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Small batch herbs/seasonings, gluten free baking mixes and freeze dried candy.

06/11/2026

🕰️ Thursday Tidbit

Last week’s tidbit touched on how time zones came to be.

But the switch to standardized time didn’t happen all at once.

In 1883, when railroads across the United States began using time zones, towns didn’t immediately abandon their local time.

For a while, both existed side by side.

And that led to something unusual.

In some places, it became known as “the day of two noons.”

One noon followed the sun, just like it always had.
The other followed the newly adopted railroad time.

Depending on which clock you were looking at, noon could happen twice… or not quite when you expected it at all.

It didn’t last long.

Standardized time was more practical, and over time, it replaced local time completely.

But for that brief period, time wasn’t just different from town to town…

It could be different within the same place.

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✍ Blog: herndonshollow.blogspot.com

🛍 Culinary blends & popcorn toppers available at The Boise Refillery
(10530 W Fairview Ave, Boise)

06/08/2026

*****UPDATE!: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED*****

🌿 There’s a market coming up next weekend.

I’ll be set up at The Market at Idahome RV Resort in Middleton on June 13 from 11 AM to 3 PM.

It’s a full summer-style market—local vendors, food trucks, and a mix of things to walk through and explore.

I’ll have a smaller, focused lineup with me this time.
Cookies, brownies, muffins… and a few extras.

More details to come as we get closer, but if you’ve been waiting for the next in-person event, this is the one.

💬 Check the website for up-to-date ordering details.
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✍ Blog: herndonshollow.blogspot.com

🛍 Culinary blends & popcorn toppers available at The Boise Refillery
(10530 W Fairview Ave, Boise)

06/04/2026

🕰️ Thursday Tidbit

Clocks didn’t always agree with each other.

Before time was standardized, each town kept its own.

Noon was whenever the sun was highest in the sky… which meant the time in one place could be a few minutes ahead or behind the next town over.

Most of the time, it didn’t matter.

Life moved locally. People stayed close. There wasn’t much need for everything to line up exactly.

But once trains became common, that changed.

Schedules had to be precise.
Arrivals and departures had to match from one place to another.
A difference of even a few minutes could cause real problems.

So in 1883, railroads across the United States adopted a standardized system of time zones to keep everything running on schedule.

It wasn’t even a law at first… just something the rail companies agreed to follow.

The government didn’t officially make it standard until years later.

It’s strange to think about now… but there was a time when “what time is it?” had a different answer depending on where you were standing.

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✍ Blog: herndonshollow.blogspot.com

🛍 Culinary blends & popcorn toppers available at The Boise Refillery
(10530 W Fairview Ave, Boise)

05/28/2026

🍔 Thursday Tidbit

May 28 is known as National Hamburger Day.

But the hamburger doesn’t really have a single place it came from.

There’s no one inventor. No clear moment where it suddenly became what we recognize today.

What we do know is that versions of it were already in motion.

Immigrants brought over dishes like Hamburg steak—seasoned ground beef, usually served on its own.

At some point, here in the United States, someone decided to make it easier to eat.

Put it between bread.
Make it portable.
Sell it quickly.

And that idea caught on.

Different places claim they were first—New York, Wisconsin, Texas, and a few others—but none of those claims can fully shut the door on the rest.

Which usually means the same thing:

It wasn’t invented in one place.

It showed up in several… right around the same time… because it made sense.

Simple food tends to work that way.

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✍ Blog: herndonshollow.blogspot.com

🛍 Culinary blends & popcorn toppers available at The Boise Refillery
(10530 W Fairview Ave, Boise)

05/21/2026

🐙 Thursday Tidbit

Octopuses have three hearts.

Two of them are dedicated to moving blood through the gills, where oxygen is picked up.
The third handles circulation through the rest of the body.

All three are doing their part… but they don’t all behave the same way.

When an octopus is at rest, everything works together smoothly.
The hearts pump, oxygen moves, the system runs the way it should.

But when it swims, something changes.

The main heart—the one responsible for circulating blood through the body—actually stops beating.

Not slows down. Not weakens.

Stops.

