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Definitions of Cold
- of or at a low or relatively low temperature
- lacking affection or warmth of feeling
- a common viral infection
- served without heating
- served chilled or with ice
- impersonal, objective
- depressing, gloomy, dead
- stale
- unlucky
- unprepared
The definitions of cold can take you in many directions with this challenge. Feel free to substitute synonyms. When I added the topic for this date, I expected the temperatures to have dropped significantly. For many of you that may be the case. Here in Prescott, the temperatures hover around 70 and sunny, a far cry from cold. Last year we got cold weather from December to March.
Other Kinds of Cold
- Maybe the clues on a murder case you are writing are cold.
- Maybe your streak of luck at poker has run cold.
- Sometimes I worry needlessly about waking my husband, but he is out cold.
- In the summer he asks for a cold drink.
- The waitress gives him a cold look.
- The results are seldom good when you step in cold in front of a group to teach or speak.
- It’s even worse if you have a cold and sneeze all over the audience.
- It gets more embarrassing up there if your jokes are met with cold stares.
- What if your date gives you a cold shoulder at dinner?
What’s your take on cold, this week?
IT’S EASY TO PLAY ALONG WITH #WQWWC
This weekly writing challenge runs from Wednesday through Tuesday. The only rule is to use a quote. If you want to participate, create a pingback to link your post. Not sure how to do that? See how to create pingbacks here. Be sure to link to the most recent post, not my page. I don’t see links to my page.
A Few Quotes I Liked This Week
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Pope Francis
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
This wouldn’t be so funny if it wasn’t written by Emily Dickinson. It made me want to write a poem.
Pantoum
A pantoum is a fixed-style French form of poetry. The second and fourth lines of each stanza become the first and third lines of the following stanza. In the last stanza, the third line of the first stanza is the second line, and the last line is the same as the first line in the first stanza. It is written in three-foot iambic lines. So the stresses are read as – da DUM da DUM da DUM
I haven’t written one of these in years, so I numbered the verses and rhyming patterns to help me along. I left them in case you want to write one.
Real Love Combats the Cold
- A The man who makes me tea,
- B Removes the cold inside.
- A Means everything to me.
- B His faults begin to slide.
- B Removes the cold inside,
- A A light begins to shine.
- B His faults begin to slide,
- A And warmth goes down my spine.
- A A light begins to shine,
- B Like a Christmas tree I glow.
- A And warmth goes down my spine,
- B To him my joy I owe.
- B His vigor and his verve,
- A Means everything to me.
- B His willingness to serve,
- A The man who makes me tea.
When the weather chills, my husband often says with a gentle smile in a little boy pleading voice, “Make me tea.”
Most of the time I find it endearing. It means, “Pay attention to me. Show me that you love me more than your blog.”
Sometimes turn about is fair play. It is one of the small ways we stave off the cold in both the weather and our marriage.
Since my injuries this summer have kept me helpless at times, this wonderful man has treated me with kindness and patience. He often has had to wait on me doing tasks, I’m sure he never expected to do.
I don’t recommend getting hurt to get attention, but if it happens, it’s reassuring to know that someone loves you enough to make you tea when you can’t do it yourself.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
42 responses to “#WQWWC #47: Cold”
Hope I’m not too late
https://myforever.blog/2021/11/10/the-million-dollar-question/
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I’m running super later, so you’re good. 🙂
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Usually, I stop checking around 9:00 on Tuesday night, but I was super late today. 🙂
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So enjoyed this post. Hope to get one written so I can join you. Cold is something I don’t enjoy…in many senses of the word.
Glad you have had a devoted husband to help you through your recovery. The give and take of doing things for one another is key to a successful relationship. I do all of the cooking in our house but once a week Paul cooks by picking up Taco Bell, or a subway sandwich or ordering a pizza. Makes all the difference.
