Archives: 2008 February

Have you ever been confident (maybe even enough that you argued with somebody about it) that there was one more apple in the back of the refrigerator drawer–making exactly the right number for this great new recipe–just to find out, when you dug down to get it, that that round fruit was an orange, not an apple?
Life has […]

” . . . a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.” Most of us have at least heard Frank Loesser’s song, part of the Broadway version of Guys and Dolls, but have you ever wondered how much a bushel is? or how much a peck?
Neither unit of measure is included in standard elementary […]