THANKSGIVING ART AND TRIVIA
Happy Wednesday day-before-Thanksgiving greetings!
Ready?
Ready or not Thanksgiving day is rolling in and I’m excited.
Gonna be with my people – my family – gonna be good times!
I already know that. Been around them my entire life. ha
Terrific line-up to share today!
BEGINNING WITH:
THANKSGIVING ARTWWORK
(final round until this time next year)
LESLIE ELMAN’S
Fascinating Facts and Trivia!
QUICK QUESTION
If an animal could talk which one would be the funniest?
My answer is not an animal or reptile at all.
Pretty sure Charlotte’s Web, Geiko Insurance and Honey Badger have those nailed.
Mine would be an insect – and that insect would be —
** drum roll **
The mosquito!
Imagine what those little pesky, biting bugs would say if they had a voice!
How about you?
GROWN UPS GIVE THANKS
FOR — LIST PIECE
I came up with this quick list.
Pretty sure it’ll grow day-by-day as I ponder more!
TRACY BECKERMAN’S
Your Fries Are My Fries is a hoot of a read and I can totally relate.
THANKS – FOR SLIDING BY
And giving us a piece of your Wednesday day before Thanksgiving.
And thanks for the love + sharing + caring.
We are super thankful for our Daymaker Readable Art community.
GRATITUDE
DAYMAKER IS TAKING A TEENY-TINY THANKSGIVING BREAK
To hang out with family and friends.
Meaning we won’t have a full post this Friday, November 29, and Monday, December 2nd.
However (!) we’ll be back in action for so much super fun ringing in the Christmas season on Wednesday, December 4th!
BEST EVER THANKSGIVING WISHES
To you from us!
Ready?
Set.
Here we go.
POP QUIZ
- WHICH OF THE LITERARY CHARACTERS HAD ADVENTURES IN THE HUNDRED ACRE WOOD?
a) Bilbo Baggins
b) Curious George
c) Paddington Bear
d) Winnie the Pooh - THE MOLASSES ACT OF 1733 PLACED A TAX ON MOLASSES, SUGAR AND WHAT OTHER ITEM?
a) Honey
b) Maple syrup
c) Olive oil
d) Rum - WHAT HAPPENED TO RUSSIAN SPACE STATION MIR IN 2001?
a) It reentered Earth’s atmosphere and broke into pieces.
b) It crashed into Venus.
c) It traveled to the Andromeda galaxy.
d) It was destroyed during a meteor shower.
QUICK QUESTION
IF ANIMALS COULD TALK – WHICH WOULD
BE THE FUNNIEST?
POP QUIZ ANSWERS
- Winnie the Pooh had adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood.
- The Molasses Act of 1733 placed a tax on molasses, sugar and rum.
- After 15 years in service, Russian space station Mir reentered earth’s atmosphere and broke into pieces over the Pacific Ocean in 2001.
~ COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
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GROWN-UPS GIVE
THANKS FOR:
- My family happy and healthy.
- Duct tape (is there anything it can’t fix?)
- Forever stamps
- Rock ‘n Roll
- A good night’s sleep that feels more like a coma
- Google!
- Pizza delivery
- Inside jokes
- When a fortune cookie knows exactly what to say
- Double espresso shots in my morning coffee from a coffee house
- Online shopping
- GPS
- Money in the bank
- Good hair days
- Birds hitting my bird feeders just outside the picture window
- A page-turner book
- Unconditional love from our pets
- My neighbors, also friends, who keep an eye out for me
- Crackling fire in the fireplace on a chilly evening
- Alexa playing music on demand – whatever my fancy may be
- Old friends that – regardless of how long it’s been – pick up my call
THANKSGIVING IS RECOGNITION OF A DEBT THAT CANNOT
BE PAID. WE EXPRESS THANKS, WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE
ABLE OTHERWISE TO REIMBURSE THE GIVER.
~ BILLY GRAHAM ~
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED:
IF YOU TRY – YOU MIGHT SURPRISE YOURSELF.
RIDDLE ME THIS
I’M A FLOWER THAT DOESN’T BLOOM,
SOUNDS LIKE A MONTH, AND FLOATS
OVER WATER.WHAT AM I?
RIDDLE ANSWER
THE MAYFLOWER
LOST IN SUBURBIA
YOUR FRIES ARE MY FRIES
BY TRACY BECKERMAN
“I’ll have the burger,” my husband said to the server when she came to take our lunch order.
“Would you like a salad or fries with that?” she asked.
“Salad,” he said definitively.
“No, fries,” I corrected him.
