Drew sits at the window. Cletis takes the seat beside him.
Drew: I think I’ve finally figured out why they call them “TV dinners.”
Cletis: Oh yeah?
Drew: Yes. The philosophy of having something so simple as to be able to cook it without any preparation ahead of time, allows one to watch television whilst awaiting a delicious meal with minimal effort.
Cletis: Huh. I thought it was ’cause when you stick ’em in the microwave you can watch them go around and around, just like you was watchin’ TV.
Hey there, and welcome to The Escapist Coloring Club prompt! You thought I’d forgotten, didn’t you? Well, as it turns out, I just finished colouring my calendar page again. I have to get on top of it this month!
If you’d like to join the club, all you have to do is post pictures of your own colouring, your kids’ colouring, or that of anyone you know and have permission to share. This is a month-long prompt, which means you have all of August to link back here.
Here’s my before picture for July.
It was an interesting one to colour. I used both markers and coloured pencils. Not a lot of fancy shading, as most of the areas were too small.
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And here’s the finished page.
Can you find the 2 snails, the spider, the caterpillar and the mouse?
I look forward to seeing all of your wonderful projects in the coming month!
Please find the “rules” below.
1. This prompt is designed for relaxation. As such, I encourage you to take your time to link your own post here, BUT, when you comment, please click the “Notify me of new comments via email” button. That way you’ll receive a notification when someone else links their project and you won’t miss anything. As with all the prompts, the more you visit others, the more your community of like-minded people grows.
2. Ping back! It’s important so that I and other people can come and read your post. To execute a pingback, just copy and paste the URL found in your address bar at the top of this post into the body of your post. Your link will show up in my comments for everyone to see. The most recent pingbacks will be found at the top. NOTE: Pingbacks only work from WordPress sites. If you’re self-hosted or are participating from another host, such as Blogger, please leave a link to your post in the comments below.
3. There will be a prompt on the first of every month. I will try to post the prompt here on my blog at 9:30am -5 GMT. The prompt will simply be photos of my own colouring project. If you would like to host this prompt on your blog on another week during the month, either once, occasionally, or on a regular basis, please e-mail me at hilllindagmaru at gmail dot com and we’ll get you set up. All I ask is that you have an active blog and that you regularly reply to comments and visit other blogs.
4. Feel free to use The Escapist Coloring Club badge in your post.
Backstory: the dog escaped the back yard and my son didn’t know because he was sleeping, so before I went out, I put a note on the door to warn him not to let the dog out back. When I got home, I put the gate up on the deck–the only place safe for Winston to go out. I couldn’t resist taking the picture, just so I could write the title of this post.
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As with Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS), if you see a pingback from someone else in my comment section, click and have a read. It’s bound to be short and sweet.
Unlike SoCS, this is not a prompt so there’s no need to stick to the same “theme.”
The rules that I’ve made for myself (but don’t always follow) for “One-Liner Wednesday” are:
1. Make it one sentence.
2. Try to make it either funny or inspirational.
3. Use our unique tag #1linerWeds.
4. Add our lovely new badge to your post for extra exposure!
Andrea sits at the window. Lacey takes the seat beside her.
Lacey: Where …
Andrea:(holds finger up) Wait! Before you say anything I’ve, like, got to tell you about this weird friggin’ dream I had last night.
Lacey: Oh yeah?
Andrea: Yeah. I dreamt I was locked in a basement for a week and while I was there? I was with this, like, creepy gorgeous guy who only knew four words. We really hit it off though. By the time I woke up, I was in love. But the weirdest part? I got all these bite marks on my neck. Like, I don’t know where the hell they came from.
Lacey: A week you say?
Andrea: Yeah.
Lacey: Is that why you haven’t been at work for a week?
Andrea:(sits up straight) I haven’t what now?
Lacey: You’ve been totally missing for an entire week.
Andrea: No way! So it wasn’t a dream? (stands up) Excuse me.
Lacey: Where are you going? Harold’s going to be pissed if you miss any more work.
Andrea: Harold shmarold. I gotta find me some o’ my Honey Darkness!
Saturday, July 28th, 5:00pm
Ethyl (and Penny and Pooch)
Ethyl sits at the window. Penny and Pooch take the seat beside her.
Ethyl: What’s that you have in your purse? A rat?
Penny: No, this is Pooch. Isn’t she cute? (makes baby talk at dog)
Ethyl: Looks like a scraggly little rodent to me.
Penny: (moves purse as far away from Ethyl as possible) Don’t say that to Pooch! You’ll give her a complex!
Ethyl: Are you nuts? Do you have any idea how stupid you sound? It’s a dog. It doesn’t understand me. (to Pooch) You’re ugly and your mistress is an indescribable idiot.
Penny stands and walks away, apologizing to Pooch as she goes.
Ethyl:(calling after her) And stop dressing your rat in colours that match yours! It makes you look like your rat’s raccoon bitch!
When, as a child, I questioned the wisdom of drinking hot tea on a hot day, my parents told me that it made you sweat, which is better. Back then we didn’t have an air conditioner in the house. They weren’t really a “thing” in my neighbourhood, at least outside of public buildings. We never had a window unit and didn’t get central air until the late 70s, early 80s.
My parents came from the UK–let’s get that out of the way. They HAD to have their tea. So even when it was 90 degrees outside, we’d be sitting with our cuppa, vying for a spot where there was a bit of a wind to cool off our sweaty skin. All stiff-upper-lip/do-it-because-it-feels-good-when-you-stop behaviour.
But that’s turned out to be a good thing. I can’t stand iced (or cold) coffee, but I’ve been conditioned to bear the heat of summer AND a scorching hot drink. I’ve learned to appreciate that extra layer of perspiration that cools me off when I come in contact with even the slightest of breezes.
Or I drink it in an air conditioned room.
Because who needs a stiff upper lip when you have A/C?
BUT, having said that, I still take my cup of tea upstairs to bed with me every night. I have a fan on my bedside table that blasts me with cool air.
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