A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ Extra ~ Stats

This year I took an easy way out. Each day I solved the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day.

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I tried to find growing things of the stattionary type to use as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once. I mostly suceeded.

And as I cannot keep my mouth shut, or in the case of blogging, keep my fingers grom the keyboard, I added a few words and sometimes more about my chosen starter word.

Now how did I do?

STATS.  Looking through my earlier Wordle stats - those I have - tells me that for 26 Wordles I typically get:
4 tries 9 times,
5 tries 6 times.
6 tries 5 times.
Fail 3 times and
3 tries 3 times.
And how was April:

April is a bit skewed - maybe not even statistically significantly so - with less 4 tries solutions. I blame the forced starter words, that often cost me a guess.

Stats ~ Blogging and visiting
I know there'll be a dedicated reflections post for this later on, but I'll do a bit now, when my mind is still on the challenge.

Blogs visited: I visited - or should I say tried to visit - all the 172 participating blogs on the master list. I did not comment on all of them. I repeat - slightly edited - from my sign up post:

Last year I spent far too much time trying to comment on blogs that required a log in, wading through posts not touching on the A-Z at all or where I had to "fight" to get to the posts ... to the detriment of my visiting blogs that were interesting or were following the guidelines. This year I am not going to revisit non-participants or those that requires a large amount of blogging gymnastics to find the A-Z posts.
Blogs that does not speak to me from either a graphical or a contents point of view, I won't revisit either. What are those?

Graphical: white-on-black (or similar), or blogs with pop-ups, or with moving osciliating, shimmering or dancing objects.
Contents: pure self promotions, economics/business, mental health, most sports, politics, adult contents, or just too much kissing, cosmetics, most animals, most -isms, and more

As my mother tried to teach me: If you can say nothing nice, you can at least say nothing.
I tried to follow these guidelines, but I had a tough time of it for three reasons:

Non-participants: This year again too many blogs were not participating. Of the 171 signed up no less than 20 did either not exist, or did not participate. This is over 11 % of the blogs, or more than one in ten.
Broken links: A couple of bloggers had supplied a link that did not work.
Bloggers giving up: Also, quite a bit gave up after two or five letters, many of these were even blogs I found interesting. A huge demotivation factor for me.

On the positive side I found none that required me to log in to disqus or similar forums this year.

I do not know what, if anything, can be done about this. The team visits all blogs at least once I know. Could they maybe in some way mark those "defective" ones on the master list so as not to waste loads of time for all the rest of us?

 All in all I found some interesting new blogs, I found many that did not interest me in the least, I found a few I am going to include into my blogroll. And I'm still not done reading and commenting.

As STATS is actually a five letter word, I tried to solve Wordle with that one as a starter today.

Rounding off the month with a Great. Hm, I could have done better eating my own medicine and using pen and paper after the three first guesses.

Words for Wednesday ~ April 30 ~ Bill & Sue and the Seventh Son 8

In April,  Elephant's Child is supplying the prompts for Words for Wednesday.

Word for Wednesday is a challenge that was started a long time ago. Now it has turned into a movable event with Elephant's Child as our coordinator; and the Words provided by a number of people.

The general idea of this challenge is to make us write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.

 It is also a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true.

So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.

- - A - - B - - C - - 

This Wednesday's prompts:
Extra
Wisdom
Memories
Corner
Imposing
    and/or
Dark
Shoulder
Femininity
Strength
Manners

As is my wont, I used all of the words in the order they were  given. Unfortunately I ran out of words before I ran out of story. I'll have to repeat myself from last Wednesday: I can now see the ending of this strange tale of Bill, Sue, Fred Thompson, the unwitting seventh son of a seventh son, and hope to end it next Wednesday.

And a question - I'd like to give you a choice. I have two endings in my head, one where Fred Thompson is the culprit, and one where it is a case of mistaken identity. It's up yo you which one I'll continue to write next Wednesday.


