Breaking the bonds of inertia, Joe raised his arm holding an empty beer glass, an apparent signal to his friend, Nick who just got home. “Where ya been, Nick?”
“Oh, I was out checking on what’s happening after work on Saturday. I guess they ran out of weekends for festivals because there’s absolutely zipola happening!”
“Well what’s happening right now is, I’m ready for another beer, so how bout it?” Nick sighed and went to the fridge.
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OLWG# 387- When the Revolution Comes…
Your three words today are:
JEWEL
EMERALD
RUBY
“Well, where is it? You promised me a ring with a big jewel for my birthday!” She opened the box and looked shocked to see an emerald ring. “You could have at least gotten my birthstone, a ruby, but what I really wanted was a diamond!” She tossed the box aside and muttered, “well I’ll just pawn this for a real gem!”
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Three Things Challenge #M846
crisp
autumn beauty
cool muted colors
leaf softness chilled
hues darken
autumn
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Easy Peasy Writes
I was brought up to respect authority—police, doctors, elders, teachers, including our government; the president, vice president, and members of congress. It is incredible to me to see, hear and read what supposedly respected men and women in the Supreme Court are doing. Some are controlled by Donald Trump who appointed three conservatives, making the court no longer a biased free court. According to historical facts, SCOTUS was never intended to be apolitical, a sad fact in my opinion. I always believed, naively, that the term “judge” as a person, should be honest, fair and unbiased. We as a nation have become victims of an ultra conservative court, ignoring the basic tenets our country was framed on.
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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Judge
Weekend Writing Prompt #385 – Vertigo
“You’re such a hypocrite, sitting there with that irritating look on your face, pointing out all the flaws in my writing. It’s time to own up to your own vulnerabilities and stop criticizing others, especially me. Now if you have some honest knowledgeable analysis, be my guest.”
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Lucky Dip – Saturday Mix, 12 October 2024
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No Theme Thursday 10.10.24
Doing my nails after using cologne
Heard my cell ring, a message ignored
My treasures are sitting on the shelf,
A magazine article promoting myself
My ego all represented here
I face my life with no fear
I feel my worth truly justified
It’s my opinion, while others are mystified.
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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #351
Using this clip about Columbus’s ship trio:
“Though only two of Columbus’s ships ended up being caravels, Isabella’s decree speaks to the popularity of the vessel during the 15th-century “Age of Discovery.” Starting with Portuguese explorations of the African coast in the mid-1400s, caravels were prized for their sleek, lightweight hull and their uncanny ability to sail into the wind.
Luis Filipe Viera de Castro, a nautical archeologist at Texas A&M University, says that the earlier Portuguese caravels, known as the caravela latina, were rigged with lateen (triangular) sails that hung at 45-degree angle to the deck.
“Lateen sails are […] almost like wings,” says Castro. “You can point the bow of the caravel with an angle of just 20 degrees off the wind and still get enough lift on the outer edge of the sail to propel forward.”
The lateen-rigged caravels were critical in the Portuguese voyages to sub-Saharan African, where strong coastal winds blow north to south. The versatile caravel could speed south along the coast and easily return to shore against the wind.
For Columbus’s maiden journey, he used a Spanish update to the caravel known as the caravela redonda, a three-masted ship where the first two masts were rigged with conventional square sails for open-ocean speed, and a third was rigged with a lateen sail for coastal maneuverability. That rigging combination made ships like the Niña and the Pinta some of the best sailing vessels of their time.”
Clip here and read more at https://www.history.com/news/christopher-columbus-ships-caravels.
Have a great weekend!
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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Oct. 12, 2024
The Bag Lady 
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