Best wishes,
Anna
First Commenter:
Ann Thompson
of
Ann's Snap Edit & Scrap
Friday, January 13, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
H is for Heatpumps, Hedgerows etc - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday - Round 4 - H
Welcome to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's weekly Challenge, Alphabe-Thursday, now in its fourth round! I've have missed A through F; started last week with G; and now we have come to the letter H!
This week's letter is H, and here is little ditty for the letter H:
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H is for Heatpumps, Hedgerows and Health,
Heather and Holly with a little gnome,
Happiness and Heart plus Heaps of wealth ,
H is for Hope; that makes a House a Home.
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Best wishes,
Anna
First Commenter:
Deb
of
The storybeader's journal
To visit other posts about the letter H, please go to this site or click on the image below:
Here are Mrs. Matlock's instructions:
Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.
I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know! I have been super behind...I've had this ongoing strep issue for almost 10 days now but I promise I will be by!
If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.
If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.
The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!
And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit at least 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.
Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.
I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know! I have been super behind...I've had this ongoing strep issue for almost 10 days now but I promise I will be by!
If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.
If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.
The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!
And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit at least 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
A Cliff-Hanger Part I - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week 88
Welcome to week eighty-eight of Saturday Centus.
THE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS: Hanging off a cliff! (Might as well be literal while we're attempting to use this literary device!)
WORD COUNT - Not to exceed 100 words plus the 4 words of the prompt. 104 words total.
STYLE OF WRITING - Any so long as you utilize a cliffhanger writing device to wrap your story up. Next week we'll do an additional 100 words for the rest of the story.
ADDITIONAL PICTURES IF DESIRED
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Here is my text:
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Charles took the footpath up the hill overlooking the town and the bay. It was misty at twilight, but he could still see the reflections of the city-lights in the sea. It started to rain when he reached the top, which was above a wall of seabirds' nests. They dug into the limestone making it hollow and it could crumple under your weight and leave you hanging off a cliff, if you were lucky enough not to fall 400 meters down onto the rocks.
With pencil and notebook in hand, he heard a voice. Turning around, he felt the ground sinking. 'No!' he gasped.
With pencil and notebook in hand, he heard a voice. Turning around, he felt the ground sinking. 'No!' he gasped.
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Word count according to WordCalc: 104
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Best wishes,
Anna
P.S.
This text is fictional, but the landscape and bird life are inspired by my many nature-walks when I lived on Iceland for a time, many years ago. But that was a very wild, natural landscape, with no city-lights reflected in the waters of a bay. It was a beautiful but dangerous place. Sometimes tourists did fall off cliffs and die.
Another source of inspiration for this text is one of the first scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 film, Rebecca, after Daphne du Maurier's novel, with the same name, where Maxin de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier) is standing a little too close to the edge of a cliff over-looking Monte Carlo. This is were he meets his second (and never named) wife, played by actress Joan Fontaine.
This text is fictional, but the landscape and bird life are inspired by my many nature-walks when I lived on Iceland for a time, many years ago. But that was a very wild, natural landscape, with no city-lights reflected in the waters of a bay. It was a beautiful but dangerous place. Sometimes tourists did fall off cliffs and die.
Another source of inspiration for this text is one of the first scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 film, Rebecca, after Daphne du Maurier's novel, with the same name, where Maxin de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier) is standing a little too close to the edge of a cliff over-looking Monte Carlo. This is were he meets his second (and never named) wife, played by actress Joan Fontaine.
First Commenter:
Judie McEwen
of
Rogue Artists
To visit other SC-posts please go to this site or click on the image below:
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Here are Mrs. Jenny Matlock's instructions:
Welcome to week eighty-eight of Saturday Centus. I am only one week behind in reading now! Go me!
So...
It's a new year and I'm feeling like we should stretch our brains just a tiny bit to rid ourselves of the last residues of fudge and sugar cookies.
Let's try a two week Saturday Centus.
Using a literary device.
Yes.
I said a literary device.
It's good for you.
Don't groan. Please.
This week I thought we could try to use a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger is defined as: The narrative ends unresolved, to draw the audience back to a future episode for the resolution.
Thus...
The two part challenge.
Next week we will conclude our cliffhanger centus.
Cool, right?
So...
It's a new year and I'm feeling like we should stretch our brains just a tiny bit to rid ourselves of the last residues of fudge and sugar cookies.
Let's try a two week Saturday Centus.
Using a literary device.
Yes.
I said a literary device.
It's good for you.
Don't groan. Please.
This week I thought we could try to use a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger is defined as: The narrative ends unresolved, to draw the audience back to a future episode for the resolution.
Thus...
The two part challenge.
Next week we will conclude our cliffhanger centus.
Cool, right?
The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer.
Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.
E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
G is for Gardens, etc... Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday, Round 4 - G
Welcome to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's weekly Challenge, Alphabe-Thursday, now in its fourth round! I've missed A through F; but this is not my first round with Mrs. Jenny.
This week's letter is G, and here is my offering:
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G is for Gardens, Green and Growing,
Great and Gracious, doing as it should,
Generous, Glad and always Glowing,
G is Grateful for all that is Good.
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Best wishes,
Anna
First Commenter:
Anita
of
Anitmombanita
To visit other posts about the letter G, please go to this site or click on the image below:
Here are Mrs. Matlock's instructions:
Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.
I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know! I have been super behind...I've had this ongoing strep issue for almost 10 days now but I promise I will be by!
If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.
If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.
The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!
And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit at least 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.
Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.
I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know! I have been super behind...I've had this ongoing strep issue for almost 10 days now but I promise I will be by!
If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.
If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.
The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!
And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit at least 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Resolution Schmezolution: Cissi & Cassy - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week 87
Welcome to week eighty-seven of Saturday Centus.
THE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS: Resolution! Schmezolution!
WORD COUNT - Not to exceed 100 words plus the 2 words of the prompt. 102 words total.
STYLE OF WRITING - Any
ADDITIONAL PICTURES IF DESIRED
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Here is my text:
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Cissi and Cassy lay next to Cissi's sausage-Christmas-tree.*
'Cissi darling', purred Cassy,'have you made any New Year's resolutions?'
'Resolution! Schmezolution!' meowed Cissi stretching her furry body to its full length', We're cats! What cat makes NewYear's Resolutions?'
'The two-leggeds do it all the time. And having a Christmas tree is not a very cat-like thing to do.'
'You're right. Well, the tree goes out tomorrow and I resolve to only live like a cat. There! That's mine. What's yours, Cassy?.'
'To never make any promises I can't keep!'
'Oh,' yawned Cissi closing her eyes.
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Word count according to WordCalc: 102
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Best wishes,
Anna
*P.S.
If you've missed the first post with Cissi and Cassy go read it here.
First Commenter:
Happier Than A Pig in Mud
To visit other SC-posts please go to this site or click on the image below:
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Here are Mrs. Jenny Matlock's instructions:
Welcome to week eighty-seven of Saturday Centus. Happy New Year Centusians! Don't hate me cuz I'm so late visiting! Life has been extremely 'life-y' lately!
Sending you warm wishes for a safe and festive New Years Eve and the start of beautiful 2012!
Sending you warm wishes for a safe and festive New Years Eve and the start of beautiful 2012!
The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer.
Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.
E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.
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