MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Veterans Day Vs. Memorial Day

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Veterans Day Vs. Memorial Day

*MUNDANE MYSTERIES is brought to you by Airtron Heating & Air Conditioning. Some national holidays get a little muddled in our minds, most notably Memorial Day & Veterans Day. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has encountered enough of the confusion to have dedicated an entire section of their website to explaining the difference between…

These Local Restaurants Will Make Thanksgiving For You!

These Local Restaurants Will Make Thanksgiving For You!

So you want to have an amazing Thanksgiving but do not want to have to do the hours of cooking and cleaning?  Check out these local restaurants who want to take care of cooking the meal for you! 7th Street Cafe 301-663-1516 Thanksgiving Menu Brewer’s Alley 301-631-0089 Thanksgiving Menu Buttersburg Inn 410-775-9939 Thanksgiving Menu Canapes…

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: The Difference Between Herbs & Spices

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: The Difference Between Herbs & Spices

*MUNDANE MYSTERIES is brought to you by Airtron Heating & Air Conditioning! We all know of that one particular brand of chicken made with its “famous blend of 11 herbs & spices”. But, have you ever stopped to think not what those exact herbs & spices are, but what herbs & spices exactly are? Herbs…

{Katie’s Kitchen} Easy Shrimp Scampi

{Katie’s Kitchen} Easy Shrimp Scampi

Brought to you by Catoctin Mountain Orchard. I was looking for something to make the other night for dinner and realized I had most of the ingredients for shrimp scampi. My version is dairy free, too, which was exciting to me! I used a 1lb of peeled frozen large shrimp and defrost them in cold…

{Katie’s Baby Blog} Halloween Recap

{Katie’s Baby Blog} Halloween Recap

We had a great Halloween! We did our little trunk-or-treat party and froze our butts off, but it was so much fun!!! My little Abby Cadabby loved trick or treating, but made me carry her from car to car to get candy. Once she got the idea that she was getting things by stopping at…

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Do You Really Swallow 8 Spiders Per Year In Your Sleep?

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Do You Really Swallow 8 Spiders Per Year In Your Sleep?

No one…literally no one…wants to even think about this. But it’s been a pervasive statement for as long as I can remember. Luckily, that “fact” you may have heard about people swallowing 8 spiders in their sleep each year…it ain’t true. Not even close, really, as it genuinely flies in the face of the biology…

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Why Is A Leg Cramp Called A “Charley Horse”?

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Why Is A Leg Cramp Called A “Charley Horse”?

Ever experienced a Charley Horse, the painful leg muscle spasm or cramp? If you have, then you know they can hurt like nobody’s business! And, once the pain subsided, you probably found yourself asking, “Who’s this Charley fella & why’s his horse hurting my leg? Healthline.com says that leg cramps are “generally treatable at home”…

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Can You Vote From Space?

MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Can You Vote From Space?

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins officially voted earlier this week from a makeshift booth aboard the International Space Station. As cool as it might’ve been for her to have had her ballot zoomed back to Earth by a tiny rocket, it was actually much more boring than that…it basically got sent to her county clerk digitally…