Roasted Parmesan Pepper Carrot Fries!!
Cut a bag of carrots to the size of string fries.
In a bowl add cut carrots, fresh garlic, lots of parmesan cheese, olive oil, Italian bread crumbs, salt & pepper. All ingredients add the amount to your personal taste.
Place on a cookie sheet spread carrots evenly place in oven at 325 for about 45 min. Remove from oven when they are tender and golden. Enjoy with ketchup or your favorite dipping sauce!
https://thehauntedwordsmith.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/three-things-challenge-16-july-2018/
Welcome to the Three Things Challenge!
Everyday I post three seemingly unrelated things and the challenge is to find a creative way to use those things.
This can be anything you want it to be…the point is to have fun, share, and be inspired.
To participate, simply link to this page (creating a pingback) or posting a link to your contribution in the comment section.
Remember, anything goes…just have fun!
Today’s things are: tower, tidal wave, shark
Tower
I will not let your opinions, your thoughts tower over me.
I refuse to dine at the table of your sarcasms and disapproval.
When I find myself, completely
It will be me who will tower over you!
MwsR ❤
Tidal Wave
Once my friend and I were floating in the ocean at a popular beach. She suggested that we just float as long as we could and also wanted us to take a nap, and when we awoke we would see how far from shore we would be.
Well, we did just that very thing. Time got away from us. When we both looked around in surprise we were carried over the forceful tidal wave into the lull in the ocean. The people on the beach looked like ants. We had floated so far away from shore. We had to hand paddle against the tidal waves that oppressed our floats, till finally making back to the shore.
Wow, what a time that was, took a long time. Safely, we made it back after much effort and certainly needing to rest and take yet another nap, lol.
SIDE NOTE… I used tidal waves instead of tidal wave, hope that is okay. MwsR ❤
Shark
In your lifetime you will encounter different personalities. The one that comes to mind for this prompt is the one that is the “shark“. This personality is a person who will “bite” you for no good reason. Just because they want to, usually. Be careful who you allow into your life. There will be bottom feeders, fish, and the ones who are a shark.
Personally I prefer the fish. The fish is someone who you have no worries from, whom you have something in common with, possibly just like you. The bottom feeders follow you just to get what you have or leave unattended. They can be tricky and sneaky. Be one the look out when you have those.
Moral of this short blog… Not every thing/everyone that swims in your sea is a friend, watch your back. MwsR ❤
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
― Elbert Hubbard
Welcome to July 16, 2018 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). It’s designed to fill the void after WordPress bailed on its daily one-word prompt.
I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (US).
Today’s word is “memory.”https://fivedotoh.com/2018/07/16/fowc-with-fandango-memory/
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Or you can simply include a link to your post in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.
Memory
“I remember a time in my life…”
It was a bad day for me. I had problems with my grades in school. My teacher decided it was a good idea to let fellow students pass out things that had been graded. This one time was in my math class. Anyone that knows me probably has heard me say, “Math is not my best subject”, and let’s just say I did not pass this certain assignment. A girl who always made above average grades was asked to pass this certain graded assignment back out to the people whose names were on the top of them.
I remember hoping that my grade was a good enough one that this girl would not see and hopefully that she would not let anyone else see it. Unfortunately she would look at the grades on them as she passed out. She walked up to my desk and in front of everyone that was looking or listening, she declared my “D”. I was so embarrassed I wanted to crawl under my school desk. She looked at me as she handed to me and said, ” At least it isn’t failing.” AT LEAST IT isn’t failing!!!! I WAS SO EMBARRASSED , for the second time in a row.
Needles to say I hated those kind of days. Not to mention walking in the front door at home and having my parents see it and having to deal with their reactions and being disciplined. That was a time I will always remember.
I was never good at math, but on the plus side… I don’t need math to write!
Thanks for reading!
MwsR ❤
Take Their Power AWAY
When you are young you believe and hope in things
You don’t really imagine there is bad and what it brings.
Life is something you wish to live and go through
When you are young and innocent and not yet blue.
People usually see what they want to see
I sometimes wonder why my mother never saw what was happening to me.
Living was fine until I reached a coming of age
Then that is when I started to feel strange.
