WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY and WORDLESS WEDNESDAY...10-02-2024

For Wordless Wednesday

 MY BACKYARD by Granny Annie

I stood in the back of my property scratching my FORHEAD for several MINUTES.  The water was a PEBBLE GREY but still beautiful and relaxing. How did we make such a wonderful purchase on Grand Lake?  

My housekeeping out of the way, this beautiful scene found me in a HURRY.  PANTING and RUNNING I headed for my  backyard to gaze at the the wonderful lake. It was my greatest enjoyment viewing the water daily.  All of a sudden, remembering our children's play starting soon in town, it called for my brain to snap in place.

There was the sound of a TRAIN passing .  If the traveling mile long fortress of containers stopped for as much as 20 minutes it would block all three crossings.  A SWEAT began to rise.  Thinking about the program and the SEATs they SAVED for us, we ran to try and CATCH a way to get across before it was blocked.

Please feel free to finish my story in the comments and I will post your additions. There just wasn't enough time...

 

 The prompts will be on EC again this month and are provided by  Sean Jeating. This week's prompts are:

• catch
• hurry, 
• panting, 
• running, 
• train
•  
•  and/or
•  
• forehead, 
• minutes, 
• saved, 
• seats, 
• sweat

Charlotte (MotherOwl)  has given us Pebble Grey as the colour of the month.  If you can also incorporate it into your stories she (and I) will be grateful.

Have fun.

HAPPY FUNNY TUESDAY...10-01-2024

 

QUESTION OF THE WEEK - 09-30-2024

 Any major life or work updates?

SUNDAY TALKING - 09-29-2024

 Finally the Ayala Art 29 Faces for September 2024 are complete! I started with misc. portraits and ended with characters from Tombstone 1993.

 

SATURDAY VIDEO...09-28-2024

 

NO FRIDAY FACE OFF .. 09-27-2024

 We're not having Friday Face Off this week. Instead lets send thoughts and prayers to Nicole DVArtist and Mr M. Things are happening with broken ankle and cancer and we are hoping that all shall be well.💓😘🙏

THURSDAY ART AND DINNER DATE -- WORD "COSTUME BALL" 09-26-2024

RAIN'S THRUSDAY ART AND DINNER DATE - COSTUME BALL

ILLUSTRATE COSTUME BALL

 

Costume Ball - Basket ball in Costume by eaghl/2025

 

WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY...09-25-2024

 

 

MORE FOWL by Granny Annie

The season bends. Last February many chickens found a new home here with me and my dog Frankie on the farm. They came here as young birds never having faced Winter blasts. Now the weather is turning cold and the question pops into the minds of my family..."WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THIS TIME?" 

Frankie and I will be facing freezing rain and snow together.  Years before when chickens lived here I fell in a snow drift and barely found my way up on my feet again.  At least that knowledge should help me tread with extra caution.

It is already difficult to find their eggs.  They play a game of hide-and-seek with me.  The way the hens move around the estate following the lead of their boss Reacher Rooster, it is almost like a game of CHESS. The wind is BLUSTERY and seems to move the chickens around the homestead. 

My little modern cell TELEPHONE rings in my pocket.  It must be a neighbor calling to tell me one of my hens is out in the road. That puts them in the perfect spot to turn CRINKLE by a car or be lifted by OWLS. 

The dreaded days are ahead.  Danger awaits my girls and the big boy Reacher.  Frankie will help me keep them home but if we fail, their blood will spill on the ground in the bright color of ORIENT RED. Perhaps my blood or Frankie's will spill also. 

And I cry...

 

This month the words/prompts are supplied by River and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. owls 2. chess 3. telephone 4. crinkle 5. blustery 6. what have you done this time?

Also include Charlotte's colour of the month if you can: Orient Red

 

 

HAPPY FUNNY TUESDAY...09-24-2024

 

QUESTION OF THE WEEK - 09-23-2024

 How have you been spending your time and what have you been investing your energy into lately?

SUNDAY TALKING...09-22-24

 

Put up my yard flags for "Welcome Fall" while actually the temp has still been in the 90s. We don't expect anything different in Oklahoma.

My last couple of weeks have been horrible for my dental problems.  Finally the first implant is in and things are better except mass eating has occurred.  Even though there are still plenty of soft foods, all foods seem to be acceptable.  My weight loss has come to an end.

Today I concentrated on cleaning up the chicken pen.  The process led me to several places outside the pen where the girls were hiding their eggs.  I have found four clutches containing 21 large brown eggs.  I thought the hens had stopped laying because it was getting dark earlier.  Seems like they have still be laying but still playing hide-and-seek with me.  The majority of the found eggs meet the freshness test with only a few floaters to dispose of.

