Wednesday Reader June 19

THINGS WITH WINGS ART ILLUSTRATONS + ORIGIN OF RAIN COATS + FISHERY BIOLOGISTS CAN DETERMINE THE AGE OF CERTAIN FISH + HAWAIIN CHICKEN SALAD RECIPE

GREETINGS OUTSTANDING READERS

It’s hump-day.  Let’s give a shout-out to Wednesday!
Presenting today’s read for entertainment and a few little something to take with ya throughout the day.

Beginning with:

The super beautiful/intriguing pieces of Winged Art Illustrations.
Such talented artists!  Hat tip.

Same –
The two comic panels of the little winger-zingers are a laugh!

QUICK QUESTION
Which do I listen to most?
Head or Heart?
Without a doubt – heart.
Good or Bad – that’s me.  You?

LESLIE ELMAN –
I always walk away feeling more interesting than I did prior to reading her collection of FASCINATINGS.
I’ve never even heard of a VEVUZELA.
Now I know and thanks to the *click* how the “instrument” actually sounds.
I think I want one just for fun!  Ha

SOME THOUGHTS PIECE
Power-full all 11.

HAWAIIAN CHICKEN SALAD RECIPE
ALOHA (!)  Tropical Tasting Goodness all summer long

TRACY BECKERMAN’S COLUMN
Bedsheet face had me laughing out loud

INCOMING
STACY’S WORLD  (!)
COLUMN DAY AFTER TOMORROW – 5 for FRIDAY
IS AN ABSOLUTE DON’T WANNA MISS!

Thanks so much
One and all for being a huge part of the Daymaker Readable Art Community
Reading + Sharing + Engaging
We feel the Love and we love ya Back.

Take it Easy
We’ll Catch Ya Friday
Same Time
Same Place

POP Quiz

POP QUIZ

  1. HOW MANY U.S. STATES WERE THERE IN 1918?
    a) 32
    b) 42
    c) 48
    d) 50
  2. WHICH FAMED “MAN OF LETTERS” WORKED FOR A BRIEF TIME AS A POSTMASTER IN OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI?
    a) Truman Capote
    b) William Faulkner
    c) John Grisham
    d) Tennessee Williams
  3. WHAT NOISY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CREATED SUCH A RUCKUS AT THE 2010 WORLD CUP IN SOUTH AFRICA THAT IT WAS BANNED FROM THE 2014 WORLD CUP?
    a) Digeridoo
    b) Gongue
    c) Marimba
    d) Vuvuzela

Wednesday Reader June 19

QUICK QUESTION

WHICH DO YOU LISTEN TO MOST
YOUR HEART OR YOUR HEAD?

Wednesday Reader June 19

POP QUIZ ANSWERS

  1. There were 48 U.S. states in 1918.  Alaska and Hawaii, Nos 49 and 50, were admitted to the Union in 1959
  2. William Faulkner worked for a brief time as a postmaster in Oxford, Mississippi.
  3. The noisy vuvuzela created such a ruckus at the 2010  World Cup in South Africa that it was banned from the 2014 World Cup
    *click here* to hear what a vuvuzela sounds like – wild!

COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM

SOME THOUGHTS

  1. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
  2. Dear God, I have a problem.  It’s me.
  3. There is no key to happiness.  The door is always open.
  4. Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
  5. Faith is the ability to not panic.
  6. Laugh every day, it’s like inner jogging.
  7. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
  8. The most important things in your house are the people.
  9. A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.
  10. Do the math — count your blessings.
  11. Peace.  Love.  Joy.  In that order.

~ from my fantastic collection of emails
this one circa 2016

IT COSTS $0.00
TO BE A DECENT
HUMAN BEING

INSTANT KARMA

SHARE YOUR STRENGTH

RIDDLE ME THIS

WHAT NEVER ASKS QUESTIONS
BUT IS OFTEN ANSWERED?

Wednesday Reader June 19

HAWAIIN CHICKEN SALAD

Hawaii may not be on your vacation destination this summer.  No worries.  This salad brings island flavors to your table.!

HERE’S HOW WE MAKE IT:

  • 5 strips thick-sliced bacon, diced
  • 1 1/2 cups fresh cilantro leaves, minced
  • 1/2 cup fresh mint leaves, minced
  • 1 TBSP fresh ginger chopped
  • Juice of one large lime
  • 3/4 cup mayonnaise
  • 1/4 cup plain yogurt
  • 3 cups rotisserie chicken, shredded
  • 1/2 cup macadamia nuts, chopped
  • 1 cup fresh spinach, chopped
  • 3 TBSP of favorite sweet vinaigrette of choice
  • 1 cup fresh pineapple, chopped small
  • 1 TBSP jalapeno, seeded and minced
  • 1 TBSP fresh red bell pepper

SAUTE
Bacon in a skillet over medium heat until crisp, 8-10 minutes.
Remove diced pieces and drain on a paper towel lined plate

MINCE
Cilantro, mint, ginger and lime juice.

IN A FOOD PROCESSOR
Combine herbs and lime juice.
Add mayonnaise and yogurt.
Pulse to combine.
Season to taste with salt and pepper.

MIX
Shredded chicken, diced bacon and nuts with the herb/mayo/yogurt mix.

SET ASIDE

IN A SEPARATE BOWL
Toss chopped spinach with vinaigrette.

STIR IN
CHOPPED PINEAPPLE + JALAPENO + FRESH RED BELL PEPPER

COMBINE ALL IN ONE BOWL
And thoroughly mix chicken salad with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon.

