Updated after week two with link below taking you to post with comments from volunteers who want to be tagged for all or various Blog Hops.
https://markbialczak.com/2014/11/14/two-weeks-down-nano-poblano-time-to-hop-in-and-volunteer/
The first of November has its fist raised.
It comes a knockin’ on our doors right after all the trick or treaters have cleaned us out of all our candy on Friday.
Are you ready for the alphabet soup of blog writing come Saturday? I’m talking NaBloPoMo, popular here on WordPress and BlogHer, the month that we bloggers can choose to band together and get better by taking an oath to post at least once each day of November.
Last year, a group called that called itself the Peppers included my blog friend — and yours too, most likely, knowing Sheena of Not a Punk Rocker.
The group was led by Rara, who came up with the cute logo above.
Sheena convinced me to take a turn hosting the Peppers this year. Fish of Gold kept the theme and came up with this year’s great version up top.
I staged the photo below, which has nothing to do with peppers and has nowhere in it a mention of 2014. But I dig the photo of my old faux Remington doodad on the screen of my newish iPad Air with bluetooth keyboard to signal the start of a big blogging month.
I want you to join Team Pepper, to take the leap, to decide that yes, you can publish a post worthy of notice every day from Nov. 1 to Nov. 30. You have what it takes to write a story. To take a photo. To write a poem. To report what your children did, or your parents did, or your classmates or coworkers or friends did. To comment about a social issue. To share a big dream and recall a striking memory and confess an altering moment.
If you get stuck, of course we have Team Pepper prompts. Sheena has collected an assortment from volunteers from last year’s group, and the first batch is posted on an accompanying page. More will follow on additional prompt pages.
I’ll offer one personal prompt here, because, well, I’m the host.
Tell us about the last time a stranger really made you stop to converse in public. Set up the situation that led up to the encounter. Describe your feelings as you started to talk, chronicle the dialogue to the best of your recollection, and tell us how you felt leaving the situation, particularly if it unfolded the way you expected or took a turn that surprised you.
Prompts are strictly voluntary, of course. Use one, use some, use none.
Remember to tag all your related posts Nano Poblano and Team Pepper.
This post will be evergreen of sorts, the meeting place for updates and comments. As the host blogger, I’ll check in here daily during November to converse, stir, steer, listen.
Consider the comment section from here on out as your roll call. If you’re joining Team Pepper, tell us a few words about yourself and your blog, and give a link to a piece you’d like teammates to check out now.
This is your BLOG ROLL. Make sure you have placed your blog link in the comment section here so all Nano Poblano team members can follow your blog this month.
Sheena says it’s a good idea to register with BlogHer come Nov. 1. I will, and you should check it out, too. She says they provide plenty of prompts and serve as a nice meeting ground.
The idea this month, after all, is to find new blogs to read, meet the people behind them, and foster an environment in which all of us become better bloggers.
Here’s the link to the WordPress notice about NaBloPoMo.
Here’s the link to BlogHer’s notices about NaBloPoMo.
Here’s the link to Sheena’s Not a Punk Rocker blog.
While I’m not a fan of real peppers, I’d like to be a pepper for this month!!! I hope that’s okay! 🙂
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You are one of us, crankygiraffe. 🙂
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Okay, here goes. I’m an English teacher poet who is teaching Creative Writing for the first time. I’ve asked my students to publish their writing on WordPress, so I am, too. Here’s my blog: http://kentonmusings.wordpress.com
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Those that can do really good, teach others to do really good. Glad you’re here, Mrs. Crawford. I’ll be visiting.
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Thanks! I don’t know if my poetry is actually good, but I figured if they have to write daily and publish it on the interwebz, I should, too.
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Doesn’t Nano Poblano roll off the tongue, Starting? OK, I hope your Internet stays up every darned day in November. Welcome.
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Mark….okay….so…..do I put the Little Peppers logo on my blog somewhere. I absolutely KNOW you have posted ALL of this information. I am on the road AGAIN and trying to write in the car and post and copy and read and respond to blogs. 🙂 Good thing I’m NOT the one driving! On the way to see an older generation and then on the way to pick up the younger generation….. I am going to be a joiner if I can remember everything I’m supposed to do! 🙂
http://bikecolleenbrown.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/the-blank-page/
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Yay yay yay. I love that you’ve joined us, Colleen. Hey Peppers, go check out Colleen’s Chatter. She is a wise writer, drawer and photo-taker. 🙂
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Aw Mark, your such a supportive and wonderful friend. 🙂 Thank you!
