Words for Wednesday ~ Onsdagsord

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.

In July, MotherOwl - yes, that's me will supply us with prompts, but they'll appear at  Elephant's Child's blog. I wrote and sent them back in December last year, so they are as new to me as they are to you. I hope they'll get us all writing.

 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.

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Word for Wednesday er en udfordring, der startede for længe siden. Nu er det blevet en bevægelig begivenhed med Elephant's Child som vores koordinator og ordene bliver leveret af en række personer.

Den generelle idé med denne udfordring er at få os til at skrive. Digte, historier, fortællinger, vittigheder, haiku, krydsord, ordspil, ... du bestemmer.
Brug alle ordene, nogle af dem eller kun et enkelt, eller måske endda ingen af dem, hvis det får din kreativitet til at blomstre. Alt er tilladt, men helst ikke noget vulgært eller fornærmende.

I juli vil Uglemor – ja, det er mig – give os nye ord hver onsdag, men de vil blive offentliggjort på Elephant's Childs blog. Jeg skrev og sendte dem tilbage i december sidste år, så de er lige så nye for mig som for jer. Jeg håber, de vil få os alle til at skrive.

Det er også en udfordring, hvor det gamle ordsprog »Jo flere, jo bedre« holder stik.

Så husk at følge linkene, gå tilbage og læse andres historier. Og skriv gerne en kommentar, når du har læst. Udfordringer som denne holdes i live af interaktion, kommentarer og opmuntring. Og vi har ALLE brug for opmuntring.

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This Wednesday's Words:
Inquire
Constitute
Stray
Sway
Royal
Warn
    And/or
Window
Undo
Group
Cheerful
Black
Bewildered
Spotted

Making sentences with these word telling about my recent ideas. I do not know how many will see the light of day, and how many are just stray ideas in a bewildered mind.

This is a work in progress and I'll cheerfully add to it in the coming week.

When I saw all the left over pieces of wood from building our shed, I picked up the courage to inquire about what would happen to them. The answer was that they would end up, sorted, as material for new boards. But I was free to take any I could use.

Since then I have made it a part of my daily routine to check out the scrap pile. Some days ago I spotted a heap of cool coarse grained plywood / chipboard called OSB. I fell for their special looks, and as I told this Sunday got the idea to use those for puzzle pieces.

In the scrap pile I also found some normal plywood boards. One of these I cut into a big square, and I'm going to make a Barn Quilt to hang on the shed - this will probably be finished when the door and windows arrive.

I have no idea what a Barn Quilt is called in Danish, or whether it even exists. It is a patchwork/quilting pattern painted on a board and hung up on barns and outbuildings as decoration, or to convey a message, or to sway tourists to come inside.

It is usually made up by squares and triangles that constitute a named pattern – the names do not always have much to do with the appearance. I fell for a pattern called Cactus Rose*, I like it, and very importantly, so do the other residents of Owlery.

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Denne onsdags ord er:
Spørge
Udgøre
Strejfe, strejfer, tilfældig
Svaje, overtale
Kongelig
Advare
     Og/eller
Vindue
Fortryd
Gruppe
Glad, genne, i godt humør
Sort
Forvirret
Plettet, få øje på,

Nu vil jeg skrive sætninger med disse ord, der fortæller om mine seneste ideer. Jeg ved ikke, hvor mange der vil se dagens lys, og hvor mange der bare er tilfældige ideer i en forvirret hjerne.

Dette er en liste under udarbejdelse, og jeg vil glad og gerne føje til den i den kommende uge.

Da jeg så alle de stumper og stykker af træ fra opførelsen af vores skur, tog jeg mod til mig og spurgte, hvad der ville ske med dem. Svaret var, at de ville ende med at blive sorteret og brugt som materiale til nye brædder. Men jeg måtte tage alle dem, jeg kunne bruge.

Siden da har jeg gjort det til en del af min daglige rutine at tjekke smid ud-bunken. For nogle dage siden fik jeg øje på en bunke interessante, grovkornet krydsfiner/spånplader kaldet OSB. Jeg faldt for deres specielle udseende og fik lyst til at bruge dem til puslebrikker, som jeg fortalte om i søndags

I bunken med affald fandt jeg også nogle normale krydsfinerplader. En af disse skar jeg ud i en stor firkant, og jeg vil lave en Barn Quilt til at hænge på skuret – den vil sandsynligvis være færdigt, når døren og vinduerne ankommer.