Most of my time was spent searching for my glasses. Remembering I had placed them on top of my head the search began.  Of course they had fallen over in my search which caused me to look everywhere I had been.  My important glasses were forever lost due to my carelessness.  Giving up I was drawn to my recliner and preparing to watch TV.  Yep my glasses were found.  They were hanging in the neck of my shirt the entire time.

SATURDAY VIDEO - 09-21-2024

 

FRIDAY FACE OFF and ART FOR FUN FRIDAY ... 09-20-2024

 FRIDAY FACE OFF and ART FOR FUN FRIDAY - 09-20-2024

29 Faces for September Curly Bill Brodius of Tombstone by eaghl

THURSDAY ART AND DINNER DATE - 09-19-2024

RAIN'S THURSDAY ART AND DINNER DATE - MUSHROOM

Nuclear mushroom cloud (Hope to never see such a thing!)

 

Nuclear Mushroom Cloud by eaghl/2024

Digital art on tablet by eaghl

WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY...09-18-2024

UNIVERSITY FAREWELL by Granny Annie

 Fred and his sister Darlene had a going away party for Lizzie.  Their friend was older than the two of them and she was heading off to college.  They presented her with a gold four leaf clover for her CHARM BRACELET. It had the university insignia on it.  Lizzie was surprised and thought it was ADORABLE.  

Filled with excitement the three headed to their favorite restaurant for Chinese FRIED CHICKEN and to have their fortunes told by Lu Sun the owner's wife.  Lu knew they were coming.  There was a TEACUP ready for each of them.  Fred, Darlene and Lizzie picked up the cups, sipped the tea.  The leaves fell to the bottom of the cup ready for Lu, dressed in a gown of beautiful ORIENT RED, to share the story of each young person's future.

Fred was thrilled to learn his future was bright.  He would work to recycle PLASTIC and find many uses for this now wasted product.  While saving the earth, he would share great wealth for his beautiful wife and four darling children. His fortune came true.

 

There was also a beautiful future for Darlene.  Her brilliant mind would finally be opened from the locked CAGE it had stayed hidden in.  She would spread her wings, bringing many new inventions to the world. Her fortune came true.

 

At last the recipient of this party, Lizzie, was told her fortune. It appeared her friends would achieve success different from Lizzie's.  She would marry her high school sweetheart as soon as she graduated college. She would help Fred succeed as a Plastics recycler. Together they would raise their four children. Aunt Darlene would visit often and share her latest invention with the family. Her fortune came true as well.  She was very happy she would share her life with her secret love.

 

 

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by River and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. charm bracelet 2. fried chicken 3. teacup 4. cage 5. plastic 6. adorable

Also include Charlotte's colour of the month if you can: orient red

River  looks forward to reading all your contributions.

Her story will appear on this blog on Friday.

HAPPY FUNNY TUESDAY...09-16-2024

 

Lexophile describes those that have a love for words, such as "you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish," or "To write with a broken pencil is pointless" An annual competition is held each year to see who can create the best original lexophile.

 

This year's winning submission is posted at the very end. 

 

No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery. 

If you don't pay your exorcist, you can get repossessed.

I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put it down.

I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.

Did you hear about the crossed-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?

When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.

When chemists die, they barium.

I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.

I changed my iPod's name to Titanic. It's syncing now

England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool .   

Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.

This girl today said she recognized me from the Vegetarians Club, but I'd swear I've never met herbivore.
 

I know a guy who's addicted to drinking brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time. 

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months. 

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.

I got some batteries that were given out free of charge.

A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail. 

A will is a dead giveaway.

With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

Police were summoned to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He's all right now.

A bicycle can't stand alone; it's just two tired.

The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine last week is now fully recovered.

When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

Acupuncture is a jab well done - that's the point of it.

Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in the end.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK...09-16-2024

 Where were you 3 hours ago?

SATURDAY VIDEO .. 09-14-2024

 Frank is a mule rider but don't think he is an Extreme Mule Rider...WOW

Oops I just saw that I posted an earlier EXTREME MULE RIDE last Saturday.  It truly amazes me and I don't know if Frank rides like that but I believe all three of his mules could do that...Bunny, Smarty and Jessie.  I only know that the brichens keeps the rider from sliding forward otver the head of the mule.

FRIDAY FACE OFF and ART FOR FUN FRIDAY ... 09-13-2024

 For Nicole's Friday Face Off and Art For Fun Friday...I am posting one of my sketches for 29 Faces, September, 2024

Wyatt Earp of Tombstone by eaghl/2024

THURSDAY ART AND DINNER DATE - 09-12-2024

 RAIN'S THURSDAY ART AND DINNER DATE - STICKY