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Always, Colleen. 🙂
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Pick a pepper, pass a pepper. Wow, Fish of Gold. You pander us with possibility and potential powerful paths!
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Link. Read. Share. Enjoy. Comment. Be yourself.
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Blogging about painting is my norm. Writing comes harder sometimes, despite the degree and experience.
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You are talented on many levels, Martha.
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I’m not sure of that today, but thanks
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Aw shucks.
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Am I the first here or is there somewhere else to post my link to my first NaBloPoMo entry?
http://wp.me/p28tjX-1oC
I hope it pings back
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Good job, Kim. Keep it up.
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Ist November already – and here in London, UK it feels like midsummer. My blog is bits of craft, cooking and wandering about london. http://coulddoworse.me/
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And all of it so very well represented, Rachel.
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Well I think I am going to try this nano and peppery thing though I have not got a clue what I am doing. I will try to post every day unless it makes me utterly insane trying to keep up with it lol.
So here is the link to my blog, I have posted today already, not sure whether to cheat and backdate include this or write another today but heck it is Saturday, time off?
Here is the link to my blog…
http://eclecticoddsnsods.com/
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If you know now to finnagle with time links, you have taken your first step to a successful Nano Poblano November, EONS! Good work!
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Hah ive absolutely no idea what you mean and in fact other than posting once a day and displaying the image i am not sure whato do. Do i need to link back somewhere? X
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Where you type in categories on your dashboard, put in Nano Poblano. If you love your entry, or every day if you want, come back to this home page and put the link to your post in the comment box so people and click and read your work. That’s it. I think. I’m far from an expert, of course, do smarter people than I are welcome to jump in with expertise.
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hah thank you ive done this just now and how do i get my post on the blog her site, is that the official one? x
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All I did on BlogHer was register. I haven’t tried to get one of my posts on that site. Perhaps you can answer this one, Sheena?
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I did get my post on their site, it seems to be the same link up for each post I think? Did you manage it in the end? x
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Wow! Once again – 50 years later, I get to the end of your comments. :O) This sounds fun and interesting! However, I’m committed to Photography 101 this month. How can I keep up with this as a looky loo?
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Hey, I am in Photo 101 too! I figure on days I have writer’s block, the photo challenge will be my “post of the day”. 🙂
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Sounds good to me! I’m in the middle of selling my home and moving six hours south soooo, don’t know how committed I can be but would like to give it a try. However, as usual, I’m clueless about this… lol…what to do…what to do…???
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Try, try, try, PJ. That’s what you do. Put Nano Poblano in your category box. Visit his page and put your story links when you want people to read a post you think is really good. That help?
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“his” blog? Sorry, I don’t understand. Category box?
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This page. Sorry. Categories. You don’t have those? Just write and publish! We love having you aboard.
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Oh, okay now I understand! Sorry
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Does it start today?
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It does and did, PJ.
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Sounds like fun!
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It is, already, and right at the start, Mimi!
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Hmm I didn’t enter my blog link in my last comment, so I will here
it’s http://tobreatheistowrite.com
I have a little bit of everything on my blog, life stories, poetry, challenges that I do, whatever comes to mind really.
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I like your blog, JackieP, and I endorse all Nano Poblano to click over. There is my Election-Day-is-Tuesday statement for Nov. 1, thank you!
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Thanks Mark!
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Hey, Mark, is there an official Nano Poblano blogroll somewhere? It would be nice to see all the Peppers in one place so we can follow as many as possible.
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I am considering everybody who puts their link in the comment section here as the blogroll, Fish of Gold. Not clear enough, I take it? I will add something above. Thank you.
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Super Mark!
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Thank you, Catherine.
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I reaaaaaally suck at blogging every day. But I am going to try this year, because I need some people to talk with / vent to / and celebrate with for NaNoWriMo.
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That’s what we are here for, Cheney. Glad to have you with us. I popped over to your place, and like the atmosphere!
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Thanks! It’s pretty reflective of my personality I think. I spent a lot of time digging deep into css last night!
