Make The Decision To Be #Happy

Miles in America

Today’s Challenge: Make the decision to be happy.

And then maybe you’ll want to be happy tomorrow too. 🙂

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April Showers…

We’ve acquired an additional human and her two feline companions for a short time. They fit in quite well with our established menagerie; only one yelling match as the felines played “King of the Mountain” so far. Being able to play outside in the beautiful spring weather has helped.

This week the household is tackling obnoxious bushes outside, beautifying the front yard, cleaning up the back yard and painting the kitchen cabinets.

What are you doing?

A-to-Z: Zakuska

Zakuska: (Russian, noun) an hors d’oeuvre; a snack; a bite.

A perfect zakuska for a hot sweltering day is this rainbow fruit kabob.  It’s even grillable!

A-to-Z: Yare

Yare: (archaic, adjective) ready; prepared; nimble, quick, agile, lively.

Do you remember the nursery rhyme, “Jack be Nimble?”

It wouldn’t be quite as fun to say “Jack be yare…” now would it?

A-to-Z: Xanthic

Xanthic: (adjective) of or pertaining to a yellow or yellowish color

Here is a beautiful bit of xanthic nature for your muse…

or perhaps you’d prefer a little xanthic fire?

A-to-Z: Welkin

Welkin: (noun) the sky, heavens, or upper air.

Writing Challenge: Create a limerick using the today’s work. (Bad puns are acceptable.)
If you need help rhyming, try the android app,  B-Rhymes.

I Hate DST

I completely agree!

My Own Personal Grey

The following is partially cobbled together from my Twitter feed:

I hate DST—if you want to get up earlier, just… get up earlier. Why torture the rest of us?
I’ve looked into it and the persistence of DST in the US is linked to tax credits for corporations for “energy saving programs.”
NIH and the New England Journal of Medicine have reported that DST leads to increased injury and accident rates. (There are at least 4 well-founded studies in the US that support the claim that accident rates of all kinds rise up to 10% for up to a month following the start of DST in the US every year, but there’s no matching fall in accident rates at the end of DST.)
DST change-over is also associated with increases in heart attacks, cluster headaches, and “cyberloafing” (wtf?)
but many people will argue that it gives them an “extra” hour…

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A-to-Z: Verisimilitude

Verisimilitude: (noun) the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood.

Writing Challenge: Write a dialogue involving your MC using verisimilitude to evade an unpleasant question.

A-to-Z: Ugsome

Ugsome: (adjective [oh the horrors!]) horrid; loathsome.

Writing Challenge: Explain in 500 words or less something particularly ugsome to your MC.

A-to-Z: Trachle

Trachle: (noun) an exhausting effort, especially walking or working.

Writing Challenge: Write a short scene using the word of the day and the picture above.