I was feeling a little bit better today
So my wife put me to work
On some tasks around the house
And in the yard
Hence I didn’t do much blogging today
Nor reading, liking, or commenting
Maybe tomorrow I’ll tell my wife
I’ve had a relapse of my cold
John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. I thought this might be fun so I decided to join in.
This photo below was taken with my iPhone a while back when I was walking my dog. The homemade sign intrigued me as I was wondering what the nature of the duties a dog might have that this property owner objected to.
If you wish to participate in this fun cellphone photo prompt, please click on the link to John’s post at the top of my post to see his photo and to read his instructions.
Deb, over at Nope, Not Pam, has this weekly challenge called A Letter a Week, where she gives us a place, an emotion, an adjective, a verb, and an animal all starting with the same letter. Then she asks us to write a post using those items and the letter she has given us, which this week is the letter Y.
Here are Deb’s Y-words:
Place – yard
Emotion – yearn
Adjective – yummy
Verb – yawn
Animal – yuhina
“What were you doing with your binoculars looking into our neighbor’s yard?” Karen asked her husband. “Were you gawking at Donna? I know you yearn for her, don’t you? And don’t you dare lie to me, either.”
Bill yawned, as if emphasizing a sign of boredom. “Well, Donna is rather yummy looking, isn’t she?”
Donna gasped. “I knew it!” she said, trying hard not to cry.
Bill walked over and put his arms around his wife. “But she’s not nearly as yummy as you are, Karen. You’re the yummiest woman I know.”
Karen looked up at her husband and said, “So what were you doing looking into her yard, then?”
“I heard a bird singing and I was unfamiliar with its sound and I wondered what kind of bird it was. So I grabbed my binoculars and found a nest of the unusual, for these parts, anyway, yahina bird in a tree in her backyard,” Bill explained. “Here,” he said, handing his binoculars to Karen.
Karen put the binoculars up to her eyes, looked into their neighbor’s yard, and said, “I see it. It’s a very unusual bird.”
“Yes it is,” Bill said, quickly taking back the binoculars before Karen could spot Donna, who was sunbathing in the nude on the other side of the wooden fence that separated their yards.
When we bought our house last year, our backyard was covered with a large, black tarp. No grass, no trees, no plants. The house was a flip, and the flipper decided to leave the landscaping to the new owner.
We finally got the landscaping of our backyard completed this past June. We have a waterfall, a fire pit, a deck, a pergola, trees, shrubs, a patio, an outdoor kitchen. It’s beautiful.
Or it was until the deer and the gophers discovered our yard.
Written for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt, where the word is “yard.”
“I can’t help it that I’m high strung. What can I say? I’m an emotional and caring person,” Charlotte said.
“First, Charlotte, you don’t have to be defensive about being a caring person,” Alice said. “There’s nothing wrong with wanting to take care of your yard.”
“To me, the simplicity of yard work is very fulfilling,” Charlotte said. “Listening to the radio, tending to the flowers, the bushes, and the lemon and orange trees brings me so much pleasure. And it’s not something just anyone can do, you know. It’s delicate work. It take a special skill, a green thumb.”
“Whatever floats your boat,” Alice said.
(106 words)
Written for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt, where we are challenged to write a poem or piece of prose using the word “delicate” in exactly 106 words. Because Sammi was generous with the word count for this prompt, I’ve included these daily prompts from yesterday: Word of the Day Challenge (emotional), Daily Addictions (caring), Ragtag Daily Prompt (simplicity), The Daily Spur (radio), and Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (anyone).
Also written for yesterday’s inaugural edition of Di’s Three Things Challenge, where the words were “first,” “orange, and “yard.”
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