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🙂
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I wanna be a pepper too, Mark. But not a hablano. 🙂
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You are a pepper of all other varieties, Mer! Or any other genus you choose. One of us. Yay!
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I would love to join Team Pepper! I’m Kim from Drunk on Life (http://drunkonlifeblog.com/). I survived NaBloPoMo last year only to fall off the blogging wagon and into a writing rut (sorry) the very next day. The best part of the whole experience was discovering so many lovely blogs and bloggers (including Rara) and I really look forward to writing and reading in November! One of my favorite posts I’ve written was about my seasonal battles with Home Depot (http://drunkonlifeblog.com/2012/06/06/dirt-redux/)
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Awesome to have you over here with the Little Pepper for this November, Kimi. I can’t wait to read this year’s batch. I am going to click over to read about your tussle with Home Depot in a minite. 🙂
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Okay! Okay! I wanna be a pepper. How do I sign up? I pretty much post every day anyway, so bring it on, I say. How do I become official or whatever it is that I need to do? Oh wait. Do I just go to the BlogHer link and add my name? Hmm. Seems easy enough.
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Yeah, Doobster. Sign up at BlogHer and keep putting Nano Poblanos and Team Pepper in your tags so we can easily be team friendly, all of us, in November. Cool, right? Take the new logo and use that on your posts, too through the month, too. I love this stuff.
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So is this the page that I’m supposed to put the link to my blog and say a few words about myself? It’s not yet November 1st where I live (on the west coast), so I haven’t posted my first Nano Poblano post yet, but I will when I wake up tomorrow morning. In the meantime, here’s the link to my blog: http://mindfuldigressions.com/
…and if you want to hear a few words about me, go to my About page.
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This is exactly where and when and what, Doobster. Thank you. And to be a noodge of a host, who will change things midstream because, well, thoughts hit my head like lightning bolts from the sky AND this is the first time I am the Bob Barker of Nano Poblano, when you have a post you love, come back here and put the link to it in the comments and say whoa, lookie here! Or do that every day. Your choice.
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Well, I tried the pingback thing and it didn’t seem to work, so here’s my very first Nano Poblano post. Yay!
http://mindfuldigressions.com/2014/11/01/no-brainer/
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Coolest. I don’t know the pingback from the Outback. Yet. But I do know yay!
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Congratulations to Fish of Gold for coming up with the terrific logo for 2014, which I placed with pride up top, and also at the top of the accompanying prompts page. It fits so nicely with Rara’s 2013 logo. I think when she sees it, she’ll love it. Great work, Goldy. I love it.
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I’m a Pepper, you’re a…wait, someone beat me to that one.
Well, I’m in, anyway.
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I think I have heard that ditty somewhere, D.T. You are in! Yay!!
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Here’s a reminder, Team Pepper and prospective Nano Poblano squad November participants, BlogHer now has its signup forms posted on its site. Here’s the link so you can register your blog there as well as adding your link in the comment section here. We start Saturday. Cool jalapenos!
http://www.blogher.com/blogher-topics/blogging-social-media/nablopomo
I have one prompt page up on my site, and more will be added during November. BlogHer also has a prompt page. Ideas are everywhere, people, to be embraced at your panicky times of need or “used for amusement purposes only,” as they say.
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I think you will be a courteous and fun host, cool idea!
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Thanks, Bill. I hope to see a lot of your work, as I always do, you squirrelly Mecca man. Oh, that might not have been as courteous as I should be as host of Team Pepper. Come on down, ESM … 🙂
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Thanks Max, I just might. 🙂
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Damn. Wrong comment on the wong box, Apple Pie. Though I clicked Evil Squirrel’s Nest, which was next to yours. Sorry.
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If it’s good enough for… well… hmm… If it’s good enough for anyone else, it’s good enough for Mama. Count me in.
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I was a Nano Poblano last year, so I guess I’ll always be a Nano Poblano. Go Team Tiny Pepper! 🙂
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Yay Squad Small Poppers!
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Goldy, I love Logo 2014! It now sits atop this page, and the prompts page, too. Great work for Nano Poblano/Team Pepper, my friend.
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Aw, cool. Thanks!
