July 10th, 2026On this day in different years

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Goose Bride and Daily Questions

My goose is a bride! :D

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Daily Questions

5. Do you have a smoke and/or carbon monoxide detector in your home?
There’s a smoke detector in all of the apartments here.

6. Today is the beginning of Great British Pea Week in the UK. Do you like eating peas? Have you ever grown them?
I can’t eat them anymore, but I loved having them fresh or in a pea soup. Many years ago I grew them on my balcony garden.

7. It’s the seventh day of the seventh month, and in Japan, it’s the day of the Star Festival (Tanabata). For one day only, wishes, hopes, poetry and dreams are written onto streamers and tied to trees. What would you write on a streamer today?
Didn’t do that on the 7th, but it sounds like a lovely idea.

8. Artemisia Gentileschi was born today in 1593. She was incredibly famous during her career, but largely forgotten until the 20th century. Have you ever seen any of her paintings?
Yes! She's an amazing artist.

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9. It’s World Misophonia Day. A person with this disorder has decreased tolerance for certain sounds as well as the stimuli that accompany those sounds (for example, loud chewing). Someone with the condition will experience feelings of distress, which may overwhelm them. Are there any sounds that you find irritating, even if you don’t suffer from this condition?
I’m very, very sound sensitive. Fire alarm bells bother me so much, that I carry around a set of noise cancelling headphones whenever I walk around in the building.

10. When you eat thick-cut chips/French fries, do you add a sauce such as ketchup or mayonnaise, or do you prefer a condiment like vinegar or lemon with them?
When I ate French Fries, I always had ketchup. Totally delcioius!
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Six Word Challenge - Poem

This week's words from spikesgirl58

Fair
Mitten
Country
Delirious
Glib
Responsible


button down coat meets the kiss of frosty air,

mittens grip the cold of what life prepares,

balance on the rim of who used to care,

tightrope walk between stars if you really dare

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responsible ceiling kneels down to kiss the floors,

closed eyes reject their way through a million doors,

delirious dimes pay the wage of a payment scored,

broken things break which your glib ignores

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patient mornings chase through a restless dawn,

fair yellow sun that hearts write their peace upon,

country moments birth a kinder spawn,

harsh places fade when better things are drawn

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fair the bud and fair the rain, that dangles hope like oxygen,

spring unfolds when winter’s heart won’t bend,

feel the thaw like your life depends,

on these four words…. hey, let’s begin again