Setting Up the Guard – CCC # 229

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Dale | 90 Comments

I haven’t done a CCC in a good long while. When I saw this one (and surprisingly, I am only a week late!) I knew I could play. I have LOTS of cat photos and figured I would have a matchy-matchy but it appears, not quite (or possibly, but I’d have to go digging further into my archives that are not quite as well organised) So, I kept myself to those uploaded to my Google. Then I had so many I had to force myself to cut back to these. I could have stretched this utter silliness for much longer but didn’t want to fall into anyone’s disgraces 😉

Allora, on to my completely silly “story”.

Setting Up the Guard

Okay guys, listen up! We have a serious job to do. We have been tasked with guarding the perimeter.

Excuse me? Guys? Seriously? Are you really still so stuck in the dark ages that you don’t know our worth?

Now you’ve gone and done it. You pissed off Queenie. That’s trouble you should have avoided.

Okay! Okay! Enough! I didn’t mean to be exclusive. ‘Guys’ is a generic term. I apologise profusely so lemme try again. Ladies and Gentlemen! We have a big job ahead of us. Are you ready?

Let me out! I want to help!

Sorry, Squirt! You’re still too small. We don’t want you to get hurt.

We’ll take the backyard. Got our spots…

I don’t think two in the same spot is the best strategy…

We’ll take up this corner… don’t you fear…

Oh no, you won’t! I’ll have no canoodling on this job!

Don’t worry boss. Just let them try to get past me!

Good grief man. You are such an overachiever. I’m just gonna watch from over here.

Get off that couch, you lazy bum!

Yeah, come and join me in the shade. We’ll be incognito. Great idea, eh boss?

I give up. You are a motley crew!

What…..?

Purpling Everything – CCC#94 & dVerse

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Dale | 119 Comments

I knew kinda-sorta where I wanted to go with this Crispina’s challenge but didn’t know where to start. Then the dVerse challenge came in and helped me move. Björn is hosting and decided we need to verb our nouns, so to speak. We are to Meet the Bar, Verbing, he says, which has inspired me to do what I rarely do, which is to put two challenges together.

Purpling Everything

I need to chocolate, my muse is confused

Maybe wine instead, words stuck in my head

I will trellis my way till I find what to say

Or snake and wiggle, till I get a giggle

Then Crispina showed up and said

Why don’t you purple instead

it’s better for your health

not to mention your wealth

And I couldn’t help but smile

I see you’ve been purpling awhile

That I have indeed

from my fence to my head to this pretty weed

What Revenge? – Friday Fictioneers

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Dale | 143 Comments

Well now, here we are Wednesday and time for another Friday Fictioneers. I normally do not read other stories before writing my own but since I did have a ping-back from a certain displaced Scot, well, I had no choice but to read his first. ‘Twould appear the gauntlet has been thrown by the Unintelligible Rogue with a Brogue. And, despite this nasty cold that is keeping my head fuzzy and my throat raw, one full week in, I did feel the need to reply. I did the best I could, in the circumstances. And, by the way, I may be a Canuck, but I am definitely not a poutine-besmattered one!

This is all fun and games… You know we love you and you are our favourite Scot!

Thank you, Lizy for this macabre photo that would have prompted a different story had my hand not been forced 😉

Thank you, Rochelle, for both hosting this shindig and for being my partner-in-crime!

Geez… almost forgot the linkup for those who would like to read more stories or write their own!