Life in progress

Abduction

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Not that I’m complaining at all, and I know I can just quit, but I feel like my blog has been filched by the A-Z Challenge. Hijacked. Pinched. Misappropriated by my need to take on the extra work of an alphabetical prompt: shanghaied by my inability to just say “no.”

But I’m having fun!

I just wonder what I’m going to do with myself when it’s all over.

Speaking of being stolen, I wonder what tomorrow’s promised snow is going to do to the flowers in my front bed.

fallen

It’s already ruined so much this year: my eaves troughs, the neighbour’s tree and fence, my little solar lamp…

Life is short. Nature, in every form, both gives and takes.

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Author: Linda G. Hill

There's a writer in here, clawing her way out.

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  1. Deborah's avatar
    Deborah
    April 16, 2014 at 11:28 am

    I can totally relate to the whole abduction thing. However, I also acknowledge that if I didn’t have this challenge holding me hostage, I would not have posted near the number of times I have this month. And like you, I recognize that I’ve increased the number of people I’m connecting with. Also, your SoCS has filled in the gap for me when we’re not doing the alphabet. So you are actually contributing to my habit. haha

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    D.G.Kaye
    April 15, 2014 at 12:40 pm

    Snow – an annoying substance that has been a visual for almost six months, gave us a 3 day ‘fake’ reprieve and has unleashed its fury once again. That is my summation. 🙂

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    kristin
    April 15, 2014 at 11:50 am

    The crocuses will be fine. Mine used to grow right in the snow in Michigan.

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    mewhoami
    April 15, 2014 at 9:00 am

    I thought of joining, but it was already on letter J. Maybe next time. That awful, untimely snow. We had the same happen here. Flowers were finally coming up, only to get buried and broken by the snow.

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      LindaGHill
      April 15, 2014 at 4:47 pm

      This challenge certainly isn’t something you’d want to try to play catch-up on. It’s a lot of work! It’s worth it though – I’ve met some pretty great people through it.
      Unless it’s still coming, we didn’t get very much snow. Not enough to even give us a coating – it rained all morning so the ground was too wet. Hopefully that’ll be it!

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    Alex Hurst
    April 15, 2014 at 12:34 am

    You’ve also been blogging way more than most people in the challenge! I’ve been surprised how many times you can post in a single day… haha. I’m looking forward to May, when I can get back to my ‘real’ writing schedule, and shift back to 1-2 posts a week on my blog. 🙂

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    • Linda G. Hill's avatar
      LindaGHill
      April 15, 2014 at 4:41 pm

      Well that’ll give me a chance to catch up on your blog! 😀 haha. But aside from a few days here and there, I’ve been trying to post one a day since October. It’s always my fiction blog that goes by the wayside when I’m not challenged somehow. 😛

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    Myas
    April 15, 2014 at 12:08 am

    I’ve finally realized that we have Sundays off for A to Z, which now adds sense to why my letters, when I jump in, aren’t aligning… and we had snow today. 41 degrees (fahrenheit) the snow came down, windy, cutting and wet – no accumulation of course because it was actually too warm for snow, but plenty of ambulance and police sirens thanks to flurries-in-the-way. Yesterday it was in the 70’s and Saturday low 80s. Absurd.

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    joeyfullystated
    April 14, 2014 at 10:57 pm

    Crocuses will be fine 🙂
    It’s a mix of rain and sleet here tonight. They say it may snow a bit. I’d be delighted to take photos of the tulips in snow tomorrow morning. Then I’ll worry about how to choose my M 😉

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    vwoods1212
    April 14, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    you guys are still having snow? thank God its over for the year here for the time being. vw

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    LAMarcom
    April 14, 2014 at 8:31 pm

    sometimes I lie awake at night hoping to wake up in the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
    ET! Take Me! I don’t eat much and I never leave the seat up or hair in the sink.

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    Charles Yallowitz
    April 14, 2014 at 6:47 pm

    Blink three times and spin in a circle if you need to be rescued. We’ll keep the squirrels on stand-by.

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    Paul Davis
    April 14, 2014 at 6:37 pm

    It’s currently snowing here 😦 Good luck on the abductions! If you need my address, just give me a holler. 😉

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    navigator1965
    April 14, 2014 at 6:36 pm

    I am Mr. NoNoNaNoWriMo. No.

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