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   wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:05:50 JST wicker boyfriend

   Day two, “Boreal”

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:05:49 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Day three, “pareidolia, the perception of significant patterns or faces in random or accidents arrangements of shapes and lines”

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     wordsmith‽ (wordsmith@writing.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:05:55 JST wordsmith‽

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     @checkervest There was hammering in the loft workshop. There was cutting and testing and prototyping and a montage of piles of increasingly-workable netting mounts made from tent pegs, spare clamps and curtain rails. A plantation of tea was drunk and many a buttered crumpet to follow. The prototyping complete, finished products came off the assembly line. They clamped to the edge of the paving slabs lining the pond and held the netting high and taught. Surely no shenanigans could penetrate this.

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     wordsmith‽ (wordsmith@writing.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:05:56 JST wordsmith‽

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     @checkervest New netting with smaller holes went in. Reaching over is now ruled out, as is poking cheeky feline limbs through. The crafty assailants then realised if they leant on the run across the long sides of the pond, the netting would give enough for them to lie on it and they could then maintain their piscinicidal misdemeanours.

     Dad could not abide this, early in the morning with the dew still wet, in his dressing gown with cup of tea in hand, observing the battlefield.

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     wordsmith‽ (wordsmith@writing.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:05:57 JST wordsmith‽

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     @checkervest ugh this box is so tiny I should write a blog post. Naturally the netting went higher so the cats simply stuck their, wait, cats don't have arms, excuse the previous toot. They stuck their legs through the netting and continued catching no fish while getting their paws wet. The fish were so worried they did not in any way react. Dad could not abide this escalation.

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     wordsmith‽ (wordsmith@writing.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:05:59 JST wordsmith‽

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     @checkervest Clearly this feline attention was a problem for Dad, as one doesn't want one's fish to be fished. So began the Paws Race, it's like an arms race but with paws. To solve the problem of the neighbourhood cats who never once caught a single fish, Dad dutifuly erected a perimeter of vertical netting. They just reached over the netting because apparently, cats arms are twice as long as they actually are, when there are fish to be pawed at.

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     wordsmith‽ (wordsmith@writing.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:00 JST wordsmith‽

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     @checkervest ohh this hit a nerve! We used to have a postage stamp-sized garden that my parents had to put a pond in, for obvious reasons. The local cat grapevine works quickly and they held a near 24-hour vigil by the puddleside, hungry eyes on the languorous koi and their tasty ways, but only for about a decade.

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:01 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Posting a very quick day 5, I may do it in watercolor if I get home in time. “mesmeric, causing a person to become completely transfixed and unaware of anything else around them”

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:02 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Day four, “agonal, marked by or characteristic of agony.”

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:10 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Day 17, “lucent: glowing with or giving light,” and day 18, “aidan: little fire”

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:11 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Working on catching up!! Day 15, “psychalgia: psychological or emotional pain,” (curling up in an empty bathtub in comfy clothes with a book can be a great way to recover from a bad mental/emotional episode and I highly recommend it), and Day 16, “suadade: a sad state of intense longing for someone or something absent”

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:12 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Day 14, “nyctophany.” I couldn’t find it in a dictionary so, “nycto-,” meaning night, and “-phany,” meaning “appearance/manifestation,” so here’s a painting inspired by a scene in the Green Knight (word nerds please chime in if you know a better definition, some of these words are extremely obscure)

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:13 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Day 13, “demersal, chiefly of fish living close to the floor of the sea or a lake”

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:14 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Day 12, “discarnate: without a physical body, incorporeal

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:15 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Day 11, “dreeblissa, the feeling of happiness towards someone in real life because of something good they did in your dream.”

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:16 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Day 10, “selcouth: strange, unusual, rare, marvelous, wondrous”

     Who else could that be but platybelodon

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:17 JST wicker boyfriend

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     Day 9, “numinous: supernatural, mysterious, filled with a sense of the presence of divinity”

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     Day 8, “haze, an aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine widely dispersed solid and/or liquid particles, giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colors”

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     wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 13:06:19 JST wicker boyfriend

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     My hands aren’t very steady tonight so this is as good as it gets! Day 6, “vertigo, a sensation of whirling and loss of balance associated with looking down from a great height,” and day 7, “zephyr, a soft gentle breeze.”