Before I start, an apology and a request:
- sorry we're a day late with this - we try to get this out on a Wednesday, but I think you will understand
- please spare a thought for @lizelle, our Dizzy Blonde founder, who's had an especially challenging time, especially in the last few days, as she explains in her Hive birthday post.
This is a difficult time for our country. I do have to believe that we will get through it and come out stronger.
TL;DN(W)R
(Translation: too long; didn't (don't want to) read.... It'll just take 5 minutes...
If you don't want to read too much, skip to the end and for the #bow winner and the new topic.
The 12 July edition of the #bow
We had a record number of entries again this week: a total of 14, of which 11 met the criteria.
The panel, which at the moment does not include @tarazkp who's on a leave of absence, could not reach consensus on three, let alone one, and which tells you a bit about the standard of entries. Again. Do pop over and read the contributions (not mentioned below) and which are in the announcement post comments here. Remember that even though payout dates may have gone, you can still comment and reward deserving posts by sending a tip.
What's in a name?
This topic, it seems, really did get folk going - both about their Hive handles, their given names and their Sassy Silver names. Remember that if you've not chosen your Silver Blogger's name, you can still do so. Find out here. When you choose your name, please leave a comment here or on that post and when you do, please tag either @lizelle or @fionasfavourites, to alert us to update the community.
Silver thumbs and goats
As I have already said, we were spoilt for choice with entries this week, so we did have to use the random pick tool to absolve us of responsibility help us out.
There were four posts in contention, and the one, sadly, randomly "chucked out," was from our Silver Goat, @johannpiber whose sassy silver name is part of his blockchain story. He reminded us of another blockchain character, @janton who's not been around for a while. Read the Silver Goat's story here.
We were also charmed by little @cicisaja's maiden contribution to the community and the contest. Not only does she give us the "thumbs up", but she's chosen "Silver Thumb" as her nom de plume. Read that story and the one about her RL nickname here.
SourceThe stories behind Dizzy Blond and Silver Flower
With this edition, two members of the panel shared their stories. Read why Lizelle thinks she's a Dizzy Blonde (we all know she's far from it, right?), here, and my longwinded explanation of Silver Flower here.
The silver selection - the top 3
As I mentioned, there were four entries between which we had difficulty choosing, and so we used the online random pick thingy to make the decision for us. All four were put the box -
and the top three are -
From the top three, of course, we had to select a winner, so we went back for a lucky draw:
...and the winner is....
Now, a little about each, presented in the "pick" order, and saving the winning contribution for last.
Meet Silver Crow
Olga relates a story of always being an outlier (I certainly relate) which, along with her love of birds, explains her choice of name.
The Silver Mama Chef
@artywink's name, too, has its foundation in RL. This photograph of her grandchildren only partly explains the story:
According to her family, she "can make anything out of nothing when it comes to food" and as she tells us, they regularly put that to the test.
Blog of the Week: Meet Silver Jackie O
Did you know that we have a Jackie O among us? Well, we do. @farm-mom's poignant memories of the Kennedy assassination and her fascination with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - and then some - is a heartwarming and fun read, especially that she really is Jackie O in real life.
Congratulations - a deserving "random" pick!
What @farm-mom wins
Silver Jackie O wins 50% of rewards on this post so her account has been set as a beneficiary.
Theme for the week ending 26 July 2021
The theme for the new week
"That one childhood memory that lives with you"
Remember to let your imagination go, and have fun!
If you have topic suggestions, please leave them in the comments? They don't have to include "silver" - themes can be what you will and content creators will make of them what they will.
How to enter your post for the Blog of the Week (#BoW)
- Posts must be in English and obviously centre on the week’s topic.
- Prose must be a minimum of 350 words. If it’s a photo or graphic essay, the photos must be your original work and preferably with some sort of back-story to the images.
- The blog must be posted in/from our community
- Tag it #BoW - blog of the week. And follow the tag so you can easily find other entries.
- Share the link to your post in the comments of this post.
Deadlines
The contest closes at midnight GMT (also known as UTC) on Monday 26 July 2021 and the winners will be announced later the following week.
