12 Words For 2012!
We're excited to announce the return of our New Year's raffle.
Submit your posting to FPF before noon January 12 consisting of exactly 12 words and you'll be entered into a drawing* to win one of these great prizes:
• $100 Gift Certificate to the Outdoor Gear Exchange
• $100 Lake Champlain Chocolates Gift Basket
• 12 Pints of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream for Each of 5 Winners
Thanks to the local Vermont businesses who donated these wonderful prizes.
Now get creative and POST AN ENTRY!
*FPF welcomes up to two entries per day per person. Post about whatever tickles your fancy. Click on the 2010 and 2009 links to right for loads of great samples.
UPDATE: Winners just announced on the FPF blog!
Current and past entries:
12 Words for 2012
• You're a Vermonter if your car trunk doubles as extra freezer space.
• Tomorrow is my Birthday, so I yell "Hooray, I'm almost ten today!"
• Spaces between your fingers were created so that another’s could fill them!
• The snowy owl made it to Vermont, maybe there will be twelve?
10 Words for 2010
• Oh Barometer, Rise! Rise! Lift the ceiling of our skies!
• Small condo, tossing son’s baseball cards vintage
nineties, want them?
• Surprising deep winter sight: Six baffled bluebirds
quiver in birches.
• One snowman says to the next, “Do you smell carrots?”
9 Words for 2009
• Who Could Write A Poem With Just Nine Words?
• Where to sharpen hockey skates? Forum’s wisdom
pour forth!
• Neighborhood improvement idea: more block parties, fewer leaf blowers!
• Use Front Porch Forum to knit your neighborhood together.