Wordzzle is gone.

Phrog has gone fishing. I doubt he will return. It is too cold and he is having fun where it is warm.

Go to Raven's Nest to check on those still playing.

Wordzzle

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Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: spaghetti, woe is me, mythology, avarice, windy, pathetic, paper towels, water, all my children, books

And for the mini: best deals of the week, Nobel Peace Prize, sleep deprived, cauliflower, practice

Phrog was feeling much better, the past two weeks had been difficult and he was looking forward to a nice supper with the Salamander Sisters. Sallyie and Saydie had planned to take him to a spaghetti parlor to participate in one of the best deals of the week
"Woe is me," said Sallyie. "I was sure that you would win the Nobel Peace Prize, this year after all of your work to bring peace between the Dragons and the Order."

"I agree," chimed in Saydie, "Phrog should have won the prize. After all he won a place in the Dragon's mythology. Poor sleep deprived dragons."

"The aavarice of the dragons is well known," said Sallyie. They like to lay claim to everything and it was Phrog deciding to leave the secret headquarters of the Order so that they could have it and thus avoid war. So he should have won it."

(Just then the chef walked in wondering if he should include cauliflower in the menu for the banquet he was planning for next week.)

"If it is to windy the practice for the dramatic presentation planned for the grand banquet would have to be cancelled". continued Sallyie, ignoring the chef.

Well, that is just pathetic and it is not right," said Saydie. Oh, please had me those paper towels, I just spilled water over all my children, their pictures and their books.


Words for next week's 10-word challenge are: space cadet, silver lining, wood, turtle soup, minaret, ice, grease, sales, mandala, mug


And for the mini: broken bones, slide rule, garbage, Chinese, sanguine

Wordzzle

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Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: sugar, mortgage, logical, roller skates, outlandish, Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, cummerbund, unexpected, photo album, scarecrow

And for the mini: tomatoes, turtles, basement apartment, circumference, make my day

"Go ahead and make my day, tell me that my circumference is smaller and my basement apartment is full of turtles and tomatoes..." Scarecrow was looking at the photo album which was found in an unexpected place behind the cummerbund embroidered with the phrase, "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." It was an outlandish purple and red color and had been hidden behind Phrogs roller skates. A logical place if you are hiding a mortgage, but Sugar, you should never put an embroidered cummerbund anywhere near a skateboard..It could bring you bad luck.

And now a Phrog joke -

Words for next week's 10-word challenge are: spaghetti, woe is me, mythology, avarice, windy, pathetic, paper towels, water, all my children, books


And for the mini: best deals of the week, Nobel Peace Prize, sleep deprived, cauliflower, practice

Wordzzle

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This week's words are: edge, haven, sunglasses, sprightly, telling, frazzled, juicy, quartet, tied, necklace

And for the mini: bees, crackling, wooden, staple, earful

Sallyie and Phrog returned from their vacation and got an earful from Saydie. She told them about how the Magic Parrot had returned from being "liberated" because it turned out the Parrot Liberation Squad was a front for an eating establishment which served parrot as a staple on the menu.

He had returned after escaping from the wooden, cage they were keeping him in when he heard the fire crackling to boil the water for parrot soup. The bees helped him by forming a necklace around the leader of the "squad" and scaring him. He thought that he had tied, up the parrot but it turned out that he had not.

The parrot had been a member of a barbershop quartet and he thought that was the reason the bees had helped him. He used to sing some racy juicy, songs and they appreciated them.

Saydie's nerves were frazzled with the telling of the story and her usual sprightly step was dragging. She put on her sunglasses so that the bags under her eyes would not show and told Phrog that she had sent the parrot off to a safe haven at the edge of the world.

Words for next week's 10-word challenge are: sugar, mortgage, logical, roller skates, outlandish, Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, cummerbund, unexpected, photo album, scarecrow


And for the mini: tomatoes, turtles, basement apartment, circumference, make my day

Wordzzle

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Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: love is a many splendored thing, trucks, inspector, symbols, rising, organic, liberation, costly, smug, naughty


And for the mini: the nature of the beast, identical, charcoal, braggart, vacation

"Sallyie, I think you need to go on a vacation", said Phrog. "You are not making any sense at all, you naughty girl."

"Oh Phrog, you are right," she replied. "I spent the night at my cousin, the braggart,'s house and he has me so befuddled, the smug bastard, that I feel as if I have eaten a bag of charcoal briquettes. But a vacation would be too costly. I don't suppose we could sell the Magic Parrot could we?"

"No" said Phroag, "last night the Parrot Liberation Squad broke in and let him loose. What you see in the cage is an identical parrot although somewhat organic (but that is the nature of the beast.) Soon the dragon moon will be rising and the symbols will not appear on the parrot's coat and the subterfuge will be apparent to the inspector and he will cart us all off in trucks to the music hall where we will be impelled to sing love is a Many Splendored Thing, for the rest of the century.

words for December 4th... after our US Thanksgiving break next week. I love a break from coming up with words/phrases.