The panel
Thanks as always to the panel headed up by @lizelle, with @papilloncharity, @ericvancewalton, @tarazkp and I (@fionasfavourites). We may, from time to time contribute to #bow, but will not be considered for prizes.
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Congratulations to the three winners and I am impressed with your writing skills, but of course it comes with age, no actually I meant with with practice 🤣
I saw a funny goat up there with flies all around his head, I wonder is that's the Austrian mountain goat @johannpiber 😉
Thank you also to all of the entrants.
Blessings to all.
Haha, you have seen right, Zac, but hese are not ordinary flies flying around the head, this is living food that you don't need a refrigerator for - happy flying around till the last second of their lifes. However, you should eat the mayflies within a day ... FYI: these flies are called "One-day-flies" in German 😁
!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
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Nope Hannes, I don't think that I will have "One day flies" on my menu and you mountain goats eat funny things 🤣
Living food ??? Never heard of that and I don't like to eat things that are alive. In fact, I make sure that whatever I eat is as dead as a door nail 💀
Cheers and thanks.
There's not much to eat in the mountains - most we have rocks and moss, and so some meat inbetween is nice to have 😉
Haha, I would love to know how many midges you have eaten in your life. I have eaten quite some when I was outdoors and let the front door open for them. I also remember 2 wasps when I was drinking beer from the bottle. Luckily I drank faster than they realized where hey were, so they ended in my stomach without stinging me 😁
!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
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Oh yeah, a nice change from the moss methinks.
Yes, when I first had my bike, helmets was not compulsary and I had a tin of insects stinging my face on the road.
Hahaha, that must have been so funny and maybe the poor wasps are still swimming around somewhere inside you 🤣
Cheers and thanks.
Ah yes, I forgot you have told me before that you rode without a helmet. Of course you must have eaten quite some of these and sometimes came home without being hungry 🤣
It's a weird feeling when you feel one in your mouth. Once I spit one out, but the others I quickly swallowed before they could sting me. They must have died happily and drunk 😁
!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
!invest_vote
Thank goodness that I could not gain any weight, else I would have been fat from all of the eats 🤣
Live things in one's mouth is normally a weird feeling and they only wanted to inspect your tonsils. A bottle of whiskey in your stomach will kill any insect, but you were kind to make them drunk before they died 😉
Cheers and thanks.
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Congratulations @farm-mom and @bartolomee for your excellent posts.well done. We are having a very trying time here in South Africa at the moment, hope to get back to Hive soon. Stay safe and God bless.
I heard about all the turmoil in South Africa, so sorry for your troubles. Thanks for the congrats, #silverbloggers is an awesome community.
Dear @johannpiber, colleague!
I admire your excellent portrait of the beautiful Silver Goat! 😺
Let your old bones serve you well for a long time! 😉
Hi @bartolomee,
thank you so much, but most of the honour belong to the goat and to @janton. I am sure to meet the goat soon again to tell him, and I hope to also meet @janton 😀
Have a great day and wonderful weekend ahead 🌞
!BEER and !PIZZA - nice 😃
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Thank you, Johann!
I wish you well!
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Congratulations to our winner Jackie O'Silver, we loved the story behind your name and a big congrats to everyone who made the top 4 and to all our awesome #silverbloggers who shared their stories. You all brighten my day each time I read your blogs. The past couple of months have been really difficult but the happenings of this past week has just been beyond belief!
Hi champs, prompted by @fionasfavourites here's my link/entry.
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@galenkp/a-story-from-my-youth-the-ugly-tree
Yay!
I love how excited you are. :)
Thank you so much0
You're welcome. :)
Also, I hope things are levelling out over your way. Stay safe.
Hello, it is a pleasure to share my participation.
A cordial greeting to the community "Silver Bloggers", which brings for today... https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@latinllanes/that-one-childhood-memory-that-lives-with-you-latinllanes
Hello my fellow Silver Beings!! I've enjoyed reading all of your entries to this contest. Many of your entries have reawakened forgotten memories of my own. Thank you so much for that.
