Good morning, everyone!

Just when you thought all of the fun of the swap was over and now it's just the grind of organizing seed packets into baggies, printing out name slips, and sending stuff in...

BAM! I just had to go and add something else to the mix: a fun, daily TRIVIA (/etc.) CHALLENGE to give you another chance to get seeds and extend the joy of the seed swap! ;)

I wasn't able to hybridize my daylilies much this year (in fact, I only managed about 5 or so pods of seeds at the tail-end of the season when I returned from my trip). BUT, I have seeds from last year that I wasn't able to plant out, so I'm sharing 2017's daylily seed abundance with all of you! I may also have a few other types of seeds--veggie or other flower seeds--as options, too! I already have the daylily seeds set aside for this challenge, but I'm thinking of digging a little deeper into my 2017/2018 seed packet stash to see what other goodies I might be able to squeeze out of those as rewards for the this activity!

Each day, until the seeds run out, I will be posting a trivia question or some other challenge/activity for you to partake in. It is open to anyone that is paying for return postage in the swap (i.e. you need to already have a box headed your direction from the DND swap so that I'm not paying tons of extra postage to send these out. )

The first challenge will come this evening around dinnertime (EST), so keep an eye out!

Cool! I'm sure I will fail terribly at this, but should be fun

Look at you being all awesome, Libby!

I'll check back tonight to see what fun you have in store for us.

Prize Options:

Flower and Ornamental (non-Daylily) Seeds:
Amaranth - Elephant Head (20 seeds)
Pansey - Violet Bowles' Black (20 seeds) - claimed (EricaBraun)
Salvia - St. John's Fire (5 seeds) - claimed (hammerofjustice)
Sweet Pea - Azureus Blue (5 seeds) - claimed (pinkiris)
Sweet Pea - April in Paris (5 seeds) - claimed (pinkiris)
Sweet Pea - Royal Wedding (5 seeds) - claimed (pinkiris)


Daylily Seeds
"Red Challenge" (seedling) x Open Hearth
Beautiful Edgings x St. Elmo's Fire
Chief Four Fingers x St. Elmo's Fire - claimed (jimard8)
Dominic x Evening Enchantment - claimed (pinkiris)
Early and Often x (?)
Early and Often x Creature of the Night x2 1/2 claimed (pinkiris) 2/2 claimed (EricaBraun)
Ginger Cookie x Jungle Beauty- claimed (hammerofjustice)
Ginger Cookie x Pigment of Imagination claimed (pinkiris)
Heavenly Angel Ice x Jungle Beauty - claimed (jimard8)
Heavenly Angel Ice x Thorhalla - claimed (hammerofjustice)
Jocelyn's Oddity x Beautiful Edgings- claimed (Kathy547)
Jocelyn's Oddity x Dr. Doom x2 - 1 claimed by (Kathy547)
Jungle Beauty x Mynelle's Starfish(?)
Kent's Favorite Two x Help From Your Friends
Little Grapette x Dr. Doom - claimed (Kathy547)
Olallie Keith Stone's Sunset x (?)
Olallie Keith Stone's Sunset x Early and Often
Olallie Red x Goose Rocks
Open Hearth x Lucky Strike
Pocket Change x Dr. Doom (x2)
Pocket Change x Jungle Beauty (?)
So Many Stars x Help From Friends
Sound and Fury x Webster's Pink Wonder
Starman's Quest x Beautiful Edgings claimed (EricaBraun)

Vegetable Seeds
Cabbage (baby) - Pixie (10 seeds) - claimed (hammerofjustice)
Cucumber - Little Potato (5 seeds) - claimed (jimard8)
Melon - Tigger (5 seeds) - claimed (hammerofjustice)
Zucchini - Raven (5 seeds) - claimed (hammerofjustice)


The winner(s) will get to select any 3 packets (still remaining) from the lists above as their prize once established as the winner for a given challenge.

As a courtesy, I ask that if/when you win 2 challenges, please allow other participants a chance to win on the remaining challenges.

Are you ready?.....

Challenge #1

Who (first) declared Thanksgiving an annual national holiday?

One of my fav people in history. I cheated and looked it up so I won't say who.

Abraham Lincoln

Good job!

You know he also commissioned the first motion pictures in the US ,, Could not be shown though ,, you know the reason

Thank you Chop ,,, Have to wait for Libby though ,

jimard8 said:Abraham Lincoln

Nice job!

An extra note about Abe Lincoln declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday:

Abe Lincoln wasn't the first to declare it a national holiday, just to make it an annual, federally-recognized holiday. George Washington was the first to declare it a holiday (originally declaring it to be celebrated on November 26, I believe), but it didn't really stick. Apparently, Jefferson didn't celebrate it. Then, in the middle of the Civil War, in 1863, Abe Lincoln declared it a national holiday to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.

Some of you more astute readers will recognize that isn't the official day of Thanksgiving anymore. We now celebrate it on the fourth Thursday of November, which isn't always the last Thursday.

Jim, let me know which 3 seed packets you'd like and I'll update the above post to mark them as claimed. ;)

So has the fun started yet?
Never mind. Lol, am a day late & a dollar short. Or is it the other way around?

Who knew? Learn something new every day -- apparently. Congrats Jim!

I missed the challenge but it was fun reading!

Congrats Jim!

Check back again this evening around 7-ish. I'll be posting another challenge around that time. ;)

By the way, on my daylily seeds, most of them have about 5-15 seeds, give or take. I give you whatever quantity was saved from that particular pod.

Edited to change quantity to read "5-15" - thanks for the catch, Leslie!

Libby, are you only working with tets? That would be a lot number for a dip!

My deepest apologies, everyone. Something came up this evening and I wasn't able to get in around 7 with the trivia. I really hope it didn't inconvenience anyone, I feel terrible about it, and right now it's too late and wouldn't be fair for me to post the challenge. I can't imagine many of you are awake right now unless you are on the west coast.

To make up for it, there will be TWO challenges tomorrow evening!.....or this evening, if you're in my time zone.

See you tomorrow!

NO worries Libby, I think it's just a really busy week, too...with Thanksgiving preparations!

No Sweat Libby, we have twice as much to look forward to today. I only hope I can remember that you're doing them at 7.

Challenge #2:

Create a paragraph (3-6 sentences) using as many daylily names as possible.

This will be judged by others.