This meme was started by Delores a long time ago. Troubles led her
to bow out, but the meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator.
Essentially the aim of this meme is to encourage us to write. Each
week we are given some prompts. These prompts can be words, phrases,
music or images.
What we do with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore ...
We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.
Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog. This fun meme includes cheering on the other participants.
And the more the merrier
goes here as well, so if you are posting on your own blog then please
tell us in the comments, so that all other participants, can come along
and applaud.
Elephant's Child who is supplying the prompts for the Wednesdays of December has given us these words for today
Wash
Fresh
Extreme
Jelly
Exfoliate
And/or
Relaxing
Pure
Thick
Minerals
Citrus
This time only a short glimpse of Susan back at Unicorn Farm, picking fruits for Tom, the gardener who's an efreet - at least half an efreet. And as usual I took up the additional challenge to use the words in the order they were given.
Susan had to wash her hands again and again. Yet she still felt sticky from the fresh fruit. It was sticky in the extreme, their jelly like interior having spilled over her hands and sleeves when it broke open during picking. The branches had a funny, splotchy look, and Tom, the gardener had told her that these trees did exfoliate. Which was the same as moulting in a bird or shedding in horses and dogs.
Finally she felt clean and returned to the picking. It was a relaxing task to find the pure yellow fruits and snap their thick stems. Tom told in his very short way that they drew even more minerals from the soil than any tree in the citrus family.
They did not look like citruses at all to Susan, but then Tom had not said that they were citruses, only compared them to one another. She had to find the small label when she as done picking.
Disclaimer for the A-Z Challenge. I will visit blogs, but I won't necessarily comment if the contents do not speak to me.
I will mercilessly remove comments only made to generate views like: "Nice blog, please visit mine".
torsdag den 15. december 2022
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As always I am applauding. And yes, fresh fruit can indeed be astonishingly sticky.
SvarSletThgank you, and yes they can!
SletA nice addition to her story. Sometimes in the middle of such a job, sticky is just going to happen.
SvarSletSticky just happens ;)
SletThe only fruits I know with a jelly interior are persimmons, when fully ripe, the jelly is an agreeable baby food, easily digested and rich in Vitamin A. Lots of fruits are sticky though, like peaches, if you bite into a sunwarmed one and the juice runs over your hand and chin, yummy.
SvarSletI had my first persimmons less than a month ago ;) They were sticky and helly-like indeed, but I did not particularly like them. I made them into muffins, and those turned out nice. They were the inspirations for the mysterious fruits here - well spied!
SletSunwarmed peaches is a treat I stll have left to try, it sounds delicious.