Writing is like being able to put life into a snow globe. It takes the things that are too big and scary and reduces them into a form that I can put away when I want and look at from a distance. It also takes all that’s good in life and captures it into something I can take out when I want and look at close up and keep forever. It makes the bad things into something I can hold…and the good things into something I can hold onto. Both help so much that I need that little souvenir of life.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Succinctly Yours Week 207: Not Quite On Time

It’s time again for Succinctly Yours, a delightful meme offered once a week like clockwork by Grandma’s Goulash. We are invited to create a story of 140 words or 140 characters or fewer to accompany the photo. Please consider giving it a try on your own blog! I am late, I know, but I’ve had an itsy-bitsy and much-needed vacation and feel a little more refreshed. The bonus word this week was “limp.”
Quasimojoe hated his job taking care of the clock tower during daylight savings time. His limp might make him spring forward or fall back from that little ledge.  134


Sesame Street’s Count Von Count rarely has guests in his castle. Time seems to limp by when every chime from the clock tower distracts the host.  118


Big Ben had a long distance crush on Big Jen. She was bleak and threatening, not terribly reliable, and her movement had a limp…but what a build. And that face!  131
Cornelius Fudge: Oh! Albus... I see you got our notice about the time change of the hearing.
Albus Dumbledore: I must have missed it; but by a happy mistake, I arrived at the Ministry three hours early. 
~Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Michael Goldenberg screenplay based on the books by J.K. Rowling, directed by David Yates and released in 2007.
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  1. Yamini MacLeanMarch 10, 2015 at 4:07 PM

    Hari OM
    Loved all of these!.. and thanks for visiting, it made me go back and read mine as it's been a few days - and spotted the 'continuity error'. What a daffy..... YAM xx

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    1. TammyMarch 10, 2015 at 6:23 PM

      I must be extra daffy, because I still don't know what the 'continuity error' was! I loved yours and felt like there was a spiritual lesson in there!

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    2. Yamini MacLeanMarch 11, 2015 at 6:05 AM

      ..hhhehehe... phew...... *(... no I had begun with 'Daff' then turn her into a 'Dill'... sorted now though and am glad that the overall 'picture' was not altered by the smudge! Cheers, Yxx

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  2. Linda O'ConnellMarch 10, 2015 at 4:08 PM

    Just when I think you have the perfect one, you come up with even better ones. Big Ben and Jen made me cackle.

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  3. Pat WahlerMarch 10, 2015 at 4:49 PM

    Your mini-Muse has been working overtime. All three of these made me giggle.

    Pat
    Critter Alley

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    1. TammyMarch 10, 2015 at 6:26 PM

      Lol - my mini-Muse had to take an extra couple of days because it was very stumped this week, so I really appreciate the comment!

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  4. ValMarch 10, 2015 at 7:44 PM

    Quasimojoe it is! How timely!

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  5. Sioux RoslawskiMarch 11, 2015 at 4:30 PM

    Are these written under the influence of something? Like Trader Joe's Truffle brownies? They were all three ever-so-clever in different ways.

    Quasimojoe AND the added bonus of Daylight Saving Time. The Count getting "distracted." Big Ben and Big Jen.

    Tooooo funny.

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    1. TammyMarch 14, 2015 at 5:09 PM

      Maybe I should post a couple of extra days late all the time. I didn't think they were very good. Thanks!

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  6. Lisa Ricard ClaroMarch 12, 2015 at 10:41 AM

    The second is my hands-down favorite . . . Ah-HA-HA-HA-HA! I love The Count! One of the best things about having grandchildren will be having a reason to watch Sesame Street every day without being thought to be in my dotage. :)

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    1. TammyMarch 14, 2015 at 5:11 PM

      Oh, funny - I keep thinking I want grandchildren as an excuse to watch Disney movies. The kids at school are often shocked to hear I've never seen Frozen!

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  7. Grandma`s GoulashMarch 14, 2015 at 2:06 PM

    Three diverse and clever tales on the time change. I could just picture the confusion, if Quasimojoe fell back.

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  8. UnknownMarch 25, 2015 at 1:03 PM

    Love the third one -- and that face indeed! I really had a great "time" reading all of these :)

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  9. TammyMarch 25, 2015 at 2:53 PM

    Good one! Thanks. Teri!

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