Author Archives: maryjane

Breakfast Is Served!

Posted on May 15, 2012 by maryjane

Here’s what our B&B guests ate yesterday morning.

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“Imagine all the people, sharing all the world.”

Posted on May 15, 2012 by maryjane

Pythagoras, the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician, knew it. “Friends share all things.”

Around 2,500 years later, John Lennon, the modern-day philosopher and musician, knew it too.

“Imagine all the people, sharing all the world.”

Sharing is good. We know that.

Food? Sharing food? We all do that.

Here are some hard numbers:

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Biker Chicks

Posted on May 13, 2012 by maryjane

Remember the freedom of flying down the road on your first bike?

Or that glorious day when you were finally free of those embarrassing training wheels? (About which you’d been saying, for weeks, “But mooooooooooom, those are for babies!”)

Well, friends, May is the perfect month to …

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My gentle giant of a dog, Tulip, a Great Pyrenees, is a dear buddy ’round the farm. Retired after years of protecting livestock for another farmer, she hangs around looking doe-eyed, hankering for full-body rubs. I have often wondered what goes on in her doggy mind when she takes off into the hills—lucky for me she likes home best. Here she is in the back of my Jeep, all suited up in her harness for an adventure with me (a harness keeps not only the dog safe but the driver and passengers safe also).