Swimming, for an octopus, is expensive in a way it isn’t for most other animals. It disrupts the very system that keeps it going.

Which is why, most of the time, they don’t swim unless they have to.

Instead, they move along the ocean floor.
Slow, deliberate, controlled.

It’s not because they can’t swim well. They can.

It’s just not the way they’re built to move for long.

So even with the ability to move quickly when needed, they rely on a slower, more sustainable way of getting from one place to another.

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✍ Blog: herndonshollow.blogspot.com

🛍 Culinary blends & popcorn toppers available at The Boise Refillery
(10530 W Fairview Ave, Boise)

05/14/2026

🐝 Thursday Tidbit

Honey doesn’t spoil.

Not eventually. Not under normal conditions.
Properly stored honey has been found in ancient tombs… and it’s still perfectly edible.

It comes down to how it’s made.

Honey is naturally low in moisture and high in sugar, which makes it a pretty unfriendly place for bacteria to grow. On top of that, bees add enzymes that create a mild acidity and even small amounts of hydrogen peroxide.

Between all of that, there’s just not much that can survive in it.

If honey does change over time, it’s usually just crystallizing.

It might look different.
It might feel thicker.

But it hasn’t gone bad.

A little warmth brings it right back.

For something so simple, it’s surprisingly durable.

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🛒 Order: hotplate.com/herndonshollow

✍ Blog: herndonshollow.blogspot.com

🛍 Culinary blends & popcorn toppers available at The Boise Refillery
(10530 W Fairview Ave, Boise)

05/10/2026

Mother’s Day doesn’t really need much.

Not a big production.
Not a perfect plan.
Not something carefully put together to look a certain way.

Most of what it’s meant to recognize was never loud to begin with.

It’s in the steady things.
The things that happen every day without being pointed out.
The kind of care that becomes part of the background… until you stop and notice it.

That’s what makes it matter.

Wishing all the mothers a Happy Mother’s Day from Herndon’s Hollow 🌿

05/07/2026

🌸 Thursday Tidbit

Mother’s Day didn’t actually start as a celebration.

The version we know traces back to Anna Jarvis in the early 1900s, who wanted a day to recognize the work and care mothers gave to their families.

It became an official U.S. holiday in 1914.

But here’s the part most people don’t realize…

She ended up hating what it turned into.

As the day grew more popular, it quickly became commercialized—cards, flowers, gifts, all pushed as the “right” way to celebrate.

She believed that missed the point entirely.

The original idea was meant to be simple and personal.
A handwritten letter.
A quiet visit.
Something meaningful, not something purchased.

She even spent years trying to have the holiday removed from the calendar because of what it had become.

Kind of ironic… the person who started it didn’t agree with how we celebrate it now.

💬 Check the website for up-to-date ordering details.
🛒 Order: hotplate.com/herndonshollow

✍ Blog: herndonshollow.blogspot.com

🛍 Culinary blends & popcorn toppers available at The Boise Refillery
(10530 W Fairview Ave, Boise)

04/30/2026

⏳ Thursday Tidbit

Time doesn’t actually speed up as you get older.

It just starts to feel like it does.

When you’re five, a year is a fifth of your entire life.
When you’re ten, it’s a tenth.
When you’re thirty… it’s a much smaller piece of the whole.

Each year takes up less space than the one before it.

So it feels shorter.
Faster.
Easier to lose track of.

Days blur together a little more.
Weeks pass without quite noticing.
And suddenly, you’re wondering where the last month went.

Nothing about time itself has changed.

Same hours. Same days. Same steady pace.

But the way we experience it shifts.

It’s not just time moving—
it’s our perspective stretching around it.

And once you notice that, it’s hard not to keep noticing it. 👀

04/29/2026

☕ Midweek has a way of sneaking up on you.

Not quite the start, not quite the end—
just somewhere in the middle where you realize the week is already moving along whether you’ve kept up with it or not.

It’s the day where plans either settle into place…
or get quietly adjusted.

Around here, it’s usually a bit of both.

Some things go exactly as expected.
Some things don’t.
And most of the time, it all works out anyway.

That’s kind of the nature of it.

Keep going, make the adjustments, and let the rest fall where it will.

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