SERVE
On toasted baguette slices
or
Crackers
or
an ice cream scoop serving on a bed of butter lettuce leaves on luncheon plates

~ Hippie Cowboy recipe box

RIDDLE ANSWER

A DOOR BELL

Wednesday Reader June 19

LOST IN SUBURBIA

UP SHEET’S CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE
BY TRACY BECKERMAN

Back in the day, when I was younger, I would wake up in the morning and, for the most part look like I had gotten a good night’s sleep.  Not the mornings in my early 20s when I was hung over, of course.  Or the mornings in my 30s after being up all night with my kids.  Or the mornings in my 40s after waiting up all night for my kids to come home.  But I’m sure there were some mornings when I didn’t look like I’d been hit by an ice cream  truck, dragged for a mile while the tinny music drowned out my screams, then attacked by a pack of rabid badgers.  Actually, it was less like I’d been hit by a truck and more like I’d been driven over by one, because every morning there seemed to be tire tracks across my face that wouldn’t go away until about lunchtime.  My nightly tire tracks had become so prevalent that my husband started calling me, in the most loving way possible, Mrs. Bedsheet Face.

Of course, I had no control over what happened to my face when I slept.  I’m naturally a devoted back sleeper, but in recent years I’ve had to switch to sleeping on my side, because if I slept on m back I snore (another surprising joy of turning 50).  And apparently, when I slept on my side, I engaged in a bout of extreme championship wrestling with my pillow all night trying to get comfortable, and the pillow usually won.  The next morning, I would have so many lines and crevices across my face that I looked like a longitudinal map.  This was an interesting look for a glove.  For a woman in her 50s  … not so much.

I understand wrinkles, saggy knees, gray hairs, and chin hairs are all part of the aging process, and I am willing to let them all do as them may (except the chin hairs, of course).  But this bedsheet-face thing was not something I was going to take, er, lying down.  When people start asking you if you got that long scar down your face from your days as a pirate, you know something needs to be done.

I grabbed my laptop and googled “bedsheet face.”  I got nothing.  There were plenty of articles about bedbugs — fortunately, not a problem I had.
Then there was another one about how to get rid of bedsheet wrinkles,  But they meant wrinkles on your sheets, not wrinkles on your face from the sheets.  Then there were a few more essays about the challenge of making a bed.  I would think if you couldn’t figure out that the sheet with the elastic at the corners goes over the mattress, you have bigger problems than dealing with your bedmaking skills.

So now I knew how to get rid of bedbugs, smooth out bed wrinkles and make a bed, but I still had the dreaded bedsheet-face dilemma.

I scrolled a little further and finally found an article.  Could it be that someone else out there suffered from the same sleep-induced, tire-track-face dilemma that I did?  Was I not alone in my quest for a smooth-faced sleep experience?  Eager to rid myself of this blight on my appearance, I clicked on the link for the article “How do I get rid of sheet wrinkles on my face?”

Their advice?

Sleep on your back.

~ 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

  • You can thank Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh for keeping you dry on a rainy day.  In 1823, he patented the first water-resistant textile, made by sandwiching a layer of rubber between two layers of fabric.  A company that bears his name — with a K added after the C still makes raincoats, and people in the U.K. affectionately refer to their rain gear as macs.
  • When they conceived the Oxford English Dictionary, editors figured it would take about 10 years to compile.  They figured incorrectly,  Starting work in earnest in 1879, they made it as far as “ant” by 1884 when the first volume was published.  They reached Z in 1928.  Then it was time to revise and add thousands more words that had come into use over the previous 44 years.  Even now, the OED remains a work in progress, with new words and definitions being added with each periodic update.
  • The first FIFA World Cup took place in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay.  Thirteen nations participated, including four from Europe:  Belgium, France, Romania and Yugoslavia.  Other European nations declined to participate because of the travel time and expense involved.  They might also have figured they had a slim chance of victory.  Uruguay had one back-to-back Olympic gold medals in soccer in 1924 and 1928.  It won the FIFA World Cup as well.
  • There’s a little piece of the heavens in the stained glass “Space Window” at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.  The centerpiece of the design by St. Louis artist Rodney M. Winfield is a small moon rock brought to Earth by the crew of Apollo 11 and presented to the cathedral in 1974.  To prevent its deterioration, the rock is encased in a nitrogen-filled capsule.
  • Fishery biologists can determine the age of certain fish species by examining their scales.  Each year of growth leaves a pattern kn own as an annulus.  By counting annuli (plural of annulus), biologists can determine the fish’s age much the same way that foresters determine the age of a tree by counting its growth rings.

~ COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM

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3 replies
  1. Carol says:

    Absolutely stunning artwork throughout the issue!

    Leslie’s Pop Quiz – informative as usual. Digeridoo and Gongue shared the stage with vuvuzela as being unfamiliar instruments to me. Listening to the vuvuzela – bumblebee comes to mind. A very LOUD bumblebee. I can see why it was banned 😉 Her Fascinating Facts are, well, fascinating. And educational.

    Tracy’s “bedsheet face” had me laughing in empathy. I love how she finds humor in life’s little irritants and has me nodding in agreement week after week.

    Looking forward to ending the week with Five for Friday!

  2. Marty says:

    Carol, you spoke so beautifully for all of us on Daymaker’s today’s episode;
    So Daymaker asks, “WHICH DO YOU LISTEN TO THE MOST: YOUR HEART OR YOUR HEAD? That is one challenging question. To get to the best answer I looked at only the things that have happened to me this week. And the answer is “MY HEART” Here’ s a great quote from Proverbs, :”Guard your heart for everything you do flows out of it.”

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