The Jackson Ranch in the Heart of San Antonio

04/12/2025

Congratulations to the Renaissance Faery Fest 🧚‍♀️ Costume Contest winners❣️
• Best Overall:
Green Faery, Emily Chadwell🧚
• Best Handmade:
The Kingsman, Daniel Stoneham🧚‍♂️
• Best Under 13:
Galadriel, Kayleigh Harp🧚‍♀️
• Best Group:
Woodland Mills Faeries, Karen Mills & Family🧚

Congratulations all❣️🌈❤️
Much gratitude to Sherwood Forest Faire for sponsoring the Renaissance Faire At The Jackson Ranch Costume Contests💕


We look forward to seeing you all at the Renaissance Elven Christmas Fest, San Antonio Food Bank drive , November 29 + 30🧚‍♀️ at the Historic Jackson Ranch 🌈💛

04/01/2025

Never, ever judge, period❣️ On that note, even though the Historic Jackson Ranch looks like it's a little worn down, it's still one of the most beautiful and peaceful places in San Antonio🌻 If you see it any other way, or with negativity, then please clear your mind, breathe deeply and let out all the negative space within you. Then, open your heart and your mind, and let the calm in💛

03/26/2025

As part of the 14th biannual Renaissance Faire At The Jackson Ranch this weekend, March 29th and 30th, we will offer chick adoptions, 2/$10❣️ Proceeds benefit the Animal Defense League of Texas .
As they are newborns, they're currently covered in black and yellow fuzz. But, they will grow up to look like the Marans in the enclosed photos. We are ever grateful to Janelle O'Rourke, Maran breeder, for donating the chicks 💛

For each set adopted, the new owner will be required to sign an adoption agreement, explicitly explaining how to care for the chicks, and that they will do so without fail 💞🐥 Also, a small baggie of feed accompanies each pair, as well as a coupon for Locke Hill Feed, Pet & Lawn Supply 😍

Fun, fun, fun! Just in time for Easter! Wouldn't you like to get your eggs from your own backyard?

See you this weekend at the Renaissance Faery Fest , on the grounds of the Historic Jackson Ranch Landmark, 8910 Callaghan Rd 78230.

Free entrance with a canned, packaged or $5 donation to the San Antonio Food Bank, look for the red barrels❤️ Or, a pet food donation to Daisy Cares, in the green barrels💚

🧚Also, enjoy archery, an Open Mic stage, vendors, raffle, costume contests, artists at work, stuffed turkey legs, boudin balls, sweet treats, hair garland workshop, face painting, and much more🧚‍♂️ Contact Patrice Villastrigo to vend or donate to raffle❣️


See you in 3 days! Mark your calendars. March 29 + 30💜 Event link: Click 'Going', 'Share' and 'Invite' your peeps❣️
https://www.facebook.com/share/1BoS7F2qgY/

03/03/2025

Dose of hilarious comedy with the late, Joan Rivers. Enjoy!

01/20/2025

Celebrating the birth anniversary of Danny Kaye, one of my favorite entertainers, across multiple fields 🌹

