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 Charlotte and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are:

1.snake  2.linen  3.tired  4.letter  5.clip

and/or:

1.brush  2.matter  3.rake  4.blue  5.bush  6.read

Here is my story:

It had been a day of disaster, beginning with the unexpected discovery of a snake slithering past the washing machine, our laundry was currently under repair, so the washing machine was on the back porch. Joan’s shriek scared our cat, Lucifer, who took off like a rocket, bumping the ladder as he shot past it heading for the bush beyond our fences.

Jack was up on that ladder painting the window trims and grabbed for the paint tin as the ladder wobbled, but he missed and the rose bushes became a lovely shade of blue at the paint sloshed all over them, Jack’s paintbrush, freshly loaded with blue paint slipped from his hand and spiralled downwards, landing in the basket of freshly folded linen Kerry had just taken off the line.

The resultant shouting and swearing had Mrs Williams next door poking her head over the fence, “whatever is the matter? I never heard such goings on!”

Martin came running from the front yard where he had been tidying fallen leaves with the new rake. Eyes wide, he declared “you can’t blame me this time, I wasn’t anywhere near any of this!” We agreed that he was in the clear and he sat back grinning. “Usually I’m the one in trouble, so what’s happened to kick off this kerfuffle?”

Explanations ensued and Martin headed towards the shed in search of cleaning rags, while Mum said, “don’t bother, the paint will just have to wear off the rose bushes and nothing else needs cleaning except those sheets and they are old, so the ones with paint can go into the cleaning rags bag once they dry and have the paint sections cut off.”

Mrs Williams offered to help clip the rose bushes once the paint dried, while Jack, looking tired after doing most of the windows, said he would take the paint can to the hardware store to get more paint in the same shade of blue.

“Let’s put everything on hold for a while,” said Mum. “We can all sit with a cup of tea and some cake, have a breather before we start up again. Did anyone see which way the snake went?” Nobody had, so we were all warned to keep a lookout. Nobody worried about Lucifer, he always came back safe and sound. Jack read through his old receipts to see how much the paint had cost, he wanted to be sure he had enough money to replace it.

**the August words for Wednesday will be provided by messymimi and will appear on her blog as well as mine**