Proverbial Fairy Tales: Wolf! Wolf! – The Explanation

Once upon a time when the lad returned uneaten questions arose. If the lad wasn’t eaten, how were the town folk going to explain the statue and the truly tall tales they were telling to the tourists?

The town’s scientist came to the rescue explaining that if they only knew science the way he did they would see that when light hit the lad’s chiral polypeptide lipid loving amino acids they’d order the polymerization end to end bringing back again the lad as if nothing happened. Our beloved scientist patiently lectured the uneducated town folk (since they patiently listened) on how science had proven over and over again that stuff that couldn’t happen happened all the time.

Although the town folk didn’t buy his tale (deep down anyway), they were glad to have something to tell those tourists who wouldn’t shut their mouths when they were told nonsense. Besides – town folk being town folk – once they realized that they were just too stupid to understand, what they couldn’t understand previously suddenly made sense so everyone could go back to living happily ever after again.

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Denise offers the prompt word “order” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

March 2026 Limericks

All of these limericks were originally posted to Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick during the month of March 2026.

Kiss Like This

There is bliss when a kiss doesn’t miss
though that snake in the grass loves to hiss.
Though the moon might be round
the fine sun can be found
in that bliss when we kiss just like this.

Prompt word: “hiss” March 2, 2026

It’s a sunset so yellow and bright. When I look to the clouds I see light.

The Joy Of Sprouting

It might sprout if it only went out
of its shell and then looked all about,
saw the sun in the sky
and white clouds flying high.
If it did . . . well, it did. It went out.

Prompt word: “sprout” March 9, 2026 (modified)

The trees do what they do. In an hour or two

Bath Math Path

Since a shower’s as good as a bath
and my heart is more true than my math,
I’ll rejoice and I’ll say
I am blessed everyday day
and not lost – not at all – on this path.

Prompt word: “bath” March 16, 2026 (modified)

will come darkness to wish a good night.

Wonderful Ride

When I ride I can look out and say,
What a wonderful, wonderful day!
If you’re sighing inside,
then come out for a ride.
Do not hide for the Lord leads the way.

Prompt word: “ride” March 23, 2026

Distracting Dog Treats

There once was a treat in a jar
on a shelf way up high very far
from the floor where he could
eat it up and he would
if he could get his nose in the jar.

Prompt word: “treat” March 30, 2026

Cosmic Photo Challenge: A River Runs Through It

Dale offers the prompt “a river runs through it” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

All of these photos are from many years ago. They show a river running though the Forest Preserve in northeastern Illinois near where we used to live.

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Dam 1 River Trail
Fall leaves
More Fall colors

Proverbial Fairy Tale: Wolf! Wolf! – The Lad Comes Home

Once upon a time there was a big bad wolf who liked to eat and a lad who liked to cry “Wolf! Wolf!” even when big bad wasn’t hungry. The wolf got barbequed and the lad – whom, it turned out, wasn’t eaten – went off to make his fortune somewhere where people listened to him when he cried wolf.

After many, many years our dear lad heard about a town with a weird statue and realized that this was his home town and after hearing the truly tall tales the tourists were told figured that statue must be a statue of him.

He went on a march back home to see the statue and ran into many of the lassies who still hadn’t washed those spots where they insisted, despite his faulty memory, that he kissed them long, long ago. These lassies, who now ran the town, set the lad up in a prosperous business of freely kissing any lassie – tourist or local – for only $10 per decent peck on the cheek.

After that who wouldn’t want to live happily ever after?

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Denise offers “march” as the prompt for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: The First Day Of Spring

Dale offers “the first day of spring” as the prompt for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I ran into some technical details moving photos from my phone to my computer. These are from a few days earlier than the first day of spring.

I tried taking some closeups of the sun as it was setting.

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The sun is behind the cloud
The sun is behind the building under construction
Hmm. All the orange reminds me of a pumpkin

David Flees From Absalom

It is amazing what a map can do to bring to life events in the Bible.

Today, David P. Barrett of Bible Mapper Atlas posted a map of the events of 2 Samuel 15-16 where David leaves Jerusalem after hearing that his son Absalom has been declared king in Hebron.

Below is the map from Bible Mapper Atlas detailing the events. The events are described in more detail on the site along with links to other maps.

Map from Bible Mapper Atlas

Proverbial Fairy Tales: Wolf! Wolf! – The Investigations

Once upon a time the leaders of the town where the lad used to live decided to conduct a series of investigations to find out precisely what happened to the lad in all its gory details. However, no one actually saw the lad get eaten by the big bad wolf in spite of the tall tales offered to tourists.

One investigation centered on the lassies who said they were kissed by the lad and had vowed never ever to wash that spot again. These lassies were highly popular with the tourists.

The town leaders commissioned the most renowned scientist they could afford to construct from those unwashed spots where the lad kissed these gorgeous lassies his full DNA sequence that they planned to display in their newly opened museum. In spite of there being hundreds of distinct Y-chromosomes on those unwashed spots our brilliant scientist was able to swing a home run by miraculously producing with the help of a random number generator the commissioned DNA sequence that allowed him to live happily ever after.

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Denise offers “swing” as the prompt word for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.