Norma's Wanderings around a small section of Montana |
Okay - I've completed the challenge. 10 entries in one day.
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I'm doing ten blogs in one day. A challenge by Elycia Lee ☮ . Here's her statement: "I’ll see if anyone is crazy enough to write 10 entries in a day." Here's the link:
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Brigadoon. The city in Scotland that is seen only once every 100 years. And only for one day. Seems kind of goofy. This is an adaptation of a stage play. That is the movie for tonight on TCM. What a great musical. Singing, dancing. Romance. Simple pleasures, no big giant propane explosions, and no blood and guts. Two men from New York stumble upon this mystical city when lost in Scotland while hunting. And of course, there is romance and mystery. Singing and dancing. And not just anyone dancing, there's the duo of Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse. Great costumes, Scottish accents. A great way to spend the evening. I have to keep watching to find out why the town is only seen once every century. Oh, and to see the men in kilts. Don't forget those kilts. |
I think I'll do the 10 day challenge. It's a new month. Surely there is time enough. Who's with me on this? "The Bard's Hall Contest" |
I cruise Facebook - doesn't everyone? I like to see what is happening in Gardiner, since I lived there for about a decade. Seems I missed a fun time yesterday. They held the annual Testicle Festival near Gardiner in a wide spot in the road called Emigrant. Rocky Mountain Oysters were served. If you don't know what those are, let me know. I'll fill you in. https://www.facebook.com/events/2844453595817878/ |
PROMPT May 30th Congratulations on making it to the last day of the competition! What was your favorite prompt from the last month? What was the most rewarding aspect of participating in the competition? Well, thank you! I think the most rewarding aspect of the competition is the interaction of the participants. As I read all the entries and then comment on them, I learned a little about everyone. Some took the prompts literally, some took creative license. All were quite wonderful. Now, the favorite prompts. They were all good, maybe I noticed a few repeats. But I picked out two I liked. May 18 - the one of a kind item. That was a good one. May 27 - your first _____. I took it a different way. I did my last _____. That’s me. Do something different. Last night I watched ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ on Montana PBS. A movie from 1962 by David Lean, an amazing, true story of an unconventional man. The cinematography, the sheer amount of actual actors; no computer magic here. All those camels are real. All the people are actual people. https://www.cliohistory.org/thomas-lawrence/akaba So it reinforces in my mind that it is okay to be your own voice. This film won many awards. Deservedly so. Perhaps my writing won’t win big awards, and that is okay. I will stay true to myself. Til next time 30 DBC. |
PROMPT May 27th Write about your first _______. (You fill in the blank. Ex: first car, first job, first crush, first week at college, etc) I thought for a bit about this prompt. Then I decided I would do a different take. I decided to write about the 'lasts' in my life. My last husband and my last house and home. I know I saved the best for last. I had two husbands before my current love. Let's just say I'm a slow learner. But he's a keeper and he is definitely the love of my life and the last love I'll ever have. I’ve lived in quite a few different homes. I counted them at one time. I decided to start keeping track; you know, for fits and giggles. I thought I still had that list, but it's nowhere to be found. Darn. It is in the double digits, that I know. We decided to buy this small house in Roundup, Montana. The first time we drove through this small burg we were less than impressed. It struck us as sad and depressed. But maybe that was our state at the time. We wanted to be out in the country, not in a town. But here we are, smack in the middle of a small Montana town, where God has seen fit to put us. So we are making the best of it. We purchased this two-bedroom, century-old home on a small lot with our savings. Since we bought it, we’ve been remodeling to make it reflect more the spirit of the time in which it was built. Our home shows up in the old photos from the 1920s. It has gone through some changes, but the main bones are still here and still sturdy. When we remodeled the dining room we found some items in the wall, a child’s school book and a ball from the ’20s. I put them in my memory box. With a bit of help, but mainly our own hard work, we’ve redone the woodwork, installed better windows, remodeled the bathroom, and insulated the crap out of this place to help keep out the winter winds. The kitchen was remodeled before we moved in, we just replaced the dated countertops. So we live our quiet little lives in this humble little town. A place where people still wave to you as you walk by, as you drive down the street, no matter if they know you or not. This town is a tight-knit community of kind-hearted people with generous hearts. But that’s the attitude of most of the small towns in Montana. We love living in Big Sky country. |
PROMPT May 26th Make a list of your top five short term goals and a separate list of your top five long term goals. What steps will you take to achieve them? This reminds me of the 'What did you do on your summer vacation?" assignment at school. What do you write about this? A short version came to me last night at midnight, Short Term: Wake up in the morning Make the bed each day Read the Bible each day Walk each day Write something each day Long Term: Do each of the Short Term goals for the rest of my life. I mean, like Robert Waltz said, at my age, what else is there? I don’t drink, so alcohol is out. I don’t do drugs, so that is out. I don't work at a real job anymore, so no climbing that ladder. Social goals? Try to be a nice person. So I’ll just live my life with my husband the best I can. I’ll go to church as often as I can. I’ll try to write as much as I can. I’ll try to be the best person I can be. I’ll just try to live as long as I can. There. That’s five. Done. |