Prompt Word: Shy Minervie and Chip 14 She looked to be around Chips age, except the platinum hair and pointy ears, and she was knocking at the screen door. The inner door was wide open, and Chip just stood there staring. She knocked again, and mumbled, “I can see you, you know.” Minervie came out of the den, walked past Chip, and came up to the screen door, “What is it I can do for you?...
Prompt Word: Fray Minervie and Chip 13 “What are you doing grandma?” Chip stuck his nose above the edge of the table to try to see better. “I’m patching this skirt of mine,” Minervie answered, pulling thread through the material. “Why?” Chip asked. A slight sigh from Minervie started her saying, “It wore out.” She pulled her work off the table to show him the hole and the patch, “so I’m fixing it....
Prompt Word: Crease Minervie and Chip 12 After drying the sheets in the kitchen near the stove, Minervie carefully folded them into a large basket, moving on to the den where she needed to get some compounding done. A while later, Minervie came back into the kitchen to find Chip sleeping on the basket. She rolled her eyes. While a cute sight to see, it was going to take some effort to get the creases out of the sheets now....
Prompt Word: Lip Minervie and Chip 11 Chip overheard Minervie in the other room, “There’s a chip on the lip,” she’d said to herself. Chip wandered into the den where Minervie was, “Grandma, I’m hungry. Where are the chips?” “Chip, no. This tea cup got a chip at the top of it, up here is called the lip. If you are hungry, I have a carrot.” “Nevermind, I’m not hungry afterall,” Chip backed away from the offer of a vegetable....