For Cee’s FOTD
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Tomorrow is our last day of our retreat at the wonderful Quinta San Carlos across the lake. Our brains are nearly emptied of words and our stomachs are certainly full of the delicious food they serve us from the time we wake up until we drag up the hill to our rooms. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are supplemented with a round the clock buffet of cookies, chips, sliced veggies, sodas, coffee and tea of every variety. I am now hiding out from dinner as if I put one more bite of food into my mouth I won’t make the bonfire tonight (Where by the way they roast corn over the open fire and serve it with the usual Mexican condiments of butter, mayonnaise, lime and chili powder. We are going to ask them to skip this tradition this year.
As soon as I’m sure they are finished with dinner I’ll go down for the bonfire and to lead the storytelling. Our leader (another) Judy has had bad laryngitis for the past few days so we are assuming her task and even reading aloud for her what she has written. It’s been a great time. Hopefully, same time next year.. I believe this is our seventh year with a few years skipped during covid.
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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #10” Today’s number is 131. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include 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.
Nightmare II
Anchored in this groggy dream, unaware of passing
of time or space or anything that I am amassing.
Triggers from the past float by, pale and half-recalled.
Corridors of memories––narrow, densely walled.
No way to check these stories from a cursed past.
How could we have known how long past memories might last?
The cattle stir, the hoot owl hoots and night birds sing their song––
accompaniment to nightmares that draw us, too, along.
The prompt words for The Sunday Whirl are: aware passing stirred check groggy trigger pale dream space anchor cursed low
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1. What is an orderly? The opposite of a chaotic.
2. What is an auxiliary? A hospital for sick oxen.
3. What is a clip? A fingernail shaving.
4. What does ECG mean? Eat Carefully, Girl! (Mother’s parting instructions to her daughter leaving for her first dinner date.)
5. What is The Crash Team? Every college student the night before a final.
6. What is a candy striper? Someone responsible for adding the red to candy canes.
7. What is an IV? The Roman numeral after III and before V.
8. What is a call button? A shirt closure for hire.
9. Why is everything white? Because you are in a hospital.
10. Why don’t they have biscuits on the tea trolley? Because they just donut!
For Cee’s FOTD
Oops! I forgot to include my favorite photo in my earlier response to this prompt. I just have to give it its own post now. I love how cats always seem to set up poses…this one a group one.
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