a day in the life of a B&B guest

Here I am racing to town to check in on our store, but first I stop to meet this morning’s B&B guests seated at our outside tables.

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  1. Elizabeth says:

    I am much much closer! I recently moved to CA from NC and feel I am much much closer to fullfilling my goal to visit your farm and be a guest at your B & B!!! WWOOOOOOOHHHOOOOOO!!

    ELizabeth

  2. Winnie Nielsen says:

    Looks like such a wonderful time sharing around the picnic table! What fun for you and for them! I hope to get there myself sooner rather than later myself!

  3. Beth says:

    Staying at your B&B is on my Bucket List- I have followed you, Mary Jane since before your first periodical. I ascribe to all you ascribe to- right down to my Danskos 🙂 Now, I enjoy seeing your daughter follow in your footsteps- you have taught many the clean and nutritious way to eat and how to simplify one’s life. One day, we will meet and I will be the Hoosier gal that has waited to thank you after these many years~ Just please send us your rain, as our crop yield this year will be lacking due to the severe drought we have had. You are an inspiring woman that has been blessed with much talent- Blessings from Indiana- Beth M

    • MaryJane says:

      This just made my year!!!!! How I wish I could send rain. I’m so sorry to see the havoc the drought is causing. Blessings back!

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life in the gutter

The ebb and flow of life is what it is … 

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  1. Laurie Dimino says:

    Too Cute! I sure hope it all works out and Aunt Flow and Cousin Ebb hatch out just fine.

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rolling, rolling, rolling … rawhide

Ace, our foodie photographer, went riding with farmgirl extraordinaire, Kim, over the weekend …

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cow kisses (again!)

Remember a while back when Maizy gave me a good cow kiss? Well … this time the shoe was on the other foot. Or, hoof, as it were.

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  1. Linda Moore says:

    Get off me! You Big Human! And don’t tell any of the heifers that you did that! LOL

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pickin’ peonies

Here at my B&B, we put several bouquets of fresh flowers in every tent for our guests … and today was only different in one way. The peonies are blooming! I don’t know what I love more—the bright fuchsia mixed with subtle pinks and shimmering whites or the fragrance that emits from these lovelies.

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Maizy & Daisy

Dated July 8, 2012—entry left in our B&B guest book:

“Our second time here, this time Daisy, our daughter, is seven, and we brought the orange ’69 Corvette! Daisy fell in love w/Maizy the cow, Etta the calf, and the little fat and sassy bull. She says, ‘Maizy licked me yesterday and it was scratchier than a cat.'”

Adorable Daisy helped us milk Maizy and then we grabbed her father’s HOT …

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  1. Terry Steinmetz says:

    I’m so content seeing these pictures. Thanks for sharing them!!! By the way, Daisy is right, a cow’s tongue is scratchy like a cat’s.

  2. Rae B says:

    I laughed when I saw that the name of your calf is Etta. That is actually my first name, but I have always gone by my middle name. The reason I had to smile is that it reminded me that when my mother told my grandmother (her mother) my name, she disliked it so much she said she was going to call me Pet. Pet was the name of my grandmother’s cow.

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summer storm

We had the strangest weather the other day … it was 10:30 a.m., the sky darkened in nothing more than two shakes of a lamb’s tail …

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  1. Wow! Remarkable photos!

  2. Amber says:

    WOW! How on Earth did you capture that lightning!? It’s amazing! Beautiful!

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B&B reward program

Here’s what our four B&B gals (my daughter Megan, DIL Ashley, farmhand Kim, and B&B summer intern Erin) used their tip money for last Sunday afternoon—a movie matinee, pedicures, and dinner on the town.)

Can you tell who’s who?

  1. Ace says:

    Love it! My guess is … blue = Kim, red = Meg, Pink = Ashley, and orange = Erin? 🙂 -ace

  2. Karla says:

    blue- kim, red- erin, orange- meg, pink- ashley?

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