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Coreopsis: Rich Gold (For City Sonnet)
Quordle Spoiler. Solvers Take Heed!
If you are a Quordle addict and have not yet solved the October 13, 2022 puzzle, please do not read this blog until you have. (The image above is of an old game, but the one at the end of this post is today’s solution. Consider yourself warned!!!!)
Okay, I have a confession to make. Every night, no matter how exhausting my day has been, I must wait for the turn of midnight so I can go quickly to three websites in turn: Wordle, Word Huddle and Quordle. If you don’t know what they are, look them up, but be warned that they are addictive.
One reason I feel compelled to solve these word puzzles as soon after their posting as possible is because I know Forgottenman will be doing the same and will report (smugly or disappointedly) his scores for the first two. (He refuses to do Quordle, in spite of the fact that I tell him it is the most fun of all.) The truth is that I think it jinxes my luck if I hear his scores first, so I feel the need to hurry and do at least the two he does before I consult Skype again. Sometimes I beat him and smugly (or disappointedly) report my score. Here is my last Skype to Forgottenman last night, regarding Quordle, which gives you 9 chances to discover 4 words simultaneously. Other than that, it is just like Wordle:
1:00 A.M.
Me: Quordle in 8. Would you believe, the last word was outgo??? I’d never heard of it.
1:01 A.M.
Me: Right after I ingo, I discover I have to outgo! What a bother…. ;o)
Jungle Walk
Jungle Walk
(With thanks to Miss Emily)
A narrow fellow in the grass
might be construed to let you pass,
but reptiles cannot be persuaded
to permit trespass unaided
by veneer of boot or shoe
to protect the foot of you.
Thus does impartial nature seek
to aid the strong over the weak.
So if you favor health and bod,
When taking walks, please come well-shod.
Prompt words today are veneer, weak, persuade, construe, reptile and narrow.
Although I wasn’t thinking of it when I wrote this post, later, while answering a comment to Sadje, I remembered that I had had my own barefooted jungle adventure in 1973 that I wrote about in my blog in 2014. Here is a link to it: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/10/15/bali-bound/
Hibiscus: FOTD Oct 13, 2022
Autumn Colors for CMMC
This is as close as we get to autumn colors here. There are five of these vibrant new blooms on my hibiscus bush today.
Religion and Politics
Religion and Politics
The ductile masses are easily led
either in affection or body or head,
to memorize lies emphatically told
and transformed from listless to dangerously bold.
Facts sprinkled with hatred may cause them to totter,
and thus are men led to riot and slaughter.
The rules of religion devoid of its heart
are often what rip the world’s humans apart.
Rigidity slams the door to detente,
replacing our “should” with what tyrants “want.”
What they call truth is merely illusion,
leading the masses to senseless delusion.
Look to the truth of the holy writ
and try to see who profits from it.
Is it the person making the rules
profiting by their control of fools?
Prompt words are memorize, listless, sprinkle,ductile, slam and emphatically.
Anthuriums: Cee’s FOTD Oct 12, 2022
For Cee’s FOTD
Echeveria: FOTD Oct 11, 2022
These flower-like succulents are more commonly known as Mexican Hen and Chicks. I love them and have them in most of my planters.
For Cee’s FOTD
Irresistible
Irresistible
Dishabille in a manner that other girls seek,
she was blonde and piquant and golden and Greek.
The men swarmed around her every night
named her “Pepperoncini” and all craved a bite.
No one could predict what she’d wear, say or do,
for each day she invented her image anew.
Her restoration might be crazy dresses
a new career or wild colored tresses.
But in spite of the changes—the weird fuss and fiddle,
she remained the fun girl who was caught in the middle.
No change could obscure her irresistible soul
at sixty years young, still every man’s goal.
Prompt words today are dishabille, predict, pepperoncini, restoration and middle.
