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17 comments:
BTW, I thought #1 was LEGAL and was short an A for the riddle-solution
WC
Today’s Jumble haiku:
(The University of Malawi cleared acres of old-growth trees to build a new administration complex. In doing so, they displaced many aeries, destroying nests after removing scores of eggs to unsafe hatcheries. Now the Egyptian government will not release the eggs without an approved location to raise eaglets.
Interviewed about the crisis, Dr. Al-Sourgha, professor of ornithology, offered this compensatory information:)
“Ransom Datum”
“In my candid view,
this campus owes thousands of
pounds in eagle aid.”
~ OMK
FLN, Misty ~ Not sure you saw this from yesterday, especially the first paragraph:
Glad again to be of help, Misty!
I may take a break, on and off, from giving clues--because it looks as though both CEh! & WC are giving you some very fine hints.
You may recall, from early on, that I am not a big Wordle fan.
Please, just read their postings if you don't see me giving one.
I liked your poem today. You offer a call for community help for what seems to be a combination of our recent disasters--the California fires and Florida's Hurricane Ian.
The news reports hail the fires (mainly in No. CA) and this last near-Cat 5 hurricane as "historical" and "record-breaking"--as if to view them as climaxing past disasters.
I fear they will more accurately be seen as the harbinger of a new series of even worse catastrophes, the products of climate change yet to come.
Thanks for the report on both Stratford & Shaw, CEh!.
Sounds like a delightful Earnest! Wish I’d been there.
I have never seen a stage version that worked all the way through. Scene by scene it is brilliant, and it always makes for a great read.
Wilbur ~ Congrats on two very clever new stanzas of the Lois & Chet saga. You included the J-words quite easily, without any overreach.
~ OMK
FWIW, OMK is referring to a late C&L post which combined Tuesday and Wednesday J's and riddle-solutions
Early Morning, Head Pounding
Let me be quite candid,
Without sounding too harsh.
I hate slogging through the marsh
Trying to get a shot that’s ideal
Of that eagle diving for its meal.
But my campus Photography class
Forces us to meet en masse,
And has me up and at ‘em!
WC- I was swamped too. You did well.
OMK- once again, I loved your title riff. And the stories behind your haikus are always so interesting.
"Animal Love"
The puppy was a very sweet hound
who was taken to the pound.
There he met a golden eagle
who became good friends with the beagle.
A guy from the campus was candid--
he disliked the bird and couldn't stand it.
But the beagle needed his friend
and so the guy did his taste amend.
Now both pets are at home and who can fathom
that their owner is now happy he had 'em.
Ol' Man Keith, thank you for your kind remarks on my yesterday verse--much appreciated.
Enjoyed the way you worked the Jumble words into your haiku this morning, and had to laugh when I saw "eagle aid."
Always appreciate your morning posts.
Took me four tries, but I finally got today's Wordle:
Wordle 473 4/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Thank you, Misty. As you can see, I went to a great length ("All around Robin Hood's barn," an old mentor used to say) to arrive at those last two words.
But I got there!
I am very glad your "guy" came around, that he learned to appreciate the cross-species affection between the beagle and the eagle! Sometimes we need to look a second time at creatures we thought we didn't like.
That's how I was about little dogs. I thought I could only enjoy medium to large canines--until my wife convinced me to try a Yorkie and a Chihuahua!
It was new love.
--and Congratulations on your Wordle win!
~ OMK
Thanks, CEh! for your remarks on my haiku, esp. the back story. I had to do a bit of research to complete the history behind those seventeen precious syllables.
The tale is fiction, of course. However, for purposes of verisimilitude, I needed to base it in a university that uses the pound, in a real city of a real country. But for honesty's sake, it had to be on a campus that doesn't actually exist!
Your well-wrought poem today, OTOH, deals with a very real subject. You speak to a photography student's labor when aiming to meet class requirements.
Alas, 'tis true that sometimes the main lesson learned in an "intro" course is that the subject matter is not something the student will wish to pursue.
I don't imagine your marsh-slogging gal is a new Dorothea Lange!
~ OMK
My goodness, CanadianEh!, that's a pretty challenging assignment for a college student--having to get up at the crack of dawn and slog through a marsh in order to take photographs of a diving eagle. So glad you seem to have survived it okay, and we'd love to see the pictures you took!
Wilbur, you had me looking up Fenway in the hope it would help me solve the Wordle: looks like a pretty impressive baseball stadium in Boston. But I sure hope it doesn't have the Wordle solution on the field except on very rainy days.
Ol' Man Keith, loved your story about being talked into getting a Yorkie and a Chihuahua. I didn't like dogs when I was young and was looking forward to becoming a cat person when I finally lived on my own. But my sweet cats would take off when they got outside and end up getting hit by a car on the road or something and I realized I sadly had to switch to dogs.
Clearly dachshunds were the best size to take the place of cats and I loved my doxies. The last two were named "Dusty" and "Misty" and that's how I got my blog name. But sadly they were both taken out by coyotes getting into the back yard, three years apart. Now I have only my late husband's first pet--a big tortoise named Gophie (species Gopherus Agassisi, I think) that he acquired when he was 22 years old. Rowland sadly passed away in 2015 at age 81, but this morning, as usual, I went out and fed Gophie her lettuce in her pen in the back yard. I know Rowland would be proud of me.
CEh! & Misty ~ My own experience with using a camera for a class assignment was perhaps a little more dangerous.
In my 2nd year as an undergrad in my Air Force ROTC class, we were told to prepare a "bombing portfolio." This meant we had to choose a target of military value, locally, (i.e., in the San Francisco Bay Area) for which we were to give accurate descriptions and explain the preferred angles for heavy or light bombers to approach and depart the objective, and explain the types & quantities of ordinance (bombs) to be used.
I had done my research and had all the paperwork ready t turn in. In order to get an "A" on the assignment, I decided I would include photos of my targets. I knew I needed a Polaroid camera because I could not risk a film developer discovering what I would be taking pictures of. These were a series of naval vessels docked along the NE and eastern side of San Francisco's peninsula.
I rented a Polaroid, and on a Sunday morning I sneaked through warehouses in front of the guarded ships and managed to take my shots around corners of jettys where my targets, mainly three destroyers, were docked.
My heart was racing all the time, but I don't believe any of the Shore Patrol saw this kid & his camera.
I actually got an "A+" from the AF Captain who taught the class--proving once again that inter-branch rivalry was alive and well, at least back in 1957!
~ OMK
Misty- you beat me on Wordle. Congrats.
What a happy story about the adoption from the pound.
I am a cat-lover and have never had a dog (and no pets currently). I love your care for Gophie and agree that Rowland would be proud.
Yes, my poor student is unlikely to sign up for Photography 201!
OMK- what a story of your photos for the project. And we had SPY ON in the CW today!
Thank you for your kind response, CanadianEh!. See you (well, on the blog) tomorrow!
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