A podcast series featuring featuring craft breweries from the Shenandoah Valley. Host, Janet Michael chats with owners & brewers about the path to opening their brewery, their background, what they’ve learned along the way and where they’re headed in the future.
If you’re going to jump, today is the day! According to National Day Calendar dot com today is National Frog Jumping day! That doesn’t mean you find a frog to jump over, it means you find a frog and enter him, or her, in the Calaveras County Fair and Frog Jumping Jubilee. In 1865, Mark […]
Happy birthday to my little eight ball. Today is my middle son Evan’s birthday. I call him my little eight ball because he was born in 2008, at 8:08, he weighed eight pounds, eight ounces and if you add today’s date, five, one, two, you get eight. He’s not little anymore, as a matter of […]
Spring time and we’re all very busy. How busy, you ask? According to English By Day dot com, there are several comparisons to determine exactly how busy you may be. You may have a lot on your plate. Slammed is another level of being busy. You may be snowed under or swamped. You could be […]
Tool time Tuesday. Did a bit of cooking over the weekend, including making homemade gravy. One of the tools I used was a sauce whisk. According to Home Stratosphere dot com, whisks come in a lot of shapes and sizes. They can be made of several different materials. The one I used was all metal. […]
It came to an end on May 9, 1971, or did it? According to History dot com, the last original episode of the very popular show, The Honeymooners, aired. Although a perennial rerun favorite in syndication, The Honeymooners actually aired only 39 episodes in its familiar sitcom format, running for just one season in 1955-56. The show […]
They’re malted and they are fabulous! One of my favorite candy, mind you the list is long, is the malt ball. According to Candy Favorites dot com, The idea for malted milk balls originally began in England. In 1887, William Horlick created malted milk powder. At the time, he thought he would market it as […]
Little boxes hauling little boxes. You see them on the streets of most towns and cities in the United States. I’m talking about the little old mail trucks. They are nondescript yet very familiar. They are known as the Grumman LLV, or Long Life Vehicle. They were built by Grumman, the same company who made […]
May the fourth…be with you! Happy National Star Wars Day! Believe it or not, the day didn’t come from Star War fans, at least not American ones. According to National Day Calendar dot com, in 1979 Britain elected the first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. On May 4th, the day she took office, the Conservative […]
Tool time Tuesday. I was a bit torqued over the weekend. I tried to get the rear wheels off my wife’s Jeep to check the brakes and adjust the emergency brake. I tried my brand new impact wrench, but the lug nuts wouldn’t budge. I tried my 4 way lug wrench and I couldn’t make […]
Nessy gets some press! According to History dot com, it was on May 2, 1933 that the first sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was reported in the newspaper the Iverness Courier. The article shared the account of a local couple who reported seeing “an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.” The “monster” […]
In the latest SDPC, I am joined by Scott Bradley, as we talk about the new name for The Washington Football Team. According to sources, the team is down to 3 finalists for it’s new nickname, and the new name will be unveiled at the start of the regular season. We discuss the name change […]
With MLB slogging through the Dog Days, the Olympic Games in the rear view mirror, and the NFL regular season a few weeks away, we use the down time on the Sports Dogs Podcast to stroll down memory lane and remember 4 area golf courses that no longer exist: Stonebridge in Martinsburg, Virginia National in […]
In this edition of the SDPC, Coach C, Mike Costello, aka the “C-Dog” comes out of the bullpen to talk about the Nats’ recent “fire sale,” the Summer Games, and college conference realignment…
After a week of vacation, the Sports Dogs Podcast is back, as we continue to highlight our area golf courses. This week, it’s a chat with Brian Jones of Blue Ridge Shadows, just north of Front Royal on Rt. 522. Take our verbal “tour” of The Shadows and make sure to get out there and […]
The first Shenandoah Valley craft brewery featured in our Shenandoah Valley BeerPod podcast series is Winchester Brew Works. Host, Janet Michael chats with owners *& brewers, […]
The second Shenandoah Valley Craft Brewery featured in our Shenandoah Valley BeerPod podcast series is Swover Creek Farm Brewery. Host, Janet Michael chats with owners, Lynn […]
The third Shenandoah Valley Craft Brewery featured in our in our Shenandoah Valley BeerPod podcast series is Backroom Brewery. Host, Janet Michael chats with owner, Billie […]
The fourth Shenandoah Valley craft brewery featured in our Shenandoah Valley BeerPod podcast series is Siblings Rivalry Brewery. Host, Janet Michael chats with owner, Kyle Slonecker […]