Busy Tuesday and Wednesday

It's been a long but productive day. I used the bread machine to make pizza dough. It makes enough for 2 large pizzas. Tonight's pizza had chicken, pineapple and onions on it. Tomorrow's pizza will be pepperoni, olives, onions, and mushrooms.

Tomorrow I'm making mincemeat cookies and an apple pie for Thanksgiving. We are having Thanksgiving with family. I'll be sure to take needlework along so I don't get bored out of my mind.
The kitchen only holds two people, and my boyfriend and his mom will be side by side cooking so I'll have to amuse myself in the living room.

Part of today I spent crocheting a baby cocoon. I wanted to work on an adult version of the target hat shown in the photo but I ran out of time.

I got my daily reading done in a book called Raven's Gift. I read it outside in the sunshine but once the sun dipped behind the hills, so did the temperature so I had to go back inside.

Now it's past midnight and I need to get some sleep.

A hat for a new baby.

Random Word List 4

Word List Four

 
I'm finding it very fulfilling to stretch my vocabulary and recall words long forgotten and to look up spellings of words that I thought I knew. Fun! I'm such a word nerd. See the illustrated word list here: http://www.pinterest.com/mystictheodora/random-word-list-four-nouns/
 

 

 

1.     Ageratum

2.     Alfalfa

3.     Amphibian

4.     Anemone

5.     Angelfish

6.     Arch

7.     Bleeding Heart

8.     Bridge

9.     Burglar

10.  Castanets

11.  Catfish

12.  Catnap

13.  Cattails

14.  Chamomile

15.  Chert

16.  Cinnamon Roll

17.  Conch

18.  Crochet

19.  Cruise ship

20.  Cucumber

21.  Curio

22.  Deck tennis

23.  Dice

24.  Dip

25.  Dogbane

26.  Elevator

27.  Fan

28.  Filbert

29.  Gambeson

30.  Garret

31.  Geode

32.  Gibbon

33.  Giblet

34.  Goldfish

35.  Gorget

36.  Granite

37.  Ion

38.  Iron

39.  Ivory

40.  Jabot

41.  Kismet

42.  Kite

43.  Lilac

44.  Lips

45.  Lobelia

46.  Lozenge

47.  Lupines

48.  Maiden

49.  Mandolin

50.  Marquis

51.  Matinee

52.  Memento

53.  Mending

54.  Minaret

55.  Moat

56.  Monkeys

57.  Mummy

58.  Munchkin

59.  Nanny

60.  Onyx

61.  Opal

62.  Orangutan

63.  Ornament

64.  Ornithologist

65.  Parlor

66.  Peccary

67.  Peloton

68.  Pentagram

69.  Petunia

70.  Pilgrimage

71.  Pistil

72.  Portulaca

73.  Prickly Pear

74.  Program

75.  Quirt

76.  Razorback Mountains

77.  Regiment

78.  Saigon

79.  Séance

80.  Sedimentary Rock

81.  Shift

82.  Shuffleboard

83.  Siamese Cat

84.  Slime

85.  Slingshot

86.  Sloth

87.  Spiral Staircase

88.  Sponge

89.  Squid

90.  Squirt gun

91.  Stiletto

92.  Streetcar

93.  Toast

94.  Trombone

95.  Vanner

96.  Wattle

97.  Woad

98.  Zest

Active Verbs

I had so much fun making the random lists of nouns that I thought it would be interesting to do 100 verbs in the present participle. And when I make the list on Pinterest to illustrate all these it's going to be a great quest. Add some of these words to  your Nanowrimo novel or your poetry or your short stories. I love seeing what types of photos come up on Pinterest when I type in each keyword on my list. Follow along on Pinterest as I add more.

