A card and a tchotchke (a little thing)
I made my father a cartoon card to wish him a happy Father’s Day, and remind him how much we love him.
Lisa found a great little paper weight for my filing-impaired dad (a trait that I definitely inherited). I drew some cartoons on the gift box and the shipping envelope.
Happy Father’s Day Dad!!!!!
I got together with Our Cat to celebrate Lisa’s birthday and somehow, as they often do with cats, things went a little wrong….
Everyone sing “Happy Birthday dear Lisa…”
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Now 
it can be told…
This year the first day of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving fall on the same day – a very rare occurrence that led to my first combination Hanukkah/Thanksgiving cartoon.
It is little known, but this coincidence of dates also happened on the first Thanksgiving, in 1621. And even less known is that not all those people in solemn clothes were Puritans. Scenes from the real first Thanksgiving/Hanukkah are illustrated here.
Happy Thanksgiving to my United States readers, Happy Hanukkah to all!
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DECODER
Schmaltz – Yiddish for rendered chicken fat, a common ingredient in many Eastern European Jewish dishes
Gimmel is a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Dredels, the Hanukkah spinning top, have a Hebrew letter on each of the four sides. The four letters form the acronym, in Hebrew, for “a great miracle happened here”. You spin the dredel and the letter that is facing up when it stops determines whether you win or lose.