FOWC: Reference

For anyone wondering how the “commander and chief” and I write that term with disrespect, is faring in reference to people all around our nation who are sick, dying, starving–this is how. After all, after a night of hateful tweeting, he needs to exercise something besides his thumbs!

https://fivedotoh.com/2020/05/24/fowc-with-fandango-reference/#like-43148

Sammiscribbles Weekend Writing Prompt 5-23-20

Thunder booming

Black clouds looming

Cooling winds

The storm begins

Windows are closed

Shut against rain

Dogs start to howl

Of the noise they complain

Cats unaware of any distress

Snuggle into their mother’s dress

Children hide under covers in bed

Lightning is what they dread

Scary shadows on walls appear

Lights flickering causing fear

Garden flowers close in the gray

Not wanting to lose petals this day

Mice returning to their holes

Nesting birds’ feathers closed

Forest trees are only ones

That enjoy the downpour waters’ run.

88words

https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/weekend-writing-prompt-158-downpour/

3TC – They Don’t Bug Me

It was Saturday and the whole town showed up at the annual Best Bug Competition. Every year many children foraged the beach sand, garden dirt or attics and garages to find the most unusual bugs for the contest.

Never to be outdone, old Mr. Jones, sometimes referred to as “the maniac”, participated and oftentimes won. “It isn’t rocket science; I’m just an old idiot who loves creatures”, he always said when receiving the prize, a year’s prescription for Bugaway Juice. He lived on the edge of town in a shanty that had seen better days. It was only at competition time that he searched out the invertebrates that shared his home.

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(Finding pest photos started to give me the creeps😫. They DO bug me😱)

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/three-things-challenge-244/#like-52754

https://fivedotoh.com/2020/05/23/fowc-with-fandango-maniac/#like-43146

https://cyranny.com/2020/05/23/sand-word-of-the-day-challenge/#like-53145

MLMM Saturday Mix

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Upset frustrated mother

Feels it might be a waste of her time

Scolding children who never bother

Proper disposal of rheumy tissue slime

She bends at the waist

For closeup spoken directions

No roomy separation, needs clear inflection

“Keep your roomies safe and observe the rules!”

She cannot wait till they open the schools.

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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/saturday-mix-double-take-23-may-2020/#like-19268