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Silhouette: CB&W Tree Challenge
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Vibrant Colors: CFFC
Mexico IS vibrant color. I had to restrain myself….Here are a few shots. I could have done thousands.
If you click on any photo, it will enlarge them all.
What is it?
Lots of local color…
https://ceenphotography.com/2018/09/22/beths-cffc-photo-challenge-vibrant-colors/
Thunbergia: Flower of the Day, Sep 22, 2018
Summer
Summer
Days spread like an Indian blanket in the grass
and those carnival nights.
Anxious sorties into unknown parts of town.
Feeling my number up as the wild sisters
kicked me all the way home
to what they called my posh neighborhood.
Yearned-for months
let out of school,
my continuing education.
The prompts today were posh, number, carnival and anxious.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/rdp-saturday-posh/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/09/22/fowc-with-fandango-number/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/carnival/
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/daily-addictions-2018-week-37/anxious
Twilight
Twilight
That strange bird, making its chipping call again.
I open my calendar, hoping to find a blank square
promising the richness of time as an empty cup to fill.
I have come to recognize
the joy of my own company—
a simple diet filled only with my favorite dishes.
What to savor first? These expected words or an early morning trip
down to the garden before the day has warmed
and sound has found it?
The men will arrive at 8.
On each side of me, the chipping of concrete
and dry rub of concrete filler. Hours later, the brush.
Their day as productive as my day will be.
Seeing the empty square,
my choice when and how to fill it.
Walk Off the Earth-Music You Need to See to Know the Whole Story!!
Thanks to forgottenman for yet another unique music experience.
Rootie Tootie Margarootie Recipe
Just discovered I’ve never actually put up the promised recipe for a Rootie Tootie Margarootie. Here it is, as requested by Calen Sariel:
Rootie Tootie Margarootie Recipe: I’m not sure about amounts as I do it by taste, but I’m making these for a party Sunday so I will measure:
1/2 Cup Tequila
1 to 2 Cups Squirt (Make with one cup and if it tastes too strong, add another)
1/4 Cup Raspberry liqueur (Chambord or Antigua)
1 Cup Cranberry Juice
3 cups Ice
Mix in blender until slushy. You should make in batches as if you put more than this in blender at one time, the Squirt foams up and spills over. Taste and alter amounts to your taste.
Make more batches and store in freezer for an hour or so before serving so it is really slushy. Stir and serve. (In your freezer might only require 1/2 hour, depending on how cold you keep it.)
If you wish, mix sugar with a smaller amount of salt, rub lime around rim of glass and dip rim of glass into the sugar/salt solution. Carefully fill with the Rootie Tootie Margarootie which should have the consistency of a slushie.
If it isn’t delicious, start adding more of each ingredient until it tastes good to you, then send me your recipe! Adding more cranberry juice makes it sweeter and stronger tasting.
The Jerk
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The Jerk
He tended to overreact,
the truth to overly compact.
When he was touched, to be exact,
he swore that he’d been soundly whacked.
When his employer surveyed his work
and claimed that he was prone to shirk
his labors, he was known to smirk
and say his boss was just a jerk.
He was, in short, a royal mess,
much given to his own duress.
A cavity, I must confess,
in his words became an abscess.
Often, truth he would imbue,
and he was rumored to pursue
wages that were not his due,
threatening that he’d surely sue.
His fellow workers made a pact
to somehow get this fellow sacked.
Their plot was detailed and exact.
They wanted no more of his act.
Surely, revenge was overdue.
He hid out in the john, they knew,
so as the jerk approached the loo,
they primed the seat with Super Glue.
It’s true, they heard his sounds of stress
coming from that small recess
where he had chosen to undress
in order that he then might press
His ample bottom to the seat
of his favorite retreat.
They heard his loud resounding bleat,
the pounding of his booted feet
upon the metal, well-locked stall,
his futile poundings on the wall,
but they heeded not his call.
Did he distress them? Not at all.
Much later, he was seen to pass,
a ring attached to his bare ass.
The doctor must have thought it crass.
So did the pretty little lass
who was his nurse, who’d often guessed
he imagined her in states undressed
as she passed this macho pest;
and, if you cannot guess the rest:
as she raised the needle, gleefully aimed
at ample butt, so red and maimed
and yet so elegantly framed,
she gave witness as the beast was tamed—
and the frequent shamer was finally shamed.
The prompt words today are smirk, compact, duress and pursue. Here are the links to the bogs that gave them: (Disclaimer: The photo above was used for illustrative purposes only. The man photographed is actually the opposite of a jerk.)
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/rdp-friday-smirk/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/09/21/fowc-with-fandango-compact/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/duress/
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/daily-addictions-2018-week-37/ pursue
Sep 20, 2018 Lake Chapala Sunset
There were so many wonderful phases of this rapidly changing sunset, that I couldn’t cull out any more than I have. I am perhaps excessive, but this sunset certainly was as well, so I feel I’m justified. If you click on the first photo, it will enlarge them all.