“I don’t want fries,” he said.
“But I do, and my sandwich doesn’t come with them,” I explained.
He rolled his eyes and shrugged in defeat. “Fries,” he said to the server, who had been watching our exchange with interest. I was pretty sure it wasn’t the first time she’d heard this conversation between a husband and a wife.
In the married world it is common knowledge that my fries are my fries, and his fries are also my fries. The same idea also applies to desserts, chips and basically any other food item that he might order that I would want.
Sadly, for him, this policy does not work in reverse, and while I might deign to give him a fry or two, he couldn’t expect that I would fully share my fries (or flourless chocolate cake) unless there was some left after I was done eating — a highly unusual circumstance, to say the least.
I have to say, he’s been a pretty good sport about this, considering there was very little evidence that this would be his food future when we were dating. Back then, I respected his side dishes and desserts and only would partake of them when they were offered.
The longer we were together, though, the braver I got, starting with just one or two fries working my way up to half his portion and then some. By the time we’d been together 20 years, it was clear that when it came to eating out, I was ordering what I wanted to eat, and he was expected to order what I wanted as well.
Desserts actually worked a little differently. I don’t usually order dessert because I’m almost always on a diet. He usually orders dessert because he wants one and knows I really want one too, but I don’t want to go on record as having ordered one. So he will get a dessert he knows and ask the server for two forks.
My theory is, the calories don’t count if they are coming from someone else’s plate.
Meanwhile, back at the restaurant, our food arrived, and I was excited to see that he had received a hearty portion of fries with his burger. I dug right in, and he watched with his usual combination of irritation and amusement. He moved his burger over to one side of his plate and the fries to the other to give me easier access.
Then he excused himself to go to the bathroom. When he got back, he noticed that half the portion of fries were still on his plate.
“Thank you, honey,” he said with a smile. “I appreciate that you left me some fries!”
I nodded. “I would have eaten more, but you ran out of ketchup.”
~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon: A Story of Life, Love, and Kibble.”
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Fascinating Stuff
+ Before the word “shrapnel” came to be defined as “the fragments of an exploded bomb, mine or artillery shell,” it was referred to a particular sort of shell filled with bullets or bits of metal that was designed to explode midflight when it was fired from a weapon. That lethal projectile was invented in the 1790s by a British artillery officer named Henry Shrapnel.
+ What do 97% of the countries in the world have in common? Membership in the Universal Postal Union. Founded in 1874, the UPU is the international organization that ensures cooperation and industry standardization among postal services throughout the world. Today, 192 countries, with more than 677,000 offices, belong to the UPU.
+ The Great Molasses Flood of January 1919 might sound like a joke, but it was an accident that became a tragedy when a 50-foot-tall storage tank at the Purity Distilling Co. broke open and sent 2.3 million gallons of molasses streaming through the streets of Boston’s North End. It destroyed building and trapped people in the sticky goo, killing 21 and injuring more than 100. Molasses might be the proverbial example of slowness, but on that day, it flowed at a rate of 35 miles an hour.
+ George Washington spent a great deal of time around animals, including his Arabian racehorse Magnolia. Among his dozens of dogs were Truelove and Sweetlips (because our first president was a bit of a romantic). Occasionally, he’d engage a traveling animal trainer to bring a rare or exotic creature to his Virginia home, Mount Vernon. That’s how the Washington’s Christmas guests were treated to a rare spectacle of a camel parading into the house.
+ “Astronaut” comes from Greek words for “star” and “sailor.” It’s not clear, though, who coined the word. In his 1880 novel, “Across the Zodiac,” English author, Percy Greg wrote about a voyage to Mars on a spacecraft he called the “Astronaut.” The word was used to refer to a human space traveler in the late 1920s and notably, in the 1930 story “The Death Head Meteor” by American sci-fi writer Neil R. Jones. One thing is certain: the word “astronaut” came into use long before the first humans traveled into space.
~ COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
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Love the Beckermans Fries column!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Love the art and the things to be thankful for list. Borrowing from your list and adding to mine. . .
Grateful for Daymaker for sure.
Wishing you safe travels and lots of fun time with family.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
I see today’s Daymaker made a THANKSGIVING list, so here I go with a few of my favorites (not necessarily in order.) Really tasty food—my home sweet home—- a lifetime of sweet memories —- my 5 star family gatherings of 3 generations —- my church family —- my aging car that thinks it’s new —- my daily walks with my 8 lb red poodle named Winston Churchill (You know “Never, never give up.”) gorgeous sunrises and sunsets — kind words — and on goes the list.