Jeg aner ikke, hvad Barn Quilt hedder på dansk, eller om det overhovedet findes. Det er et patchworkmønster, malet på en plade, og hængt op på lader og udhuse som dekoration, eller for at fortælle noget, eller overtale turister til at komme indenfor.

Det er normalt kvadrater og trekanter, der udgør et navngivent mønster - navnene har ikke altid så meget med udseenet at gøre. Jeg faldt for et mønster der hedder Kaktusrose* - jeg kan lide det, og meget vigtigt, det kan de andre indbyggere i Ugleboet også.

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Today's Wordle 1.502 6/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
It was a fun, challenging Wordle. The Wordle Hints Page tells me: Today’s average difficulty is 6 guesses out of 6, or very challenging. But it was a good challenging

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* Der synes at være tusindvis af mønstre, der hedder kaktusrose. Det er den her.
LINK
It seems there's a gazilion different cactus rose quilt patters. Link is to the right one.

Poetry Monday :: Quince

Dear readers ... MotherOwl's new, old computer still needs some working out. It's tough times upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 11. In a few days more I seriously hope I'm done strongarming it into doing what I want it to do -  instead of me doing what it wants me to do.

Reading of blogs, commenting and hopefully writing will resume soon - I hope.

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Kære læsere, Uglemors  nye, brugte computer volder stadig knuder - det er tough times at gå fra Windows 7 til Windows 11. Derfor vil det nok vare et par dage mere, før hun er færdig med at kæmpe med installationer og få computeren til at gøre so hun ønsker og ikke den anden vej rundt.
Blogging, læsning af blogs og kommentarer vil komme i gang igen snart!

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.

Dagens tema er: Kvæder og jeg havde fået en god idé på dansk også, men så skulle jeg lige vande mine nyplantede krydderurter, og ideen forduftede sammen med vandet.

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 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.
     Dette er så det sidste af vores stikord, 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.

This is the last prompt by Mimi or me, 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 Quince.

We eat a lot of quince
we've done so ever since
I got my English jam-book.
So every fall
I pick them all
And cook my jam
I follow Pam*
and more quince cheese I cook.

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*Pam: The jam book is Pam the Jam's excellent Book of Preserves:

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Up and coming subjects:
July 21 Quince (Today) - the last one coming from Mimi and me.
Aug 4 Lonely  - The first one from he 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts.
Aug 11 Biscuits
Aug 18 Don’t be afraid
Aug 25 Wonderful

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And the Wordle 1.493 6/6
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⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today’s average difficulty is 5.4 guesses out of 6, or very challenging. I find this average difficulty by clicking the bulb, which takes me to today's Wordle Review page where we can find (clickable) hints and the solution.

I don't go here until I have solved the Wordle - or not.

Lowermost on this page - before ads for themselves, games and news, is Further reading  I love this statement: See the archive for past and future posts.
If I click the link, I see only past posts 😁

Find Familiars 6

Continuing from yesterday ...

I continue my story from previous chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

After a short, quiet spell a bird flew in through the open window, an almost totally white buzzard landed on Trausti's outstretched arm. He fed it a small bit of meat, and it folded its wings and settled down.
"This is my familiar, unimaginatively called Haukur." A few of the apprentices laughed, and Susan smiled. 
"Gilvi, who was my coach in all things concerning Familiars, after my wife, Vigdís, died, chided me for my lack of imagination, I feel lucky not to possess overly much of this, as the miserable lives of some of the Familiars I look after, are scary without any imagination."
Trausti looked around on the apprentices, professors and guests, and noticed Tristan and David exchanging glances, but did not quite grasp the undercurrent. Had they ben dogs, he would have thought them imagining some easy to get treats.
He drew a breath and continued: "Now, I know that most of you here would like a Familiar. You imagine how nice it would be to have someone totally loyal, always ready to defend you, or for a cuddle," Haukur rubbed his beak against Trausti's thumb as if proving his words. Susan smiled, thinking of Granny's owls on the clothes line, she would think twice before accepting a rubbing from their lethal beaks.
"But you forget all the problems," Trausti continued, "How many of you have ever had a pet?" A bit less than a third of the apprentices raised their hands.
"Now think of all the trouble you've had, fights, visits to the vet, not being able to go visiting or on a sleepover because of that pet." Susan thought back to the long summer night when Knud - female in spite of the name - decided to have her litter of kittens in Susan's bed; to the many times she and Linda had spent hours catching a sick or injured cat in a box, without getting clawed, and waiting forever - and paying loads of money - at the vet's. Some of these problems would surely be lesser ...
"Some of these problems would probably be lesser," Trausti began, echoing her thoughts, "like getting your Familiar to the vet. But some would be way bigger. Imagine the vet asking from where you have that bat, or owl or what not. Imagine having your best non magic friends visiting, and the Familiar making an appearance, or for those of non magic families imagine your parents' and siblings' reaction to a Familiar." Susan shivered. Linda would not accept an owl in the family, and her parents would not be overjoyed either.

