Poetry Monday :: Bisquit

Mandagsdigtet er en blogleg, som Mimi fra Messymimi's Meanderings og jeg har overtaget - midlertidigt håber vi - fra Diane, der slapper af og rejser verden rundt med sin mand. Vi håber hun er parat til at tage over igen, når hun kommer hjem.

For at kunne fortsætte denne blogleg uden at overanstrenge os selv – vi vil skrive digte og fjolle lidt rundt, ikke rive os i håret over at have glemt at finde nye på stikord - har Mimi og jeg besluttet at vi fra den 4. august hægter os på gruppen  365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts. Det er en Facebook-gruppe, der udgiver et stikord til hver dag i året, men bare rolig, stikordene vil stadig være at finde både her og på Mimis blog.

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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.

In order to to continue this challenge and not overexert ourselves - we want to write poems and goof around a bit, not spend time pulling out our hairs over forgetting to find new prompts - Mimi and I have decided to latch onto the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group. This is a Facebook group with a prompt for each day of the year, but no worries, the prompts will still be here and at Mimi's blog.

  I have something more 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.

Today's subject is Bisquit.

But you won't get a poem about biscuits. Because yesterday, the Writer found a big, beautiful toad in the garden. It peed on him, as toads do, and after we had all admired it, it was put out in the dome.

Many years ago, the Owlets and I made one of those nonsense verses that are fun to make and pop up from time to time over the years. It's running through my head now, so here it is:

Peeing toads are toady-peeing almost all day long
and in between they sing us all a crazy toady song.

To make up for the brevity and inanity of the poem, you'll have a photo of the toad.

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Dagens stikord er Bisquit.

    Men I får nu ikke noget digt om kiks. For i går fandt Skribenten en stor, flot tudse ude i haven. Den tissede på ham, som tudser jo gør, og efter at vi havde beundret den alle sammen, blev den sat ud i domen.
    For mange år siden lavede Ugleungerne og jeg en af den slags nonsensvers, som er sjove at lave, og som dukker op af og til igennem årene. Det kører fundt inde i mit hoved nu, så det kommer her:

Tisse-tudser tudse-tisser hele dagen lang
og ind i mellem synger de en tosset tudsesang.

Indrømmet, kort og fjollet, så I fortjener et foto af tudsen også.

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Coming prompts:
Aug 18 Don’t be afraid
Aug 25 Wonderful
Sep 1 Under the sea
Sep 8 Big City
Sep 15 Tea fusing
Sep 22 Kitchen
Sep 29 Snuggles

Søndagsbilleder/Sunday Selection & Wordles.

Det har været en uge med mange dyr, som jeg ikke har fået taget billeder af. Vi har set en rød glente adskillige gange svævende i luften over os, den er godt nok stor. Jeg har set en hejre der sad i et træ lige foran mig, den lettede mens jeg fandt kameraet frem. Vi har set snoge, vipstjerter, en bøgehjort og en grøn guldbasse. Den sidste fandt vi en til af i dag - og fik endelig taget et billede.

It's been a week with a lot of animals that I haven't managed to take pictures of. We have seen a red kite several times hovering in the air above us, it's really big. I've seen a heron sitting in a tree right in front of me, it took off while I got the camera out. We've seen garter snakes, wagtails, a lesser stag beetle and a rose chafer. Of this last one we found another one today - and finally got a photo.

Så har jeg endelig fået syet en ny tehætte. Vi kalder den Edvard Frø

And at long last I made a new tea cosy. We call it Edward Frog.

Jeg lavede også kamillesæbe, og fik taget billeder af en snoresæbe.

I made a soap with chamomille tea, and got a photo of a soap-on-a-rope.

Mon nogen kan huske, at jeg fortalte om det overlevende birketræ på Hillerød station og digtede historier om venlige togmænd, der delte deres vand med træet. Det var vist desværre ikke kun historier, den flinke togmand er gået på pension, og træet visner. Jeg håber, aftenens regn har genoplivet det.

