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If I Were Marooned on An Island with Only Three Foods?

If I were marooned on an island with only three foods, what three foods would I choose?

Potatoes, Whole Milk, Oil.

What I could make from these three ingredients? Baked potatoes with butter and sour cream, French fries (alas, no ketchup), mashed potatoes with milk and butter, potato chips, scalloped potatoes, fried potatoes, VODKA!!!!!

What I’d miss most:  Salt (but I figure I could obtain it from seawater), green vegetables, (Surely there are some edible greens on the island? More likely than wild potatoes.) As for meat, there must be some game on the island and fish in the ocean or lake around it.

The Prompt for My Vivid Blog is Potatoes. Can’t resist that one!

Fibbing Friday for Nov 24, 2023

Fibbing Friday goes Shakespearean!

1. What light through yonder window breaks?
– Burglars!

2. Alas, poor Yorick………………..
– we named him poorly.

3. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
– Where did you hang the painting my folks gave us?

4. To be, or not to be…………………….
– The mental quandaries of a would-be apiarist.

5. All the World’s a stage……………………
– Personal slogan of Donald Trump.

6. All that glisters…………
– eventually tarnishes.

7. Give every man thy ear……………
– Bad advice given to Van Gogh.

8. Neither a borrower nor a lender be……
– Unfortunate slogan of a bank that went out of business.

9. Many a true word…………
– was twisted into untruth.

10. Do not swear by the moon……………..
– what in the light of day you do not intend to fulfill.

For Fibbing Friday’s prompt

Note from ForgottenMan: Judy is almost home (bouncing in a taxi from Guadalajara to San Juan Cosala) as I prepare to post this. I sent these prompts to her this afternoon on Skype, and she nailed all 10 responses back on Skype in less than 10 minutes. I’ve transcribed them here & posted at her direction. Welcome home, Judy!

Geraniums, for Cee’s FOTD Nov. 23, 2023


For Cee’s FOTD

Guest Blog: A Few More Photos

Good evening, folks, ForgottenMan back again posting for Judy. She’s still at the beach (Buscerías, Nayarit) with a friend, still wrestling with internet issues. But she managed to slip me these photos via email & Skype, so I dutifully post them here for y’all to enjoy. (Y’all know you can click on a pic to see a bigger version, right?)

Guest Blog: More Beach Photos!

Good afternoon, folks, ForgottenMan here posting for Judy. She’s still at the beach (Buscerías, Nayarit) with a friend, still wrestling with internet issues. But she managed to slip me these photos via email, so I dutifully post them here for y’all to enjoy. (Y’all know you can click on a pic to see a bigger version, right?)

Guest Blog: Judy’s at the Beach!

Good evening, folks, ForgottenMan here posting for Judy. She’s at the beach (Buscerías, Nayarit) with a friend, but with no/limited wi-fi. She was able to send me these seven photos of her time there so far (using precious cellular phone data). So, not to worry – she’ll be back when she gets the internet stuff sorted out. Meanwhile, hope y’all enjoy the pics. (Y’all know you can click on a pic to see a bigger version, right?)

Looking Up, Looking Down for Lens Artists Challenge

Click on photos to enlarge and read full captions.

These are my entries for the below prompt:

https://jazzibeeblog.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/looking-up-looking-down/

Candid Canines

I just can’t resist a good pup shot!

Lazy Day, Well-earned

Click on photos to enlarge.

Life has been crazy lately, but yesterday, finally, was a day of complete relaxation. Hammocks certainly help to encourage that. And HERE is an earlier post on the same topic. Penned during the Covid year, I believe.

Kindergarten Romeo. (For dVerse Poets “Holy Guacamole!”)

Kindergarten Romeo

A bunch of  yellow dandelions
squeezed tight in your fist,
your face all raw emotion,
red faced, you held them out to me,
the ripe odor of little boy
surrounding you like a cloud.

The dVerse poets prompt is to write a poem (probably about guacamole, maybe?) using a mixture of at least four of the following key words: avocado,  bunch, chop, cilantro, coriander, cumin, finely, fork, jalapeño, kosher, lime, mash, onion, pepper, raw, red, ripe, salt, seeds, serrano, shell, smoky, spice, squeeze, tomato, white, yellow. Everything else is up to you! (The words I chose were: bunch  ripe red squeeze  yellow.)  Ha! No Guacamole.

To read other Guacamole poems, go HEREImage by Anthony Vela on Unsplash