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Final Just Jot It January – Write

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Final Just Jot It January – Write

https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/31/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-31st-2023/

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our prompt for JusJoJan January 31st 2023, is “write.” Use the word “write” any way you’d like. Have fun!

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This is the final Just Jot It January 2023. Thank you to Linda, our hostess, and to all the bloggers who provided daily prompt words. It was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who visited here. I appreciate all the likes and comments. ❤

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Here’s a picture of one of my little notebooks, turned to a blank page. But, I’ve written on the page, ‘just write’, and there is a pen laying across the pages.

That’s the best advice I’ve ever heard, and I’ve heard it from many sources. If you want to write, then just do it. It doesn’t have to be pen and paper. It could be on a computer or phone.

If you have thoughts about things, if you want to express your opinion on things, if you want to remember certain things in your life, or you want to try to write stories or poems. Whatever you feel like doing, just write.

There are lots of times you can write. You don’t have to just sit for hours at a desk. I know I’ve written in the middle of the night at the kitchen table in the dark, with only the flashes of lightning showing me the page. I’ve written in the hospital, still affected with anesthesia a bit. I’ve written while waiting in all kinds of waiting rooms, on airplane trips on the plane, and in the waiting area, I’ve written things while in the car in the drive thru lane waiting my turn at the speaker, and while on the phone waiting for the ‘next available operator’, because sometimes that is a long wait!

You can find inspiration for things to write about anywhere. Vignettes of your life, your experiences now and past remembrances, your hobbies, from watching others as you go about your day, or even just making up fun stories. It all counts.

If you were meant to be a writer, you will find the time to write no matter what.

 

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Just Jot It January – Canine

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Just Jot It January – Canine

https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/30/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-30th-2023/

Today’s prompt word is suggested by Dawn

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 30th 2023, is “canine.” Use the word “canine” any way you’d like. Enjoy!

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Canine is a word used for dogs.

I’ve had a lot of dogs, but don’t have any now.

Here’s a list of them: I’ve written in a notebook all I remember about each one. But, this is just a list of their names.

Cindy – a black and white Cocker Spaniel

King  – a black mixed breed

Trouble – a brown mixed breed

Skipper – an English Springer Spaniel

Stormy – a white mixed breed

Dusty – a white mixed breed

Sam – a mixed Beagle

Freckles – a black & white Springer Spaiel

Bridget – an AKC Basset Hound

Maggie – an AKC Basset Hound

Ginger – an AKC Basset Hound

Bud – a mixed black Lab

Weasel – a mixed Basset Hound

We also had Misty (part bulldog) and Trixie (AKC Pomeranian) when I was a teen, but they were my sister’s dogs.

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Just Jot It January – Exercise

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Just Jot It January – Exercise

https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/29/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-28th-2023/

Today’s prompt word is suggested by Wendy

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 29th 2023, is “exercise.” Use the word “exercise” any way you’d like. Have fun!

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Exercise is an 8 letter word. I would say 4 letter, but this word is twice as bad, so there you go. I hate exercise, and I always have. I failed at PE classes, because I didn’t like anything about it. The gym suits were ugly, the gym smelled bad, and I wasn’t good at any of the exercises or physical stuff we were supposed to do.

I figured I got enough exercise on my own time by walking to school, riding my bike, and running around the neighborhood. I also climbed trees, played running and hiding games with my cousins, and jumped on my pogo stick.

I think maybe kids need PE and exercise because they have not learned to or were encouraged to go outside and play. They are mostly cooped up in houses in front of the television and computer games. Formal PE classes in school may be the only time they are active.

Now I don’t get much exercise because I’m not able to do much. I’d stumble and fall and break something if I tried. However, I do walk around the house, I exercise my fingers by typing, my mind by reading and learning things, and I tap my feet a lot to the music I listen to. I cannot sit still – ever – so all this fidgeting around is a form of exercise, too. I take time to stretch my legs and circle my ankles, and the same for my arms and wrists, neck and shoulders. I figure I get enough.

Anyway, that’s my thoughts on it.

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SOCS & Just Jot It January

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SOCS & Just Jot It January

https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/27/the-friday-reminder-for-socs-jusjojan-2023-daily-prompt-jan-28th/

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Your prompt for #JusJoJan the 28th and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “throw in the towel.” Use the phrase “throw in the towel” somewhere in your post. Enjoy!

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I’ve always heard this phrase, ‘throw in the towel’, and took it to mean to quit doing something. From reading some other entries/blogs on this subject, I found it came from the sport of boxing. I had no idea, so I learned something today.

Do I ever throw in the towel? I’m afraid I do, and probably much to quickly do I give up on doing something. If I’ve tried a few times, I’m done with it, and quit before I get really mad. Mad at myself for not being able to do something, and frustrated that it is too hard and I can’t make it work. Sometimes I’ll come back to it, but that doesn’t usually fix anything, and I’ll throw in the towel even faster.

Now, this phrase doesn’t literally mean to throw a towel around, or down, or around, or at someone. That’s funny, though. If you did, how would you do it?

