Category Archives: Austin
Fair food recipe - Fried Oreos
In celebration of all the city, county, and state fairs in August, I'm tracking down recipes for everybody's favorite fair foods. And if they're fried, all the better. Today it's an easy one, Deep Fri...
Aug 01, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
Real bear or human in suit at zoo? Watch and be the judge.
Apparently the biggest issue in the world today is whether or not a bear at a Chinese zoo is real or a person in a suit. There's a video going around of a bear at this zoo standing on his two back leg...
Jul 31, 2023 Marie Hale / CC
Dangers in Florida: pythons, gators, and leprosy.
Bad news, Leprosy cases are on the rise. Good news, it's predominantly in southern states.........so we're cool in Nebraska at the moment. Seriously though, Florida accounts for 81% of all the leprosy...
Jul 31, 2023 Image Editor / CC
Alf and Ryan Reynolds working together. See new Alf shorts in blog.
Alf is coming back, kind of. Ryan Reynolds, of course it's Ryan Reynolds, has teamed up with the creator of Alf to air the old episodes on the channel Shout Studios. There will be some new content. Ry...
Jul 28, 2023 MEDIODESCOCIDO / CC
See how fast a grizzly bear can attack. Angry bear video in blog.
There's this Grizzly bear in Montana that had been a nuisance, going after local chicken coops and causing trouble. So they caught it in order to release it in a different area. They were at the relea...
Jul 28, 2023 Michael Fraley / CC
Bud Clydesdale horses in Lincoln Friday afternoon.
Meet the Budweiser Clydesdale horses Friday. They're doing a little tour of this side of Nebraska this week. Friday, they'll be hanging out he U-Stop on 84th and Cornhusker in Lincoln from 4 to 6. App...
Jul 27, 2023 slgckgc / CC
Splooting Squirrels in our yard. Bonus- how to build a backyard squirrel house.
I've turned into the neighborhood's crazy squirrel guy. I'm looking into building a backyard shelter and possible a swimming pool, for the squirrels living in our trees. The heat's been so bad that th...
Jul 27, 2023
New Mustard Flavored Skittles. Wanna win some? Link to contest page in blog.
Skittles has team up with French's. Do you see where this is going? It's not rainbow colored mustard. It's mustard flavored Skittles. Each Skittle is like a drop of French's mustard melting on your to...
Jul 26, 2023 edkohler / CC
Video of Hippo with the zoomies. May make you want one for Xmas.
If you've ever had a dog, cat, guinea pig, 4 year old human, or most young furry friends, then you've probably seen them suddenly take off running wild and a joyful manner. It's called "The Zoomies". ...
Jul 25, 2023 Lacey Steward / CC
Man in coma loses dog. Chat rooms bring them back together. Tears are shed.
This is a heartwarming story. A man named Bubba Nulisch was hospitalized last April from an infection. It got so bad that they had to induce a coma. He was in that coma for three weeks. He came out of...
Jul 25, 2023 Ninoska Zamora / CC