life's mysteries....unsolved

Sometimes I just get so confused

     Starting off with three pictures.  You match the picture to the situation and you could win a prize!

Picture A

Picture B

Picture C

     Ok...here are the mysteries.

     Terry develops a taste for a German cookie that only comes out at Christmas time, thanks to Megan, who has whetted his appetite for the delicious holiday treat.  After exhausting his supplies, he stumbles upon a similar cookie sold at Aldi's.  He tries t hem.  They are not as good as the cookies from Switzerland, but he likes them.  He likes them a lot.  When they go on sale for half a buck he buys several packages and carefully freezes them.  Knowing they bring so much joy at Christmas, Terry is hoping to recapture that holiday feeling during summer's hottest days.  But he wonders....how will the cookies survive n a deep, deep freeze?   A mystery solved? 


     It's a cold January day when Terry sends off his order to Burpee seeds.  He orders green beans, Italian beans, carrots, sugar snap peas, and burpless cucumbers.  He dutifully works the soil in his raised gardens and when the warm winds dispel winter's cold grip, he plants his seeds.  (Not a metaphor for any sexual activity).  He follows the directions carefully, making two mounds for cucumbers and placing seeds one half inch deep, three inches apart.  Beans do well.  Carrots do ok.  Peas are fine.  A volunteer cucumber sprouts from a spot between his hills.  For some reason, he does not pull this volunteer, perhaps relying on his liberal philosophy of let living things be.  He harvests his first cucumber this week.  It does not look normal.  A mystery solved?

     Spending three years "playing around" with a book idea eventually results in a completed rough draft.  Proud of his work, he prints the book, punches holes in the margins, and puts it in a black book so he can work on it.  He takes it to the public library in March to work on it, reading and making corrections and additions.  He then puts the black notebook somewhere where he will easily be able to find his manuscript.  But two weeks ago, the black notebook can't be found.  He looks in the car, the bed, behind the desk, through the closet, through the closet again, at the library.....but the manuscript in the black binder has disappeared.  A mystery solved?