The Five Word Challenge (Courtesy of Evil Twin’s Wife)

Alright, here’s my best shot at taking on the five word challenge from Evil Twin’s Wife.  If you wonder about it, or want to get in on it, I suggest getting a hold of her on her blog; just look up the link in my comments section.

1.  Malady:  Hmmm… well, I guess I’d have to say that there are any number of maladies out there that I’d rather not add to the ones I already have.  Nature has already been far too ‘kind’ to me in the last couple of years, and one more malady would be about as welcome as another hole in the head.

2.  Unite:  It sure would be nice to see more people unite to take on the problems facing the nation and the world these days, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.  Instead, it seems like most folks out there are finding more and more reasons to bicker, fight, bitch, grouse, etc.

3.  Confound:  A lot of folks out there flat out confound me with their apparent lack of common sense.  I mean, I realize that common sense really isn’t that common, and that it’s really nothing more than properly applied learned behavior, but the majority of the people out there these days seem not to have soaked up any of that knowledge growing up.  Or maybe that’s the problem; not so many of the people out there these days ever REALLY grew up…

4.  Shed:  Well now, shed is one of those multi-purpose words, so which definition do I talk about?  We have a fairly nice, semi-finished shed on our property, but it needs quite a bit of work to bring it up to snuff.  We have dogs and cats, and they shed plenty, but the only one we keep in the house is a miniature poodle and he hardly sheds at all.  I could talk about shedding inhibitions, but I don’t think I have all that many to shed.  And I think that just about beats ‘shed’ to death.

5.  Pickle:  I like pickles, both dills and sweet, and I used to get ‘pickled’ on occasion, when I was a little younger and not on a bunch of prescription meds.  Beyond that, pickles are a great snack food because they have virtually no calories and it almost (if not actually) costs your body more calories chew them up, swallow and digest them, not to mention getting rid of what’s left afterwards.  And there’s another word beaten to death, I think.

And in the immortal words of Porky Pig, “That’s all folks!”  Talk to y’all again soon, provided the muse whispers in  my ear and gives me something else to write about!

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