I wonder if anyone remembers me talking about the surviving birch tree at Hillerød station and making up tales about friendly railwaymen sharing their water with the tree. I think unfortunately it was  not just tales, the kind railwayman has retired and the tree is withering. I hope tonight's rain has revived it.

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Sunday's Wordle 1.457 6/6
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🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today’s average difficulty is 4.3 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging. Oof, I found this word hard!

Saturday's Wordle 1.456 4/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨
🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today’s average difficulty is 3.8 guesses out of 6, or easy breezy.

Friday's Wordle 1.455 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟩🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today’s average difficulty is 4.8 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging. Today again I say Yay me! for knowing this word.

Thursday's Wordle 1.454 5/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today’s average difficulty is 5.6 guesses out of 6, or very challenging. I knew this word. Yay me!

Wednesday's Wordle 1.453 6/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today’s average difficulty is 4.2 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging. I'm happy it continues wih the words: "Your own rating may be different." For sure it was!


Tuesday's Wordle 1.452 6/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today’s average difficulty is 5 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging.

Sunday Selection: RainSøndagsbilleder: Regn

Det har været ekstremt tørt her det seneste stykke tid. I torsdags så vores frøsø sådan her ud.
We have had dry times here. Thursday our pond looked like this.

Fredag regnede det 19 mm. 💧 Friday we had 19 mm of rain.

Saturday it only rained a little, 3 mm, but we emptied a blue barrel of rainwater into the pond, 120 litres
💧
Lørdag regnede det kun 3 mm. Men vi hældte alt regnvandet fra den blå tønde, 120 liter, ned i frøsøen.

Sunday was the yearly pligrimage - outdoors - and it rained
☔
Søndag var vi på den årlige alfart - udendørs - og det regnede.

Søndag eftermiddag så frøsøen sådan her ud 💧Sunday late the pond looked like this.
Der må godt komme lidt mere regn 💧We still need a bit more water

Et billede fra vores regnvåde valfart 💧 A photo from our rainy pilgrimage

Almost everybody had left. The final procession and blessings were shortened. The four men in black at the statue of Our Lady of Aasebakken is our bishop (in the red cap) two priests and the main altar server. Normally they're dressed for the occasion - it was too wet today. 
☔
Rigtig mange var taget hjem, og den afsluttende andagt blev afkortet. De fire mænd, der står rundt om statuen af Vor Frue af Aasebakken er vores biskop (med rød kalot) to præster og vores overministrant. Normalt har de fint tøj på til andagten, men det var bare for vådt.

Sunday: Today’s average difficulty is 4.3 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging. Moderately challenging ... well I did not know the solution-word, and had to seek help in a dictionary to find me a word to fit this pattern: 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 after having tried ALL the non-invalid letters, and none made a word I knew.  
Wordle 1.436 6/6
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🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Saturday; Today’s average difficulty is 4 guesses out of 6, or easy breezy. I would not call 4 out of 6 easy breezy ;) But I did better. Pure intuition and guesswork, though.
Wordle 1.434 3/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Friday: Today’s average difficulty is 5.6 guesses out of 6, or very challenging.
Wordle 1.435 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Søndagsbilleder ~ Sunday Selections May 18.

Pretty flower pink. I found some pretty, pink flowers for today.

Blomstrende lyserød ... Jeg fandt nogle fine, lyserøde blomster til i dag.

Denne her købte jeg, og den var vældig tør. Derfor står den i vasken.

I bought this one. It was very dry, and needed water, now. That's why it is placed in my sink.

Denne her plukkede jeg. Jeg har aldrig set sådan en fin tjørn før. Jeg vil prøve at få den til at gro.

I picked this one. I've never seen hawthorn with pinkish flowers befroe. I am trying to make it grow.

Denne her gror i domen. Jo, den er lyserød. Det er en lyserød radise, der bare er blevet vældig stor. Den vil snart springe ud med et væld af lyserøde blomster og senere lækre grønne skulper (frøbælge).

