Raven's Wordzzle 36

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Saying for the Day
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy

Picture of the Day

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: build-a-bear workshop, man bites dog, opulent, disparaging, lipstick stain, preponderance, smoky quartz, clothes pin, meticulous, falling leaves
Mini Challenge: moisturizing, pickles, seat belt, flip-flop, Chicago

Fifteen words in the ongoing adventure of agent 012 with a look back.

Poor Agent 012 was now the laughing stock of the Agency. His backup found him covered with falling leaves and holding a penguin full of rocks and clothes pins not bombs.. While he was thus engaged the meticulous Synonym Homeahim had kidnapped the opulent Cinnamon Homonym .So now he was suffering not just from the blinking crescent shaped hives but from the knowledge of all the disparaging remarks being made about him back at the Agency.
Thus when he saw the three lipstick stained pickles on the floor next to the scissors and the floppy hat he knew this was his one chance to redeem himself. Those pickles were only served in the “Flip-Flop” Restaurant in Chicago. The preponderance of information he had indicated that Synonym Homeahim often ate there.
So he jumped into his smoky quartz super car , fastened his seat belt and left for Chicago stopping only for some moisturizing cream for his hives. If nothing else he could postpone getting static from the Chief for a day or two.He hated static. Oh how he hated static. He almost wished the penguin had been a bomb and that he had blown up rather than face static.
Now he was parked across the street from the restaurant where the “man bites dog” story contest had just ended and the build-a-bear workshop was about to begin. Waiting to see his suspect Agent 012 amused himself by imagining what loot a packer could stuff into a bear in alphabetical order and still have it appear ship shape. He had started with diamond necklaces and had reached golden wind chimes when he saw his man. Now all he had to do was follow him back to where they were keeping the victim. He was very good at following.
Twenty minutes latter he looked through the window of the old house and saw the overweight cellulite filled blimp in a necklace only now her necklace was gone. She was tied to a chair. All he had to do was rescue her and he would be the hero instead of the goat. That’s when everything went black.
This wasn’t going to be his day either.

Fifteen words in a one sentance story!

Despite the disparaging “man bites dog “ type comments it is still the preponderance of thought that the meticulous build-a bear workshop will be held at the opulent “ Falling Leaves” Chicago restaurant that is so close to the elevated that the patrons wear a seat belt to keep from flip –floping out of the booth with their lipstick stained pickles unto the smoky quartz floor since clothes pins didn‘t work nor did moisturizing the seats with Elmer ‘s Glue .

A Ten Word What's It
(But Definitely not Poetry)

If the build-a-bear workshop
Builds instead a mechanical cop
Will they make it stop?
Ahuh! Ahuh! Ahuh!

If a man bites dog today
And wants to stay and play
Will the dog run away ?
Ahuh! Ahuh! Ahuh!

Does the somewhat opulent fella
That dates old Aunt Stella
Have a diamond studded umbrella?
Ahuh! Ahuh! Ahuh!

Was it really so disparaging
That I refused to sing
When she got her ring?
Ahuh! Ahuh! Ahuh!

If there’s a lipstick stain so red
If in the middle of his head
Will the wife still go to bed?
Ahuh! Ahuh! Ahuh!

If the preponderance of stuff
Was left there in a huff
Isn’t that just tough?
Ahuh! Ahuh! Ahuh!

Does the color smoky quartz
When found upon some shorts
Remind you of warts?
Ahuh! Ahuh! Ahuh!

If the clothes pin drops the clothes
Will they land upon the rose
Or will they hit you in the nose?
Ahuh! Ahuh! Ahuh!

If the meticulous old miser
Found the treasure of the Kaiser
Who would be the wiser?
Ahuh! Ahuh! Ahuh!

Will all those falling leaves
Cause poor old George to sneeze
And fall upon his knees?
Ahuh! Ahuh! Ahuh!

This week's vanity wordzzle used the words: sortie, moonstruck, dandelion, sprinkler system, broccoli, birds feeder, tuxedo, Montana, midnight

It was midnight in Tuxedo Junction, Montana when the moonstruck couple stopped dancing on the dandelions. This sortie had begun with the traditional sharing of broccoli at the Happy Elf Restaurant. Then they had gone to the park where they put the MP3 of the Birds Feeder on the loud speaker system and danced away. She looked in his eyes. He looked in her eyes. Love poured forth. They danced as if on a cloud. But at midnight it all ended. It is hard to dance romantically when the sprinkler system comes on.

Five Words in the
News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal.
It’s Saturday and time to look back on the week’s happenings in Pigeon Falls
Tuesday- Bob Maki who is running for the County Board Seat accused his opponent of doing a flip-flop on the Moose hunting issue. In fact Bob says the guy sounds like a Chicago politician and that’s no surprise since he moved here from Chicago. Bob , on the other hand, not being a politician has remained committed to an open Moose season. According to the little sheet Bob is handing out he is also in favor of larger fines for people who don’t use their seat belt, ending the serving of unrequested pickles in restaurants, and stricter control on moisturizing creams. The last one because of the terrible rash his wife got from using one. The only thing the little sheet doesn’t tell is what part Bob belongs to. Isn’t that weird?
Wednesday– Mrs. Petrovich stopped in to Nancy’s with the twins. They still haven’t named them. The poor kids are going to grow up thinking their names are first and second because that’s what they are being called. It seems Petrovich wants to get the perfect names for his children.
Friday– The Grand Opening at the Happy Pigeon went well. All day long people were given surprise gifts. Five ladies, for example received Opulent Moisturizing Cream from the Glad you’re a Lady Beauty Salon in Chicago. They were thrilled except for Bob Maki’s wife who seems to have a fear of such creams. Ten ladies got diamond studded flip-flops which one doubts they will wear before next summer. One lucky young man got a ride in electric car complete with a little seat belt. Every fifteen minutes or so a horn would sound and whoever Pigeon was standing next to got a gift. It was very exciting.
Almost as exciting was that fact that pickles were served with every meal. Remember, Pigeon Falls was out of pickles because Pigeon bought them all.

Wrap Up

It was a good breathing day. We went out to Radio Shack and bought a 9 volt transformer. Then we went to the Church Craft Sale and I took pictures. People were really friendly as usual. But then we went to a little restaurant Pennie really liked and wanted to show us. First of all the way the door was set up made it hard for me and the scooter to get in. Then the waitress was running behind and tried to clear our table in one trip and ended up spilling a glass of water all over my legs. She served us but forgot to bring Betty a fork. Then she ignored us so Bewtty had to get a different waitress to bring her a fork. The food was good. I felt sorry for her so we left the usual tip. We wanted her to know that we were not upset and that accidents happen. Coming home we discovered that the transformer we bought had the wrong end. Like agent 012 this was just not my day. I did visit aoll my blogs and all the wordzell blogs I knew of. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA

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