And here again I have to stop. I did not use 'Bellowcat'. I did use Cat, but I actually have an idea for Bellowcat 😕 I hope to find time later on.

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Thursday's Wordle 1.482 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
This was a fun one. Today’s average difficulty is 5.4 guesses out of 6, or very challenging.

Sunday Selection ~ Søndagsbilleder & Crazy Wordle

Today I took all the 5-letter words in Words for Wednesday and entered them in today's Wordle:
Ferry, First, Avoid, and Paste.
Not necessarily in that order.
It looked like this.

Wordle 1.478 5/6
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨
🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Again the solution is a word, I did not know, but could guess at. The solution with letters are down below.
Wordle tells me that Today’s average difficulty is 5.3 guesses out of 6, or very challenging. typing in random words for the first four and then combining seems to be just as great a solving strategy.

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Billeder fra den forgangne uge:
Now some photos from this past week:

While hunting for wild strawberries I found this guest ~ Fine gæster. Jeg ledte egentlig efter skovjordbær

Cikorieblomster - jeg elsker blå!  ~  Chicory - I love blue!

Klinte, et bibelsk ukrudt, men smukt ~ Corncockle, a pretty. biblical weed.

Redcurrants after the doves and blackbirds took their share
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Vores ribs efter at duer og solsorte havde været der.

Brunelle, den er ikke ret stor, men fin ~ Prunella, small but pretty

Skovjordbær ~ Wild strawberries

En aggressiv blishøne - den tror den er meget farlig ~ An aggressive coot, it thinks that it's very scary

Vores udhus bliver bygget ~ the start of our shed, a black box

Og endelig et ikke-mislykket billede af de to svaner ~ And finally not a photo fail of the two swans

And the Wordle


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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
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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 :: Søndagsbilleder

Sunday Selections this day - photos from my garden and surroundings.

Søndagens billeder - fotografier fra min have og omegn.

Klematis Johannes Paul II - den eneste plante, jeg kender 'navnet' på.
Clematis John Paul II - the only flower in my garden, I know the 'name' of.

Fingerbøl - vi har både lyserøde og hvide i varierende antal.
Foxgloves - we have pink and/or white ones in varying numbers.

Fiskespringvandet i Hillerød. Der står på pladen i jorden, at det er renoveret i 2016.
The 'Fish Fountain' in Hillerød. The plaque (just visible bottom left) tells about it being restored in 2016.

Den 3.juni var Frøsøen næsten fuld af vand, og andemaden groede lystigt.
June 3rd our Frogpond was almost filled with water, and the duckweed grew.

Den 4, juni transporterede jeg en vandslange hjem. Den var på tilbud, og jeg havde naturligvis kun den lille cykeltaske med, for jeg skulle jo næsten ikke have noget. Hehe, så mit håndklæde-tørklæde måtte også lege sikkerhedssele.
June 4th I brought home a garden hose. It was marked down, and of course I only had my small saddle bag - I was only going to get a couple of items - never say never - my hankie-scarf had to play tie up as well.

Næste dag fyldte den Lille Ædelsten og jeg Frøsøen helt op ved hjælp af haveslangen. Og så groede andenmaden ellers. Billedet her er taget den 5.
Next day The little Gem and I topped off the Frogpond using the hose, and the duckweed grew. Photo taken June 5th.

Have-brøndsel - er den ikke bare flot - her med en honningbi på besøg.
Fern-leaved beggarticks - isn't it pretty - here with a honeybee visiting.

Og den flinke håndværker lod brombærrankerne stå!
And our nice builder let the brambles survive!

