Quality Control
As neighbors you are irreplaceable.
The prospect of your loss? Unfaceable
What if the folks you sell it to
turn out to be ones we will rue?
Replacing you?
We no can do!
We’ll annex your house and then
use it as our adjunct den.
The Weekend Writing Prompt 418 is to write a 44 word poem or story on the theme “annex.” (Image from the Irish Times)
Rules and Regulations
Orange houses? Not allowed. Nor are blue or yellow.
The rules of this subdivision call for hues more mellow.
Tan or brown or gray or beige, trim equally sedate
are the colors they allow and you’ll seal your fate
if you select tricolors or a hue too bright.
Original’s not sanctioned. Artistic’s just not right.
Your entire edifice must sport one desert hue
lest you be delinquent in your neighbor’s view.
The ratio of bright-to-dull? Exceptionally low.
Blending-in is favored. One’s not allowed to glow.
They simply prefer colors more tranquil and more restful.
And so they do not put up with house colors more zestful.
Everybody to their own–monochrome or bawdy.
As for me, the hues I choose tend to be more gaudy.
They do not want the likes of me in Phoenix or Calexico.
If I want such colors, they with ship me off to Mexico.
Writing prompts today are tricolor, edifice, delinquent, entire and ratio, First photo by Eric Brehm on Unsplash. Used with permission.
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I couldn’t find a photo of one of my favorite houses when I did my first post, so I have to publish an addendum to my “Places People Live.” This is the house of my friend Candace, who loves color, as I do, and her husband Bob. I’ve now added it to the collage, but for those of you who have already seen my earlier post, here is another wonderful place where wonderful people live, and HERE is the original post of all of the houses.
Click on the first photo to enlarge all.
From Wyoming to Missouri, from Prince Edward Island to Mexico. from California to South Dakota to Minnesota, to Maryland this is where and how people live. Ocean, lake, forest and plains, there is as much variety in where we live and the houses we live in as there is in our personalities. Viva la Difference!!!
For Cee’s Challenge: B and W Houses.
My sister’s beautiful and perfect house brought some surprises this trip. The front door is being replaced, and in the meantime:
(Click on any photo to enlarge all.)
For Thursday Doors.
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My entire house is yellow orange! As is my living room and bedroom and studio… all different hues. I have been so busy that I hadn’t noticed that everything is blooming. The Royal Poinciana is the fullest I’ve ever seen it. I’ll show more of it tomorrow!
https://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/04/29/color-your-world-yellow-orange/
We Gather Together
This is not quite what I have in mind, but it was the only one-story X shaped house I could find on Google images.
I would love to have the money to build another house on the land I own that adjoins my own lot. It would be one story high, so as not to impede my view. It would be in the shape of an “X” with a common area in the shape of a large donut in the middle. In the very center (the hole of the donut) would be an atrium with one or two large trees filled with hanging wire baskets stuffed with spagnum moss that would be the home of bromeliads and orchids. The ring part of the donut would contain a kitchen, dining room and living room/game room–all interconnected but with sliding glass doors out to the atrium. Each of the arms of the X would have a bedroom, living room, bathroom and study/art studio.
At the end of the lot nearest the street and adjoining my studio with a little stile-like bridge that extends over the wall between the upper and lower lot would be a larger art studio with saws, buffers, polishers and drills as well as more space for storage, group activities and classes. The art studio would be on the second level, with a commodious elevator capable of taking larger sculptures and people down to street level. Since that lot is much lower than my lot, the second story would be on the same level as my studio. The first level would be another living space that ties in with my main purpose for building this house.
I want to create a space where three or four of my friends or relatives could come to spend their old age. If there were four, the space under the studio would be a living space for a caretaker/nurse/housekeeper. If I got too feeble to live in my house, I’d move into one of the legs of the house below. Otherwise, I could visit my friends or relatives there. If it were necessary, a nurse or housekeeper/cook could occupy one of the legs of the “X.” It would just be nice to be able to all be together to face old age as well as to keep each other young and silly for as long as possible.
This is a bit grand, and two-story, but shows that an X-shaped house could work. It is missing the middle donut shared area and atrium. (image from Google images)
The Prompt: Tell us about the one luxury item you wish you could afford, in as much detail as you can. Paint a picture for us.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/keeping-up-with-the-jones/
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