SUNDAY FUNDAY, MAY 15, 2022

 SUNDAY FUNDAY MAY 15, 2022

WOW - we are already more than a third through the year.  Are you where you want to be at this point?  Do you have your garden in the ground?  Are you keeping busy with activities? 

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I’ve been working four nights a week lately at the Wesleyan Independent Living Facility.  I get to greet and interact with a lot of nice senior people there.  (At age 74 with many of them in the 90s, it makes me wonder what I’ll be like when I’m in my 90s!!).  I consider it as “Paying Back”.  My sister helped with my parents as they were in the 90s - so I get to help others as they age.

PUZZLES

FOX, GOOSE, AND CORN

An explorer in the wilds of Africa has come to a river.  There is a canoe on his side of the river but it is very small and will only take him and one item with him.  The road continues on the other side of the river, so he must cross here.

He has a tame (or semi-tame) fox, a tame (or semi-tame) goose, and a bag of corn.  If he takes the fox across the river, the goose will eat the corn. If he takes the corn across, the fox will eat the goose.  But, the fox will NOT eat the corn!!

He will make several trips across the river taking one item at a time.  How can he get all the items to the other side?

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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE - APPLE PIE

“As American as Apple Pie”!!! (???)

You may be surprised to learn that neither the apple nor apple pie is actually native to America. In fact, apples are native to Asia. (Specifically, the early colonists of Jamestown are thought to have brought European apple tree cuttings and seeds with them on their journey, thus introducing the apple to America). In the early days of colonization, European settlers primarily used their apples for making cider, which was preferred over water and easier to make than beer. The result of this was that by the 1800s, Americans were growing over 14,000 different varieties of apples! It’s clear that apples were popular, but they weren’t associated with Americana until John Chapman, who is perhaps better known as Johnny Appleseed, made the apple part of American folklore.

The first mention of apple pie in America occurred in 1697 when Allen Metcalf’s America in So Many Words: Words that have Shaped America referenced it. The first two recipes for apple pie that were published in America were included in the new country’s first cookbook; it was called American Cookery and was published in 1796. Since it was an easy and affordable dish to make, apple pie quickly became part of the American culinary repertoire.

Clearly, apple pie had become a symbol for America and certain American ideals like motherly love, purity, wholesomeness, the comfort of home, and even agrarian times gone by. It also came to be associated with patriotism and nationalism. This is especially apparent in the lingo of World War II soldiers, who would often say that they were fighting for “mom and apple pie.”

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SOME CORNY JOKES ABOUT MAY:

Q: What did the spring say when it was in trouble?
A: May Day!!

Q: Which state loves spring the most?
A: May-ne (Maine)

 

Q: Which crime-fighter likes May the most?
A: Robin

Q: What season is it when you are on a trampoline in May?
A: Springtime.

Q: What May flowers grow on faces?
A: Tulips (Two-lips).

Q: If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?
A: Pilgrims.

Q: What goes up when May rain comes down?
A: An umbrella.

Have an awesome week!!!

LOVE WINS!!!

Karen

May 11, 2022

Answers to Puzzle:

Fox, Goose, and Corn

(I’ll go from the south bank to the north bank)

First, the man takes the Goose across the river from the south bank to the north.  He leaves the goose on the north bank.  The Fox and the corn are left on the south bank

Then the man goes back alone

He takes the goose across - and takes the Fox back.  The goose is all alone on the north bank.

Then he takes the corn across from the south to the north.  He leaves the corn and takes the goose back.

On the south bank, he leaves the goose and takes the fox back across.  He leaves the fox there - with the corn.

Crossing alone from the north bank to the south bank, he then picks up the goose - and all four of them can start going north again.