HAPPY ENTERTAINMENT + INSPIRATION
Greetings!
Presenting Daymaker’s Wednesday Reader – JULY 19
QUICK QUESTION – … as a child … Me?
Still thinking about one single answer.
Turns out — I can think of several. Ha! You?
LETTERS TO GOD – SO FUN
Reminds me of Art Linkletter’s “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”
I especially love the RIDDLE today.
SUPER HERO SQUASH RECIPE is fantastic – I have made this recipe for many years. Give it a go – I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
TRACY BECKERMAN – I truly am becoming more and more of a giant fan. She’s SO REAL.
So grateful to all for giving us time in your day to Read + Sharing + Commenting.
Happy day!
Enjoy.
Catch ya Friday.
POP QUIZ
- WHICH NATURAL FORMATION PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN “CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND”?
a) Devils Tower in Wyoming
b) El Capitan in California
c) Landscape Arch in Utah
d) Zuma Rock in Nigeria - WHAT CAUSED THE DEATH OF THE “SUN KING” LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE IN 1715?
a) He was beheaded
b) He was wounded in battle
c) He developed gangrene
d) He had an allergic reaction to a spider bite - WHAT DO THE NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, KOSOVO, SAN MARINO AND SPAIN HAVE IN COMMON?
a) They don’t have official lyrics
b) They were written by the same person
c) They have the same melody
d) It’s against the law to perform them in public
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QUICK QUESTION
AS A CHILD, WHAT DID YOU THINK WOULD BE AWESOME ABOUT BEING AN ADULT, BUT ISN’T AS AWESOME AS YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD BE?
POP QUIZ ANSWERS
- Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming played a key role in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
- The 72 year-reign of Louis XIV of France ended when he developed gangrene and died at age 76.
- The national anthems of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, San Marino and Spain don’t have official lyrics.
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LETTERS TO GOD FROM UNFILTERED KIDDOS
- Dear God,
Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t you just keep the ones you have? - Dear God,
Maybe Cain and Able would have got along if they had their own rooms. It works with me and my brother. - Dear God,
If you watch me in church this Sunday, I’ll show you my new shoes! - Dear God,
I bet it’s super hard for you to love everybody in the whole wide world. There are only 4 people in our family and it’s tough. - Dear God,
I read the Bible. What does ‘begot’ mean? Nobody will tell me. - Dear God,
We read where Thomas Edison made light. But in Sunday School they told me you did. I bet he stole your idea. - Dear God,
I didn’t think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made yesterday. It was cool. - Dear God,
If dinosaurs weren’t extinct – we’d all be eaten and dead. Good move. - Dear God,
Please make me pretty because I’m not really that smart. - Dear God,
Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that? Or was it an accident? - Dear God,
It’s always great the way you always get the stars in the right places. - Dear God,
Are you really invisible? Or is that just a trick? - Dear God,
I think of you sometimes – even when I’m not praying. - Dear God,
How come you didn’t create any new animals lately? We still have just the old ones. - Dear God,
Did you really mean, “Do Unto Others as They Do unto You?” Because if you did – then I’m gonna fix my brother. - Dear God,
I would like to live 900 years like the guy in the Bible. - Dear God,
There isn’t school in Heaven, is there?
~ collection of greatness from readings on the internet
LIFE DOESN’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT TO BE WONDERFUL
(( Starve the landfills. Recycle. ))
RIDDLE ME THIS
WHAT CAN YOU BREAK EVEN IF YOU NEVER PICK IT UP OR TOUCH IT?
RIDDLE ANSWER
A PROMISE
LOST IN SUBURBIA
SINGING A DIFFERENT TUNE
BY TRACY BECKERMAN
I’m a relatively quiet sleeper. I don’t talk in my sleep. I don’t snore in my sleep … much. I don’t do sleep yoga or sleep Pilates or hit tennis balls in my sleep. My husband sometimes conducts in his sleep, but he is a composer, so I suppose that somewhat makes sense. I have a friend who shouts out random words in her sleep, like “PLATYPUS,” and “DIRIGIBLE,” and “KRISPY KREME.” The last one I can totally relate to, but others are a mystery to us all.