I grow this one in the dome. Yes, it is pink. It is a pink radish, only it has grown very big. Soon it will be even bigger and have zillions of small, pink flowers, and later on delicious green siliques (pods).

Today I did better at Wordle than the average Wordler. Today’s average difficulty is 5.2 guesses out of 6, or very challenging.

Wordle 1.429 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Kajkage & Wordle og Store bededagssuk Frog Cake & Wordle

For River and other Australian readers. Snapped in a bakery near me yesterday.

Kajkager. Kaj cakes.  Named after Kaj from the puppet duo Kaj & Andrea. But the actual cake is older, probably first made in the 1950es by the baker Kristian Hansen from Ry.

River told us about Australian Frog cakes here.

And here we have Kaj & Andrea:

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

Vi skulle have haft varme hveder i aften og fri i morgen. SUK. Det er 4. fredag i påsketiden og altså skulle det have været Store bededag i morgen, den 16. maj.

Today's Wordle a big Fail. It was a totally normal word! And I could not guess it! I made stupid guesses, with bad letters or right letters in bad places.Yuck!
Looking at the Help page for Wordle, I feel a bit consoled: Today’s average difficulty is 7 guesses out of 6, or very challenging.

Wordle 1.426 X/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

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?

Sunday Selection on a Tuesday & Colour25

I saw these early signs of spring Sunday Morning, but when we returned from mass, the sun had already set. The same repeated itself Monday. only I returned from the outcomeful meeting - I do not know if outcomeful is a word, if not, it totally needs to be.

Today I returned from PE and ophthalmologist (my eyes are not worse - YAY) in time to snap a photo. If these do not fit New Start Yellow, nothing does!

Jeg så de her tidlige forårsbebudere søndag morgen. Men da vi endelig vendte hjem fra kirke, var solen allerede gået ned. Det var den også mandag, da jeg vendte hjem fra et resultatfyldt møde i København, Men i dag, da jeg vendte hjem fra øjenlægen (mine øjne er ikke blevet værre - juhu!) en time tidligere, var der lige præcis lys nok til at fotografere de her små erantis. Hvis ikke de passer til New Start Yellow,, er der vist ingenting der gør.

005, 006, 007

Some days ago it snowed. I went shopping. Our pedestrian streets have been remade, they are now neither pretty nor good, as they are quite slippery when wet or filled with snow. I think that whoever made this decision was not feeling very sharp that day. Even I who am not afraid of taking a fall, waddle like a penguin when snow is falling. Maybe I could survive a fall (I can) but my shopping bags, containing milk, eggs, and soft drinks in bottles ...
As I was waddling along, I noticed a car turning into our pedestrian street, people living there are allowed of course, as are delivery vans. I jumped into a snowdrift and looked - nonplussed - at the car. It was a

005

Then today on our way to mass, I saw this car in the park site near church.

I was almost late for mass, and the Owlets wondered what upheld me.

For the last week or so a 007 has been mocking me, parked where I normally go shopping - but no 006 anywhere to be seen, so now I had caught that one I though to myself that it would be nice and easy, I would just go there tomorrow and look for it ... But on our way home from mass, in that very same park site ...

Seven numbers in seven months, now I only need 83 ¼ years to complete the challenge.

-- 💛 --

Thursday our crafting guild celebrated the new year. The cake we ate, may with a bit of good will pass off as New Start Yellow:

Sunday Selection ~ Søndagsbilleder

Quirky Old Owl is still snapping Oreos ... ~ Underlige Ugle tager stadig billeder af Oreos ...

and moons ~ og måner

This is the latest experiment - Ecodyeing again. This time in the local crafting gulid under the tutelage of a more experienced dyer. This is the outset. The pre-mordante fabric was covered with a dye blanket (madder) and firmly rolled onto a rolled-up tovel and steamed for 1½ hours. The result was good, but not fanstastic, photo will follow.
(ahorn=acer, tørstetræ=frangula, jordbær=strawberry, eg=oak, vedbend=ivy)

Og det seneste eksperiment. PlantePrint uder vingerne af en mere erfaten farver. Det bejdsede stof blev dækket af en medlæber, der var dyppet i krapfarve, og så rullet stramt op om et sammenrulled håndkælde. Derefter blev det dampet i 1½ time. Det blev fint, men ikke fantastisk - billede følger.
     Der kommer helt sikkert flere PlantePrint eksperimenter i den kommende tid. Blandt andet skal jeg teste, om jeg kan få bregner til at give den smukke lysegrønne, som den gav på vores medløbere.