Bill drew an extra deep breath. His long life ghost hunting had given him insight in many things. It was akin to wisdom. He asked Fred to search his memories of his sailing days. Had he ever cut any corners, cheated on someone or imposed his will on others?
"Of course I have," Fred said. "Do I look like a saint maybe? Everybody does this. I've done my share of petty crimes, I've told some atrocious tales, some grey or even black lies. But then, who hasn't? I think none of what I done is bad enough for being haunted like I am."
Sue shook her dark hair out, it fell over her shoulders, showing off her femininity, but there was strength and resilience in her manners as she rose. "Come with us, down to the shipwreck, we found. We have a suspicion, let's see."
Bill handed Fred some of his own waterproof clothing and Sue leashed the dogs. Eryn sniffed Fred's hands, and Hue and Rynn both growled softly. They were ready.
Outside the weather was cold, stormy and dark. The moon was full, but the jagged clouds hurrying across the skies did not let it shine through very often. Sue and Bill walked sure-footedly along the beach, Sue holding the dogs and Bill ready to lend Fred a hand. This became necessary more than once, the beach was strewn with driftwood, and the shifting moonlight made it hard to see what was real and what was shadows.
Suddenly Eryn sat down on her haunches, stuck her muzzle towards the moon and howled like a wolf.
Rynn and Hue stopped and froze, lifting one paw, like hunting dogs smelling their prey. Sue stopped too, gripping the leashes even tighter, while Bill led Fred on towards the wreck.
"Do you know anything of this wreck?" Bill asked Fred.
The dogs' eerie keening and the drifting shadows made the wreck look almost alive. And soon darker shadows coalesced around it. The ghosts had arrived.

... to be continued ... but how?

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ Z

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

To findall my A-Z Posts, please visit my Roadtrip post.

Z is for Zests.  Zests are the the outer coloured - and zesty - part of the peel of citrus fruits. I have tried several times to grow citrusses in my garden, always with a sad ending, but recently I have had a modicum of success. My yuzu has now survived its third winter here, and I begin to hope for zests (and the rest too) in the years to come.

I told of my Yuzu under L for Lemon as well. And I should absolutely have used YUZUS for my Y-word!

I just had to try. I solved the Y Wordle Monday morning, and late in the evening, preparing this post for Tuesday, my curiosity got the better of me, and I tried to see if Wordle accepted YUZUS. Merriam-Websters did not suggest this word - or maybe I overlooked it.

As it was accepted, I had to try solving it again. Using my normal tricks, I solved it in 5 tries, YUZUS was a worse starter word then YEAST.

But now for ZESTS the very last A-Z Wordle of April.

ZESTS was a very good starter word, and I was lucky too in choosing BLOCK as the second one - that sure is a good word. Giving me the 3rd Impressive of April. A good way to end this challenge.
Let's see what I am going to do tomorrow.

As I finished the A-Z Challenge - a day early even - I have put the winner badge in my sidebar.

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ Y

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

To findall my A-Z Posts, please visit my Roadtrip post.

Y is for Yeast - thank you, Jenny_o. I use Yeast very often, for breads, buns, some cakes and even for my dabbling in mead-brewing. So far only yucky results ... hey another Y-word! Yeast can strangely also be found in the garden; wild yeast live everywhere, and was the culprit behind my exploding bottles of elderflower cordial. Yes they exploded! Leaving shards and cordial all over. Luckily nobody got hurt, as we had just left the kitchen, but I cleaned all of the next day, and the container, I then used for washing powder, and now for the picking of berries, still have a hole where a big shard entered it - I ditched all the washing powder inside it.

Yeast might be a good starter word, in fact I'm sure it is. But today it served mostly to exclude a lot of letters, which turned out to be a good thing. I guessed the word in four tries today, again more luck than skill, earning me a Splendid.

Poetry Monday :: Jam

Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over the hosting duties, mostly the supplying of the prompts - only temporarily we hope - while Diane at On the Border is taking a break for health and relaxation, travelling the world with her husband as far as we can tell. We just hope she's going to take back over once she returns home.

  I have something to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
  Half - if not more - the fun of these challenges is receiving the responses of others.

Poetry Monday. Jam ... all I can think of is the trouble variety of jam, as in "in a jam". And then one of my own poems start running inside my brain. The song is a repost from November '22, but the backstory is new.
The lines: "I got myself in and I'll get myself out." comes from the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey, where we meet Piemur, a boy of small stature, but a grand scale troublemaker, and very likeable. Once upon a time there was a forum for discussing all things Pern-related, and Brenda Appleby posted there, singing songs of Pern to her own tunes and often her own lyrics supplementing those from the books. Her rendition of "The Question Song" was exactly how I had imagined in my head. She and I were both intrigued by Piemur and his trouble and we agreed that the sentence "I got myself in and I'll get myself out." would be a great refrain for a troublemaker's ballad.
I do not know if she ever wrote this song, if she did, her version will be miles better than mine, as
I do not think I did justice to my idea ... but then again aren't plans always bigger, better, more ...
So I present:

The troublemaker's ballad.
I get in a pickle as often as not
I get into trouble, yes that is my lot.
I don't want to do it
I want to be good,
To help just a bit
To lighten the mood.
That they'll find me out, I know without doubt
But I got myself in and I'll get myself out.

