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100 Words on Rain

October 19th, 2009 | Category: 100 Words

100 Word Challenge

Rain - Lets Get Cozy

Sunday rain.  Bring out the tea, the blankets, the knitting and soft lights.  Bring out the apples and flour and brown sugar.  Bring out the warm socks, the fuzzy robes, and the old slippers.  Bring out the books, the fairy tales, the mysteries, and the legends.  Bring out the crockpot, the beef, the celery, onions and potatoes.  Bring out the spices and let’s make delicious smells and joyful noise in the kitchen while the rain sogs all the fallen leaves.  Tonight, while we sleep with the lingering smells of warm food, the rain will turn to snow. Let’s get cozy.

I did actually wake up to a rainy Sunday today, and while I didn’t do all of the above, I did do some housekeeping, some cooking, and some blog design updating.  It’s still a work in progress, as always.  My pick of the week is Angelgal.  She’s building a story and used the last two challenges to add to it.

In other words…

That wraps up last week’s challenge.  For those of you that are new, welcome!  And for those of you lurking, visiting, or serendipitously stumbling your way here, speak up, we’d love to hear what you have to say in 100 words.  (If you need a debriefing on the challenge, go here but ignore the timelines in there.)

This week the writing challenge comes from Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories - Kurt Vonnegut.  Haven’t read the whole thing. This is one of the many books that sits on my bathroom book shelf for bath time reading.

Place

See you soon!

With love,

18 Comments so far

  1. I, Rodius October 19th, 2009 3:50 am

    A few thoughts on place that hopefully won’t get me into too much trouble.

    http://www.irodius.com/2009/10/place.html

  2. VelvetVerbosity October 19th, 2009 7:57 am

    I,Rodius gets 2 points for being the first one out of the starting gate. ;)

  3. I, Rodius October 19th, 2009 1:23 pm

    Thanks. Are points redeemable for fabulous prizes?

    I like your picture, btw. It reminds me of Mr. Lady a little bit.

  4. VelvetVerbosity October 19th, 2009 4:09 pm

    I,Rodius - thanks for liking the photo and thanks for reminding me who it reminded ME of. I chose this one because though most of my friends and family know this blog is connected to me, and I’ve connected personally with some readers, I still think it’s wise to keep a “low profile” on the web.

    Points are not yet redeemable for fabulous prizes…except that you get long comments from me. Isn’t that equivalent to fabulous?

  5. lceel October 19th, 2009 11:12 pm

    Being that I know my place, I hear and obey.

  6. AuroraLee October 20th, 2009 2:19 am

    Darn! I missed the deadline and had it all written :( Hopefully I’ll get “place” done in time! :D And thanks for choosing my piece last time :)

  7. Rhoni Renee October 20th, 2009 2:40 am

    Hey! I’m still around and reading. Writing has dried up lately…something I do regret. I’ll play with place!

  8. Yay! « Angelgal’s Realm 2 October 20th, 2009 3:31 am

    […] let you in on why I say yay—because I got picked as VV’s pick of the week for the 100 Word Challenge. That makes me feel good—I work very hard on my snippets, and I’m incredibly excited […]

  9. AuroraLee October 21st, 2009 2:08 am

    Yay!! I made it!! :D

    Here’s mine:
    http://aurora-lee.ca/Travel/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=166:place&catid=46:drabbles&Itemid=83

    And I know this is like, the complete opposite of 100 words… but is anyone doing NaNoWriMo next month?

  10. Allison October 21st, 2009 3:36 am

    I have it up and ready! I’m very happy with this one :-D It’s got another personal connection for me!

    Enjoy!

  11. VelvetVerbosity October 21st, 2009 5:12 am

    AuroraLee, I’m toying with the idea this year…I might be in. :)

    Allison, I’ll be over to read soon.

  12. VelvetVerbosity October 21st, 2009 5:17 am

    Oh, and Aurora, before I couldn’t comment on your site, now I can’t even see the content without signing in? Any way you can fix that?

    In other news readers, my captcha says “dent exorcise”. I had a car once that could have used that.

  13. Patsy October 22nd, 2009 12:00 pm

    I’ll play with “place” during break today and try to have it up tonight. I’ve gotten so bad about blogging and checking — damn FarmVille.

  14. lceel October 22nd, 2009 2:04 pm

    My effort at “Place” is here.

  15. Patsy October 23rd, 2009 3:43 am

    My “Place” is here:

    http://whileyoureup.blogspot.com/2009/10/100-word-challenge-place.html

  16. Laura October 23rd, 2009 7:51 am

    Here is my 100 words on “place”. This one took me to some strange places (word choice completely intention, there). I’m pretty happy with what I ended up with.

  17. daddybookins October 26th, 2009 3:52 am

    Here is our entry for “PLACE”

    http://peasandbananas.com/2009/10/25/100-word-challenge-place/

    lil boo and I put it together this afternoon…..can’t wait for the next one. Peas Out!
    ~daddy b
    @peasandbananas
    @daddybookins

  18. VelvetVerbosity October 26th, 2009 6:37 am

    Patsy, Lceel, Laura and Dbookins, thanks for the submissions. Round up and new challenge will be up tomorrow night sometime. And by “night”, I usually mean 11:00ish.

    Love,
    VV

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