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2007.01.31

February 2007 Blog Challenge

It’s been just over a year, I believe, since the last blog challenge has been issued. I miss these things. They gave me a goal for writing which is sometimes all the motivation I need. What is a blog challenge, you ask? Basically someone sets a goal for participants to write about for a fixed period of time (somewhere along the line it became a month).

Previous challenges included a post a day for a solid week (which turned into a month!), two “thank you” challenges, a yearly goals challenge (I think I failed miserably on that one!), dealing with the alphabet, a non-blogging challenge, tips and tricks, a formative school event challenge, and a favourite posts listing..

I’ve thought about what to come up with for this month. I started off thinking it would be fun to redo the alphabet challenge. Now I’m thinking about found items.

Found items are the objects that unexpectedly pop into your life that are so out of place or interesting that you take notice. They affect you. Sometimes it’s a letter tucked into a book (read the PPS) but it could be telescopes set up on a sidewalk by neighbors to show people the transit of Mercury or legs coming out of a hole in the ground.

So for the challenge… Describe three items you’ve found. This can be done in a single article or in several.

1: The item must not have been yours when found.
2: It must be a physical object.
3: If found more than a couple months in the past it must be something you still have. Obviously this doesn’t apply for things you find “that day.”
4: Extra “points” for pictures and stories if you have them!

Leave a comment if you’re up for the challenge. Be sure to link to your site so we can follow along (or better, link to your posts about found items!). Let the challenge begin!