Jigsaw Puzzles & The Hobbit

Thursday, October 19, 2023

19 OCT 2023

Please go to
𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖌𝖔 𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖓𝖊 - Mon. thru Sat. or
𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖌𝖔 𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖓𝖊 - Sunday
for today's Jumble, Printable or Interactive. Then return here to discuss it!
This ChiTrib site was available from 6:00 pm yesterday (Mountain Time).
Monday thru Saturday, but not Sunday, you will also find a Printable version at the A𝖗k𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖆𝖘 𝕯𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖈𝖗𝖆𝖙-𝕲𝖆𝖟𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖊 , from about ~11 pm (MT) yesterday.
A color Interactive version is available from 3 am (MT) today at the 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖌𝖔 𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖓𝖊

The opening poem should contain all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble and/or Wordle and/or Orijinz.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is NOT required.


Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual Jumble or Wordle answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.

17 comments:

  1. Today’s Jumble haiku:
    (Some parents of hyperactive children say they only need to be kept on their medication, and then they can be allowed freedom of activity, while…)

    To (truly) Heal…

    Mental health agents
    say we should keep them all well
    tethered till older.
    ~ OMK

    ReplyDelete
  2. I nearly fell _ _ _ _ _ on my face
    Wordle 852 4/6*

    ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
    🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
    🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    ReplyDelete
  3. Onomatopopic
    Is todays word to pic.
    Should a fumble
    Cause a tumble
    Splot would get an A for Opic!

    Wordle 852 4/6

    🎆🫗🫗🫗❇️
    🫗🎆🫗🎆❇️
    🫗🎆🎆🎆❇️
    ❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️

    ReplyDelete
  4. The O took me 1:41 today. I wanted Regard (too short) and Reflect first.
    Orijinz

    ReplyDelete
  5. One needs to appreciate the wondrous thing that is the human body, and give it some
    R-E-S-P-E-C-T

    All I’m askin’
    As I grow older
    Is health and happiness.
    Or may I be bolder
    And tether my positiveness
    On the ability to heal;
    So if I go splat and reel
    From catching my heel,
    I will not be the agent
    Of my own downfall.

    ReplyDelete
  6. I had Research first, still managed it in .54.
    Once that timer hits 1 minute, the pressure kicks in.
    ~ OMK

    ReplyDelete
  7. A very sensible wish for aging, CEh, and well expressed!
    Sadly, I believe a minority achieve such a balance. Healing is rarely attained.
    My own experience says we are lucky if we find remissions from whatever chronic ailments ambush us.
    ~ OMK

    ReplyDelete
  8. "Pet Appeal"

    Agatha worked as an agent,
    which helped her pay her rent.
    As she was getting older,
    she wanted her health to stay well.
    So she decided to be bolder
    and did some more products sell.

    With this income she bought a setter,
    a sweet dog, she hated to tether.
    So she walked him heel to heel
    and then fed him a healthy meal.

    The pup soon all her neighbors met,
    and they were happy she had a pet.

    ReplyDelete
  9. I enjoyed your "Pet Appeal," Misty, as a kind of idealized pet experience. It helped me imagine--or remember!--how pleasant it used to be to walk my old retriever without a leash.
    Ah, but we mustn't do that any more. Not with the danger to the dog on one hand (from fast-moving coyotes) and OTOH the rules up here in our neighborhood.
    No, you wouldn't dare walk a freed setter on the street below us, where some hysterically canine-averse people dwell.

    But we can dream, can't we?
    ~ OMK

    ReplyDelete
  10. Misty- what a lovely poem about Agatha (where do you get your names?). I’m not sure what she was selling as an agent, but she did well. I liked your use of “heel to heel” to describe walking the dog. And you varied your rhyme scheme in the first verse. Bravo!

    ReplyDelete
  11. OMK- yes, treatment protocols for children with ADHD can vary. Great haiku using all the J words. I liked your title. IMHO all children may benefit by being tethered (if you interpret that to be well-grounded, prepared and guided at each stage of their development). And perhaps most importantly, knowing they are loved.

    Owen- I enjoyed your W poem and the reminder of the onomatopoeic sound.

    ReplyDelete
  12. This week I have been experimenting with writing the 3rd (last) line of my haiku first.
    I'm trying to give the ending more--what's the word I want?--maybe "impact."
    Part of the Japanese art is to ease the reader into some kind of flip or twist at the end. I haven't been paying much attention to this, as it is usually hard enough to jam a theme into 17 syllables.

    But I think today's is the most successful so far.
    I'll keep trying.
    ~ OMK

    ReplyDelete
  13. You are kinder than I am, CanadianEh!
    I am afraid I had no such thinking as equating "tethered" with being guided and, er... loved.
    I was too fond of the gag, I think, just imagining tying the little monsters up.
    ~ OMK

    ReplyDelete
  14. Ol' Man Keith, I found your haiku this morning delightful, many thanks. And thank you for your kind comments about my verse, along with your nice anecdote about your sweet retriever. What was his name? I miss my dachshunds ('Dusty' and 'Misty') too, but both were taken out by coyotes from my back yard, so I couldn't risk having any more pet dogs. Now all I have is the 70 year old turtle ('Gophie') that Rowland got when he was 22 years old and who still lives in her pen here. She's not very friendly and looks as though she's coming over to bite me when I bring her her lettuce and watermelon breakfast and lunch every day.

    Owen, I liked your 'tumble' and 'fumble' verse.

    And, CanadianEh!, your poem was an absolutely cheerful pleasure, and I will pray that you will never go "splat and reel"--never. And thank you for your kind words about my poem too. I usually try to create the first names in my verses from the Jumble word that appears in my first line. This morning the word was "agent" and so "Agatha" came to mind as a suitable name. So thank you again for your kind words.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Thanks, Misty. I don't think I have mentioned that retriever before.
    It was a Golden, and a she. She was the first dog I had in Irvine, and her name was "Lady." Not very imaginative, but I've always liked the name, as if it elevates a female canine to a British peerage!
    Yes, she was a trustworthy pet, and often roamed off line. I loved watching her run free in our large commons area south of the UCI campus. Sometimes chasing squirrels--which she could never catch.
    She used to bring me my morning paper and seemed to take great pride in putting it right in my lap.
    I had her from a breeder when she was just a few months old. She lived till she was 14, all the years I lived on Schubert Ct. She came with us when we moved to Perkins Ct. But she only lasted another year in the new place.
    Time was running short for her when I saw she no longer wanted to climb the stairs to sleep at the foot of our bed.
    I still miss that good ol' gal.
    ~ OMK

    ReplyDelete
  16. Enjoyed our chat,
    now where's my hat?
    Stay cool, Cat!

    See ya! Ciao!
    and all a' that!
    Later, Gater!
    Time to ... SPLIT!

    (How's that for a rhyme scheme, guys?)
    ~ OMK

    ReplyDelete

Normal civility rules apply. No bullying, limited tolerance for profanity.
Comments are posted in a pop-up window, and after you close the pop-up, you'll need to 🔄 refresh 🔁 the page to see your comment appear.