Ice cream and hot summer days go together like peanut butter and jelly. There is just something about that feeling of cool, creamy bliss that makes our taste buds and our souls happy. Unfortunately, that creamy goodness can be anything but good– often packing hundreds, if not thousands, of calories in one serving. With more ...
A winter storm must meet certain qualifications to be characterized as an official blizzard. In a blizzard, visibility is reduced to a quarter of a mile or less from falling OR blowing snow, and the wind speed is at least thirty-five miles an hour for no less than three hours. Blizzards have struck without warning ...
If you mention the city of Buffalo NY many people will say that they have heard of it. However when you ask these people what they know about the city I have a feeling the only thing someone will say is that we went to four straight Supper Bowls, and came out with as many ...
The Black Blizzards are a weather phenomenon that struck the southern Great Plains of the United States in the 1930’s. These so-called blizzards were in fact massive dust storms that wreaked havoc on the plains. The decade in which the Black Blizzards occurred is often referred to as the dirty 30’s. The storms are referred ...
In the late 1970s when leopard geckos that were caught in the wild were being imported into the United States into the pet trade, very little was known about the species. In fact, leopard geckos in the wild can be grouped into several different species and subspecies. Without this knowledge, the imports that were meant ...
Music, gas prices, childhood, and a Dairy Queen Blizzard. Everything seemed sweet in the 90’s. While Blizzards are obviously available at any Dairy Queen across the United States, they just had to eliminate my favorite one: The Nerds Blizzard. Dairy Queen’s Nerds Blizzard was the combination of creamy soft serve ice cream mixed with the ...