Tidselfugl i domen. Den har travlt med radiseblomsterne.
Painted lady in the dome. It is busy drinking from the radish flowers

Man skal ikke kaste med sten, hvis man bor venter i et glashus!
People who live wait in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!

Wordle 1.450 4/6
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🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today’s average difficulty is 4.8 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging. With 4 guesses I feel fine.

Wordling

Saturday
Wordle 1.449 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today’s average difficulty is 4.5 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging. Better today.

Friday:
Wordle 1.448 5/6
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Today’s average difficulty is 6 guesses out of 6, or very challenging. I did not think it was that tough, and using my normal starter words, I would have done better  ... I am trying to use a new one every day just for fun.

Thursday:
I forgot to copy the results, but I solved it in 5 tries; and as the Wordle review said: Today’s average difficulty is 4.8 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging, I did not feel all off.

Wordle

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

The last couple of days I have had trouble with Wordle.

Starting with Thursday's Wordle; Today’s average difficulty is 6 guesses out of 6, or very challenging. Sure ;) I did not even know the solution.

How many of you know this word:

Today’s word is QUASH, a verb. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it means “to annul or set aside (an indictment). (From NYT Wordle Review).

Wordle 1.440 X/6
🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩

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Yesterday/Friday I messed up and instead of painlessly having guessed IDIOM - a word, I know and love - I had ZOOID as the only possible an impossible - explanation, because I placed O as middle letter on my paper instead of  I. Today’s average difficulty is 3.8 guesses out of 6, or easy breezy.
My guesses were:

I even resorted to Merriam-Websters' "Give me a word with ... " page, and lastly to Wordle Solver. I do not normally use those, as I think it is cheating, but I used both intensely in April for the A-Z Challenge.
They both agreed that ZOOID was the only possible word! But with O not going second, it simply was not right,

Then I realized my error and solved it with IDIOM - luckily  T  had been ruled out, else I had typed in IDIOT as that's how I felt.

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Today I fooled around - just for fun to see if just putting in words with different letters did help.
I put in BROCK - did not even know it was a word ;)  AGILE and DUSTY. Then I had B A I T as "yellow" letters.

Then I had to play and put in TABIS - my beloved ninja-boots event though I knew they were not the solution with S not being in today.

HABIT was the solution.

Today’s average difficulty is 5 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging.
Wordle 1.442 5/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Poetry Monday :: Lead

Poetry Monday ~ Mandagsdigt er en engelsk blog-leg. Det er ikke altid, at dagens emne duer på dansk - eller at jeg er smart nok til at finde på noget. Dagens stikord Lead, der betyder enten 'bly' eller 'lede/ledt', fik ikke nogen danske digte til at poppe op i min arme hjerne. Knap nok et engelsk uden krykker og hjælp.

Every Monday is Poetry Monday.

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.

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Today's prompt is Lead.
Whichever way I turn it, it's a heavy subject.
I can't eat it, so no epulaeryu.
I did what I sometimes do. I looked up lead at RhymeZone, and made a - not a  nonsense verse directly - but maybe disjointed verses would be a better description. Because all the rhymed pairs are good and even mostly true. We do need a new shed ... but the connections between the couplets? Maybe it's all just In my head.

In My Head - with Lead
I'm heavy as lead,
let me stay in my bed.
The words have all fled
no fun in my head.
We need a new shed
All the messes have spread.

But soon I'll sow seed
And follow the lead
of wisdom's good deed.
My hens I will feed
with every weed
and gather with greed
every egg in with speed.

The lead takes the lead
and writes of the deed
The big and the small
It tells of it all.

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May 26: Lead (today)
June 9 Sting
June 16 Possible
June 23 Uniform
June 30 Scram

Today’s average difficulty is 3.5 guesses out of 6, or easy breezy.

Wordle 1.437 4/6
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Well 3.5 is either three or four, so average owl today.

