Monthly Archives: December 2023

New Prompt Site: The Numbers Game. Please Read and Play Along.

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  • Okay!  I am initiating a new prompt call “The Numbers Game.”  For years I’ve been noticing that when I do a search according to the number of a photo I’m looking for either in my WordPress Media file or in my Photos file on my computer, that I come up with a bunch of photos with the same number. It finally occurred to me that it would be fun to publish them and to ask others to do the same.  So, the first number I am going to use is 9909. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post all the photos you find and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. Below are my 9909 photos:

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To play along, just post a link to your blog with your photos numbered 9909 in the comments section below. I’ll publish a new number daily.

Dancing in the New Year, For Wordle 635

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Dancing in the New Year

One eye on the hourglass, sifting out the sand
belonging to the old year, yet swaying to the band
feverishly spinning in a shallow arc,
the partner that you dance with, caressing in the dark
shadows of the days gone by—three hundred-sixty-five.
Their pages scattered on the floor as you choose to jive.
Butchering the minutes that flutter ’round your feet
as your steps make light of them to the new year’s beat.
No aching gasps of nostalgia counteract the roar
of the new year’s entrance as you swirl around the floor.

For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 635 the prompt words are: shallow spin aching gasps scattered flutter shadows butcher hourglass feverishly eye

12/31/23 End of the Year Waltz

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12/31/23
End of  Year Waltz

One two three, One two three—
won’t you come dance with me?
Out of the old year and into the new,
I’d like to spend the time waltzing with you.
When the clock chimes, we’ll be on the floor,
welcoming in two zero two four.

A friend has pointed out that today’s date, seen without slashes, is 123123—the realization of which gave birth to this poem.

“Lucky Roll, Wrong Decision” For One Word Sunday: Three

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This is a grand coincidence, for I really did roll six threes in one roll in a game of Ten Thousand two days ago!  This is a first in years of playing this game.  My friend I was playing with insisted that when one rolled six of a kind in the game that it was an automatic win, but I insisted on playing through, taking only the 2400 points that the roll would garner.  And can you believe it, she got to 10,000 before me!  So much for nobility in dice-rolling! At any rate, it gave me the perfect photo for this challenge. And yes, I really did take a photo of my roll. This is not a staged photo.

For One Word Sunday: Three

Taking A Hike

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My Shoes

My shoes go out without me. They do it all the time,
and do the things I never do. They jog. They hike. They climb.
But when my shoes get home at night, they’ll be completely clueless
that I’ve left them out as well by venturing out shoeless!

 

For Greg’s Four-Line Fiction

“Slang with a Bang” For Fibbing Friday. Last of the Year!! 2023

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Auld slang syne this week: Your interpretations please!

1. Sling your hook: What the doctor said he was going to do to Mohammed Ali when he was taken to the emergency ward with a broken left arm after his last fight.
2. Here’s mud in your eye: What the female mud wrestler said to her opponent just before she trashed her eye makeup.
3. Bun in the oven: Describing Jennifer Lopez as she stuck her head into the oven to test the temperature.
4. Twinkle Toes: Anyone going barefoot in the Mardgras parade.
5. Moolah: Money spent on enlarging one’s cattle herd.
6. Brazillian: A new term above million and trillion that described Playtex’s total income.
7. Airhead: What they call the bathroom on a jet.
8. Goof off: The challenge is not punctuated correctly.  It is what Goofy said to Pluto when he was ready for him to abandon his lap. It should read,
               Goof: “Off!”   
9. Mickey Mouse: Request made by Cinderella, arriving home exhausted from the ball. Also a bit tipsy, thus her stutter as well as her need to request help in opening the door from one of her tiny rodent companions. “Mi-c-key, Mouse!”
10. Razz: Really good with Red Beans.

For Pensivity’s Fibbing Friday. Dec 29, 2023  Image by Lawrence Makoonah on Unsplash

Silver for CFFC, Dec. 29, 2023

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This is a silver brooch I made replicating a story about my dad and me. This looks exactly like him!!!
Another of my brooches–silver on ebony heart.

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Before I came to Mexico, I made jewelry, and my favorite pieces always told stories.  The first brooch represented my two loves: art and writing. The second is my dad and me on trips out to the ranch.  The figure of the man looks exactly like my dad, right down to the hat and the khakhi shirt that he always wore.  The third photo I took of a basked full of my silver rings.—only one of them made by me.  The last photo above is of an ebony heart that was decked out with different stories of my life, including little silver Dutch shoes that represented the homeland of both my grandfather and my grandmother’s parents.

When I first posted this, I had said that none  are four views of the only silver ring I remember ever making, for an assignment in my first silversmithing class. I hand cut out the figures, which represented different places I had lived in my life. I soldered them onto a band and then decided it was too broad for my finger, so I hand-sawed around all the figures to make this weird little end result.  That’s me leaping from my neighborhood in L.A. to my isolated mountain house up in the redwoods. From palm trees to Redwoods. There is no way I’d be capable of making such an intricate labor-intensive piece now!!!

 

For CFFC