, words, writing, tagged chicken, chicken dinner, chitlins, cracklins, Faulkner, food, football, Halloween, hunting, hunting season, kale, Kansas, kumbachu, Mississippi, pork rinds, quinoa, unexplained, weird, Welty on March 4, 2019| 12 Comments »
I’ve lived in Mississippi for almost 4 years now and there are still some things that I just can’t comprehend. Mostly I love the laid back way of life and southern hospitality. I love the charming small town feel of a lot of places in this great state. Other things, I don’t get. At all. (more…)
Posted in Amazon.com, authors, Baer House Inn, blogging, breakfast, drinks, Family, food, health, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, social media, travel, vacation, Vicksburg, words, writing, tagged Baer House, Baer House Inn, breakfast foods, camp stove, Diet Coke, guest room, honesty, innkeeper, innkeeping, napping, odd traits, parking lot, towels, wedding, weird, weird people on November 12, 2018| 8 Comments »
There’s never a dull moment here at The Baer House Inn. Guests come and guests go, some quietly, some with gusto. On several occasions in the past I’ve posted about odd behavior from guests, but just about the time I think I’ve seen it all, something new comes along that makes me scratch my head and say, “Nope, I guess I haven’t seen it all.” Here are some examples of recent unusual happenings here at the inn. (more…)
Posted in April, blogging, Family, Fiction, fingers, friends, goals, humor, Jansen Schmidt, resolutions, writers, writing, tagged being normal, characteristics, facts, fun facts, interesting facts, interesting stuff, me, normal, odd characteristics, people, personalities, personality quirks, quirks, quirky, random, weird, weird facts, you on May 1, 2017| 9 Comments »
Most of you know that at the end of every one of my blogs, I post a “fun fact” about myself. I don’t really know how “fun” those facts are to you, but to me, they’re just random silliness about my quirky self. My way of sharing my personality with you. (more…)
Posted in authors, Baer House Inn, blogging, Family, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, Paranormal, resolutions, short story, words, writing, tagged broken glass, broken light, chandelier, crash, electrician, ghost, ghost story, ghosts, haunted house, Haunted Vicksburg, home improvement, unexplained phenomenons, weird on October 3, 2016| 12 Comments »
Who doesn’t love a good ghost story? I’m not into the creepy, demonic, blood and guts ghost stories where people get hurt, but I do enjoy a good chilling tale now and then.
Original photo by P. Rickrode 2015
The Baer House Inn is one of the houses on the Haunted Vicksburg Tour. The leader of these tours brings people inside and tells them a tale of intrigue that may or may not have happened here.
Now, I have never experienced any of the strange happenings that are talked about on the tour, however, something rather ghostly did happen here. Something unexplainable and very real.
Not too long after my husband and I bought the inn, we started remodeling and redecorating. One of our projects involved relocating some chandeliers. Five to be exact. We hired an electrician and early one morning, they went to work, taking down lights and rehanging them in their new spots. About an hour after they got started, my husband and I were in the hallway talking about something. We heard a crash that sounded like a thousand expensive crystals shattering into a bazillion pieces. Followed by dead silence.
We looked at each other with wide eyes, our mouths yawning into perfect O’s. I muttered a hushed curse. Obviously, the guys working upstairs had dropped one of our super expensive chandeliers. We whispered amongst ourselves about how to handle the situation. Should we confront them or let them come to us? We waited with bated breath for someone to slink downstairs and apologize profusely for damaging our property. Nobody came downstairs.
“They must be texting their boss,” I said. “Find out how to tell us that they’d broken one of our lights.”
We waited. And waited some more. We decided to give them ten more minutes. After five, I couldn’t stand it any more. I crept upstairs, being extra careful not to step in any glass fragments I was sure littered the floor. Nothing. No mess. No sound. Two guys were up on a ladder in one of the rooms attaching a chandelier to the ceiling.
“How’s it going?” I asked.
“Great. We’re almost done.”
Almost done? That’s it? They aren’t even going to mention the broken $10,000 light fixture?
I turned to face my husband and mouthed, “They’re lying.”
I proceeded to march my little self into every single room upstairs, checking for lights, damage, broken glass, a broom, trash bag, anything evidencing the crash we heard downstairs.
Nothing. NOTHING. Every light exactly where it was supposed to be. Say what?
I went back into the room with the men on the ladder.
“Hey,” says I. “Did you guys hear a crash a few minutes ago. Like something big, and crystal, and expensive, falling and breaking?”
“No.”
“Really?”
“We didn’t hear anything.”
Now, my husband and I both heard the crash. We both knew immediately what it was. And yet . . . nothing broken. And that my friends, is the mysterious case of the shattered chandelier.
Have you ever had a ghostly encounter? Ever experience something you couldn’t explain? What do you think we heard?
Word of the day: Gagaku
Fun fact about me: I don’t really believe in ghosts. And yet . . .
Original post by Jansen Schmidt, October 2016. Photos courtesy Google Images and P. Rickrode.
Posted in acting, authors, blogging, costumes, driving, Family, Fiction, friends, grammar, Jansen Schmidt, love, musical theater, short story, theater, theatre, Uncategorized, words, writers, writing, tagged acting, being normal, damsel in distress, melodrama, normal, random, Take it or leave it, weird on July 7, 2014| 20 Comments »
Random thoughts. They happen in no particular order and relate to nothing you’re currently doing or talking about. They are just that – random.
Quite often I set out with good intentions to do something productive, but sometimes it’s just hard to concentrate. Nothing in particular bothering me or stressing me, but I develop ADD on steroids which commands my every random thought.
Things like:
Or this:
Or sometimes, this:
And so that inspired me to write this week’s post and the early summer edition of Take It or Leave It.
Take It or Leave It
Image courtesy Google Images
Here’s how Take It or Leave It works: Post your guesses (would I take it, or leave it) in the comments section below. I will post my responses Thursday. The person with the most correct guesses is my winner, but you must post another comment in the comments section, acknowledging that you are a winner, in order to claim your prize. It’s that simple. Unclaimed prizes will be forfeited after one week from posting the answers.
So, here you go. For the following list of things, would I Take It, or Leave It?
1. Eat someone’s leftovers from the community kitchen refrigerator at my office building.
2. Photobomb someone’s wedding pictures.
3. Park in two parking spaces so no one dings my doors.
4. Wear something seductive to an audition.
5. Call in sick so I can stay home and read.
6. Play the damsel in distress to get some guy to do something for me I don’t want to do.
7. Kiss a guy at a cold reading audition if the script called for it.
8. Leave my garbage in the street if a bear or stray dog knocks the can over.
9. Try to charm a cop to get out of a speeding ticket.
10. Blame my mistake on someone else.
Have fun with it. I’m looking forward to your guesses. How about you – any random weirdness you want to share? What goofball thoughts trip through your day? I love hearing your stories, they make me feel less strange.
Word of the Day: Tamandua
Fun fact about me: My very first role on stage was the villainess in a classic old time melodrama. (Clementine Greedy was my name.)
Original post by Jansen Schmidt July 2014. Photo courtesy Google Images.
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