#share your day (starting with turtles)
everything
needs salt in my world–
butter adds
zest—is it
any wonder my favorite
snack food is popcorn?
It’s #ShareYourDay week at Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday. Today is stormy, full of wind and rain, and I’m hunkered down inside. So I made some popcorn and wrote a shadorma for the W3 prompt from Sylvia about one of my favorite foods.
So where do the turtles come in?
The Oracle is enigmatic, as always.
starting with turtles
dressed in thousands of skyclouds–
mountain water green
method two madness 
Wunnerful wunnerful! Have you ever tried nutritional yeast on popcorn? It’s delicious! Love your turtle painting.
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Thanks Jade. I’ll have to check it out.
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I tried it the first time at the small indie movie house I used to live near. Saw a lot of good movies down there for a number of years.
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My younger daughter and I were just discussing when we thought we would go to the movies again. We always looked for Japanese animation (although she dragged me to all the Harry Potters and Star Wars films as well…)
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I love the turtle painting and accompanying haiku. (I like popcorn, too!)
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Both Nina and I are fond of turtles so you can expect to see more!
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Something to look forward to!
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Popcorn and a turtle movie! You made my day, Kerfe. That turtle is wonderful.
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Thanks Aletha. I love turtles (and popcorn).
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This is great and fantastic tribute to popcorn 🙂
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Thanks! It deserves celebration.
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I love air popped popcorn and have learned to love it without salt and butter per WW. It’s my lunch everyday!
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I could probably eat it every day too! But I save it “for a rainy day” like today as a treat.
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It’s a gluten free gift to mankind. LOL! 😀
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The painting is pretty! Popcorn is always welcome in this cold weather.
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It is! thanks Elizabeth.
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When I was little my grandfather popped the popcorn in a wire basket on a long handle over the fire in the fire place. And my grandmother shook butter salt all over it in our bowls. There’s no describing how good it tasted and what a treat it was. Popcorn is special for a lot of reasons.
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It definitely has good associations for me. My first year in college they didn’t serve meals on Sunday, so it was a staple of our diet. Luckily our dorm floor had a kitchen!
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I remember getting a really cheap very thin pan in order to make popcorn in our dorm very tiny kitchen. I had to be so careful not to burn it.
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Great job on the shadorma, and I love your haiku as well ❤ (And I love popcorn, too, as long as it's not microwaved!) 🙂
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Thanks! My popcorn is always air popped. I agree about microwave popcorn, a chemical feast.
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Ok–now I’m craving popcorn! I may have to make some later. 🙂
I love the turtles dressed in skyclouds and the art. 💙
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Thanks Merril. Popcorn seems to be a popular food!
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You’re welcome. 🙂
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is popcorn uniquely salty among snack foods? when it comes to salt, I first think of pretzels! 🥨
❤
David
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I just like salty food in general. It’s definitely not unique. I put salt on everything.
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An excellent snack – and the turtle brings back memories of Hawaii!
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Turtles are wonderful creatures. Thanks Ingrid.
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Love your turtle haiku and the illustration. I think popcorn might be the first point of divergence I’ve noticed between us. I tasted it once when I was very small and the memory still makes me shiver.
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Even identical twins diverge in some ways…
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Popcorn isn’t really a game changer after all.
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Hehe! The popcorn was a staple snack every Sunday night as a kid – my dad would make it in the “popcorn pot” and we’d eat it watching the Wonderful World of Disney. Seems my husband’s family did the same thing! Your popcorn shadorma is wonderful and triggers lots of memories for everyone!!
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It does! We’ve found the common denominator!
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Our Friday evening ritual is popcorn while watching sci-fi. I wafer-slice garlic & crisp it in oil to make garlic chips that are tossed into the popcorn. Strange, I know.
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My daughter would love that. She uses garlic like I use salt.
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This is a great poem. I love popcorn.
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Thanks Robbie. Always worth celebrating!
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💜💜💜
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You celebrated popcorn wonderfully, Kerfe!
The turtles look fabulous too.
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Thanks Punam. A food I can never resist.
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You are welcome. Me too. 🙂
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Kerfe, just lettin’ you know that this week’s W3, hosted by the brilliant Britta, is now live:
Enjoy!
❤
David
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Thanks David.
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🤗
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