Small Reflections: SaveTheWords

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Friday already?
Don't know how this week vanished
without any posts

since Monday when I
celebrated my birthday ...
Seems my scheduled

activities were
just a bit too much because
today I feel sick ;--(

Sore throat ... drippy nose
body aches from head to toe ...
I'm 'holed up' alone

hoping that Zicam
Vitamin C and bed rest
helps me recover!

Thanks to everyone
for lovely birthday wishes ...
Gratitude abounds!!!

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in Haiku Friday this week.

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... in addition to the Cumulative Gratitude List in my Sidebar this month, here are Five Favorites from this past week:

1. My purple iris buds (click for last week's collage) burst forth gloriously this week in tantuple blossoms!

2. Other bulb blossoms burst forth as well ... if anyone knows what these yellow flowers are, I'd love to know myself ... and would appreciate any insight visitors might provide about them.

3. Although it's been just a couple of weeks since I cut back my roses, new growth is springing forth already. Isn't that amazing? I certainly hope the wintry weather over many parts of the country comes to an end soon and that others see signs of Spring in the days & weeks ahead.

4. Excellent weather followed Monday's birthday surprise rainbow permitting my sister & I to spent several hours walking the nearby wetlands with cameras in hand ... birdwatching. I hope to share some of those photos for Camera Critters this weekend.

5. I enjoyed the second meeting of my Writers Workshop last night. I look forward to reading the pieces of writing submitted by classmates this week and participating in discussing the work next Thursday in addition to receiving feedback on the writing I shared.

This is my 4th ...

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Thought for Today
"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden." John Erskine

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Adopt A Word

At Rubbish by Roan I learned about Save the Words and adopted one of my own. She explained as follows:

Visiting Jonna's blog yesterday and True Colors today, I discovered both have adopted soon to be extinct words. I decided to adopt my own. If you want to adopt a word, visit this site Save the Words, it's a subsidiary of the Oxford University Press that publishes the Oxford Dictionaries.

The following I quote from Poopsie Blue:
"Each year hundreds of words are dropped from dictionaries.
Old words, wise words, hard working words.
Words that once lived meaningful lives, but now lie abandoned & forgotten."
The idea is to help save these lost words for future generations by bringing them back into currant usage. There is a wealth of words literally crying out on the site for you to choose from.

So for your information, TANTUPLE is an adjective that means 'multiplied by the same number' ... as in: By adopting and using old words in conversation & spreading the word, we can tantuple the effect of Save the Words.

This is my 43rd

Misty Dawn started the meme and explains the rules here.
Buster comes to visit Molly

Remember the little lost Beagle Pup
who came through a hole in the fence to visit?

Here's Buster now!

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participating in Camera Critters this week.

This is the 314th issue of ...

I'm participating for the 42nd time today
How about you?

What comes to YOUR mind?
If you'd like to play here, copy and paste the clues in comments along with your responses ... or post on your blog and let me know so I can visit ;--)

I say ... and you think ... ?

Take :: "it easy ... don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy." (Can't you hear the Eagles singing this one???)
350 :: Global Warming Animation - explaining how & why reduce carbon emissions
Stand :: one of my favorite Stephen King books
Raspberry :: Loganberry ... Ollalaberry ... Strawberry ... Boysenberry
Turnstile :: entry gate
Infomercial :: something I try to avoid at all costs
Dejected :: downcast or disappointed ... discouraged
What’s the word? :: tantuple ;--)
Awestruck :: amazed
Smashed :: potatoes