REALLY GOOD DELI STYLE TUNA SALAD
Wednesday happy greetings, friends.
Presenting today’s read full of things to ponder +interestings + laughs + simple and unique tuna salad recipe – deli quality!
The April showers art illustrations caught my attention.
You know how the saying goes — April showers bring May flowers.
Well, I don’t have any flowers bursting out just yet — but plenty of weed thrive around here in the gardens. Not a fan of the weeds, as they require removal via hand, hoe or shovel. But (!) makes me know flowers will be following the weed lead.
Thanks all for popping in today and giving us a piece of your Wednesday + sharing + engaging.
We so appreciate ya!
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POP QUIZ
“FATHER OF THE AMERICAN NAVY” JOHN PAUL JONES COMMANDED (AND LOST) WHAT SHIP IN THE PROCESS OF CAPTURING THE HMS SERAPIS IN SEPTEMBER 1779?
a) Bonhomme Richard
b) Endeavour
c) Independence
d) Victory
ALTHOUGH HE IS CONSIDERED THE SPIRITUAL LEADER OF TIBET, THE DALAI LAMA CURRENTLY LIVES IN EXILE IN WHAT COUNTRY?
a) Cambodia
b) China
c) India
d) Japan
SIR ISSAC PITMAN AND JOHN ROBERT GREGG ARE MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH WHAT OLD-TIME OFFICE TIMESAVER?
a) Adding machine
b) Carbon paper
c) Postage meter
d) Shorthand writing system
QUICK QUESTION
WOULD YOU RATHER BE A RABBIT OR A HORSE?
POP QUIZ ANSWERS
- John Paul Jones’ ship Bonhomme Richard was destroyed in battle and had to be abandoned.
- Since the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, the Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India.
- Pitman and Gregg developed shorthand writing systems.
~ COPYRIGHT 2025 LESLIE ELMAN
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INTO EACH LIFE SOME RAIN MUST FALL
~ HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ~
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
TRY TO BE AMUSED BY THINGS YOU ONCE TOOK
SERIOUSLY — SOMEONE CUTTING IN FRONT OF YOU
FOR EXAMPLE
RIDDLE ME THIS
IF YOU HAVE ME, YOU WANT TO SHARE ME,
IF YOU SHARE ME, YOU HAVEN’T KEPT ME.
What am I?
REALLY GOOD DELI STYLE TUNA SALAD
~ I realize we all have our favorite mix it up tuna salad for a sandwich go-to. I did. However, this recipe is totally my now and forever go-to. Between 2 slices of soft fresh bread, on top of a simple lettuce salad or a hot tuna melt on rye with a couple slices of Swiss cheese on top. It’s stellar. Give it a try. Doubt you’ll be disappointed!
HERE’S HOW WE MAKE IT
INGREDIENTS:
2 (5 ounce) cans chunk tuna packed in water, drained
2 hard boiled eggs, chopped
1/2 cup good quality mayonnaise
2 ribs celery, finely diced
2 scallions (green onions) light and dark parts, thin sliced
1 TBSP fresh lemon juice (about one large lemon)
2 TBSP sweet pickle relish
3 TBSP finely chopped flat leaf parsley
1 tsp each — salt + pepper
IN A MEDIUM SIZE BOWL
Thoroughly mix all ingredients together.
Ideally, put in fridge for an hour to let all do the meet-and-greet and become one.
SERVE (!)
~ Hippie Cowboy recipe box
RIDDLE ANSWER
A SECRET
LOST IN SUBURBIA
THE EYEBROWS HAVE IT
BY TRACY BECKERMAN
As I perused the latest fashion magazine, I noticed something about the models.
They all had big eyebrows. Big, perfect eyebrows. Big, sculpted perfectly groomed and arched eyebrows.
And I did not.
Not that I’m comparing myself to a model, because that would be impossible on just so many levels. I could not make myself 6 feet tall, 115 pounds and willowy without a body transplant. But I could have fabulous brows. Apparently, all I needed to achieve uber-eyebrows was a kit.
“This eyebrow kit has a dark wax to define and shape your brows, along with a setting powder,” said the eyebrow lady at the eyebrow salon. “There is also a brush to create an arch for your brows and another to help fill them in. You also get a stencil to get a stencil to get the perfect shape and a lighter pencil to go under your brows to help highlight the arch. AND there is a trimmer in there to help with the unruly eyebrow hairs that can’t be tamed.”
