Bed, Breakfast and Books
Blog URL http://www.bobbyhutchinson.com/bedandbreakfast/blogs/bobby
Located Sparwood, British Columbia Canada
Tags writing, cooking, humor, hunting, reading, deafness, music, books
I run a B&B in Sparwood, B.C., and I write books about it. I also blog about guests, recipes, writing and B&B experiences.
Latest Blog Posts
- MY ONLY SUNSHINE on Nov 19, 2009
I have four nieces. Over time, I've told each of them they were my favorite. I have six beautiful grandchildren. At different times, I've whispered to each how special they are, how unique. How I love them best. Because at that moment, it's true...
- ALL CREATURES on Nov 16, 2009
There are so many things I'm not good at. There's cooking turkey--I'm vegetarian. And marriage--two ex husbands. And mice. I'm terrified of mice. The universe is very gracious in helping us overcome fear by sending practice sessions. I turned...
- TALES OF THE ROUND TABLE on Nov 10, 2009
When you open a B&B, you never dream of all the peripheral stuff you'll end up getting involved in. Like computers and websites and blogs. Like hunting and fishing and plumbing and log scaling. Conversations at breakfast that include sentences...
- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT-- on Nov 7, 2009
Bravo has a new series called White Collar. And there's one on another channel, a drama called Blue Collar. And there's my very own long-running Blue Collar comedy, played out at my B&B. It goes like this. read more...
- ODE TO LENNY on Nov 4, 2009
There's a song by Leonard Cohen that says, "It's four in the morning, the end of December." It always makes me laugh, because it so aptly depicts the mood as I stagger into the kitchen at the Blue Collar when I have guests who need a very early brea...
- TIME TRAVEL on Nov 2, 2009
My son Rob, who steers me towards unusual movies, handed me a DVD called One Week and said, watch this. I have two guests, plumbers from Edmonton working on a local job, so once their (very) early breakfast was over, I raced through the housekeepin...
- 10 WAYS TO KEEP B&B GUESTS HAPPY on Oct 27, 2009
So you start a B&B. You read B&B's For Dummies. You read Blue Collar B&B. You try and figure out what you can do to make your guests comfortable, contented, eager to come back and stay with you again. Here's my top ten list, the result...
