Ghost of Midnight

I love this contest!  Last year’s Nine Words for 2009 was such fun, and now the entries are pouring in for Ten Words for 2010.  Enter by posting a ten-word item to your FPF neighborhood forum between Jan. 10 and 12, 2010.  Ten great prizes worth $1,000 to be raffled off.  Here are some samples from across Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties, plus Starksboro…

• No boredom On the Forum, Seasonal expression’s Our new anthem!
• Let’s remember how lucky we are to have each other.
• Christmas cookies, bread and pie. Mega bakings made oven die.
• Front Porch Forum, best way to get your neighborhood news!
• I have always struggled to achieve the art of brevity.
• Eloquence, utilitarianism, humor, appreciation, neighborliness, information, wishes, silliness, poetry ~ WOW!
• Did you know that Chuck Norris counted to infinity – twice?
• hockeY rink, pig rOast laUghiNG, — familieS, cookouTs, fRiEndships, bonfirEs, Trust
• Five cardinal couples are hanging out here, who’s visiting you?
• 2010: Where are all the flying cars and moon shuttles?
• Vermont in the snow. Get the skis! Ready to go! Lynne Robbins
• Front Porch friends extend an electronic handshake, our 2010 salute.
• The setting sun shimmers on the smooth silvery snowy surface.
• Alpenglow in the west Cross country skiing at its best!
• Sometimes I long for the simpler life, but with FPF.
• 2010 can be 3 or 30 depending on your addition.
• The magic of a Sunrise is inspiring for the soul
• Great seeing so much FPF activity. Incentives do work!
• Pillowcase of dreams shakes snowflakes deep over old sorrow ground
• National Gorilla Suit Day is one of my favorite holidays!
• Front Porch Forum, Agent of Gentrification? You can’t be serious.
• raw milk available thru Family Cow Farmstand, local pick up
• Who came to visit? The snow tracks let me know.
• Getting warmed up isn’t just for athletes, musicians; also writers!
• Keep Conan and Let Jay Go, Hallelujah (tune Michael Row…)
• All righty – here’s my ode to trash sheds (and a bid for some sweet local loot): Creaky doors, scurries, squeaks: a “trashy” deposit for squirrel feasts.
• Horrified children, Lifeless garden, excrement. Leashed dogs make my day.
• An awesome aardark advanced across Arizona and ate amazing apples.
• Neighbors are poets, now I know it, thanks to FPF! (I love these contests – makes me want to meet all these neighbors who are so literate and creative! Coffeehouse in the NNE, anyone?)
• Sun-soaked, elongated days knead the soul of Winter’s harshness…
• THE 2. NORTH 3. WILLISTON 4. NEIGHBORS 5. TALK 6. TO 7. EACH 8. OTHER 9. IN 10. PERSON
• …now funemployed. surfing the web now gives me no joy…
• Always love to see informative posts on Front Porch Forum!
• Meet your neighbors. Remember your neighbors. Make them friends forever.
• small condo, tossing son’s baseball cards vintage nineties, want them?
• Stimulus Money has paved the way to the Unemployment office.
• Draw connections, not conclusions. Have the wisdom to join FPF!!!
• More members make a meatier matrix- nudge a neighbor now!
• One snowman says to the next, “Do you smell carrots?”
• ORIGAMI . all ages, individuals, groups . so much fun . no failure.
• Oh Barometer, Rise! Rise! Lift the ceiling of our skies!
• The pristine snow brightens January, an otherwise cold, dark month.
• Snow falls, kids sled, woodstove cranks, yep, this is winter.
• Filled my house with plants. Free on front porch forum!
• Please help build better neighborhoods by unrequested service to others.
• Ah, January. Clean slate and fresh snow. Mind the ice.
• Bliss; have book, haven’t read. Cosy, warm in feather bed.
• Local is good. Farmer’s Market and FPF equal fantastic neighbors.
• Snowflakes suspended in speckled sky Scaredy squirrels stare in silence
• Deep within the compost heap, zucchini schemes to rise again.
• There is no way to happiness, Happiness is the way.
• In case you are curious, our chickens are doing fine.
• Winooski for work, Alburg Springs for my heart and soul.
• Surprising deep winter sight: Six baffled bluebirds quiver in birches.
• Finally! Took 2 years Druggies gone Neighborhood returned? We hope.
• Vibrating foot rest On my bed, The gray cat sleeps.
• Snow comes, Snow goes, I wish we had more Snow!
• Minimal sun, snow blankets, soup is simmering, must be January.
• Here is my entry: Be yourself – everyone else is taken.
• Have love to share, health to spare, friends who care.
• How do I love FPF? Let me count the ways!
• Where does the time go? Oh, one does not know!
• “Listening more, talking less may be the path to mindfulness.”
