by B.L. Unkel | Mar 18, 2023 | Everything Else
Leaving Middle Tennessee for the Gulf Coast of Texas meant leaving behind four seasons, beautiful hilly terrain, and my house. I’ll miss all of that. What I won’t miss are the vultures that roosted in the trees behind the house. Close Encounter The first...
by B.L. Unkel | Mar 11, 2023 | Travel
Not every city, county, and state in the U.S. have the same laws. And some laws, that made sense at the time they were written, are now so out of touch they’re ridiculous. Others seem totally bizarre, regardless of when they were written. In any case, if a law is...
by B.L. Unkel | Feb 4, 2023 | Everything Else
All animals are fascinating, but some are more so than others. Recently, I learned that most woodpeckers’ long tongues retract into their mouth past the back of the skull and up over the top of the skull. In other words, their tongue wraps around their skull. Who...
by B.L. Unkel | Dec 17, 2022 | Baking
Time for more Butter trivia. “Modern” History As mentioned in last week’s, Did You Know No Mummy Would Be Caught Dead Without Butter?, until the nineteenth century, butter was produced by hand-churning only. The first butter production factories...
by B.L. Unkel | Dec 10, 2022 | History
How much do you know about butter? Probably not as much as you think. Butter Contrary to popular belief by the young, butter doesn’t just magically appear on store shelves. It’s a dairy product produced by churning fresh—from real animals, usually cows—milk or...
