by B.L. Unkel | Mar 30, 2024 | Everything Else
Spring is settling into Texas, and with it comes spring cleaning—inside and out. The Meeting A couple of weeks ago, I was cleaning out the small red barn we use for storage. It’s on its last legs, so I’d bought a replacement. But before we could move the new...
by B.L. Unkel | Mar 9, 2024 | Everything Else
Tonight—well, technically tomorrow morning—we’ll lose an hour as we set our clocks forward to Daylight Saving Time (DST). What do you know about it? Benjamin Franklin If you ever saw the movie “National Treasure,” you heard the main characters credit Benjamin...
by B.L. Unkel | Feb 24, 2024 | Everything Else
The 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) season opened this week. That makes today the perfect time to talk baseball caps. History Baseball’s first “official” team, the New York Knickerbockers (formed in 1845), adopted the first official team uniform and hat in...
by B.L. Unkel | Jan 20, 2024 | Everything Else
Winter brings the need to bundle up against the cold. Part of that process is donning a hat. Hat History Head coverings were invented for more than just protecting the wearer’s head. A hat can also indicate a person’s job, as well as their social status. They...
by B.L. Unkel | Jan 6, 2024 | Everything Else
On January 1, I did something I hadn’t done since I was a child. I watched part of the Rose Parade, before watching the day’s slate of football bowl games. History It all began with tourism. In the winter of 1890, Pasadena, California’s illustrious Valley Hunt...
by B.L. Unkel | Dec 16, 2023 | Everything Else
What do Christmas, Druids, a Norse god, and bird droppings have in common? Mistletoe, of course! The Plant Mistletoe is a semi-parasitic plant that grows in large spherical clumps on a wide variety of hosts—trees and shrubs. Some mistletoe clumps can get as...
