More than 90% of cats past age 12 show signs of degenerative joint disease. Many of those cats never full-out limp. A stiff jump onto the couch or a skipped trip to the litter box is often the only clue anyone gets. These are small changes that make life easier for senior pets in Maryland…
The average winter’s snowfall across the Twin Cities is 54 inches, and a mail carrier on foot walks through a good share of it. You can bet they’re taking note of a lot of things. These are the things Minnesota mail carriers notice about a house long before anyone answers the door. 1. Dog in…
A Nevadan who packs up for almost any other state gets a jolt on their first paycheck: An extra line for state income tax. That’s just one of many things that Nevadans miss most after they move away. 1. Public Land Nobody Fences More than 80 percent of Nevada’s land belongs to the federal government,…
Can you name the only U.S. state that has to print the word “USA” on its license plate just to prove where it’s from? New Mexico has done exactly that since 1969, according to the state’s tourism magazine. That’s only the start. These are the things that confuse everyone who moves to New Mexico. Note:…
More than half of every bottle of Korbel brandy sold in the U.S. lands in a Wisconsin glass, according to a 2019 sales count from the distillery. It comes from the supper club, the classic Wisconsin restaurant built around a slow dinner, a stiff drink, and a set of rules nobody hands out-of-staters at the…
Nebraska Athletics’ 2026 schedule sends fans back to Memorial Stadium this Saturday, October 3, for the Big Ten home opener against Maryland. Plenty of them will stop for a Runza before kickoff without looking at the menu. These are the Nebraska Runza rules Nebraskans enforce without saying so. 1. Calling It a Runza, Not a…
You pull off I-35 in West, Texas, point at a tray of sausage-stuffed rolls, and ask for two kolaches. The clerk reaches for a different tray instead. Texas lawmakers named West the state’s Czech heritage capital back in 1997, and the bakeries inside that town are still understandably proud of it. These are the Texas…
Snowbird season doesn’t begin the day the first out-of-state license plate appears in town. For many Floridians, it begins weeks earlier. The quieter days of fall come with a deadline: Get ready before the pace changes. These are the things Floridians do in the weeks before snowbirds arrive. 1. Home-Watch Key Stack Home-watch and property-management…
Mobile Bay Magazine credits a Junior League of Mobile cookbook with more than 164,000 copies sold since 1964, and collectors still spend hours hunting down a copy. The book survived. The scratch cooking inside it mostly didn’t, and cooks everywhere have traded it for shortcuts since. These are the Alabama church cookbook recipes new people…
You’d never guess it, but your local librarian can watch a town’s next budget showdown coming before a single yard sign goes up. In May 2026, Lafayette Parish voters rejected the property tax that funds most of the library system, according to the parish’s election returns. The same question returns to voters this December. These…