Sunday Selection & Colour of the Month ~ Pebble Grey

Oktober måneds farve er "Pebble grey". Jeg oversætter det som stengrå.

1. Måger der flyver med sol på vingerne - de gennemlyste vingekanter er stengrå.

Not "Wild geese that fly / with the moon on their wings" but gulls that fly with the sun on their wings, making the edges of the wings light up in pebble grey.

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En hemmelig have i en bog. Det var en del af en vinduesudstilling, da jeg var på indkøb i onsdags.

A secret garden in a book. I saw this in a window, as I went shopping last Wednesday.

- -- 🩶 -- -

Jeg fandt også dette pindsvin. Den slags bogfoldning kan jeg godt lide. Og der er helt sikkert noget stengråt over pindsvinet her.

I also saw this hedgie. As I have a soft spot for book folding, I had to snap him. And I'm sure there's some pebble grey hidden in his folds.

- -- 🩶 -- -

Endelig havde jeg heldet med mig. Kameraet lå i lommen, og min skarv stod på frøen i gadekæret. Stenen, frøen sidder på, er naturligvis stengrå.

At long last I was lucky. The camera was not at home and the cormorant had returned to the pond in town. The stone, which is the base for the water-spouting frog, is naturally pebble grey.

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And I realize that I never showed my lousy phone picture of the cormorant. Well here you are.

 -- -- --

Og jeg viste aldrig billedet af skarven fra min mobil. Det er altså også elendigt, men værsågod.

Lousy quality, but still recognizable as a cormorant -- Elendig kvalitet men genkendelig som skarv.

- -- 🩶 -- -

En lille sjat overset gelé var mugnet og råbte ad os - naturligvis i stengrå.

We forgot this jelly for a few days. It is screaming at us in mouldy pebble grey.

- -- 🩶 -- -

Et par valnødder fra vores have. De er helt friske og lækre nu.

We have a walnut tree in our garden. The walnuts are at their best right now.

- -- 🩶 -- -

Jeg købte nogle druer, og har aldrig set så lang en klase før. Døren kan nok siges at være stengrå, selv om det korrekte navn er modehvid.

I bought a very long bunch of grapes - our door is almost  pebble grey.

Sunday Selection, Colour24 & Bathroom EntomologySøndagsbilleder, Månedens farve & Badeværelsesentomologi

Først - for alle, der ikke vil se billeder af edderkopper og insekter, kommer månedens farve

For everybody not wanting to see spiders ... Colour of the Month.

Today we ate the very first bite of the very first ripe jalapeño.

-- 🌶 --

I dag spiste vi den første bid af den første modne jalapeño.

-- ENTOMOLOGY -- ENTOMOLOGI --

  I'm sorry, but entomology is not the study of ents - even if this would be a subject I would really like to study, I doubt even a single ent would fit into our tiny bathroom. Entomology is - as most of you probably know - the study of insects, spiders and such - in short bugology.

-- 🪲 -- 🕷 --

     Entomologi er desværre ikke ente-studier. Selvom det er en slags studier jeg gerne ville bedrive, tvivler jeg på at der ville være plads til bare en enkelt, lillebitte ente på vores ikke særligt store badeværelse.
     Nej, entomologi er - som de fleste sikkert ved - studiet af insekter, edderkopper og den slags.

-- 🕷 -- 🕸 -- 🕷 --

Some entomologic photos from our bathroom - no, I do not know why all bugs congregate there.

