Heat Index

When its hot outside, I like to fall into a good BBC America series. The heat index here is over 100 degrees again, so where am I? Enjoying some great British television. What are your favorites? Doctor Who? Torchwood? Hotel Babylon... or the oldies, perhaps? Keeping Up Appearances? All Creatures Great and Small?

I live in farm country in the U.S. and recently started watching "All Creatures Great and Small" on my Roku video streaming through Netflix. In one episode, Siegfried and James desperately require a medicine for white scour and they pitted each drug company rep against the other. What I realized, Cargill was the name of the company that they received the experimental drug from... Cargill is a big agriculture company in my area. Now given that the setting of this series was around 1940, and they mentioned that Cargill had been around since the 1850's, I immediately set out to check the facts. Whadda ya know? Cargill started in 1865! So in 2015, the company will be celebrating 150 years of business. Not many companies make it that long.

So an early "Happy Birthday" to Cargill! I hope I'm invited to the party!