“One tiny step for my appetite and one giant leap of no weight control” Joe said, laughing as he wolfed down bites of sweet desserts after the huge Thanksgiving feast. Everyone laughed but it really was no joke. Joe needed to curb his eating habits before his health deteriorated more. He just smiled at them and continued on to the salty offerings during the after meal football games.
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Beauty of a rose
Petals may be fading, still
The stem remains strong
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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/11/19/three-things-challenge-m152/. This week’s theme is FLOWERS
Your three words today are:
ROSE
STEM
PETAL
https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2022/11/19/weekend-writing-prompt-286-bibliopole/
Have you ever been on an extended vacation/holiday road trip?
The last long trip/actual vacation was a trip to Hawaii. It was wonderful. For the first three days we stayed in Honolulu and the next eleven days in a condo in Oahu. Heavenly!
When was the last time you visited an actual bookshop, and what, if any, new/old/secondhand titles did you buy?
Secondhand book shops are where you can find treasures, but Barnes and Noble is a family favorite.
How do you feel about the new WP Dashboard 7-day highlights Statistics?
I don’t like it or the constant changes they make.
How do you feel about all the Russian nuclear sabre rattling?
This is nothing new. Putin wants the old USSR back and he won’t stop.
If you could go back or travel to an age of your choice and live or relive a previous era for a day, what age would you pick and why?
I like reading about it but I wouldn’t like actually living in a different time, i.e. Victorian era.
Do you have a favourite coat? [Outdoor/Indoor/Business/Social] What makes it unique to you, OR is a coat just a coat?
I actually hate coats. I don’t like the heaviness or restrictions wearing them.
Do you enjoy learning something new every day or week?
Who doesn’t?
Are you more comfortable in your skin today than you were in the youth of your yesterdays?
Definitely, even though it’s wrinkled and saggy.🙄
When did you first start to journal your life?
I don’t unless you could call my blog a journal.
How do you feel about Eggplant/Aubergine/Guinea Squash as a vegetable? Is it something you enjoy having in your meals?
I like most vegetables, but to me eggplant is tasteless without a lot of additional ingredients.
What film could you watch over and over again and why?
I like watching the Marvel movies more than once or some fast action films to see what I missed the first time.
What concert, show, or event would you love tickets for if you could get them?
Chris Stapleton, but I’m not comfortable in that “scene” anymore.
Would your teenage self be impressed with who you are today and what you have achieved so far in your/their life?
I doubt it.
Which online behaviours do you find the most annoying in blogging?
Reblogging every prompt response.
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https://earthlycomforts.uk/2022/11/19/question-time-over-coffee-5/
Welcome to Week #107 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. Prompt for Week #107 (Nov 19, 2022 – Nov 25, 2022). Goodbye.
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Goodbye hot sweaty summer sleepless nights!
Prompt: Write a poem about The Myth of [blank]
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The Myth of the Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
Typing sentence practiced well
Has many a lesson to tell
While being loud in protest or speech
It might not achieve for what they reach
Blathering on as we’ve seen this week
By two politicos didn’t make the leaps
They expected—in fact caused a breach
In the adoration they hope to seek.
(Trump and Walker)
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https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-19
Yesterday morning the sun was out and even though snow was still piled we decided to go out. I dressed in a long sleeved shirt, fleece sweater and leggings and boots. Then I looked at the temperature 15 degreesF! Time to get out the old heavy coat, darn! The sun didn’t melt snow around me but the roads were safe and mostly dry.
We’re having Thanksgiving on Sunday and I’m looking forward to it—one of my favorite meals. Stay warm and have a nice weekend🍁
http://lindaghill.com/2022/11/18/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-nov-19-2022/
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I grew up on a dairy farm in Vermont. We had two hundred acres we could explore including streams, pond, forest and meadows. One of my favorite places was the maple grove.
We had a large farmhouse with an attached apartment for m dad’ parents and my moms parents lived in the bigger part of house with us. Next beside that a large woodshed. Across from it was a tool and storage double garage structure. We had a huge hay barn, cow barn, grain house and a milk house. My favorite was the grain barn, loved the scent of it.
I shared a bedroom with my sister who is six years older. We had a window that opened out to the porch roof and we’d go out there and sit and in winter we’d dive off from it into huge drifted snow.
My dad worked a long day at a machine shop and got up early and went to bed late because of farm chores added to the job. He would play the piano, fiddle or banjo and we’d all sing. We listened to old radio mysteries, etc and played games as kids in family gatherings. We read books incessantly. We had a huge attic complete with trunks of clothes and a Victrola and 78s so imaginations soared.
My best friends were two sisters who lived a ways from us. No, their home was definitely different as were their parents.
My first school was one room with about four kids in each class from 1-6 grades.
We rarely attended church but when I was in high school living in town I attended church myself. We moved to town when I was 15, after selling the farm. I wish I had that farm now.
I had a few hours between high school and when my dad was done at the machine shop driving us home. After homework I sometimes had a coke and French fries at the local drug store fountain. A group of us would go candlepin bowling and the firehouse put on a dance every Friday night. No actual dates but we would meet in those venues. After I turned sixteen I was allowed to date a little but like most teens my dad didn’t like my choices😀And if he did, I didn’t.
When I first moved away from home at 18 I lived in a boarding house a few towns away run by a French lady. I loved listening to her talk and she was a dear woman. There were three other people living there too. We shared everything. Quite different from home but I liked it. I had a small bedroom with a sink, that was all. Later I moved into a tiny apartment in a rundown tenement with one of the other boarders.
Prompt: Write a funny poem.
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Rated X
It was only supposed to be a joke
A harmless laugh, just a slight poke
When Joey grabbed the remote
Knowing his parents forgot to invoke
The ratings on watching their new TV
What could be watched, what could be seen
Joey knew which channels they were
He laughed watching his parents stir
Uncomfortably on their old divan
When bodies appeared, nude to a man
Joey started laughing so hard
His folks dropped their usual guard
His mother fainted, his dad turned red
And Joey was told “go straight to bed!”
“It was just a joke” he helplessly cried
But his favorite dinner was denied.
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https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-18
The Bag Lady 
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