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Bridges: For CWWC
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Monthly Archives: September 2023
Crass Definitions for Fibbing Friday Sept 22, 2023
Here is Pensitivity’s task for us this Friday:
You may or not remember these popular movies, be they the originals or remakes, but what do you think they could have been about?
1. The Parent Trap: How my parents might have felt after the birth of their third child
2. The Incredible Journey: That first trip all on your own as a toddler when you slipped out of the bathtub when Mom’s back was turned and ran down the block to your Aunt Mabel’s house at the other end of the block stark naked! (True story)
3. Aladdin: A euphemistic description of a girl’s first sexual encounter.
4. Mission Impossible: The first time you had to parallel park for a driving test.
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: What your next door neighbor shouted over the back fence the day the you scrambled to retrieve the pages of your manuscript the wind had ripped out of your fingers and blown away.
6. The Wind in the Willows: When you slip out of the dinner party into the garden to fart. (Sorry for the indelicacy. I know no euphemism.)
7. Underworld: The real you under the girdle, the waist cincher or in the modern world, beneath the Spanx.
8. Legally Blonde: The results after you actually buy your hair coloring in the drug store instead of shoplifting it
9. The Terminator: Papa, when he flips the front porch lights off and on at ten o’clock during date night’s goodnight kiss
10. The Love Bug: Crabs
Purdy pitchers for FOTD
Put purdy pitcher hear.
Although I know the name of this flower, I can’t for the life of me remember it and the plant identifier refuses to name it, too. Someone help. A friend with a sense of humor set this up for me because he knew I’ve been crazy busy and didn’t have time to post it. The title and instructions are his!!! The flowers, however, whatever they are called, are my addition.
(They may be copa de oros (as not all copa de oros are gold, in spite of their name.) But, I’ve never noticed that little white flower like the center of a bougainvillea in the center of a copa de oro.)
For Cee’s FOTD
Way Down Low (For the Cosmic Photo Challenge)
For the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Low Elevation
Stages of Growth for Cee’s FOTD Sept 20, 2023
For Cee’s FOTD
A few days ago, I showed a photo of a hibiscus and was unsure of whether it was getting ready to bud out or had already done so and the petals had fallen. Cee is pretty sure the second is true but Sam (Seen here as “Anonymous.” We know not why) was curious about size and wanted to have more info. If you want to see the original blog that raised all this activity, go HERE, and you can also see Sam’s query and my answer to him. All of this led me to go out and take the pictures above. After that, I saw Cee’s comment which seemed to bring an end to the mystery. You can see her comment on the link as well. I’ll try to remember to go out and take a photo after this hibiscus’s petals have fallen. Then we can turn our minds to further mysteries.
A bit of interesting trivia: Chinese Hibiscus is sometimes referred to as the ‘Shoeblack Plant’, or simply ‘Shoe Flower’. This is because its petals can double up as shoe polish! By rubbing the flower petals on leather shoes, you can bring out the shine and color in the material to breathe new life into your shoes in a completely natural way!
Triangulation
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I had trouble finding triangles in my photo files so decided to go on a triangle hunt around my house. This is the result for RDP Friday: Triangle
Feeling Owly
Feeling Owly
(But Owl Be Okay)
When I’m feeling owly and in no mood to talk,
better that you leave me and take a little walk.
Cuz when I’m feeling owly, I don’t like being rushed.
Owly just increases when a girl is feeling crushed.
So leave me to be whooo I am and go be whooo you are.
Leave me in my owly funk and jump into your car
and be off on your business, out in the world’s wild hum.
When I’m in a mood like this, feeling sorta glum,
it’s best to leave me all alone, feeling my mood’s crunch.
Once in a while I feel the need to join the owly bunch!
This silly poem actually took me 4 minutes to write. I used the other two minutes to edit and format. Ended in exactly 6 minutes!!! No piece of great literature, but it fulfilled the prompt.
For Stine’s Six Minute Challenge: Write for six minutes about the photo provided above.
Smashed Hopes: For dVerse Poets
Smashed Hopes
My fascination with kale is nil,
but smashed potatoes fill the bill.
They go best with butter and
homemade gravy, never canned.
Rosé goes with clove-studded ham,
but I must admit I am
fond of gin for getting smashed
when the potatoes are mashed!
The dVerse Poets Quadrille challenge prompt is Smash.
And you can find more responses to the prompt HERE.
Hibiscus: For FOTD Sept 18
Beginning or Ending? For FOTD Sept 19, 2023
I can’t decide whether this was a flower whose petals had fallen or one that hadn’t yet budded out. I meant to keep checking it, but life intervened and I forgot to. What do you think?
For Cee’s FOTD
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 