The Bag Lady

Here are this week’s questions:

1. Do you wear glasses, and if so, can you remember your first pair? Yes, I was mortified, at age 12! My doc said only wear them when you need to such as reading the board in school. However the teacher insisted I wear them all the time.

2. If you were a precious stone, what would best describe you? Emerald

3. At home, do you wear slippers, slipper socks or walk around in bare feet?Im in a wheelchair and don’t walk. I’m still recovering from a heel injury and can’t wear shoes on that foot, so heavy socks with grips on bottom are a necessity.

4. How many pillows do you sleep with at night?One.

Gratitude:I’m grateful my family stayed safe during these horrible wind storms. My oldest grandson and his wife are first responders. Now the wind has subsided some and we have ice and temps of 15F.🥶

Share Your World 16th March

The Saturday Solutions group met as they did every weekend, hopefully bringing new ideas to solve current social problems in their area. The neighborhood was lovely in its yesteryears, but now crumbling, literally, and housing was becoming dangerous. This young group of social reformers attempted to remedy problems in the neighborhood. The main problems they encountered involved funds to make improvements, but they were insistent and found some businesses that complied with their requests. Attempts to involve government funds were constantly denied. One of the older residents of the building in question remarked, “It all belies our existence; we wait, and are still denied.”

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Prosery: Winter Lull

She said it’s like the grapes of wrath

In road’s rivers we have a bath

Route 66 held a dream

California promise gleams

Closer, see disappointing path

**Ref “Grapes of Wrath” John Steinbeck 1939

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This week the theme is to find a song related to weather conditions of sunny, cloudy, windy, rainy, or stormy suggested by Nancy of the Elephant’s Trunk aka The Sicilian Storyteller. Try to use the prompt words or at least conform to a general theme, as you see it.  If the song you select does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.

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This version is easier to hear, by Ella Fitzgerald, but Ethel Waters originally sang this song composed by Irving Berlin in 1933 for a broadway musical, “As Thousands Cheer”.

Verse)
A heat wave was riding through town last week
She came from the island of Martinique
The can-can she dances will make you cry
The can-can is really the reason why

(Chorus)
We’re having a heat wave
A tropical heat wave
The temperature’s rising
It isn’t surprising
She certainly can can-

She started a heat wave
By letting her seat wave
And in such a way that
The customers say that
She certainly can can-can

Gee, her anatomy
Makes the mercury
Jump to ninety-three

We’re having a heat wave
A tropical heat wave
The way that she moves
That thermometer proves
That she certainly can can-can

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**my internet is acting up so ——🙄

How’s the Weather

Swing dancing is now a “thing”. It’s making a comeback in the competitive dancing world, but did it ever disappear? Comeback? Now there are many variations but the original form is still popular. The dance style has six basic moves, originating in Harlem jazz clubs in the 1920s. It’s hard to sit still when listening to the rhythm of “swing music”.

Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Prompt Word!

The sting of the bitter elixir hit her neck and frail hopes of escape faded. Curiosity disappeared into a facade of dreams, doubts of worthiness and strength once again clouded reality. Her body no longer restless, now had massive inability to move off the bed. She looked at the torn strip of gauze like materials that strapped her wrists to the cot. Her resolve gone, and sedatives her friends.

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Wordle 748

gold sunset reveal

blackened ominous mountains

jagged cliffs to climb

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mordant now lifting

happier sun starts glowing

overcoming the somber

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SenHai Saturday #43

Holding up might be an appropriate action for our fire rescue department services after yesterday’s 75-100 mph winds. So loud and dangerous! Roads closed for many accidents and trees etc downed, a scary travel if needed. My electricity and internet all gone which is a reminder to keep phones charged. Mine ran out. My apartment was cold because I have the building’s 1950 style heater, air conditioner. The wind comes right in through it. All electric made me wish for my old house I moved from that had a gas stove so you could light the oven and burners to keep warm and even cook something. I have matches and candles but they were not used. So far today, things are cold but good. First soccer game tomorrow in inside facility, review pending☺️

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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS March 14, 2026

Promise is seen in every young heart and mind. It needs to be nurtured and cultivated like a seeding in the vast garden of life.

Weekend Writing Prompt #459 – Young

1. Clothing business
2. Maui
3. Blogging/writing

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