Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by David M. Gascoigne and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. decent 2. necklace 3. ecosystem 4. money 5. ground 

and/or: 

1. armed 2. way 3. lodge 4. willing 5. guardians

Here is my story: continuing on from last week:

He thought more about Robert and Vanessa as he drove, their farm was run along permaculture guidelines and his old school friend Gary Johnson often helped out and cared for the place while Rob and Van were away for any reason. He’d been attending night school at the same time and now, armed with knowledge and newly certified, he was planning to ask R and V about converting the bottom field into an ecosystem. The creek running through it often flooded the area so the ground was often damp and sometimes boggy. He’d phoned Tom recently asking if he thought Rob and Van would be willing to listen to his ideas.

“I don’t see why not,” Tom had said, “they’ve always listened to you in the past and I think they’d quite like to be guardians of an ecosystem, it sort of ties in with the whole permaculture scheme of letting things work naturally.” Gary had thanked him and said he would lodge an application with the local council as soon as he’d spoken to R and V. “Having their full agreement would certainly pave the way and I can put my own money into it. I’ve saved quite a bit from my bartending job.” “I can pitch in a bit too if you need it,” Tom had said, “I make a decent amount from the photos I sell and that might pick up if I can get coffee table book deal. What’s your idea so far?”

“Expand the creek a little and create a necklace of small ponds all feeding into one another, with little bridges and adding some rocks and more reeds for the frogs that already live there, that would be the first part of the plan,” Gary had answered. "Sounds great to me," Tom had replied and mentioned he would be back at the farm as soon as his meetings with the police were over, although that could take quite a while and was probably only the beginning of what could be a lengthy investigation going back sixteen years.