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
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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
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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. 
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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
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Friday: Today’s average difficulty is 5.6 guesses out of 6, or very challenging.
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Poetry Monday :: Stem

Three years ago Messymimi had the right diagnosis for one of the things bothering me now and then: The Ookie-pookies. This is a general feeling that the universe is conspiring to make you as miserable as possible, with things you can't help, nor really complain about without sounding ungrateful and whiny.
  Something like this: Everything is just plain old stupid. News, friends, family, social media, the nature around me, and even myself - everything is drab, boring, stupid. Nobody ever listens, Nobody ever understands anything. Everybody but me is going places and having fun. The one day I want to go to an outdoor event, is the one day it rains in a long row of sunshiny days. When I go to bed I have to go for a pee. When I go shopping the items on my list are sold out ... You know the feeling,
     Today the Okie-Pokies have gotten me again. The weather is so nice, but now that I know rain will come stupid me then cannot enjoy the sunshine any more.
     It sometimes happen, when the calendar is full. I need "breahing days" now and then. Days where everybody is at home, where weøre not all getting up too early, flying in each one directin and maybe not coming home for dinner. It's not even bad things, like dentists' appintments. It's birthdays. plant dyeing and fun things. But whne there's no days with nothing on them for too long, I get the Ookie-Pookies.

But ... it's Poetry Monday ... Let's try to poem the Ookie-pookies away:

It stems from nothing,
It goes nowhere
It is un-budging
It'll stay right here,
It'll be raining on me
and on my parade.
Till I get old and bleary-eyed.

Yuck: I can't even Wordle today.
Today’s average difficulty is 5.2 guesses out of 6, or very challenging.
Wordle 1.430 X/6

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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
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Lørdag 17. maj ~ Saturday May 17

Grey, overcast, windy. Luckily I have no time for gardening today, as the deadline for the trimonthly magazine I edit, was yesterday.

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Today is May 17. Happy Constitution day to all Norwegians.

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Gråt, blæsende, overskyet og ikke-inspirerende vejr. Heldigvis har jeg slet ikke tid til at gå i haven i dag. I går aftes var der nemlig deadline for det lille blad, jeg redigerer og layouter hver 3. måned.

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Alligevel har jeg tid til at ønske alle nordmænd tillykke med dagen.

Today I'm not your average Wordler. The Wordle Review tells me: Today’s average difficulty is 4.2 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging.
I barely made it - I was so sure my guess number 5 was it, but no.

Wordle 1.428 6/6
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Fredagsfrustration ~ Store BededagFriday Frustration ~ Great Prayer Day & Wordle

     I dag er det fredag i fjerde uge i påsken. Tidligere var det Store Bededag. Men det er det jo netop ikke længere. Suk. Jeg savner i den grad det åndehul i foråret den dag gav.
     I år er det igen en ganske almindelig hverdag. Ugleungerne er i skole, Skribenten underviser som hver fredag, og jeg er ganske alene hjemme med ondt i halsen.

Jeg savner Store Bededag!

Store Bededag er en fridag, der har betydet meget for mig i de forgangne år. Det var så at sige en "gratis" fridag. Butikkerne var lukkede, så vi kunne ikke tage på indkøb. Vi fik ikke gæster, vi skulle ikke i kirke. Kort sagt, vi havde bare fri, og der var ingen, der forventede noget af os, ingenting vi skulle.
Det savner jeg i den grad ... den her lette, boblende frie fornemmelse, når dagen ender af "Tænk, det er kun lørdag i morgen!"

Jeg bliver altså ikke mere produktiv af at savne den!

Today is Friday in the 4th week of  Easter. Until now it was a holiday, Common (or great) prayer day, but again this year it is just another Friday. The Owlets are off to school, the Writer is teaching, and I'm  home alone with a sore throat.

I miss this holiday. It was a breathing space in the busy spring, he period for exams, digging, doing ...

It was so to say a "free" holiday. Nobody expected anything from us, the shops were closed, so no shopping, we were not having any guests, we were not supposed to go to church (this was a Protestant prayer day only 😉). Not a thing in the calendar, and when the day ended, I always have had this light, bubbly feeling: Tomorrow is only Saturday! This feeling - of a week with two Saturdays - I am sorely going to miss in years to come.

I really do not think that this feeling of frustration and loss will make me a better, more industrious citizen!

Wordle, you say - Ugh! No letters for soo long!
It seems I am an average Wordle-solver: Today’s average difficulty is 5.2 guesses out of 6, or very challenging. I'll check this out from now on if I remember ;)

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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.

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Words for Wednesday ~ May 14 & Wordle

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.

In May, David M Gascoigne will supply us with prompts, but they'll appear at  Elephant's Child.

 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.