REMEMBERING DAVID DANIEL KAMINSKY, “Renaissance Man”
“If Danny Kaye had not been born,” a Hollywood writer once wrote, “no one could possibly have invented him. It would have been stretching credibility far past the breaking point”.
January 18, 1911 was the birthday of this virtuoso entertainer. Kaye was a Renaissance man who was a jet pilot, baseball club owner, master Chinese chef, symphony orchestra conductor, a movie star, actor, singer, dancer and stage performer honored with Oscars, Emmys, Peabodys, Golden Globes, and Kennedy Center Honors. He won a Special Oscar service award in 1955 and the Jean Hersholt Award for humanitarian service in 1982. He won a Tony for his variety show at the Palace Theater in 1953. He received many other honors from organizations as diverse as the Lions Club and the American College of Cardiology. He routinely made the Best Dressed List until he started wearing custom-made "space shoes" with white crew socks for his sore feet. The French bestowed the Legion of Honor on him. The Queen of Denmark knighted him. He was presented with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. His interests were many and varied, but whatever he did, he did well.
Kaye developed a highly individual performance style that combined mime, song, irony, and brilliance. His specialty was reciting tongue-twisting songs and monologues. Those powers were perhaps seen at their best in the theater, where he could hold an audience with 90 minutes of song, dance and patter.
He had an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball, and was part owner of the Seattle Mariners, though his heart remained with the (once Brooklyn) Dodgers. He read cookbooks like novels, mastered the art of Chinese cooking, and built a kitchen with a multi-wok stove in the alley of his home. On one occasion, Kaye cooked a meal for three of France’s most eminent chefs. A friend asked if he wasn’t terribly nervous about cooking for such a distinguished trio. “Why should I be nervous?” Kaye replied. “What do they know about Chinese cooking?”
This son of Jewish immigrants who grew up poor in Brooklyn and never finished high school, Kaye became an international man who was at home wherever he was and in whatever he did, equally at ease dining with royals or having coffee at his kitchen table with the plumber.
As UNICEF’S first Goodwill Ambassador, a post he cherished from 1954 until the end of his life, Kaye pioneered the role of a celebrity supporting a charity. “He related to children with a child’s lack of inhibition”, said his daughter Dena. He rubbed noses, made funny noises, crawled on the floor and danced with lepers. In 1965, he joined UNICEF’s official delegation in Oslo when the organization received the Nobel Peace Prize, and he accepted the award for them.
Danny Kaye couldn’t read music – he learned symphony scores by ear – but he regularly conducted world-famous orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic. He raised close to $6 million, mostly for musicians’ pension funds, without ever accepting a fee for his services. He got a “sound” that was praised by noted critics, musicians and conductors. But Danny Kaye was also Danny Kaye: He used a fly swatter to conduct “The Flight of the Bumblebee”.
Danny Kaye was one of a kind. There will never be another like him. He combined talent, versatility and skill with passion and joy. The world was a better place when he graced it with his special touch.

01/20/2025

Kudos to President Joe Biden for releasing Leonard Peltier within his last few moments as President 👏 🙌 👌

Biden commutes sentence for indigenous activist Leonard Peltier

01/09/2025

Morning fun ... The Dating Game (1969) featuring Farrah Fawcett 🌹

12/16/2024

Greetings from the Historic Jackson Ranch ❣️ Happy holidays to you and your family🌈💛
We invite you to join our Faire, the Renaissance Christmas Yule Fest 🔥 🎄 Held on the beautiful and peaceful grounds of the Historic Jackson Ranch Landmark, in the heart of San Antonio❤️
Vendors: $40 per day/ 3 days. Provide own canopy, tables and chairs. We invoice the first $40 via Cash app, G pay, or Square with a tiny fee. The balance is due the first day of the faire❣️

Free public entrance with a canned, packaged, or $5 donation to the San Antonio Food Bank ❤️

The 13th biannual Fall/Winter Renaissance Faire At The Jackson Ranch food bank fundraiser will be for 3 days this year 🤺 December 20, 21, and 22 ✨️ 10 AM to 4 PM daily 💜 Sooo much fun for the entire family! Get your final holiday shopping accomplished via a variety of vendors🎄4 Costume Contests - Best Overall - Best Handmade - Best under 12 - Best Group🤴👰
Place your well wishes and future hopes during the Yule Log Ceremony🔥
Open Mic for music, poetry, and performances🎤
Juan Brown's JBbbq fabulous stuffed turkey legs and so much more🍗
Plus, farmers market, sweets and baked goods, archery, petting zoo, face painting, dancers, visits from Old Saint Nikolaus, and the Allfather / Óðinn, and so much more❣️🔥👸🤺

Contact us to participate as a vendor - $40 holds your 10 x 10 spot 💛 DM us here, or text us at 2108464646❣️

* >* ‼️Beware of spammers! You will only be speaking with Patrice Villastrigo and receiving messages from Patrice or the Jackson Ranch Landmark about this event‼️ Further, there are no paper or online tickets for this event! Simply walk in with your friends and family with your food bank donation❣️ *< *

Event link: https://www.facebook.com/share/ChojeR287pSyqkY4/?mibextid=9VsGKo

Please click 'Going', then 'Share' and 'Invite' your peeps❣️

11/22/2024

The Renaissance Christmas Yule Fest 🔥 is December 20 - 22, at the Historic Jackson Ranch 💜

More fun is to be had the weekend before at the Sherwood Forest Faire Celtic Music Festival. I'll be there December 14. Who will join me for this fabulous holiday fun? $7 entry ..