Here's mine
Hi everyone here is my official link for the #bow
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@mrenglish/farming-is-fun-and-highly-rewarding#@hive-106316/re-mrenglish-qwna9c
My entry for the new bow
https://ecency.com/hive-106316/@positivesteem/bow-that-one-childhood-memory
My post for That one childhood memory that lives with you
https://ecency.com/hive-106316/@antikus369/the-theme-for-the-new
oh my goodness... I love this community so much💚
after all.. we are all winners!
sorry for being too lazy after my first post. Thanks everyone
Here is my entry to #BOW
https://ecency.com/hive-106316/@pandamama/that-one-childhood-memory-that
Congratulations to the winners! I really enjoyed reading all of the entries. Many thanks to all of the participants!
Thank you! Your opinion and interest in our stories are very valuable!
It was my pleasure. I hope you enjoy your weekend!
Oh! Sure, I’ll love the weekend!
It’s very hot, +40...
You can’t go outside...
I’ll be canning fresh cucumbers...
And knitting a turtle for the reptile contest.
Where else will I get a reptile?
We’ll have to tie the turtle up! 😺
Wow, that is hot! This summer has been interesting to say the least. Do you pickle the cucumbers?
It is hot...
Cucumbers this time I will first ferment.
And then close in banks.
I prefer fermented cucumbers to marinated cucumbers.
I've never tried fermented cucumbers. I'm sure they're full of good probiotics like kimchi or sauerkraut.
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I’m really glad the Silver Bloggers community liked my story!
Great thanks to all my retired friends and half-pensioners!
We will develop our community in the future! ❤️
Haha, don't be sad, only one can win and @farm-mom aka Jacky O'Silver has posted a great and very emotional story about her name - congratulations @farm-mom ... and all other
elderlywell matured people here 😁!BEER and !WINE and !PIZZA - perfect 😃
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Hey there Silver Goat, thanks for the congrats, right back at you. That picture of the goat was so cool. Nice going, see ya around the community.
Good morning Jacky O'Silver,
all my pleasure, your post deserved the win, and thank you so much kindly 😊
I wish you a wonderful weekend ahead 🌞
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I loved reading these entries, this contest was a clever way to get folks to talk about stuff they might not otherwise have told us.
Congrats to all, and see you for the next one!!
Oh wow! Thanks so much, it's an honor, appreciate all the support and encouragement.
We have a nice community in #silverbloggers, so everyone is a winner in my mind.
Congratulations one and all.
Congratulations @farm-mom Silver Jackie O! It was the perfect pick and absolutely deserved.
All the stories were interesting and give us all a chance to be creative in our own individual way.
Thanks for your nice words, glad you liked my #silverblogger name, a little sassy for sure.
Have a great weekend.
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Hello, I would like to share with you my participation
Hello to all the hive community and especially to the silver bloggers communi... https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@soyjudith/that-one-childhood-memory-that-lives-with-you
Congratulations to all of the winners well deserved you'll.
Hi everyone, here is my unofficial #BoW, hope you enjoy it ;)
Seaside Memoirs - Mermaids and Silvery delights
Done!! THANK YOU for the contests and prompts. I've got to navigate the tricky, tecky (tech) territory of delegating and autovoting and all that. This community is the only on at Hive I've found time for all year. That's how good y'all are. :) (And how far behind I am, sorry, all other communities I've neglected!!)
https://hive.blog/hive-106316/@carolkean/country-roads-earth-wind-and-fire-defining-elements-of-that-one-memory-of-childhood-on-a-farm
My post on Contest: Blog of the Week: "That one childhood memory that lives with you"!
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@bartolomee/blog-of-the-week-that
Here's my entry to #bow
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@farm-mom/the-carnival-is-in-townbow
This is my contribution to #bow week My childhood memories, thanks for the opportunity to take part.
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@artywink/when-i-wanted-to-be-a-mermaid-my-child-hood-memories
Here is my entry #BoW
Thank you #Silver Bloggers community for giving us all an opportunity to tell a little part of the story of our past.
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@thebigsweed/facing-disappointment-in-my-youth