Fun Thanksgiving Facts

70 million pies are sold in grocery stores every year at Thanksgiving, at 300 million people here that is 1 pie for every 4 people. I like them odds, that means we all get 1/4 of a pie, bring on the whip cream.

Pecans contain more than 19 vitamins and minerals. Hey if we eat 70 million pecan pies with whip cream (our Vitamin D) just think how healthy we will be.

5 million gallons of cranberry sauce is eaten by Americans every year. Hey more healthy stuff, fruit that helps flush out our kidneys.

And that green bean casserole costs an average of $4.50 for all the ingredients, hey here is our serving of veggies.

Just think how healthy we will be the day after.

Cash for Cars and Houses

So now we know the cash for clunkers actually cost $24K per vehicle. This was so successful that we now have cash for new home buyers, but wait there is no reliable way to tell whether someone is buying a home for the first time and worse, the law did not give the IRS the authority to demand documentation that a home had been purchased at all. When the Treasury Department investigated the checks being passed out they found out 19,300 claims had not purchases homes yet; 74,000 clains were not first time buyers, and more than 580 claims were made by taxpayers younger than 18 (one as young as 4). This amounted to about $504 million in stolen taxpayer money.

So what is next, cash for ? How about cash for knitters, you know how expensive yarn is these days, I want some quiviut at $90/ounce, so how about divvying up that leftover porkulous money for us knitters, I promise it will be put to good use and yo can be assured we will spend the money for yarn.

Dishcloth Swap

Knit a dishcloth, send the pattern, and a skein of yarn. The Darrel Waltrip stitch makes a beautiful dishcloth in variegated yarn.

Staycation Swap

Many of us can not afford to take a vacation nor do we have taxpayer dollars to fly our jets across the country, so we did a staycation. I went to Michigan, some place I have always wanted to go, so Mackinac Island and Stitches n Things go on my bucket list. My wonderful box, btw the caramel corn was very yummy, you could feel your arteries slam shut for the butter and the chocolate cherry sauce made vanilla ice cream go down even better.

Warm Coaster and Mug Cozy Swap

Another swap I was involved in you had to make either a mug cozy or coaster and send it along with yummy eats and something to drink. My wonderful box I received.

Kinnearing

I went to my brothers this summer for a long weekend. Some pictures just need to be taken and shared.

If you have back boobies no one wants to see them. Please hide them. Also the pocket on the seat in front of you is not for your dirty smelly feet, people put things in there that they don't want feet on.
Just because you drive a Mercedes and it is raining does not mean you can drive on the sidewalk so you don't get wet.

Harvest Swap

I belong to an online knitting group and every so often we do a swap. This particular swap was the harvest swap. H-Halloween, A-aroma, R-Thanksgiving recipe of your family tradition, V-Veteran's Day, E-Eats, S-something squishy, and T for tacky.

I got a diy pumpkin kit where you paint it green and then decorate, I have some fake pumpkins, dark hot chocolate, 3 recipes, flags, peeps, some gorgeous yarn, and tacky halloween items. Thanks for my great box.