I love this perky little Vermillion Flycatcher and nominate her as Bird of the Week!!!
For the Bird of the Week Prompt
Vermillion Flycatcher: Bird of the Week
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Monthly Archives: April 2023
Them’s No Apples! !!! For CMMC
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I got a bit carried away and some of these are on the cusp of Granny Smith, I know. If you see any you think I should “out,” let me know. For CMMC, Granny Smith Apple Light Green Colors
Singer-Songwriter Fibs for Fibbing Friday, Apr 14, 2023
This week Fibbing Friday invited us to provide alternative artists (real or fictitious) for these song titles:
1. Stop in the name of Love ….Greta Thunberg
2. You can call me Al…Albert Einstein, in a more relaxed moment.
3. Til you come back to me…..Camille Claudel
4. I just wanna dance with somebody…Hedda Hopper
5. Won’t somebody dance with me….Uriah Heep
6. Two out of three ain’t bad ….The Khardashians
7. Ghostriders in the sky….The Kingston Trio (Answer song to “The Man Who Never Returned”)
8. Ticket to Ride…Jack Kerouack
9. Totally devoted to you …Lassie
10. Me and You and a Dog named Boo: The Who. (Boo was their dog. When people asked, “Boo Who? he could answer yes!)
Want to Fib along? Do so HERE.
Things My Mother Taught Me
Things My Mother Taught Me
I’ve used you as a paradigm of what I want to be,
and for those years I had a child, raised her as you raised me.
Used your fine discernment in establishing the rules.
Taught her to respect herself and not to suffer fools.
Issued all the necessary caveats and warnings,
tucked her into bed at night and rousted her most mornings.
Help her when she needed it and then I let her be,
for the truest gift you give a child is when you set her free.
Prompt words are caveat, paradigm, necessity and discernment.
The A to Z Guide to Phobias
The A to Z Guide to Phobias
Beanophobia: A well-founded fear when they serve baked beans at the banquet before your Jr.prom.
Deanophobia: That long-ago fear in college that you’d be caught sneaking into your dorm after hours.
Geneophobia: The fear that Ancestry.Com will unearth something dastardly in your family tree.
Jeanophobia: Your grandmother’s fear that you’ll show up in shredded jeans for you aunt’s wedding.
Keeneophobia: An unexplainable dislike of Nancy Drew Mysteries.
Leanophobia: An iffy excuse for breaking your diet.
Meanophobia: What keeps you as far away as possible from the snotty group of girls in high school.
Preenophobia: Your stubborn refusal to sneak into the girls room during the interval of the movie to check out your hair and lipstick.
Queenophobia: A co-occurring disorder suffered by Anti-Anglophiles.
Sceneophobia: That feeling of dread when you let your boyfriend talk you into going to a slasher movie.
Teenophobia: A common phobia suffered by the parents of children between the ages of 12 and 20.
Weanophobia: the reluctance of first-time mothers to give up nursing.
Weeniephobia: A debilitating fear of hot dogs that causes one to avoid fairs and football games.
Xenophobia: An unreasonable dread that one might have been born in 1966 instead of 1965.
No surprise that the prompt today was Xenophobia, Image by Vadim Bogulov on Unsplash.
Dahlia: FOTD Apr 14, 2023
Since I’m rather low on “different” flowers right now, I searched my archives for a flower labelled “Unused.” This one came up, but when I typed its number into my WP media file, I found I’d published it seven years ago. It was pretty enough that I decided to publish it again anyway. Cee does say we should dig into our archives!!! Makes me want to go out and find dahlias to plant. It’s been a long time since I’ve had dahlias in my garden. Unfortunately, the little dogs will probably eat them. They are big salad fans.
For Cee’s FOTD
Nipped Bud! For Prompts and NaPoWriMo, Apr 13, 2023
A Flowery Metaphoric Rejection on a Bad Cold Day
When it comes to heroes, I prefer mine picaresque–
not one that clouds his meanings in terms more picturesque.
“We could make some upbeat music?” Your intent I can’t detect,
so I must entreat you, try to use words more direct.
All my friends have warned me you’re desirous of my hand,
but you seem to seek my membership in some sort of band.
I, too, can speak in metaphors, admiddedly not choral,
for instead of musical, my imagery is floral.
I cannot speak concisely for I have ad awful code.
But as to our conjoining,? Gotta snip it in the node!
(Disclaimer: I had written this all in lingo that sounded like a bad cold, but it seemed indecipherable, so I reverted to just using it in the last two lines.)
Prompts today are upbeat, picturesque, direct, entreat, node and membership.
Also, For NaPoWriMo 13
Bougainvillea for FOTD Apr 13, 2023
The leafcutter ants have not been stealing my bougainvillea as much this year. Thus, this healthy crop.
For Cee’s FOTD
U.S. Has More Guns Than People!!! Guns: Leading Cause of Deaths in U.S. Children
Why are legislators refusing to ban assault weapons and to pass stricter gun control laws????
Intimations of Mortality
Intimations of Mortality
Though I am still active, for sure I’m not my best.
Whereas once I boogied, now I find I’d rather rest.
I know I’m winding down for sure but I feel I must
achieve those things I said I’d do before I bite the dust.
While I’m waiting to be cancelled, I’ve agreed that I’ll be wise.
My finale bears no stigma, for everybody dies.
Prompt words today are wise, agree, finale, stigma, active and cancelled.
And for NaPoWriMo
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 