Weekly Challenge #173: Write something about a tree without using the word "Green."

Directions:
1. Post on the challenge thread, declaring the goals you have committed to. This must be done before midnight on Monday.
2. When you have finished your goals, post on the challenge thread again, stating what goals you have completed, how many times you have completed them, and whether any of them were combined.
3. At midnight on Saturday you are not allowed to report any more finished goals, and the challenge is over.

Rules:
1. You can repeat the weekly challenges, and get more points, but if you repeat your own personal goal, you will not get extra points.
2. The organizer has the right to veto any personal goal that seems too easy (i.e. writing a sentence).

Points:
You can earn points in these ways:
1. completing the weekly challenge
2. repeating the weekly challenge
3. completing your personal goal
4. combining your personal goal and the weekly challenge
5. and completing any bonus goals that the organizer offers.

Word warriors for August 23-29:

Miss Elizabeth: CST
Weekly challenge [incomplete]
Finish Jane Austen retelling [completed]

Mistress Kidh: GMT
Weekly challenge. [completed]
finish SW chapter. [incomplete]

Blayne B. Trent: UTC
Weekly challenge [completed]
Write 500 words [completed]
[combined]

Weekly challenge
Personal goal: Finish Jane Austen retelling
Time Zone: CST

Weekly challenge.
Personal challenge: finish SW chapter.
Time: GMT

Weekly challenge accepted. I actually wrote about a tree about last week, but I'll do it again.
Personal goal: Write 500 words (haven't been able to write recently)
Zone: UTC

Personal goal finished.

Personal, weekly, finished and combined.

I finished the weekly challenge.