#WeekendCoffeeShare: So much for getting off work early


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Hello and welcome. Come on in. What do you fancy today? Tea, coffee?

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Friday Fictioneers: Present Ideas


PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast

“Guys, stop what you’re doing! We got trouble.” Johnny runs in to the playroom. The room’s suddenly still.

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Share Your World – Week of November 1, 2021


What was the very first popular song you ever remember taking a liking to?  I’m not talking about children’s songs or old traditional songs… but the kind of songs you’d hear on the radio.

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Blogging Insights – New Format #15 – The Metaphorical Faucet


On this week’s Blogging Insights – New Format #15, the following quote is given:

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No Rest For Me


It’s once again Monday and I have a feeling this is going to be a rough week.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #172: A Day of the Week


This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #172, Amy invites everyone to share a Day of the Week.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare: Front Yard Project Update


Hello and welcome. Come on in. Can you believe it’s the last weekend of October?

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Friday Fictioneers: Sorry, you’re a…


PHOTO PROMPT © Douglas M. MacIlroy

“Hello!” My voice echoes as I enter the hangar. “Hello!” Hey, this is kinda fun.

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Truthful Tuesday 10-26-2021


This week on Truthful Tuesday, hosted by Thoughts and Theories, asks:

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Mixed Bag of Thoughts


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Thought #1

I probably slept more last weekend than I had in a long time.

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Share Your World – Week of October 25, 2021


I cannot believe it’s the end of October! It’s once again time to hustle to get all the October transaction completed at work. Another long week, here we go.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #171: Weird and Wonderful


Weird and Wonderful, this is the topic for this week’s Lens-Artist Photo Challenge, hosted by Ann-Christine, which is another topic I find challenging for me.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare: Update on Rose Propagation


Hello and welcome. Come on in. It’s once again a wet chilly October morning. There will be rain in my neck of the woods today and you know what it means? Hot drink!

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Friday Fictioneers: The Customer


PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields.

“Um, Miss?”

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Share Your World – Week of October 18, 2021


Are you easily frightened or startled?

Yes, it’s why I never visit haunted houses.

(Purely whimsical supposition.  Suspend disbelief for a bit)
If you were a ghost, what location do you think you would haunt? Is it the same or different from the location you’d want
 to haunt?

I’m afraid I don’t have much imagination about this sort of thing right now. My brain is more of less fried from working two 12 hours days, will probably do that again for the rest of the week. So my simple answer is I would haunt either my house or my grave site but then I might not have a grave site. So my house it is.

What do you see in your mind’s eye when you close your eyes?  (I know somebody will answer ‘the inside of my eyelids”, so I took the temptation away by answering that first!    Feel free to use that answer if you like though, or pass. It’s ALL good!)

As much as I’d like to laugh and say “the inside of my eyelids”, I can’t because I never see the inside of my eyelids when I close my eyes. When I close my eyes, my imagination comes alive. Story plots begin to swirl in my mind’s eyes.

Lately, each time I close my eyes, I keep seeing a old plot from one of my unfinished short stories. It keeps trying to push forward and continue the story but then it’s like it’d hit a wall. Then it would rewind and play it over like an object hitting the wall over and over. My imagination is very annoying sometimes.

If a Semi (Big Rig in Americanese) (lorry or trolley over the pond) were about to smash into a crowd, and you could divert the vehicle’s course to hit only one person, would you?  How would you decide who would become the victim?

This reads like a question my business philosophy professor asked the class on the first day of class to demonstrate utilitarianism and altruism. I think I would divert the vehicle’s course but unless Superman or someone near-invincible is in the crowd, I don’t know how I’ll decide who would become the victim.

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Truthful Tuesday 10-19-2021


This week on Truthful Tuesday, hosted by Thoughts and Theories, asks:

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#SundayStills – So Pink!


I went to a cousin’s wedding in 2017 while I was spending a long 4 months break in China. In China, weddings are apparently a big deal. It’s basically a party of which everyone is invited as long as you’re related to somebody at the party. There are limousine involved and singer and dancer, photographer. It sounds expensive, if you ask me.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #170: Street Art


This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #170, Patti challenges everyone with the topic of Street Art, which I thought was especially challenging for me.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare: The Million Stresses of Life


Hello and welcome. Come on in from the cold and have a hot drink with me.

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Ancient


When I saw the topic for this challenge, my memory almost immediately took me to this picture. This was a church long ago, back when Portuguese dominated this town, Macau, in China. Sadly, it was burn down and all that was left was this wall.

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Friday Fictioneers: Return to Youthful Times


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“Lao-huan-tong,” mother muttered under her breath, adults return to being children again.

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Share Your World – Week of October 11, 2021 – 2 Plain, 2 Seasonal


What is the scariest game (board or on-line) you ever may have played?

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5 Things Tuesday – 5 Ways to beat Pandemic Blues


This week, Tanya at Salted Caramel has challenged everyone to list 5 ways to beat pandemic blues.

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