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This Wednesday's prompts:
Elbows
Imagine
Canal
Heavily
Population
    and/or
Mocked
Months
Annex
Support
Casino

I am slowly easing back into writing mode and continuing the story of Susan and the magic. I have an idea, only the words were not right. This is a warm-up, a prequel, something to get me into writing Susan's story again.
We're in the third year of Magic education at the Unicorn farm. Easter holiday maybe.
And as is my wont, I used all words in the order they were given.

Susan sat with her elbows propped on the windowsill and stared out into the blue beyond. She tried to imagine how life would be if she was allowed to move in at the Unicorn Farm, have a familiar and be a real witch. Every time she crossed the canal separating the island from the mainland she felt free and happy, and every time she went the other way, her heart was weighed down heavily by worries and speculations.

Thora had told them that witches and wizards made up a greater part of the population than they imagined, and that the Unicorn Farm was going to expand by opening up schools elsewhere as well.
100 apprentices was all the Farm on the island  had room for, even magically enhanced. and the trouble with buying foodstuff and suchlike for a larger amount of professors and apprentices would become insurmountable.

Susan felt mocked by the universe, as Brúnleit flew past the window. She was Thora's familiar, a short eared owl, in Icelandic a kattugla.

Susan's thought went back in time. She recalled when after months of work at an annex at a local hotel, her father had been invited to the opening ceremony attended by local supports and dignitaries. He had brought the whole family along, Mom, Linda and Susan. The most fun part had been the new casino and the bowling alley. But Susan still remembered her misgivings when somebody had mentioned that the annex had necessitated the felling of a small grove where some owls nested. Susan would have liked one of the owls as a pet, but she never told anyone. She was not even allowed a cat or a dog, so an owl would be unthinkable.

Wordle 1.425 4/6
I did bad today, using letter, I knew were not in. Sigh. I forgot my Pen & Paper method, and furthermore today's solution was a word not in my active vocabulary.
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Tirsdag, havearbejde & WordleTuesday, gardening & Wordle

Så fik jeg endelig plantet dome-squashene ud i den store, vilde have. Jeg lugede også hele domen, og plantede chilier og auberginer derude. Lugningen i domen producerede store mængder dild, der blev lagt til tørre.

I finally got round to planting the dome squash in the big, wild garden. I also weeded the whole dome and planted chillies and aubergines out there. Weeding the dome produced large quantities of dill that were left to dry.

Potten med citronverbena havde en gæst, der også blev plantet ud i bedene. Kender I navnet på gæsten?
Jeg plantede også en en jernurt og to store artiskokker ud i bedet her. Nu må der ikke komme mere frost.

The pot of lemon verbena had a visitor who also came out into the garden. Does anybody know the name of the guest?
I also planted a normal verbena and two large artichokes into the same bed. Now we don't want any more frost.

Vi flyttede hønseburet og jeg fik lavet en lem i toppen til at smide ukrudt ned igennem. Herlig ting! Det er så meget nemmere bare lige at stikke en mælkebøtte ind til dem nu. Hønsene spiser endog ret store dræbersnegle, lad os håbe, det bliver ved.
Der var 5 æg igen i dag, og det er en fornøjelse at fodre hønsene med den nye lem.

We moved the chicken coop and I made a hatch in the top to throw weeds down through. What a great thing! It's so much easier to just throw them a dandelion now. The chickens are even eating quite large slugs, let's hope it continues.
We had five eggs again today and it's a pleasure to feed the chickens with the new hatch.


Jeg plukkede sødskærm, vild kørvel, hasselblade og et par kviste skønhedsøjer til plantefarvning. Det normale fed ser fint ud, men de lange er altså ikke ren uld.

I picked sweet cicely, cow parsley, hazel leaves and a few sprigs of tickseed for plant dyeing. Half of it looks great, but the suspicious hanks are so not all wool.

Surbærrene blomstrer.
The Aronias (Chokeberries)  are flowering.

Der er masser af rabarber.
We have lots of rhubarb.

Kvanen er stor og kraftig. I år kan man ikke tage fejl af den og en skvalderkål. Der er stadig lidt baldrian, den skal passes på.

The angelica is big and strong. This year, you can't mistake it for aground elder. There's still a little valerian, it needs watching.


Jeg så to lærker, der hang syngende under himlen og hørte en gøg.

I saw and heard two larks and only heard a cuckoo - I never saw one, but I hear them often every summer..

Today's Wordle was tough. Not because it was hard to find a word, but because it had too many possible solutions. It looks fun:
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