Do you play Words with Friends? It’s just like Scrabble, if you’re not familiar. You can play against friends from all over the world via Facebook and/or a smartphone app. Anyway, I’ve been playing for a few weeks, and frankly, I stink. I can come up with words pretty easily. But I don’t do well creating high-scoring words. As a result, I’m regularly beaten by certain people by over 100 points. Need a self-esteem boost? I play as Steph@redclaydiaries. Challenge me to a game, and you, too, can watch me create 9-point words that set you up to create 54-pointers.

Anyway, in Words with Friends, I also have a knack for getting the difficult letters. It seems like Q ends up in my tray more often than not. And J and K and X. In honor of this, I thought I’d try to creatively write a post using a difficult letter. And through scientific method (read: I pulled it out of the air), I chose the letter K.

Brought to you by the letter K:

Knack: Did you see that up there? I’m so brilliant that I ACCIDENTALLY created a K word in the intro to this post. I obviously have a knack for useless achievements.

Knock: The noise that can be heard at our house right before the dogs launch into a cacophony (wouldn’t it be awesome if that started with K?) of barking. They’re still country dogs living in a suburban neighborhood. Therefore, if they can see/hear/smell you, then you are an intruder on the pack’s territory and must be chased away. Until I open the door. And then you’re their best friend who scratches them behind the ears.

Kangaroo: What Tess the dog looks like when she sits on her haunches. She has this unique conformation that makes it impossible for her butt to actually rest on the floor when she sits. Instead, it floats a few inches up, supported by her long, gangly hind legs. Hey, I just painted a mental picture for you of a dog’s posterior, didn’t I? I’m sorry/you’re welcome.

Kiss: What my tween daughter lovingly plants on her Daddy’s cheek when she tells him goodnight. In contrast, what the same daughter refuses to plant on my cheek or anywhere else. Why? I don’t know, but I think it’s beginning of a bumpy mother-daughter ride.

Kipper: Did your kids ever watch this show? Kipper the Dog? I don’t know if it was even on in the US for very long. But for some reason this British show became a favorite when my older two kids were little. So much so that we borrowed a video of it from the library right before our summer vacation in 2002. And played it in the car and on the VCR in the beach house over, and over,… and over. To this day, all of my memories of that vacation are sung to the tune of its theme song.

Kindling: What we have a lot of, on our heavily-forested piece of property here at the lake. Even more than we initially thought, now that we’ve noticed the huge pine tree that’s slowly dying in the front yard. Anyone need any pine straw? The driveway beneath the tree is blanketed with it.

Have you ever noticed that for words that start with K, the second letter is usually either an N or an I? I never knew that. This revelation might take my Words with Friends skills to an entirely new level. Two-digit scores, here I come!

I’m in Florida this week, but don’t worry: I’ll still be blogging. I think I’m finally back to a routine. Just bear with me as I work out the kinks. (Did you see what I did there? Boom.)

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