Dec 8, 2018
My friend Celeste was devastated when the city said she couldn’t keep her pet pig in her Houston home. It caused quite a brouhaha.
Believe it or not, pigs make great pets. Pigs are perspicacious and with a little food encouragement, they can learn many tricks. Perspicacious is another word for intelligent. Pigs...
Dec 2, 2018
This year over 27 million people will be shopping for a live Christmas tree. In the old days, families would have to go out in the woods, search for that perfect tree and chop it down. But Christmas tree farms have made bringing home that beautiful tree as simple as going to the grocery store. But how did Christmas...
Oct 25, 2018
Recently a traveler alerted an airline that she would be bringing an emotional-support animal on a flight from Orlando to Cleveland. What she failed to mention is that this particular animal would be so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Now that’s a bit twistical. Twistical is another word for not quite...
Oct 22, 2018
If you’re like me, this time of year your blood type is ‘pumpkin spice!’ Here are some sweet facts about Halloween Candy: The process of covering a chocolate center with hard candy like an M&M is called Enrobing!
Harry Burnett Reese named his chocolate-covered peanut butter cup after himself. Did you know...
Oct 22, 2018
Did you know the average US worker spends over a thousand dollars a year on coffee? We seem to think that coffee will relieve the Storm und drang (shtoom oon drong) or the stress of life. I admit I love coffee, especially in the morning. If I don’t get my cup of Joe I can become quite a quaddler. A quaddler is...