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Image and caption by Owen.
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
8 comments:
Ravena is a cat. What more is there to say?
I suppose I could tell you how she spends her day.
Her life is on the window sill, basking in the sun.
Napping on that short shelf constitutes her fun.
At night she does her prowling, while the sun's asleep.
Knocking things from table tops, thus to earn her keep.
They were defying entropy by being up so high.
Any kitty physicist would tell you that was why!
If in morning's light I find an item that she broke,
A tirade I'll deliver, but it bounces off her cloak.
She shamelessly ignores me, she doesn't even flush.
She knows she is a honey, and safe from my hairbrush!
My wife's cat really is named Ravena (after a goddess of Stonehenge, she says). My cat is the same cat, but named KittyCat. Some liberties were taken with describing her activities.
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I thought the jumble was awfully easy for Thursday. They don't get harder as the week goes on? Not quite sure what your cartoon is telling me about it though, Owen.
Loved the cat tale poem. I always had cats growing up but my mother insisted they be outside cats as soon as they were old enough (sob, sob). So they never had a chance to knock anything over in the house. Plus they were exposed to dangers like passing cars, etc. with sometimes unfortunate results. Hence the plural.
Enough of that!
The cat in that photo is my own KittyCat, sitting by a stack of books piled in front of overflowing bookcase shelves, with space in short supply. When we first moved in here, our previous cats would use the gaps and empty shelves as loitering spots.
Theoretically, they get harder thru the week. But really, how much harder can one 5 letter word be than any other? The riddles might get harder, but I really haven't noticed it.
Five letter words indeed have limited difficulty although sometimes the 6 is easier than the 5.
I had barely begun jotting letters and I had the riddle .
We tried breeding cats once. I drove to the Canadian border to pick up a special Himalayan. In a snow storm.
Another investment that didn't pan out. Birds and dogs too.
WC
Okay, it's after 12 noon Pacific time. So I can explain that my query about your cartoon was to do with th word 'life', in the solution. I got the connection to the other two solution words but not that. Looking at the newspaper cartoon made that connection almost too obvious, since it was a pretty literal depiction of the phrase.
No reply necessary, Owen, unless you feel like it; I'm just clarifying.
This was tricky for me because my first "discovery" was that there were enough letters available to spell the word "shelf" two times--yes, twice. That intrigued me, but also served as an obstacle for a fair amount of time.
Only when lying in bed and revolving all the letters in my drifting-off mind did they finally fall into place. As Sandy notes above, it happened when the word "life" floated to the fore.
Once one has solved today's solution, one might be of a mind to court (a) wealth(y) wife.
~ OMK
PS. Also to clarify:
I might have come across "shelf" right away on my own, but it was certainly helped by Owen's placing the word prominently in his picture!
Except for that title, it was the one word obviously left out by the Jumble people.
PPS. Strange to say, a central shelf on a bookcase in my foyer gave way on its own this morning. I just finished unloading the books and am on my way to find a hammer to pound in the pegs to hold the shelf back in place.
Life imitating art?
~ OMK
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