I looked at the array of tools and counted. All total, there were seven items needed to achieve the perfect eyebrow. That was more than all the other products I used on my whole body every day. Still, I was curious to see what products I would look like with fabulous brows, so I jumped in the beauty brow chair and let her work her eyebrow magic on me. When she was done, I actually looked like a supermodel … from the eyebrows up.
I was so excited I bought the kit for a gazillion dollars and ran home to give it a try. I scrubbed off my perfect, professionally shaped eyebrows and followed the at-home directions.
It took me an hour, and when I was done they looked amazing …
If I wanted to look like Jack Nicholson.
I recognized the problem: The arch was too high, making me look like someone surprised me, all the time. I added some more color under my arch. It was an improvement.
Now I looked like Eugene Levy.
Thinking it might help, I extended the brow line in both directions. Now I looked like my Great Uncle Hy, who had brows so big and thick, they looked like they could reach out and shake your hand. His eyebrows were so legendary, we actually called him Great Uncle Hybrows.
At this point I was pretty sure the Jack Nicholson-Eugene Levy-Old Jewish Man was —
A) not the eyebrow trend I’d seen in magazines
B) Would probably scare small children
C) Actually made me look like a Schnauzer.
I decided to wash the whole thing off and try again.
This time I pointed the stencil down and filled it in a little darker. Now I looked like a villain from a Disney movie. The dog took one look at me and ran out of the room. I’m convinced he thought I was Cruella de Vil.
After my fourth try, I decided I did not have the talent, money or time to continue this endeavor. So I did the one thing I knew would give me great eyebrows like the magazine models. I cut them out and taped them to my face.
~ COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM
Fascinating Stuff
FASCINATING STUFF
Nectarines are mutant, fuzz-free cousins of peaches that bypassed the peach’s dominant trait for fuzziness. Both fruits originated in China, which grows more that 50% of the world’s supply. In 2015, a road construction project in China unearthed eight fossilized peach pits estimated to be about 2.5 million years old. It was the first tangible evidence that the peach’s history goes back that far.
Dry Tortugas National Park in Florida spans 100 square miles, most of which is underwater. Throughout history, numerous trading ships passed through the area traveling through the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and many were wrecked on the journey, thanks to the area’s treacherously shallow water and its susceptibility to violent storms. The wrecks beneath the park’s waters — now considered “submerged cultural resources” — number in the hundreds.
At the center of the traditional Tibetan Buddhist “Wheel of Life” painting are depictions of a pig, a snake and a bird chasing one another in a circle. They represent spiritual ignorance, anger and desire — what Buddhists call the “three poisons” that prevent people from reaching spiritual enlightenment.
Early QWERTY manual typewriter keyboards rarely had keys for the number 1 or an exclamation point. Typists used a lowercase letter L for the number 1. They typed an apostrophe, backspaced and then typed a period beneath it to form an exclamation point. The QWERTY system — named for the first five letters on the top left of the keyboard — was patented in 1878 by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaperman from Milwaukee.
~COPYRIGHT 2025 LESLIE ELMAN
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Happy wed I love the eye brow story I think We have all tried something like that it looked amazing when they did it for us and we go home and try and copy an spent a ton of money and it just doesn’t quite look the same Even though they have promised us it’s very easy we’ve given you everything you need to look fabulous🤣 The tunafish looks delicious definitely gonna have to try that one have a great day everyone
Oh my! I’d forgotten about QWERTY keyboards and their lack of the number 1 and exclamation points! I used both of the stated hacks for years before some wonderful person set things right. Then it took a while to get used to the “1” actually being available. Haha!
Tracey was her usual spot on funny. Always love her flavor for humor in life.
My mom’s tuna salad remains my all time favorite but I do enjoy venturing out occasionally and the deli style tuna recipe is a must-try.
Thanks for the fun!
Thank you Daymaker for another great read. I’ve just printed your recipe for tuna fish sandwiches or salads.. Yes, we all make tuna fish but there were a few things in the recipe that will boost my taste buds. BTW my favorite canned tuna is Costco’s Albacore Tuna packed in water. Onward