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You are so right. Couples have to compliment each other in what they do and even more, they have to make sure the other half knows how much they are appreciated. That was a problem we both struggled to do and continually have to make sure that we do. I’m glad you and Paul have worked out what works for you. 🙂 We are taco and pizza people, too. 🙂
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beautiful pics in the snow Marsha! oh and that cute pup doggy!💖💖
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Thanks, Cindy. Puppy Girl is our love and joy. But so are the kitties.
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I can tell Marsha. Not spoiled at all.. lol. they are all soooo precious!💖
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Not a bit! 🙂 LOL
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🤣🤣🤣
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Love this Marsha. I’ve never heard of a pantoum…maybe I’ll have to try it sometime.
here is my link for this week
https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2021/11/wqwwctheme-cold.html
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The Pantoum is pretty easy to write. I love how this one came out. 🙂 I have trouble writing something that is meaningful not just trite, and I felt this one captured some feeling.
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hello to you and your husband (with a gentle smile in a little boy pleading voice, “Make me tea.”) 😉
https://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2021/11/04/wqwwc-47-cold/
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Thanks, Lady Lee. You inspired me to try something old and something new. Most of my poetry is rather silly, and I was pleased when this one came out with some feeling.
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I am so jealous of your 70 degree temps!
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Yes, it is lovely.
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The season of cold is getting closer with each passing dy. Good news is that I did a beach walk about the theme. 🙂 https://beachwalkreflections.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/41-cold/
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Great walk. Thanks for taking us along on a chilly morning. 🙂
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I love your snowy pics from last year, Marsha! You are coming up on your one-year anniversary of moving to Prescott this month! Cold is a great theme and we are getting plenty of it…I would worry if we didn’t. Puppy Girl is adorable and that gave me a great idea for my Sunday Stills post…Aero will model a couple of his sweaters for “fur and feathers” 🙂 I chuckled at your second list of cold ideas. And I’m so glad Vince is keeping you safe and warm and I love that poem!
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Vince loved the poem, too. It was fun and it just flowed. We are not getting cold yet. It’s still in the 70s and really lovely. I was just looking at airline tickets to the coast in January when the snow hits. I’m trying to talk Vince into taking a week holiday and visiting friends. That’s my idea of how to face the cold! 🙂
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Let me know when you might go in January. We’re still thinking about doing our road trip a few days after Christmas. We would plant to stay in Phoenix/Prescott/Scottsdale area at some point after the new year.
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I was looking at January 6th to fly to Santa Maria, but it’s not set in stone. Vince has still not decided if he wants to go. So let me know soon so we time our trip and don’t miss you!!!
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Will do. We’ll know more when we start subbing. I’m thinking it will be after Jan 10 when we’re in AZ.
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Perfect. We would only stay a week. So that puts us back on the 13th. Does that work?
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More than likely!
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Okay then. When Vince gets home, I’ll double check the dates with him, and I’ll book it Nano.
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You know how much I love a good snow photo!
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I didn’t realize that you loved them that much, but I’m glad you do. We get plenty of it here in the mountains during the winter.
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Well, you know we don’t get snow where we live so it’s always exciting when we see it like this.
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It is. … for a while. By May I was all over it, and it kept spitting out once in a while. So the next time you come, if you time it right, we’ll give you snow. If not we can give you monsoons with a touch of hail. We get weather in Prescott!
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loving those snowy shots and oh, look at that baby girl all dressed up for the cold! thank for featuring me Marsha. Have a great week!
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She really has to bundle up. She needs some new snow clothes for this year. Her jacket was made for CA winters.
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Does it get that cold in CA? That’s California, right?
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Actually, we moved from CA last November and we are living in mile-high Prescott, AZ, which has a much cooler winter than we had in Central CA. It could still get down to freezing where we lived, but we rarely got snow. 🙂 Puppy Girl still needed a coat, though for a few weeks.
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Puppy girl is so cute 😀 😀
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She’s not super patiend about putting on all those winter clothes, though. She needs some new clothes for this winter. Those are her CA clothes.
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