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very cool–I will do my darndest to keep up, Mark! Food For Fun respectfully declines the invite, but for sure I’ll follow you. And I had a lovely conversation with a stranger at a music store yesterday while waiting for my daughter to finish her (sax!) lesson. Said stranger started in about how amazing the weather was and by the end of the half-hour we figured out she went to high school with my mom, which is bizarre as their hometown is maybe 120 miles from where we were sitting. Ha. Life is fun 😀 Good luck and congrats on your hosting honor. If you want refreshments served, I can always whip up cocktails and snacks.
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Hi I am Colleen of http://silverthreading.com/ and I am excited to join Team Pepper. Check out my blog. I love to write so there is a little bit of everything: short stories, poetry, haiku, photography, recipes, crafts… whatever I am up to at the moment. Looking forward to a fun month!
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Great to have you hear, Colleen, and your blog depth sounds enticing! See you throughout November.
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Thanks Mark. I am looking forward to it.
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you seem like the perfect host, friendly, organized, excited, creative, generous. i look forward to reading all of you, and hope to be a part of it in the future, but this year, life is in a busy cycle. cheers!
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Beth, you are welcome to drop in every day, always, Beth. Everybody needs to ready your world. 🙂
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I’m going to be NaBloPoMo-ing this year. I’m finding it is super hard to find other bloggers who are participating, even when I set up a google alert, nothing is coming through, and when I search, I’m mostly finding stuff for previous years.
The official site is not the one I remember from previous years, and they do NaBloPoMo monthly, which is a bit weird, how can every month be national blog posting month? 🙂 They still have nothing up for November, and there are only three days left before November in my neck of the woods.
I am hoping they will put a sign up thread soon, but in the meantime.. I’ve put a link-up on my blog in the hope of being able to find other bloggers as I have in previous years.
Each year, I add participating bloggers into my feed reader, and I also like to try and do a blog commenting challenge for NaBloPoMo, too. So you’ll see me back here in November and I’ll be following your posts, and also dropping by some of the commentors who have said they’re in here in your comment thread.
Some of my favourite bloggers have been found via NaBloPoMo in previous years, and I hope to find a few new favourites this year.
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I, too, saw that the blog you referenced had a bunch of October listings for their NaBloPoMo info, but being a first-timer, figured that it would be wiped clean for November. I’m going back later this week to check again. But really, they’re now going to do a monthly celebration/challenge of blogging every month?
In any case, see you here and at your place throughout November. It’s a pleasure.
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The November thread is now open over at BlogHer: http://www.blogher.com/novembers-nablopomo-here-join-blogroll-enter-win-pass-blogher-pro?from=pop
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Yes, I signed up yesterday. It’s time to do it!
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Posting every day is a commitment, Chum. I think you’re best suited for the role. I’ll be here cheering you on.
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Thank you, Aud. You post multiple times and almost every day, may I remind you?!
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Tops it’s 75 words a day. Not even the same ballpark, Chum.
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Yeah, but poetry, Aud. Poetry.
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*smiles*
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So…….I’m pretty impressed with your ALWAYS supporting community Mark. I’m hesitant to make any extra commitments right now on time/computer/writing/etc…. But you know I’ll still be here! 🙂
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I know you will, Collen. You can put my logo on your blog anytime you want, you know. 🙂 You post every day now, don’t you?
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Most days. If I miss it bugs me. But I’m trying to ‘let go’ of that. But I prefer to post every day. Do I wait until November to add it?
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Yeah, Nov. 1 is when I’m going to add it to every post of mine. 🙂
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Okay. 🙂 I’ll be watching! And adding.
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Still considering.
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Join us, Kim. It’s kind of loosey-goosey, drop in and have fun. So I’ve been told by past participants of the team. This is my first go-round, of course. 🙂
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I have been hiding under a rock. I must have been. Because this is the first I’ve heard of this. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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I heard all about it last November and was too afraid to sign up for it, and then posted every darn day of the month anyway. So this year, here I am agreeing to be the host for Team Pepper. You’re spicy, I know you are, Rachel. I’ve been reading your posts long enough to realize that, my friend. 🙂
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I’m a pepper, you’re a pepper, come be a pepper too! LOL Reminds me of the old Dr Pepper commercials.
I’m in like a red hot chili pepper. I usually do NaNoWriMo, but not this year. I do need the soft kick in the pants to start producing more, so here I will be.
