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Weekly Wrap Up (Jun. 29 - Jul. 05)

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It was a party of North America the past week :P Well, we have to wait for Mexico in September.

Yes, Canada threw a party on Tuesday and the US of A had one on Friday. I have to admit, a Friday one sounds better :P It was a weird work week. Work Monday, off Tuesday, and then back Wednesday to Friday. I woke up this morning thinking I had to go to work. Didn't take that long to get my head screwed on right and headed back to bed at 6 AM :yes: 

So I had a hotdog to celebrate America's birthday yesterday. Then saw that crazy guy who I think ate 40.5 hotdogs in ten minutes on Coney Island :o. It takes me ten minutes to eat 1 hotdog. Guess I will probably live longer than him.

I was thinking about a question for the week, and there is a a video on the news and online that has been more or less proven not to be a hoax. It is of ball lightning in Alberta! So being true or not, you can google and see for yourself, but tell me your closest encounter(s) with lightning, or where you think you had a close encounter with lightning. I've often tell people I am the way I am, as I did get hit by lightening when I was 17. Does explain a lot, right? :gikkle: So what about you? Any positively charged stories you want to share? Were you on a golf course hiding under a tree :no:, I hope not! I wonder, is swimming in a lake really a hazard in a storm or is it like not eating an hour before going swimming, an old wives tale :unsure: I'm sure that will cause some comments :D 

I'm a wee bit tired as it is the first weekend of Stampede :cowboy: So a big Yahoo to you all. 

Monday, Cia talked about it. Even though she shouldn't have, yet she did:

Tuesday Mry went a diving, and found some chuckles:

Then on Thursday, Val gave some ideas if you are struggling with Anthology Themes:

Last but not least, Val was back with a Celebration in the Prompt:

 

 

Now how did we all do on the Words of the Day?

disdain, concomitant, pedantic, connotation, superfluous, ludicrous, imminent

 

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4 Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories

  1. Learned to Lie by Krista
  2. The Freshmen by Mark Arbour
  3. A Good Place by Mark Ponyboy Peters
  4. tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy

4 Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories

  1. Carter's Duty by Topher Lydon **Complete**
  2. Swing for the Fences by LittleBuddhaTW
  3. Secrets 3: The Road to the Future by Bill W
  4. Grip by Topher Lydon

1 Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories

  1. Curing Humanity by Wayne Gray

56 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories

  1. Flame and Frost by lomax61
  2. Life is Like a New Suit of Clothes, Charlie Boone! by Geron Kees
  3. Fates Mates & Pirates by P. E. Knapp
  4. A Love Worth Having by irivera
  5. A Chapter of Life by Tony S. **Complete**
  6. Randy for Submission, Pursuing the One by BrokenBoundariesGayErotica
  7. Misaligned by Laura S. Fox
  8. My Best Friend’s Brother Dylan Was Supposed to Be Straight by StoriesByTroy
  9. CAVU by P. E. Knapp
  10. Encrypted by Jeff Burton
  11. Love Truly Is Blind by Lee Wilson
  12. Bright Things Come to Confusion by Josh Aterovis **Complete**
  13. Ring by ChromedOutCortex
  14. Traded Goods by Yeoldebard
  15. White Sheets by Celian
  16. Hubris by ValentineDavis21
  17. BigPaws by Jack Poignet
  18. The Merge: Through a System of Control by astroguy
  19. Winter Love: with love & Ovaltine by Tony S. **Complete**
  20. The Storm Wolf: Gathering Clouds by RedMoon
  21. Everything Meant Nothing by StoriesByTroy
  22. Serenity by Albert1434
  23. Family life, but not as we know it by Robert Hugill
  24. Blood Money by Yeoldebard
  25. Do You Ship Us? by Littlelovestories
  26. The Acquisition: A Record of Compliance, Pleasure, and Ownership by BrokenBoundariesGayErotica
  27. A Silver Tongue is a Double-edged Sword by Absolute Debauchery
  28. Neighbour's Riddle by Thomas Lindblad
  29. Liar vs. Liar by Laura S. Fox
  30. Somewhere to Go by astroguy
  31. Read Me Like One of Your Gay Werewolf Stories by Inkognito
  32. A Jewel in the Dirt by Celian
  33. Comedy Shorts by Rafy
  34. Surrounded by the Darkness by Lupus
  35. Three Texas Swimmers by KKirk
  36. My Ex's Brother Drew by DanXWrites
  37. The Neighbor Across the Window by StoriesByTroy
  38. Stolen: Unearthing the Lore by lomax61 **Complete**
  39. Into the Alley and Out of the Closet by Inkognito **Complete**
  40. Not just another Summer by Robert Hugill
  41. A Life Worth Living by irivera **Complete**
  42. The Straight Gym Bro Brad Who Lets Me Crash at His Place by DanXWrites
  43. Where Love Lies: Book 2 by vanalas **Complete**
  44. Arcum Nights by mastershakeme
  45. The Brotherhood: Awakening Book II by The Writer X
  46. Bending Eli by BrokenBoundariesGayErotica
  47. Eden Revisited by Josh Aterovis **Complete**
  48. What Didn't Kill Me Became Me by Inkognito
  49. Lee: Lessons in Adulting by Bndmetl
  50. Dust in the Basement by Celian
  51. House Of Exiles by GENERAL PIGNOUF
  52. Warming The Cold One by garfwiz
  53. Overreach by Atheugorei
  54. Wolf in the City by Laura S. Fox
  55. An Everlasting Smile by Tony S. **Complete**
  56. Preachers' Sons 2: The Nineties by R. Eric

Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

 

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drsawzall

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My goodness, my closest lightning story would have been on one hot summers evening, in the back of my station wagon sans pants with a willing young participant, identically undressed, just having put our smokey 'herbal' helper out in door ashtray, (can anyone else remember cars that had ashtrays???) we were just getting past the fondling part of our evening when at least, and I would have sworn on a bible if sober, four lightning bolts hit not too far from us in rapid succession...

And as soon as the storm came upon us, it was gone and what happened next is a tale for another time....

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I used to work at a big equestrian center downstate and a big storm was predicted in the evening.  We had a lot of horses turned out, so we kept a close eye on the weather because metal horseshoes in wet pastures during lightning storms is not a good thing.  When the storm approached, it was a literal black wall of clouds creeping toward us.  Very Lord of the Rings/Armageddon type stuff.  We managed to get all the horses from the top pastures into the barn, while a couple of people ran down to the lower pastures to get the lesson horses in, even though the storm had hit at that point and we yelled at them not to.  We stood just inside the barn, trying futilely to see through the wall of torrential rain, when a lightning bolt flashed and thunder boomed immediately afterwards.  I felt the hair on my arms stand up, and we all screamed and ran away from the door.  

It turned out the bolt actually hit the lower barn.  The people had thankfully made it inside with a group of lesson horses and they told us the lightning actually arced across the blanket racks.  Terrifying! 

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The last night I spent in my former house was during a big storm and lightning struck so close that I thought it had hit the house.  Everything went completely white and the house shook.  

My grandma told me a story about her grandparents and their children taking shelter in a shed during a storm (farmers).  One of the children was sitting on a metal stove and got killed when lightning struck the building.  She was 9.

I think I'd rather write about storms/lightning than experience it close up.   

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centexhairysub

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As always thanks for the updates.  Dammit, missed one of the words this week.

Central Texas area here, so we had our share of storms this week, never underestimate Mother Nature.

Hope all are ready for the next week to begin.

A thank you to all of you that make this site what it is...  

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@wildone Knowing that you got struck by lightning is the last piece of the puzzle. I think I've said this numerous times over the years, maybe one day you'll run out of things that make me go, "huh, well that explains it..." 

I cannot watch competitive eating contests, most of them are one errant swallow away from suffocation. It is also gross. :P 

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17 minutes ago, Krista said:

@wildone Knowing that you got struck by lightning is the last piece of the puzzle. I think I've said this numerous times over the years, maybe one day you'll run out of things that make me go, "huh, well that explain it..." 

I cannot watch competitive eating contests, most of them are one errant swallow away from suffocation. It is also gross. :P 

That reminds me... Joey Chestnut actually ate 70.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes, not 40.5 :unsure: And yeah... gross.  :puke:  

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Just now, Valkyrie said:

That reminds me... Joey Chestnut actually ate 70.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes, not 40.5 :unsure: And yeah... gross.  :puke:  

That's an awful lot of deep throating.

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2 hours ago, Valkyrie said:

That reminds me... Joey Chestnut actually ate 70.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes, not 40.5 :unsure: And yeah... gross.  :puke:  

And that's 70.5 hot dogs in buns, so he had to do a lot of chewing , not deep throating @chris191070  🤪

Back in the 1980s I, and my family, lived in an old farm house, and during one storm a bolt of lightning struck our well.  It not only burned out the pump on the well, but the surge of electricity burned our multiple electrical appliances, including a microwave and two TVs.  The loud clap of thunder and everything going black at the same time definitely caused us all to jump, although we didn't look this happy.  

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I'm glad I had good homeowner insurance at the time that covered most of the cost for the items we lost.  😲

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