-- 🕷 -- 🪲 --

     Her er et par entomologiske billeder fra badeværelset. Gad vide hvorfor alle insekter og edderkopper godt kan lide at være der?

A pretty moth, probably Common carpet --  🦋  -- En fin natsværmer, nok en Almindelig bladmåler.

A lady Marsh cranefly, notice the pointy end -- 🪰 --  et hun-stankelben, det kan man se på den spidse ende.

And finally another spider. It is the same species as my itsy bitsy spider - a Walnut orb spider - but much smaller, probably a male one, and with distinctly hairy black and white banded legs.

-- 🕷 -- 🕸 -- 🕷 --

Og til sidst endu en edderkop. Den er af samme art som Lille Peter, en flad hjulspinder, men meget minder, så det er nok en han, og med meget fint stribede og behårede ben.

 -- 🕸 --

Ekstra, her til morgen var der denne edderkop på badeværeslet. Den tilhører helt sikkert slægten Halloween-edderkopper. Gad vide, hvor den er kommet fra.

-- 🕷 -- 🕸 -- 🕷 --

And this morning, I found this pretty specimen on the sink. It belongs to the Halloween spiders, I'm sure, and I wonder, how it got there, and where it has been hiding.

Words for Wednesday on a Thursday ~ Onsdagsord

The Word for Wednesday challenge started a long time ago. Now it has turned into a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator; and the Words are provided by a number of people.
The prompts for August  are provided by Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings.

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.

This week's prompts are:
Convince
Education
Slice
Decide
Craft
Family
     and/or the following phrases
Beating a dead horse
On the ropes
Wake up call

All what the words made me think of was this moralistic rant - Quirky Owl at large.

I'm trying to convince my co-humans that education never stops. If we do not exercise your brawn and brain every day, and pick a new slice of matter frequently, it is the same as to decide to regress, to fall into disrepair and forgetfulness. Use it or lose it goes for all areas of our mind and body.

Craft is one of the good ways of keeping fit mentally and physically, having a big lively family is another.

Time and again I feel I am beating a dead horse, but nothing will stop me figuratively yelling at people. And some won't ever listen, some only when neglect have brought them on the ropes, some do not even heed this wake-up call, but stays in the sofa with Netflix and chips handy.


Onsdagsord på en torsdag

Vi fik de her ord:
Overbevise
Uddannelse
Skive
Beslutte
Kunsthåndværk
Familie
     og/eller følgende sætninger
At slå i en dyne
Ude i tovene
Wake-up call

Det eneste, der kom ud af det, var denne løftede pegefinger. Underlige Ugle på færde her.

Jeg prøver at overbevise mine medmennesker om, at uddannelse aldrig stopper. Hvis vi ikke træner både muskler og hjerne hver dag og vælger en ny skive af emnet med jævne mellemrum, er det det samme som at beslutte sig for at gå i forfald. Use it or lose it gælder for alle områder af vores sind og krop.
     Kunsthåndværk er en af de gode måder at holde sig i form mentalt og fysisk, at have en stor livlig familie er en anden.
     Gang på gang og igen føler jeg, at jeg slår i en dyne, men intet vil stoppe mig i billedligt talt at råbe ad folk. Og nogle vil aldrig lytte, andre kun når de er helt ude i tovene efter længere tids forsømmelse, nogle lytter ikke engang da, men bliver i sofaen med Netflix og chips ved hånden.

 ++ 🦉 ++

To show how my quirky brain works I found these two photos from the past week ... they reminded me of one another.

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     For at vise, at min hjerne stadig finder på underlige krumspring, har jeg fundet to billeder fra den seneste uge, der mindede mig om hinanden.

A golden Pikachu-Oreo, banana/chocolate taste and ...

 ++ 🦉 ++

En gylden Pikachu-Oreo med chokolade/banansmag og ...

The blue super-moon ...Quirky owl indeed.

 ++ 🦉 ++

Den blå supermåne ... Underlige ugle på færde,