This is my post for #freewriters 3002 prompt the pear of despair hosted by @mariannewest
When I saw this prompt, my first thought was of the cold weather we are having, but I did not understand why the word (pear) was in it. I googled the pear of despair, how awful can we humans be to each other?
Warning for the squeamish, descriptions of medieval torture ahead!
The pear of anguish, as the name suggests, was a torture device shaped like a pear. Possibly invented in the post-medieval period, it consisted of four ‘leaves’ that were joined at the base and unfurled, like a flower, with the turn of a screw.
The pear was inserted into the victim’s mouth – or other orifices – and the leaves were opened to inflict excruciating pain. While not typically fatal, it could cause enough pain for a confession or as a precursor to more lethal forms of torture.
copied from https://www.instagram.com/p/DHBzG6kpf76/
I am not sure why the web address I copied and pasted is not showing, it is only giving me a picture of this terrible object. On my typing side, it shows a https://.instagram.com address. I do not want to finish typing the address because it will only give me another picture. Maybe it is my laptop messing up, I was so happy that I have not had the blue screen for a while now, but I had a hard time getting freewriters to come up and when I finally got to it and started typing, I got the blue screen and it shut down. It took me several tries before I could get this site to load.
In my mind *the pear of despair is our weather. I know you must be tired of me writing about it, but weather like this is a huge event where I live.
My husband bought this fancy temperature gauge. The top number tells us the temperature outside, the middle is the time, and the last one is inside our house.
When I saw this temperature this morning, I knew anything that I did not get covered has been severely damaged or dead. I have not uncovered anything because they say we will be 28 to 30 degrees tonight, which by how cold our place is, means we could be back down to 24.
The Alexa box said it was 30, I do not know where it gets its temperature from. I put my address in it when I set it up. I do know that people who I know and live a couple of streets from me did not have ice this morning.
We did, it was all over the yard and trucks.
All of Rudy's food is dead. My husband went to Walmart to get food for him, he had to run water over the truck windshield, and it froze again.
Yesterday, these arecas were not very brown. We have them growing next to our trailer, I would have thought they would have been the warmest. They are brown today, they are our biggest ones, and this spring could have been sold for 50 dollars each. It feels as if the pear of despair was used on my heart, if that is possible.
After the sun came up, it still had not made it above freezing. The only good thing was that we left the water running enough so we did not have our pipes freeze like they did yesterday morning. My husband also wrapped the well pump in a blanket.
Now the Alexa box says it is colder than the gauge my husband bought, maybe the sun is shining on the sensor to his, so I do not know what our true temperature is. I would think it is now 40, not 46 or 49.
My husband just got home from Walmart, and these are the only carrots they had. He said the produce aisle was almost empty, he was able to get a batch of kale and one stalk of romaine lettuce. Rudy will not be happy if they do not get another supply of veggies in stock. I have store bought rabbit food, but he would rather have fresh greens and grass. My husband also got the last box of hot chocolate. I am not sure about the pear in the pear of despair, but there is a lot of despair with me.
photos are mine