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mysteriously mantic @melinda010100 provides the prizes: 10 HIVE and 400 POINTS!!! please join me in lavishing copious thanks on her.
this poppy is growing between some slate slabs that we have laid in front of the entrance to our house. when it is ready to bloom the stem will straighten and the petals unfold.
you may recall the buffalo i saved from the crows a couple of weeks back. well as it turns out he is quite a contumacious character and there was a reason why he was tied up so tightly. anyway he really appreciated my help so in return he promised to be the judge for this week's contest. however as soon he got in the river he wouldn't come out again.
that's him in the middle. he simply refused to reward anybody because none of the guesses were even remotely close. he said directly "why should i bother? all the answers are just nonsense. i'm keeping the prizes for myself now leave me alone. can't you see i'm taking a bath."
buffalo in general are quite tractable and agreeable but occasionally a bull makes up his mind to do what he wants and there really isn't much somebody like me can do except stay out of his way.
sorry folks but what to do. he's the judge and there's no way of making an appeal even if he was in violation of the contest's only rule. do unto others... my foot.
so that's it for now. i promise to find a better judge next time.
remember to join in the new contest which has already begun here:
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@annephilbrick/reflection-hunters-contest--round-2
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just kidding. he was actually both very grateful and accommodating in his own way but he likes to be perceived as a tough guy.
be sure to check out the original post with all the dynamic fun replies and comments
@eolianpariah/announcing-the-23rd-guess-the
2 HIVE each to:
@fbpowers for: I see a water fountain arcing water and it knocking over a pawn and it resting up against the queen. The queen is now yelling to the pawn “off with his head!”
@nineclaws for the longest and most descriptive reply in the history of shadow hunters.
This is the shadow of a completely new, yet very ancient mode of transportation that has been designed to incorporate natural water sources and air currents, which also double as two energy sources that support the entire planet, due to the size of the structure, only one is needed.
The chamber on the right side is the Water Chamber. It is being entered on the left by two tiny shadows of figures. The water flow emanates from the top of chamber and into the Transition Chamber located in the middle, tilted at the appropriate angle. From here, travellers are instantly transported into capsules while in a relaxed prone position. The capsules are routed through the top connecting line in between the Transition and Air Chambers. The water flows through line below that one into the Air Chamber to create the air pressure necessary for ejection through the spout on the top left of this chamber. All controls for each capsule are operated completely through thought power effortlessly.
This advanced technology was lost long ago, which is why it is ancient. It is also new because it’s only recently been re-discovered and rebuilt at a crucial time when humanity is shifting from ways which harm the planet to those which heal it.
Speaking of healing, an added feature of this technology is medicinal, since all illnesses can be healed by entering the chamber on the far left. Healing treatments take only seconds once inside. The entrance to the Air Chamber is on the bottom right, where two tiny shadows of figures can be seen entering.
The small free-standing shadow on the left, just below the spout of the Air Chamber, is an Ester bird, making use of the air currents from the airborne capsules.
1 HIVE each to:
@hjrrodriguez for: that is a bent rod that they use to pull the car that ran out of fuel and could not be recharged
@brume7 for: It is the shadow of my heart broken in half for not guessing which shadow is that ja,ja,ja
@omaira74 for: This shadow is the sign that I came back to share with you, because this week was a terror, my computer was damaged, but I am very active, this seems to be the shadow of something to inflate balloons.
100 POINTS each to:
@kellyane for: I guess headset and speaker or headset and boot or headset and flashlight
@victor8 for: It is a lamp or bulb of those that are placed in the streets and avenues, it has the exact shape of those lamps ... I think so.
@positivesteem for: My guess is muffles
@sofs-su for: let me present my image here for some clarity Hehe
It is just a scribble but I hope you get the idea.
There was this rat (yeah I am going with the rat story) who had fallen madly in love with an old boot that was lying around.
She brought it flowers, fruits and leaves as gifts day after day only to find that the boot hadn't accepted her gifts.
She was so broke- hearted and couldn't leave the boot .. so she lived in it and had hundreds of babies in it like the old woman who lived in a shoe, she didn't know what to do, so she kissed them all soundly and put them to bed and she was stuck to the shoe like she was stuck with glue.
Very few knew her story so I brought it here to you.
Well for all you know its a land mower or perhaps a cart with bells and whistles.. who knows.
Only our elegant, elusive and entertaining @eolianpariah can shed some light here.
1 HIVE each for engagement to:
@nineclaws
@dandays
@sofs-su
and last but not least the ehived venwood prize 5 HIVE to
@moon-city for: A not-so-bright Samurai brought a mini knife to a fight with a giant bizarre looking mouse which has a tail growing out of his back. The end of the mouse tail is shaped like the end of a broomstick.
Now for a Quick Backstory about how this all happened:
In 1867, a highly ranked samurai decided to take in a trainee who wanted to become a world-renowned samurai. The high ranked samurai was not thrilled to train the trainee for one simple reason: the trainee was foolish and other highly ranked samurais refused to take him in. Legend has it that a large mouse with a broomlike tail growing out of its back attacked samurais and then disappeared in the forest near a rocky garden to plan its next attack.
The high ranked samurai warned the trainee to stay away from the rocky garden where the giant mouse has been spotted few times. The foolish trainee did not listen to this warning and decided to explore the rocky garden when suddenly the giant mouse appeared in front of him. The samurai had nothing but a small knife to defend himself as the mouse tried to reach up towards the samurai with its proud broomlike tail behind its back.
Now if you are wondering whether the samurai survived or not, I will leave this up to your creative brains to decide about what happened to the trainee and the mouse.
good luck to all in the next round