Anyway, I always assumed I would continue with my quiet sleeping ways until one day I woke up and saw my husband staring at me accusingly.
“You were singing in your sleep,” he said.
“I was not. You were dreaming.”
“No, really,” he said. “You were definitely singing.”
“You mean snoring?”
“No. Singing. You woke me up.”
“I don’t sing in my sleep.”
“Well, you did tonight.”
“Not talking?”
“No, singing.”
“Seriously?”
“Yes.”
“Well, what was I singing?”
“I don’t know. I was asleep.”
“Well, what did it sound like when you woke up? Was it Gospel? Jazz? Pop?”
“No, none of those.”
“Country? Heavy metal? Show tunes?”
“No.”
“Rock? Opera? Klezmer?”
“No, it wasn’t one of those.”
“Then what was it?!?!”
“I think it was ‘Happy Birthday.'”
“I was singing ‘Happy Birthday?'”
“Yes. To someone named Earl.”
“I was singing ‘Happy Birthday” in my sleep to someone named Earl?”
“Yes. Who’s Earl?”
“I don’t know anyone named Earl.”
“Is there something you’re not telling me?”
“No.”
“Then why are you singing to him?”
“I DON’T KNOW ANYONE NAMED EARL!”
“Unless you do.”
“Look, I’m really sorry I was singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to someone named Earl in my sleep, who I honestly don’t know, and I woke you up.”
“OK.”
“OK?”
“Yeah, but I have one question.”
“What?”
“Do you take requests?”
~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon: A Story of Life, Love, and Kibble.”
You can visit her at www.tracybeckerman.com
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FASCINATING STUFF
- Other parks have private landing strips, but Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is the only U.S. park that contains a commercial airport. Opened in the 1930s, Jackson Hole Airport became part of the park in 1943, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recommended expanding Grand Teton National Park to include Jackson Hole National Monument. That proposal was finalized in 1950. Rather than turn that area into a ghost town, as some local businessmen feared, it brought robust tourist trade to the region.
- Much of what we know about chemistry is based on the work of 18th-century scientist Antoine Lavoisier. He isolated oxygen, defined the composition of water and helped standardize the way elements are named. Unfortunately for him, however, he was politically tied to French nobility (the Ancien Regime) during the French Revolution. After the monarch was overthrown in 1792, Lavoisier, like other academics and intellectuals, was arrested and executed.
- Several centuries ago, the buzzing insect we call a bumblebee was known as a dumbledore. Author J.K. Rowling liked the sound of the word, which made her think of someone who hummed to himself a lot. “It sounds endearing and strangely impressive at the same time,” she said in an interview. That’s why she chose Dumbledore as the name for the headmaster of the Hogwarts in the “Harry Potter” books.
- There are more than 40 landlocked countries in the world, but only three independent states have the distinction of being geographical “enclaves” — that is, landlocked states surrounded by just one other nation. The Kingdom of Lesotho is an independent nation surrounded by South Africa. The Republic of San Marino and Vatican City State are located within Italy.
~ COPYRIGHT 2023 LESLIE ELMAN
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As a child I thought being able to stay up late was cool and I couldn’t wait until I could choose my own bed time. Now my definition of “late” is becoming earlier. 😉 Loved the Kids’ letters and squash recipe – love all of Hippie Cowboy’s recipes!
Staying up late was ((WAS)) cool! Now it’s exhausting – ha I, too, find myself seeking an earlier bed time and looking forward to it. Thanks, Carol, always so cool to read your comments! Have a great 2nd half of this week!
Re: “Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.” I can only think of my mother modeling that truth with 5 sons and one daughter. If you don’t know what it is to have 6 kids the answer is, IT’S A LOT WORK. Then there’s my 3rd born brother who attracted friends like bees to honey especially at mealtime. “Yes, they can stay!” my Mom’s forever response. What a grateful statement even to this day as we come together. BTW none of us are perfectionists but we do entertain to have a wonderful time.