by B.L. Unkel | Aug 17, 2024 | Baking
I just love nice surprises, don’t you? Recently, my family had an unexpected one. We discovered mustangs in our front yard. No, not horses. I’m talking about wild Texas grapes. The Surprise Because I mow the yard, I knew there were “berries” growing high in a...
by B.L. Unkel | May 11, 2024 | Everything Else
May 10 was National Shrimp Day. Would it surprise you to learn shrimp is the U.S.’s favorite seafood? Twenty-five percent of all seafood eaten in the U.S. is shrimp. Food History Humans, especially those who lived near the sea, started eating shrimp thousands...
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 10, 2024 | History
Today’s technology provides a variety of ways to deliver news and entertainment immediately to people around the world. In the past, and especially over long distances, there was only one way to do that—radio. The History The invention of the radio wasn’t a...
by B.L. Unkel | Dec 30, 2023 | Holidays
2023 is quickly coming to an end, or rather, 2024 is fast approaching. And you know what that means? People are setting goals for the new year. Trains Have you ever ridden on a train? I’ve been on several in the states (specifically in Washington and Alaska),...