I will steal the cute problano picture, after all it’s because of rara that this thing started, so going to use her banner in honor of everyone’s good friend Rara.
Thanks Mark for hosting! Should be a great time next month!
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Let’s all enjoy this thing together, JackieP, and of course honor Rara in the process. See you Saturday.
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I wish to sign up for Team Pepper. Where do we get the pretty poblano pictures to put on our blog?
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Welcome aboard siriuz! You can take them right from my post here, as far as I’m concerned. The typewriter/iPad photo I took, so feel free. The pepper logo, perhaps ask Sheena?
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If you (sirius) or anyone else want to put together a pepper logo/banner of sorts for the 2014 session, that works for me. I asked one person but I know they are swamped so I don’t want to pressure them. Or if anyone else is willing to photoshop something together, we can incorporate Mark’s photo too 🙂
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That’s a great invitiation, Sheena. Any artsy-graphic oriented talents are welcome to have at it for the 2014 logo.
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Well, really, what else is there to do in November, right? I hereby pledge myself to pepperdom. This is a great idea😄. Probably the push I need to quit slacking off.
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Team Pepper is slacker-approved, gradma lin! Welcome to the ranks. See you soon. 🙂
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That would be a lot reading, especially if you don’t have readers, which I don’t. I think I will just eat shrimp chile rellenos, which are made of poblanos. You have more energy than I do, 56 11/12.
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Oh, Kerbey. I want me some beef chile rellenos, por favor, medium red sauce. And you have way more energy than you admit to, my friend. You gotta kid coming up on teen soon enough. Chase, chase, chase, feed, feed, feed, cook, cook, cook, clean, clean, clean, homework done yet?
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Yay Peppers!
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I’m gonna be a pepper! I’m sure that comes with some sort of awesome pepper powers, right? 😉
I’m not sure I’ll use the prompts (since my blog is a swirling whirl of the nonsense already in my brain thing), but I may surprise myself and totally change my mind. Because I can be like that. 😀 I’ll definitely be posting every day and supporting the pepper blogs though!
Thanks for hosting!
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The prompt thing is there for the taking or not taking, nerdy. I may try one or I may not try one because, well, I got a lot swirling around upstairs, too. 🙂 But I may because it seems like stepping out on a cliff and diving off!
We are now co-peppers. Yay! See you here.
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Okily doke! Trust Rawra to come up with that adorabubble pepper, lol. ALso the Remington, good snap. Reminds me of that Ernest Hemingway quote about bleeding words at a typewriter. 🙂
Totally joining up. November, heeeeeeeere we come!! 😀
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Fantastic, purpperp! … Yeah, I’ve had the blood sweat at the typewriter, old enough for that one!
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Purpperppurpperppurpperppurrrrrperrrppurrrrrrrpeerrrrrrrpppp!!! 😀
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You’re excused. Pass the Tums? 😮
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Heeheeheeheehee XD
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ahh MB OxO …c
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Love the photo and the post, Mark. I take the pledge to publish daily. Paradoxically, I can’t promise, at this point, to take prompts or be part of the Peppers. Perhaps people will perceive me as a pill, a poop, or unpleasantly peppery. Perhaps it’s primarily because I can’t perceive or pronounce ” NaBloPoMo.” Problemo?
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Hey, I’m barging in real quick, then I promise Mark can take over 🙂 The nickname Nano Poblano came from nobody knowing how to pronounce the “official” short-title.
You don’t have to use prompts to be a pepper. You don’t have to be a pepper to use the prompts. It’s all in the spirit of fun and such while getting through posting every day in November 🙂 So if you change your mind or want to drop in, you are welcome to it!
(OK, done hijacking your blog Mark 🙂 )
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Perfect, NotAPunkRocker!
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No, please De Barge in all you want, Sheena! You have all the deep background. Lucy, you have some ‘splainin’ to do. Thanks for the clarificication. There, I hope that covers my Grateful Dead spin on your comment. 🙂
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Ann, you are a team member by persuasion, by proxy, by pure manner of commenting today and being so pleasingly into the spirit of peppering us with Annism. As Sheena says, ain’t no strict rules here.
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Luv You Too Ann XoX
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Mark, you rock! Seriously. Thanks for offering to “host” the Pepper Pages in Rara’s absence.
I guess I may participate. Maybe. 😉
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ThX
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