(It’s day six of Inktober, and the prompt for today is “trek.”) It was the night before the Long Trek to the Mountains, which was when the Bears gathered to sing, dance, tell stories and to give names to the babies that had been born since the last Trek. The Trek didn’t occur every year […]
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Day four of The Ultimate Blogging Challenge and Inktober. The prompt for today is exotic. The boy picked up his backpack. His parents smiled at him. But the boy was watching Baby Bear, who went into a wooded area near the beach. “I wonder what’s there,” the boy said. “You have a lot of curiosity,”
The boy set Baby Bear in his backpack. “I want you to be my playmate,” said the boy. “I’m going to go to the beach. You look sleepy. You can come to the beach, too, when you wake up.” The boy ran to the beach. He was wearing swim trunks and he was carrying beach
Baby Bear had fallen asleep in the backpack. He was unaware of being carried into a house, dropped in a corner and then, picked up again and carried again. When the backpack was opened, Baby Bear found himself on a beach. Although he was used to splashing around in the water with his family, this
before he became bearnacle bear, the seafaring bear Today is the first day of the October Ultimate Blogging Challenge. This blogging challenge occurs quarterly. It is also the first day of Inktober. I have to admit that I have completed the Ultimate Blogging Challenge a few times, but I have never completed Inktober. So… it’s
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Today, I went with two friends to the opening day of the Erie County Fair. The entry fee was a donation of four cans of food. All food was going to Feedmore of Western New York. When we arrived and donated our cans, we saw that the bins were overflowing with cans, which meant that
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Recently, I invited you to “ask me anything.” This is one of my most favorite prompts from the quarterly Ultimate Blogging Challenge. I always love the questions and I really enjoy chatting with you about them. So… here goes. Question from Nonnie Vivian: “So I have issues with what is native and what is invasive
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Today, my sister and I went to Buffalo’s Garden Walk after our workout at the gym. As I was walking to the gym, I was thinking about the prompt for today:, which is to get a bit controversial and talk about the president and how the president’s policies have helped or hindered the work that
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Today was the 18th Paddles Up in the Niagara River. It’s happened every year until last year, when stormy weather conditions caused its cancelation. I had signed up for an eco hike last year but that didn’t happen. So, I made sure to sign up for this year’s eco hike as quickly as possible. Today
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There’s a new hiking trail at Veterans Park, which is Grand Island’s town park. I had heard about it, but I wasn’t sure where in the park it was. Last week, I discovered the entrance, which is near the Miracle League baseball diamond and playground. The Miracle League gives children with disabilities the opportunity to