• Have a cervix? Protect it! Free Screening Day 2010. http://freepap.org.
• “may two thousand and ten be your new best friend!”
• Those silly, slippery skis kept me from work again today!
• “Two thousand ten?” “Twenty ten?” Either way, like science fiction.
• Luxuriating at the Essex Resort and Spa… Sounds like bliss.
• Second Vermont winter, first one with wife… gotta love seconds.
• The world wide web gets local? Why it’s about time!
• Dwelling of truth, transparency, presence, vision, restoration… curing communities – 2010!
• Shoveled two hours. Street plow. Shoveled again. Sidewalk plow. Cursed.
• Can’t wait for the snow to melt at North Beach!
• Miss Christmas tree pickup? Take it to McNeill. Create electricity!
• Telecoms, crosswalks, apts. and such, FPF fun each day, much!
• Kids bickering, dark 4:00, need vacation, settle for entering raffle.
• January 11th is a numerical palindrome… backwards and forwards… 011110.
• Just my two cents today, Stressed is desserts spelled backwards.
• Oh please, oh please grant the wish of Don Slish.
• Winter, a little hard, but living life in a postcard!
• Here’s my entry: Cold January mornings turn hot coffee into warm java love.
• FPF is a great invention: thank you Michael and crew!
• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died
• smile, dance, hug, laugh – it makes a world of difference!
• Ice age hits southern US. Frozen orange juice on trees.
• Thanks, Front Porch Forum for all you do for Huntington.
• My Honda Civic, cracked rear bumper and light, any info?
• Snow’s deep, Frogs sleep, Phones peep, Many weep. Promises? Keep.
• Stringing words together shamelessly to win big prizes, that’s me.
• Front Porch rocks, from your hat down to your socks!
• Why a whole porch–just the front step will do!
• Bee, Ewe, Are, Ell, Eye, En, Gee, Tee, Oh!, En
• Let’s finally shut down Vermont Yankee! Call your legislators today!
• What’s a bird that flies over a bay? – A bagel
• PLEASE post, Your words mean most! Write ten, Hit send!!
• I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night. Mike Egan
• Celebrate small victories, ignore negative people, look for the lesson.
• Have you seen my barn roof? Godzilla ripped it off
• 2010, here we go, Front Porch Forum’s In the know!
• “Be The Change You Wish To See In The World!” -Mahatma Gandhi
• Do first things first, and second things not at all.
• Please watch out for evil skunks that lie in wait.
• Plip, plop. Dependable expert needed, To make ceiling leak stop.
• Need firewood? Extra hens? Noise? Snows? Front Porch Forum knows!
• Every year we all wish for the same thing, Peace.
• I am very grateful that FPF is in my life:)
• Teenage son moving back home. Need bed, bureau, and earplugs!
• Life is full of sunshine – let a little more in.
• Fabulous forum: message sent, published, received reply in five hours.
• Almost Haiku, can’t find my shovel, guess I’ll go south. Take Care, Tawny
• Shaker Hill listens. Barred owls call “who cooks for you?”ù
• Live, love, laugh, labor, lounge, leap, look, learn, be present!
• In need of styrofoam peanuts?  Perfect for your styrofoam elephant!
• Sacrifice? Lonely Guard wife seeks answers on “War on Terror.”
• Must turn our Country to positive light with World following!
• “Jericho Tea, a pleasant event meeting friends, glad I went”
• Spaces between fingers were created so another’s could fill them.
• Is it time to swim at Maple Street Park yet?
• Desi meows outside come to visit bringing a dead mouse.
• Without Great neighbors, Great men would remain in the shadows.
• woodworking tools desired: sanders, clamps, power tools, shop vac, vice.
• Gauthier trash can remains unclaimed at George and Peru Streets.
• Does the title count? I used numerals to be safe…
• Seeking… peace, justice, joy, laughter, compassion, respect. Please reply all.
• Borrow a ladder? A brick? A shovel? Forum for leeches…
• Oh what the heck, it’s a raffle, so here goes: 2009 ended in night. 2010 holds the promise of light. Wendy
• Discarded Christmas trees roll on greenways, making headless snow angels.
• Haiku five seven five frigid night raffle entry ten words snuggled up: Starksboro forum rural Vermont cyber seeds news, sales, friendships bloom
• Second son Sam shovels snow. Five S’s in a row!
• Raffle entry: snow for sale; seeking cat removal; lost car?
• gentrification inevitable with changing demographics — communication the heart of community.

P.S.  Posting a comment to this blog will NOT enter you in the raffle! You must post to your FPF neighborhood forum to enter the drawing.

UPDATE: Raffle winners announced!