When things they go wonky they just call my name
"Don't try to explain now, excuses are lame"
I did a good deed,
At least as I think
Where I saw the need,
But they say I stink
That they'll just blame me, I know without doubt
But I got myself in and I'll get myself out.

I got in a jam now so many a time
The mess and the trouble, the hot spot is mine.
And when I defend
my righteous deed,
they say I should mend
my ways and my feet.
That they'll find my faults I know without doubt
But I got myself in and I'll get myself out.

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Up and coming:
April 28: Jam (today)
May 5: Competition
May 12: Shape
May 19: Stem
May 26: Lead

Sunday Selections ~ and a Problem

The colour of April is

We're so not missing any green any more, as the following photos of some flowers and buds of my surrsoundings from the last week will show:

The surviving tree in Hillerød

On my Way Home:

Bragging. The first EVER harvest of radishes from my own garden:

And a problem. For tomorrow I had chosen a starter word: YACON, a South-American root vegetable, grown by many people I know here in Denmark ... only I just tested on an off suspicion, and Wordle does not accept YACON.

Now what?
My alrernatives are: Yarns, Yetis, Yield, Yummy, Yeast. None of them satisfy me. What do you say?

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ X

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

To findall my A-Z Posts, please visit my Roadtrip post.

X is for Xylem.  Xylem is found in any growing plant. I cite from Wikipedia: The basic function of the xylem is to transport water upward from the roots to parts of the plants such as stems and leaves. It's what we - in trees - know as wood. And it is the only of the 22 X-words in Merriam-Webster having to do with growing things ... as far as I know.

I would have thought Xylem to be a bad starter word, but again today, I solved the Wordle in three tries, earning me an Impressive. It was more luck today, I was just testing out words, looking for more letters. 

Words for Wednesday on a Friday ... Bill & Sue Bill & Sue and the Seventh Son 7

In April,  Elephant's Child is supplying the prompts for Words for Wednesday.

Word for Wednesday is a challenge that was started a long time ago. Now it has turned into a movable event with Elephant's Child as our coordinator; and the Words provided by a number of people.

The general idea of this challenge is to make us write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.

 It is also a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true.

So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.

- - A - - B - - C - - 

This Wednesday's prompts:
Brand
Veered
Afternoon
Impromptu
Holiday
     And/or
Unaware
Companion
History
Paintings
Solace

I did not use all of the words, as I ran out of steam, I now can see the ending of this strange tale of Bill, Sue, Fred Thompson, the unwitting seventh son of a seventh son, and hope to end it next Wednesday.

"I'll take two of the whelps along as well," Sue said to the dog handler. "Please hand me the spotted one, and the potato coloured one."
"Those are the best of the litter," the dog handler readily agreed. "Good hunting."

"I found it!" Bill proclaimed, as Sue entered the room with Eryn and her whelps, Hue and Rynn, in tow.

"Fred Thompson's late father was a Mormon of the old brand," Bill explained, seeing Sue's vacant expression. "He had more wives. But it seems that because it was already illegal by then, the wives lived separately, and the children were left unaware of the other families."
"How on earth did he pull that one off?" Sue exclaimed.
"It might have helped that the wives knew and approved of the other wives' existence. There were three in all. And they lived in a place where three borders met, living close to one another, yet each family in another state." Bill continued. "Fred's mother was the last of the marriages, he has exactly six elder brothers, they are all still alive and at least fourteen sisters, some of those have since died. It seems all the elder ones were girls, it is like that in some families, but I'm rambling." He veered away from the subject and suggested that they took the dogs out on a search.
"Fine with me," Sue said. "Fred should be out for the rest of the afternoon."

Sue, Bill and the three ghost dogs returned home late in the afternoon to find a groggy, scared Fred sitting at the couch. "Why did you leave me all alone?" Fred asked, in a shaky voice. "I did not dare go outside, I felt, more than saw the ghosts."
"You did right," Sue said. "I'll let Bill fill you in while I make a pot of tea, then I take over with Bill making us a round of sandwiches."
"Our impromptu search led us to an old shipwreck down the coast from here." Bill began, then shook his head. "I have to start somewhere else. Your father was a very peculiar man. He was indeed the seventh son of old Fred Thompson, but from his fourth marriage. Your grandfather was a Mormon of the old school and had four wives. More of the sons were called Frederic, among those your father, who - even if polygamy is not legal any more - had three wives. You are his seventh son, not your mother's. At least two of your half brothers are also called Frederic. And from this stems your trouble  ... Ahh, here's Sue with the tea. I'll see to the sandwiches."
Fred looked at Sue with confusion obvious in his face. "My father had more wives? How was he not found out?" He shook his head. And that's why he left us so often. He was a travelling salesman, often away during the holidays ... he shared his time between his families?"
 "Luckily the Mormon archives are the very best," Sue said. "And Bill is fabulous at digging out the facts. Yes he had three families, in three different states, that's probably why he was never found out. All your half-brothers are still alive, unlike all your half-sisters. But what happened at his burial?" Sue asked. "Did the other wives show up, and your half-siblings too?"
Fred looked a Sue, shook his head and took a large gulp of his tea. "Actually yes, they did," he said slowly. "Of course I did not then know who they were, and they were just presented as "family". Of course that's exactly what they were."
Bill came in, carrying a loaded tray of sandwiches. They took a break while appetites were sated and thirst stilled. Then Fred asked: "But the ghosts, what about the ghosts?"
 