Verb List

1.      Absorbing

2.      Acting

3.      Asking

4.      Bathing

5.      Blending

6.      Blowing

7.      Bowing

8.      Bowling

9.      Buffeting

10.   Building

11.   Bumping

12.   Caring

13.   Clapping

14.   Climbing

15.   Cuddling

16.   Dancing

17.   Debating

18.   Ducking

19.   Dunking

20.   Eating

21.   Evicting

22.   Exiting

23.   Fighting

24.   Filming

25.   Floating

26.   Galloping

27.   Gambling

28.   Glittering

29.   Golfing

30.   Grinning

31.   Gunning

32.   Healing

33.   Helping

34.   Holding

35.   Hunting

36.   Illuminating

37.   Infecting

38.   Insulting

39.   Juggling

40.   Jumping

41.   Kissing

42.   Kite Flying

43.   Knitting

44.   Laughing

45.   Leaning

46.   Punching

47.   Leaving

48.   Lecturing

49.   Levitating

50.   Lounging

51.   Loving

52.   Mimicking

53.   Moaning

54.   Napping

55.   Nodding

56.   Noting

57.   Planking

58.   Playing

59.   Pondering

60.   Prancing

61.   Procrastinating

62.   Programming

63.   Pumping

64.   Quarantining

65.   Researching

66.   Running

67.   Sailing

68.   Scooping

69.   Sewing

70.   Shading

71.   Shielding

72.   Shifting

73.   Shimmying

74.   Shooting

75.   Showering

76.   Singing

77.   Skiing

78.   Sleeping

79.   Slipping

80.   Sneaking

81.   Snowboarding

82.   Snuggling

83.   Sparkling

84.   Spinning

85.   Stooping

86.   Strutting

87.   Swimming

88.   Talking

89.   Tapping

90.   Telling

91.   Thinking

92.   Touching

93.   Twirling

94.   Twisting

95.   Visiting

96.   Walking

97.   Weaving

98.   Whispering

99.   Working

100.               Yawning

Random List of 100 Things Two

I enjoy seeing what comes out of my subconscious mind. I'm not sure anyone else does, but it's my blog so here it goes.  To make listing easier for me, I'm going to start with 1 and go to 100 this time. And if you are a poet lists like this can inspire new poems. It may take me awhile to find 100 photos for my list but you can follow along here: Random List Two

1 Cracker
2 Grackles
3 Oatmeal Cookies
4 Pumpkins
5 Loaves of banana bread
6 Teardrops
7 Apache tears
8 Garden Gnomes
9 Apple Head Dolls
10 Cracker Barrels
11 Pea pods
12 Giants
13 Cucumbers
14 Combines
15 Archery Targets
16 Rutabagas
17 Choke cherries
18 Redbud trees
19 Tarantulas
20 Goats
21 Rice paddies
22 Gargoyles
23 Clam diggers
24 Claim jumpers
25 Sardines
26 Meatloaves
27 Astronauts
28 Rock bands
29 Hair bands
30 French poodles
31 Calliopes
32 Eggs
33 Ducklings
34 Quads
35 Amphibious Vehicles
36 Miniature donkeys
37 Nativity Scenes
38 Ouija boards
39 Post hole diggers
40 Pop art posters
41 Percherons
42 Gutter snipes
43 Rancheros
44 Mumbly pegs
45 Arid Landscapes
46 Turbans
47 Acorn squash
48 Sea Urchin Spines
49 Turritella shells
50 Ladles
51 Lucets
52 BBQ pits
53 Saucers
54 Snifters
55 Champagne Flutes
56 Snuff Boxes
57 Howler monkeys
58 Hula hoopers
59 Whip cord braids
60 Lariats
61 45 Records
62 Music Boxes
63 Gramophones
64 Orphans
65 Meadowlarks
66 Whippoorwills
67 Cattails
68 Pinto beans
69 Vivariums
70 Telidoscopes
71 Ping pong balls
72 Vambracers
73 Gorchets
74 Millipedes
75 Kangaroo Rats
76 Boxwood Hedges
77 Pomegranates
78 Corn snakes
79 Eels
80 Parrotfish
81 Amoebas
82 Hydras
83 Surreys
84 Adobe bricks
85 Ribbons
86 Wombats
87 Capybaras
88 Hook fishes
89 Guppies
90 Stationary Trapezes
91 Meat Grinders
92 Organ Grinders
93 Opossums
94 Chinchillas
95 Ocotillos
96 Marmosets
97 Cephalopods
98 Clipper ships
99 Paperclips
100 Peanut plants