Daily Prompt: Connect the Dots
Open your nearest book to page 82. Take the third full sentence on the page, and work it into a post somehow.
“It wasn’t long before another idea came to mind: maybe I could sell some at the Women’s Institute meetings where housewives baked cakes, made jams, pastries, pickles and many other food items to sell.”
I am not good at much. I mean I’m not particularly talented. So, when I was invited to join the Women’s Institute I was shocked. Why me? Were they desperate or what?
You see, the Women’s Institute is a club where the women actually compete by baking cakes, making jams, pastries, pickles and lots of other food items with an eye to selling them.
I don’t enjoy competition. Some garden clubs are like that too. They compete to see who has the best flower arrangements. I would wind up with one flower in a stem vase and that would leave me shaking in the composition phase. That is why I have never joined a garden club.
What to do? Should I accept the invitation to join the Women’s Institute? It wasn’t long before another idea came to mind: maybe I could make some of my coconut macaroons. They usually come out o.k. and even though my husband hates them I think they have a certain character.
So I accepted and now any time the ladies have a “cook-in” competition, I make my Macaroons. They have nicknamed me “The Macaroon Lady.”
Like I say,” I’m not good at much,” but with twenty years of practice, the macaroons have made me famous!
Note: The third sentence on Page 82 of my nearest book was from Rita Roberts, my blogger friend’s published book,
Toffee Apples & Togas, available on Amazon.com. It makes for delightful reading.
Note #2: I am not really famous, but the macaroons are pretty good.
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