Miss Spenser's Blog

Miss Spenser's of Longview Farms ~Tearoom and  Bed & Breakfast ~ 641-342-1547 MissSpensersSpecial-Teas.com  ~ LongviewIowa.com

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.  ~ Jennifer Aniston  And how true that is! Yesterday, mom and I had our own bout of spontaneity... We had heard the author, Susan Branch, was coming to the Midwest for a book signing. She is one of Mom's favorite authors; I grew up with her in our home. Susan was to be in Iowa City on Saturday for a book signing. We both wanted to go, but we had a tea at the tearoom and couldn't make it. We were disappointed... but after looking around on her website discovered that she was going to be in Kansas City on Monday evening! We didn't know if our busy week could handle a mad dash to Kansas City, but we decided it was a once in a life-time opportunity and that we should really try and go! And so we did!  We decided we'd also make it a prelude to my birthday which is at the end of the month. Mom thought it would be fun to have...

“You like potato and I like potahto You like tomato and I like tomahto Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto. Let's call the whole thing off” Remember these fun lyrics written by George Gershwin?   That’s all we could think about when we were with our delightful English Hosts!!   What fun we had with different terminology… Here’s just a few: We Say:                                               The English Say: Interstate                                              Dual  Carriage Way Freeway                 ...