... to be continued and, I hope finished soon.

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ W

 ⚠ Warning! This post contains the answer to today's Wordle ⚠
⚠ Proceed at your own risk ⚠

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

To find all my A-Z Posts, please visit my Roadtrip post.
 

W is for Weeds.  Yes, I know, double letter and all that. But for sure Weeds are growing things, olvar, we all know them, and in my wild garden they grow in great abundance, trying to take over the world, or at least my garden: Ground elder, bindweed, dead nettles, grasses, burdock, celandine, cleavers, buttercups and many more.
Do you think I omitted a few obvious ones? Stinging nettles, dandelions, thistles and a few more did not enter my list. Either because I like the looks, or because I use them for culinary, soapy or dyeing purposes, or because the insects love them, or all of these.

Weeds might not have been the ideal starter word because of the two Es. But today it was a good word. Upon reaching the third guess, I had it!

• A word, containing C and K with middle letter O. Pen and paper to the rescue. W as a start followed by H was outed by W being yellow in WEEDS. I could not find any word with _ W O _ _ not using any of the grey letters and still containing K (I found only AWOKE and this one contains E - no good).
• W then is not in the first half. And last? It looked wrong, so I went with third place. What about K then?
  
• K as a first letter then. I tested all the others like this: K _ O W _ placing R then T, then Y ... in second place, none giving me any useful solutions. Until I reached N.
  
  
• And K N O _ _ containing W had only two words surfacing in my brain: KNOWS, excluded by S being grey in WEEDS, and KNOWN - which I entered and which was the solution for today. 
• Later I looked it up in the Wordle solver. Words having O as the middle letter, containing W and K has exactly those three possible solutions, so no wonder I could find no more 😉
  
  This earned me the first Impressive of April. As I told EC yesterday, I normally have two or three of these a month, But the forced starter words almost always make for an extra guess or two.
  

  Sorry for this messy shot. I was a bit too fast there.
  
  Runners-up were Worms and Wheat. Earlier this month, Wheat was actually the solution, a screenie from April 9th:
  
  
  
  

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ V

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

To find all my A-Z Posts, please visit my Roadtrip post.
 

V is for Viola. VIOLA, commonly known as violets, grow in great abundance and flower right now. Its sweet smell is one of the pleasures of spring. I always mean to make candied violets, but somehow I never get it done.

No other words with V and five letters describing any growing thing, olvar, were found during the search for today's starter word. As I found only a couple of kelvar: Viper, Vespa (wasp) and Voles; the choice was easy, but Viola would have won, almost no matter what.
I'm unsure if today's solution would count as a kelvar *)

Today's Wordle. Inspiration struck again, earning me a Splendid.

*) Kelvar and olvar are Elven words for growing things, distinguishing only between those that move from place to place, kelvar (including monsters and all humanoids), and those that stay in one place, olvar (roughly corresponding to our flora).

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ U

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

To find all my A-Z Posts, please visit my Roadtrip post.
 

U is for Urman.  Don't you know what Urman is? I did not either until this morning. I was looking for plant-related words with U and five letters. This is surprisingly hard. I found Umami, Utile, Ulmus (Latin for Elm and a medicine made from this), Ursus (a bear), and then I stumbled over URMAN. A link took me to this explanation:

URMAN noun, plural -s
Meaning: taiga sense 1
Etymology Russian, from Kazan Tatar, forest *)

As I always dreamt of seeing the taiga on a ride on the Trans-Siberian Railway, I grasped this word, hoping to have it accepted by Wordle, and it was. Unfortunately I was not up to the challenge, and got the third Fail of April.

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*)  I use the Merriam-Webster page, where you can define number of letters and starting letter. A very useful tool for finding starter words for the A-Z Challenge

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ T

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

To find all my A-Z Posts, please visit my Roadtrip post.
 