  • wad it up into a big old ball and chunk it?
  • Wad it up into a big old ball and toss it?
  • Flap it up and down like ‘I surrender’? Does it have to be a white towel?
  • Aim a towel at someone, then chunk or toss it?
  • Kick the towel across the room? Like for extra points across an imaginary goal line?
  • Dunk a towel into a basketball hoop?
  • Is the towel wet or dry?
  • Is the towel a bath sized towel or a dainty hand sized towel?
  • Maybe it’s just a regular dish towel?
  • Would a beach towel be more effective?
  • How about a wadded up, and wet paper towel? Like a giant spit ball?

Well, so many considerations to think of before you actually start throwing (or any of the above) in the towel.

Could be by the time you’ve thought about it, you’d decide to not give up, keep the towel in play and get on with whatever you were trying to do in the first place! 🙂

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Just Jot It January – Amenities

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Just Jot It January – Amenities

https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/27/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-27th-2023/

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Today’s prompt word is suggested by Kim

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 27th 2023, is “amenities.” Use the word “amenities” any way you’d like. Have fun!

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Amenities means having nice things, I think. I guess it all depends on how much ‘nice’ you are expecting when you go somewhere?

Anyway, the first thing I thought of was this bit from the Andy Griffith TV show, where Andy and Barney are trying to show the hillbilly Ernest T Bass some ways to be nice with social amenities when meeting people. Ernest mispronounces the word ‘amenities’.

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Golden – Just Jot It January – Ideal

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Golden – Just Jot It January – Ideal

https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/24/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-24th-2023/

Today’s prompt word, ideal, is suggested by Astrid

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 24th 2023, is “ideal.” Use the word “ideal” any way you’d like. Have fun!

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A picture I took of Sonny, the orange tabby, in 2021, as he sat in the tall grass enjoying the sun on the first day of Autumn. There is a golden glow on the grass tassels and on Sonny’s back.

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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. ~ Jules Renard

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Just Jot It January – Paintbrush

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Just Jot It January – Paintbrush

https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/23/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-23rd-2023/

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Today’s prompt word, paintbrush, was suggested by Paula

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 23rd 2023, is “paintbrush.” Use the word “paintbrush” any way you’d like. Enjoy!

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Well, I’m sure you’ve probably seen some of my own paintings here before. I like painting on canvas, and also on rocks. I use all types of paint brushes, from wide ones, and very small pointed ones, and even one shaped like a fan on the end. That one is fun.

But, I’m going another way this time. I was thinking about brushes, and remembered those huge brushes in the car wash that slap against your car.

First they squirt some pretty colors of soap onto the car and windows, then the brushes sort of paint the colors around to make sort of abstract art. It’s usually very pretty. Sometimes it’s one color, and sometimes it’s several colors. You get a whole art show right there in your car.

Here’s a photo of the brushes, and also after the soap/paint stuff is streaking down the front window. This one was orange and red, but I do have photos of blue, and multicolored.

 

 

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Cool patterns made from suds at the car wash

 

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Another neat way to paint I found out was by this painting my husband had made for me while he was in Korea. It was done by a street artist in a matter of minutes, and is so beautiful. He used only a bamboo stick frayed at the end for his paintbrush to do these intricate designs of birds and fish and flowers in all colors. The painting is long on a piece of paper and spells my name.

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2 Old Poems – Just Jot It January – Seasonal

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2 Old Poems – Just Jot It January – Seasonal

https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/22/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-22nd-2023/#like-16853

Today’s prompt word was suggested by Kaye

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 22nd 2023, is “seasonal.” Use the word “seasonal” any way you’d like. Have fun!

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These are a couple of poems I wrote back in 2021 for some challenges or other. The first one is a Haiku and meant to be funny (picture from free clipart of kid raking leaves)

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One plus one is two

I fall for you in the fall

Now go rake the leaves

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This next photo is of our blue pick-up truck with a big tumbleweed up on the hood. We here in west Texas can have tumbleweeds blowing around during any season. Lately they’ve been mentioned on the news that tumbleweeds are piling up in people’s yards this time of year. This is another Haiku.

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Rolling tumbleweed

Propelled by hot Texas wind

Seasonal dust storm

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SOCS & Just Jot It January

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SOCS & Just Jot It January

 

 

https://lindaghill.com/2023/01/20/the-friday-reminder-for-socs-jusjojan-2023-daily-prompt-jan-21st/

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Your prompt for #JusJoJan the 21st and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “count on it.” Use the phrase “count on it” somewhere in your post. Enjoy!

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I can count on it that I can never ‘count it’ right. I’ve written about my having Discalculia, which is a type of blindness to math, numbers, and things like that. That post is here

Now, what else … oh, I can count on it that I will bump into something and knock it down. This happens when I’m walking around, and happens when I’m just sitting and reaching for something and my hand will bump into something knocking it down, or over.

I can count on it that I’ll be here at my computer reading and typing every day.

I can count on it that I’ll be reading an actual book during part of the day and evening.

I can count on it that I’ll be texting on my phone with both my daughters at some point during the day.

And, that’s about all the counting I want to do for now. Hope you have a lovely weekend! ❤

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