Words for next week's 10-word challenge are: edge, haven, sunglasses, sprightly, telling, frazzled, juicy, quartet, tied, necklace


And for the mini: bees, crackling, wooden, staple, earful

Wordzzle

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This Week's Ten Word Challenge is: officer, candid, drowning, turtles, sugar-coated, prospecting, shame on you, recliner, luggage, brains

And for the mini: paragon of virtue, cats-in-the-cradle, swamp, sprinkles, garbage

"Look officer, let me be candid with you. You are drowning here. the turtles club needs the Magic parrot and we haven't sugar-coated the attempt to try to enslave him. The Dragons want to make soup of him.. Shame on you, go sit in your recliner, and I will get the luggage packed, Mr. Brains You are no paragon of virtue. The games the kiddies were playing were cats-in-the-cradle and spin the bottle,,, And they filled the bottle with swamp water and made sprinkles with powdered garbage." Sallyie was so befuddled that she did not make much sense. Just then Phrog arrived.

Phrog came in, put his briefcase down, and walked over to the kitchen table. He opened the newspaper to the obituary section and started to read.

"Why did you start reading the newspaper at the obituary section?" Sallyie asked.

"Because," Phrog said, "I wanted to see who croaked today.

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Words for next week's 10-word challenge are: love is a many splendored thing, trucks, inspector, symbols, rising, organic, liberation, costly, smug, naughty


And for the mini: the nature of the beast, identical, charcoal, braggart, vacation

Wordzzle

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This Week's Ten Word Challenge is: Cute,
come with me to the Casaba, bloodhound, respiration,
Facebook, Canada Geese, modern, gravity,
spider webs, sea shells

And for the mini: curiosity killed the cat, charming Victorian, railroad tracks, tower, salt and pepper

Phrog knew that the Dragon Triplets had captured the Magic Parrot because they thought he was cute. They were not malicious at all, they did not know about his magic powers. They just wanted a pet. They had enticed him by telling him come with me to the Casaba. The dragons had used a bloodhound to find him but the bloodhound passed out due to poor respiration.
They took a picture of the parrot and put it on Facebook. Phrog saw the picture and asked the Canada Geese to look for the parrot. Using modern methods they communicated by following the gravity lines and sent their messages via spider webs to sea shells which acted as receivers. Once they found him they enticed him with a cracker into their cunning trap. Then they taunted him by saying: Nyah nyah, nyah, curiosity killed the cat! They had a charming Victorian cage to keep him in that they had found by the railroad tracks (The cage had probably fallen off from a passing train).. They put it in the tower room and fed it tomato soup with salt and pepper on it. The parrot was content, but it did want its freedom back.

Words for next week's 10-word challenge are: officer, candid, drowning, turtles, sugar-coated, prospecting, shame on you, reclinder, luggage, brains


And for the mini: paragon of virtue, cats-in-the-cradle, swamp, sprinkles, garbage

Wordzzle

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This week's Ten Word Challenge: plumber, autograph,

Florence Nightingale, a chill wind’s a blowing,
watering hole, sleek, triplets, backwards, surface
tension, parrot

And for the mini: Free estimates,French fries, carpet,
Braille, silver-tongued bandit

Phrog was a silver-tounged bandit, but that was

about it. He had studied Braille for two years but
just did not have the sensitivity needed to be able

to feel the bumps. It was like trying to read the

carpet while reading with fingers which were

greasy from eating French Fries. He had gotten

some free estimates about getting his fingers

sensitized but decided against it. After all,

he did not have much confidence in Joe

the plumber.

Joe was the only finger sensitizer he had ever met...

and Phrog just thought there was something shifty

about his claims.

He had met him at an autograph signing (although why Joe the plumber

wanted Phrog's autograph was beyond imagining.

The book was "A Chill Wind's A Blowing and was

about Phrog's experiences at

the desert watering hole.

It was a sleek retelling of his encounter with the

dragon triplets when he had studied

their backwards ways and the surface tension of the water

to help the magic parrot escape the trap the

dragons had him in.

Joe had mentioned that his job was finger

sensitizing and since Phrog wanted to be able to

read the Braille

edition of his book it seemed like they

would be made for each other.

Next Week's Ten Word Challenge will be:  Cute,
come with me to the Casba, bloodhound, respiration,
Facebook, Canada Geese, modern, gravity,
spider webs, sea shells

And for the mini: curiosity killed the cat, charming Victorian,
railroad tracks, tower, salt and pepper

Wordzzle

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This week's Ten Word Challenge: Incensed, sidewinder, bogus, conniption, Haz-mat, conniving, customize, perforated, zeal, rolling off a log

And for the mini: abstemious, chlorophyll, origami, cheerleader, dung beetle

Yes, Phrog was content. As content as a dung beetle on a pile of horse manure. He was the leader of the Salamanders. The Sisters had left for cheerleader, school and were taking origami101 and cheering everyone in their chlorophyll colored cheer-leader outfits They were leading an abstemious, life. They needed to do this as if they got drunk they were afraid that the dragons would come after them and would capture them and force them to dance the dance of the incensed, sidewinder. That was a bogus fear as the dragons would never do something like that. They would have a conniption fit before they would do something so "off the wall." Being gentle creatures they loved everyone.

The sisters, Sallyie and Saydie put their haz-mat suits on. They put their heads together (in a conniving manner) as they attempted to customize a response to Phrog. He seemed content but they knew he was headed straight for a perforated ulcer if he did not mitigate his zeal for rolling off a log and pretending that everything was fine...when it wasn't.

Next Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: plumber, autograph,
Florence Nightengale, a chill wind’s a blowing,
watering hole, sleek, triplets, backwards, surface
tension, parrot

And for the mini: Free estimates,French fries, carpet,
Braille, silver-tongued bandit