T is for Thyme.  Thyme grows in my garden in great abundance, and I just planted another one, as the five plants we had, were just no enough to see us through the winter. A runner-up was Tulip. These pretty flowers are a great delight right now.

Although I love THYME, it was not the best of starter words. But I made it. Phew!

Poetry Monday ~ On a Tuesday :: Free

Easter happened. Sunday and Monday was family time, off school, off work. All kids and Grand-kids were at home. We hid Easter eggs and found them all. we baked bread and ate it all, we played crazy games and took a walk in a slight drizzle, we took care of the chicken and collected eggs, we planted potatoes and corn. In short a good time was had by all. Now the house is almost empty, only me and one Owlet at home.

-- 🪺  --

And I forgot that yesterday was Monday, and that every Monday is Poetry Monday. I must make amends today, Tuesday.

Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over the hosting duties, mostly the supplying of the prompts - only temporarily we hope - while Diane at On the Border is taking a break for health and relaxation, travelling the world with her husband as far as we can tell. We just hope she's going to take back over once she returns home.

  I have something to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
  Half - if not more - the fun of these challenges is receiving the responses of others.

Free.
Free made me think. What does free mean? Is it free to do anything you like? is it free from hunger or pain?
I discovered early on that for me true free was to be allowed to be me and for you to be you.

My childhood's idols Kaj the frog, and Andrea, the parrot, were two puppets in a TV-program for children in the 1970s, they were very popular, and all the songs are still sung by preschoolers in Denmark.
They sung a song together called The Duet on Differences. It was a part of my teachings on what free means.

Andrea, the charming, cautious parrot
and Kaj, the jazz-loving boisterous frog.

Their duet went something like this:

Kaj:       I am Kaj.
Andrea: I am Andrea.
Kaj:       I am a frog,
Andrea: And I a bird
Kai:      I can swim
Andrea: I can fly, but
Both:     we can both play hide-and-seek.
    'cause even if we're different as can be
    we are the best of friends as you can see.

Kaj:       I've got legs.
Andrea: and I have wings.
Kaj:       I have a mouth,
Andrea: And I a beak
Both:     But if we eat sour apples we'll both get tummy ache.
    'cause even if we're different as can be
    we are the best of friends as you can see.


Kaj:       I think storks are very scary.
Andrea: Oh the cats they make me fear.
Both:     But as long as we're together, neither cats or storks come near.
    'cause even if we're different as can be
    we are the best of friends as you can see.

Kaj:        I'm a boy
Andrea: I am a gi-irl
Kaj:       I sing low
Andrea: And I sing Hi-igh
Both: But when we both sing together, we'll make the music fly.
    'cause even if we're different as can be
    we are the best of friends as you can see.

Kaj:        I am fond of jazz and saxes
Andrea: And I like a quiet song
Both:     We sing jazz and quiet ditties, one of each, we can't go wrong!
    'cause even if we're different as can be
    we are the best of friends as you can see.

  -- 🐸  -- 🦜 --

Here you can hear Kaj & Andrea singing their duet. It was written in 1974 by Povl Kjøller, the man with the guitar.

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Up and coming:
April 21: Free (today)
April 28: Jam
May 5: Competition
May 12: Shape
May 19: Stem
May 26: Lead

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ S

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

To find all my A-Z Posts, please visit my Roadtrip post.
 

S is for Scrub.  We have lots of scrubs growing in the Owlery, most of them are used for dyeing materials and sticks ... who can't use a stick now and then?

I have a hard time returning to blogging. It feels like I have been away for a very long time. I'll be around, but posting comments and replying to comments will happen later.

And the Wordle - a Fail today.

GLÆDELIG PÅSKE

Kristus er opstanden - Ja, Han er sandelig opstanden. Halleluja!

HAPPY EASTER

Christ is risen - He is risen indeed. Alleluia!


Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! - Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ R

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

To find all my A-Z Posts, please visit my Roadtrip post.
 

R is for Rowan.  One of the beautifully flowering trees right now.

Today's Wordle solved in 4 tries - pure inspration - earning me a Splendid!

A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ Q

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

And I do know that today was one of the days I warned against no posts, but I had the time, so why not.

To find all my A-Z Posts, please visit my Roadtrip post.
 

Q is for Quail.  No olvar with Q I went with a kelvar instead, also runners up were Quill, Quilt, and Quart, but no real growing there. We've been discussing whether to have these tiny fowls in our greenhouse, as yet undecided.

Hard word today. I had a whole paper filled whíth S T O _ D and S _ O T D combinations, until I once again remembered that repeating letters was a thing. I got Splendid for four tries.