Operating a bed and breakfast Inn has many advantages such as no commuting time from wake-up to start of the work day, sharing laughs and friendships with romantic couples and much more.  But trying to diet while operating a bed and breakfast has to be one of the most difficult things to do.  We are starting our diets for this year (again) tomorrow morning and what a difficult thing that can be.  It takes great will power to still have cookies, brownies, breakfast treats and more all around you and making these yummy treats every day, but NOT eating them.  Wish us luck!  (fingers crossed)

The past few days, our local power company has been around the bed and breakfast, in the Inn’s backyard, and occupying parts of the bed and breakfast parking lot in order to trim and remove tree branches (and in some cases the entire tree) that have grown over the years on to the area power lines.  All the buzzing, chopping, grinding and hauling of the past weeks here have been a reminder of the large tree and wood production industry of the state of Michigan.  We often times take for granted all the vast resources of our state, such as the tree industry.

Just today as I headed from the bed and breakfast to Holland Michigan for a few items we needed at this town’s nearby stores, I heard the forecast of the somewhat cool forecasted beginning of our spring season here.  But none the less, I figured it would be a good idea to get ready since we brought our wicker furniture and porch swing out to the front porch.  So we now have nice big new tufted cushions in the large wicker chairs on our front porch.  It may not seem like mother nature wants to cooperate just yet, but better to get ready early than later, right?

Today is a nice sunny day in West Michigan….one of those that makes you want to get out and enjoy!  As much as we know we should be doing more projects around the bed and breakfast today, like our Inn guests we really would much rather be out enjoying the day.  So I think we will compromise and go our to enjoy the sunshine by driving down Blue Star Highway towards South Haven and head back along the shoreline of Lake Michigan.  If we make a quick trip out, we can still have time for some of our chores….hmmm, our even a nap!?!

This past week our Saugatuck area bed and breakfast was one of the weekly getaway escapes featured in Living Social, the nationwide weekly offers of Living Social offers.  Many of these “copy cat” daily special offer email distribution sources have popped up in recent years, but there still is only one that leads the way in weekly nationwide (and beyond) getaway escapes and that one being the Living Social escapes platform.  We were honored to be included this past week and it definitely brought a great deal of exposure that kept was very  busy in phone and email coverage to say the least.