Jigsaw Puzzles & The Hobbit

Friday, July 22, 2022

22 July 2022

JUMBLE|

| _midst, onion, brunch, impact, "inn-communicado".

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11 comments:

  1. Sir Reele he would wander countrysides
    Battling for peace, and what that comprised.
    In the midst of his knight errantry
    He sometime was invited to a high tea.

    If it was served at an informal brunch,
    Ladies would admire Reele and other hunks.
    Sometimes notes would pass, soto-communicado,
    Inn room number from lady to choice bravo!

    On formal occasions, the impact of physique
    Was still noted, but notes were more discreet.
    Like skins of onions, in layers peeling off,
    At night, some titled layers' peelings would doff.

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  2. My apologies for the delayed post. I forgot to press the 'publish' button when I set it up yesterday.

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  3. Thank you, Owen, for starting the new day.
    I am re-posting below.

    —§—

    Wordle Hint: Begins with T; a date, a rendezvous, a lovers’ _____.
    One of the published online hints says the word ends in S. This is not true.
    Par = 2
    Wordle 398 1/6

    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    Another birdie!

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    Jumble haiku background: My lips are sealed, lest I inadvertently tip people off to the overload of Vidalia in their eggy dish.

    ”Incommunicado”

    In the midst of brunch,
    I fear the onion’s impact
    on the omelet.
    ~ OMK

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  4. Sans hints this was a tricky

    Wordle 398 5/6

    ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
    ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
    ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
    ⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Yes, I used one of the J's to start. But my string of 3s evaporated along with all the vowels

    WC

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  5. "Betty's Brunch"

    In the midst of enjoying her brunch
    Betty had an interesting hunch:
    would it have a tasty impact
    if her stew an onion lacked?
    She would try it, and communicate
    with a friend, whose lunch she often ate.
    Her friend came and enjoyed Betty's stew
    and commended her onion-less menu.

    (verses don't get much worse than this when you have to work an 'onion' into them)

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  6. Nice work, Misty: a compact poem that hits all the J-words & solution straightforwardly.
    Weren’t these some of the easiest words to work with?

    And kudos to you, WC, working hintless!
    I bet it was a bit of a shocker, finding all vowels stricken!
    ~ OMK

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  7. Owen, I can't remember (not so strange with me) if your surreal Sir Reele has been seen here before.
    Are yesterday and today his only appearances--so far? He is a character I might like to know better, maybe lift a mug o' mead with.

    I enjoyed today's ending, neatly blurring the peeling of onions with the doffing of garments, all the while (perhaps!) nodding toward Peer Gynt's metaphor.
    And, for that matter, Wordle's tryst!
    ~ OMK

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  8. Making love to Wordle

    Having MIDST s a starter
    And two letters in place
    I began my QUEST
    For vowels
    This'll be a BLAST I thought
    What's the WORST that can happen
    Why, why me I moaned
    Dry those tears :
    There's always Y
    This was a love* worth the TRYST

    *The fun is being in a hole and digging out

    With a guess to spare

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  9. Yes, I have had that fun.
    Teeth gnashing sometimes, but hey, Man vs. Machine!

    Another kind of fun, WC, is deciphering a hint & trying to crack it in just 1 or 2 tries.
    Feels like Bletchley Park & the Enigma victory!
    ~ OMK

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  10. Woohoo! My son is visiting and he helped me get today's Wordle:

    Wordle 398 2/6

    🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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  11. My son urged me to get out of the house and go down to Laguna Beach with him and take a walk around. It took me a while to start enjoying it but in the end it was fun, ending with seeing all those beach umbrellas and folks at the beach. We do live in a pretty cool town, don't we?

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