I felt like something really wasn’t quite right
Especially the way he wanted to tuck me in at night.
Guess you would have to imagine the confusion I must have had
The times when I wished he hadn’t been bad.
He thought of me as not his kin
In order for him to think of me that way in sin.
All I wanted was his Fatherly feelings and care
I did not like the way he would stare.
I felt as a prisoner in this secret I had
I wanted to tell mom but she would be mad.
Along about adulthood I told her about it
I did not see the anger coming towards me or the fit.
It was I she said that deserved the way I was mistreated
Told me that my soul had always been defeated.
She told me to ask forgiveness and stop the lies
But it was not a lie and I had lived with it all and the cries.
Everything for my father went on as it had been
But that day my life changed yet again.
Now it was not him but her I had to bear
They treated me so unfair.
I did not ask to be adopted nor did I make the promise to love me
It was them and now all this caused me to have to leave.
I fretted every day afraid to be left alone with my own father
But they had nothing to fret not even a bother.
Sometimes life can be unkind,
Cruel and hits you from behind.
Lesson here is be true to you
If something is scary, wrong or not right
It is you that must learn how to fight.
My life had been interrupted and turned upside down
I was the one that had an inside frown.
I was the one who had to decide
Was I going to walk away or was I gonna ride.
I choose to ride away , leave it all back there
Not be in their company because they did not care.
Don’t let nay sayers keep you from living your life
I once did but not no more, I got rid of the strife.
Abuse comes in all forms and ways
Don’t remain silent take their power away!
MwsR ❤
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/89850/posts/1924840072
Here is my word of encouragement for this challenge!!!!!
For most you find a pattern on your path. It could be a path with gravel that someone else has spread there, in relation to your own life this is the obstacles and people that make your life hard. Most paths are simple and it is easy to stay off of the edge, where danger or destruction is.
In life we are following various paths. Sometimes there are obstacles to climb along the way. Perhaps that is the only way to continue your path in life. There will also be very tight places along that path that you must find a way to go through. Your belly may feel like it is tied up in knots at what you are facing. Don’t fret! You have the choice to trim away what is bothering you, or in other words, shorten the time you feel bad, and you can continue to move on. There will be days you feel very low but then there will be days where everything seems to go right.
That is the way of a person’s life path. You can stay “off the grass” or you can chance it and have the water spray you in the face.
Thanks for reading! MwsR ❤
There I was all by myself
I had to always keep my words on a hidden shelf.
No one to talk with, while bearing it all alone.
Oh there was you, but it was so unhealthy and wrong.
I wondered when my prince charming would come,
Sadly, they lived only in fairy tales.
I felt no self-worth, but shame was my middle name.
I cried at night, my pillow kept my tears.
You snuck by ever so often to see me.
I hid under covers pretending to dream.
Dreams, ha, I had none.
Because of the rude awakening you gave, and then some.
No one heard my painful screams
I soon became a meg shift screen,
Filtering what I could just to make it through.
No one came, not day or night.
I had to crawl or learn to fight.
I fought, all on my own
No one to turn to, not even at home.
Till one day a person inquired on me
Asked me things like I could not believe.
They told me things at home was wrong
Expressed how God loved me, even while not at my best.
They said they knew, without me saying a word.
Told me to let my burden go.
Deal with what I could and never grow cold.
I listened to them and started trusting again.
No one came during the dark part of my life,
But now what used to cut me like a knife,
Seared my fear, helped it close.
– I found when no one came, I had to finally finish what was done.
No one can stop me now.
MwsR ❤
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/79388113/posts/1924931438
THIS IS COPIED FROM FOWC ONE WORD PROMPT
Welcome to July 15, 2018 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). It’s designed to fill the void after WordPress bailed on its daily one-word prompt.
I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (US).
Today’s word is “legend.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Or you can simply include a link to your post in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.
LEGEND
There was so much more to him than anyone knew
He carried himself with such dignity and assuredness.
Proud on the outside but yet humble in spirit.
His ethics were his stronghold.
He was tall and dark headed
Simple, yet handsome.
He gave all he had into anything he did.
Trying hard for the one’s he loved
He was a legend to his family
But more importantly to his generations to come.
Just because of all he was and all he had done.
MwsR ❤
Mws R Writings 