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Easter Egg Hunt for Lens Artists Challenge #391

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So here are this year’s Easter Egg Hunt photos.  My neighbors Sergio and David generously offered to entertain the doggies while the kids were here to guarantee the safety of the eggs Marie Jose and Yoli helped me to hide. Of 108 eggs filled and searched for, only 8 were not found, even after I offered a 15 pesos reward for each “unfound” egg found. A frenzied, much-motivated search did not reveal these overly-hidden eggs which caused one small girl to ask if it was a joke…ha. At any rate, wish I’d gotten a photo of everyone but I was kept busy trying to insure that everyone got their share of eggs and only one of each color or pattern so everyone received exactly the same mixture of candy. Pizza and Jamaica and watermelon and corn treats were enjoyed by all and the hammocks were enjoyed as well, as you can see. This is my favorite activity of the year, along with the pinata party at Xmas. A week before this hunt, Carmen discovered an egg hidden a year ago..candy still inside..while she was trimming greenery. Hopefully the 8 remaining eggs will be found sooner than that and not by the dogs!!! Happy Easter to All.

For Tina’s Lens Artists Challenge #391

Killer Clowns and Other Threats

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Killer Clowns and Other Threats

Robot ghosts from outer space
are in the sky, then in your face.
They sat behind you once in school,
thinking all the world they’d fool,
but recently they have been outed,
so although formerly I doubted
action adventure’s crazy plots
of giant creatures and evil bots,
recent events most grieveable
have made such things believable.

This orange devil we’ve elected
and all the buffoons he’s collected
make killer clowns from outer space
less scary than villains we face
day by day in our own world.
So let those forces be unfurled
to fight with him both tooth and bone
so he’ll leave our innocents alone!

Hope “springs” eternal, so I’m using this farcical response to the dVerse prompt this week, no matter how farfetched!!! The hats on the guys  in the UFO are supposed to read “Make Space Great Again,” but couldn’t get AI to cooperate. They came close, so have some of the ICE agents displaying their motto instead. Perhaps they have been in cahoots all along.

The Numbers Game #118. Come Play Along!!

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #118. Today’s number is 240. To play along, go to your  photos file folder and type the number 240 into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title. This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. 

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Mexico,
In your suitcase, ready to go along
And Auntie Sherri
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Behind the Camera
Peek Into her drink glass

 

Ajijic Pier

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For Cellpic Sunday

“Hopelessly Devoted” for Word of the Day

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Hopelessly Devoted

Time to take a small vacation
from my daily blog oration?
I once had the silly notion
I could end avid devotion
quickly, with a stroke of key
that said that this was going to be.
But it is not tossable.
I found the act impossible.
So here I am right on the dot.
It seems a quitter I am not!

The Word of the Day is “Devoted.”

“The Full Story” for The Sunday Whirl

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The Full Story

Thinking creatures don’t mind visiting those rumbles in their heads
that contain their darkest thoughts––both phobias and dreads––
that exist alongside their wishes, hopes and dreams.
For writers, criminals and gods seem to exist in teams,
walking through their consciousness, sometimes in equal measure,
as though they know that gold and dirt are equally a treasure
when it comes to spinning tales that reflect all the world they see.
So, at story time, we flock like children to their knee
to hear the truth of all the world––its laughter and its wails––
for life consists of tragedies as well as  pretty tales,

Prompts for The Sunday Whirl are: mind visit thinking creature exists criminal know dirt walk head writer rumbles (Image created with the aid of AI)

Ghost? for The Weekend Writing Prompt

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Ghost?

That sudden soft midnight footfall outside my room? I’m hoping it was you.

The Weekend Writing Prompt is to write a poem in 13 words.

Silly Answers for Fibbing Friday

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For Fibbing Friday, the assignment is: What do you make of these?

1. What is a skiff? A very poor ranking for a ski jump.
2. What is a liner? Art Linkletter’s half brother.
3. What is a ferry? The means by which a tiny mythical winged. creature is conveyed from shore to an island.
4. What is a destroyer? A puppy, up to the age of 1.
5. What is a cruiser? A party given for the employees of a cruise ship line.
6. What is a galleon? 4 quartes.
7. What is a pedlow? A trike for a very tiny child.
8. What is a kayak? A negative response to my middle name.
9. What is a schooner? A botched sneeze.
10. What is a coracle? The center part of a carbuncle.

A Culinary Confession for the Three Things Challenge.

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A Culinary Confession

My kitchen is my “killer kit,” or so my husband thinks,
as warily he eyes his meal––main course, dessert and drinks.
He says he doesn’t blame me for my culinary lack,
because he didn’t marry me because I have the knack
to fry and broil and grill and roast
or even fail to burn the toast.
Yet I see him eye the knishes,
turkeys, pies and other dishes
served up by the other wives
who, wielding pans and spoons and knives
create dishes edible
as well as being bedable.
While I, though skillful in the sack,
their kitchen talents sadly lack.
So for years, we’ve had to make out
mainly on phone-in or take out!

Prompt words for the Three Things Challenge 375 are: killer, kit, kitchen. (Image created with help from AI)

Backyard Scenes for Wordless Wednesday

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For Mama Cormier’s Wordless Wednesday.