Hey you! Are you looking for a Thanksgiving meal that is absolutely free! Have I got news for you! Check out the flyer below:
(I don’t like our flyer, so I had it redesigned – Thanks Monica! – and am efforting to replace our flyer, if not this year, next)
On Thanksgiving Day the Boone First United Methodist Church is providing FREE Thanksgiving meals to absolutely anybody that wants one! And as an added bonus, you can see me!
And maybe you are a person that is blessed and you already have a Thanksgiving meal waiting for you somewhere. If you haven’t noticed, food insecurity is a problem that is only getting worse as the affordability crisis gets worse and food prices are continuing to grow out of control*, so if you know somebody that could use a Thanksgiving meal for any reason at all, please forward this information to them. You might be God’s messenger that they need on that day.
*We didn’t have any diet options in the Youth Group soda stash so I bought a 12 pack of Diet Coke before Youth Group last Wednesday and it cost me $11 bucks. $11 bucks!!! I know that is a minor gripe and there are people with real problems, but those kids better enjoy every last drop!
STICKERS! A great theme! But did IT stick to enough people to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, November 10, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Sara Lockner – 1 week
2-Johnathan Stensland – 1 week
*3-Mary Green – 2 weeks
4-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 3 weeks
5-Sabas Hernandez – 3 weeks
6-Becky Parmelee – 6 weeks
*7-Suzie Brannen – 9 weeks
8-Willy McAlpine – 11 weeks
*9-Monica Jennings – 15 weeks
10-Alexis Stensland – 31 weeks
11-Deanna McClain – 45 weeks
*12-Deb Powers – 63 weeks
13-Mike Vest – 77 weeks
14-Lowell Davis – 97 weeks
15-Scott Degeneffe – 116 weeks
16-Sheri Fakhouri – 126 weeks
17-Logan Kahler – 127 weeks
*18-Nathanial Brown – 128 weeks
19-Tamara Peterson – 139 weeks
*20-Mindi Terrell – 143 weeks
21-Linda Bennett – 172 weeks
22-Sarah Toot – 173 weeks
23-Angie DeWaard – 176 weeks
*24-Dawn Krause – 179 weeks
25-Kim Barker – 187 weeks
*26-Joe Duff – 188 weeks
*27-Teresa Kahler – 199 weeks
28-Carla Stensland – 199 weeks
29-Micky Augustin – 201 weeks
30-Andy Sharp – 202 weeks
*31-Bill Wentworth – 203 weeks
32-Cathie Morton – 207 weeks
33-Elizabeth Nordeen – 208 weeks
34-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 210 weeks
Here is the list of rules for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
1. The picture must be taken between 12:01 PM today and 11 AM next Monday. This isn’t a curate your photos project. This is a get your butt off the couch and take pictures challenge!
- There is a limit of 2 submissions per person per theme. If you send me more than 2, I will use the first 2 that you submit. If you submit 2 pictures, make sure they are of different subjects.
- Deadline to submit your submission is 11 AM Central Time the following Monday. But that is a deadline. Pictures can be submitted as soon as you take them.
- To be considered the photographer of an image, you have to be the one that clicks the shutter. If you hand your camera over to somebody else to take a picture of you, you are NOT the photographer of that image.
- No screen captures. This is a photography challenge. Not a “look at what I found on the internet” challenge.
- Please include the location of where the picture was taken with your submission.
There are still 2 ways to submit:
- Email your submission to bennett@photography139.com.
- Text your submission to my Google Pixel 8 Pro.
It is the third Monday of the month and on the third week of the month I like to share a map of all the states where people have submitted from heading into today. Here is that map:
37 States and the District of Columbia (Which should be a state.)
The following states are missing from this year:
- Alabama
- Connecticut
- Hawaii
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- New Hampshire
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Virginia
- West Virginia
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates or streaks or the rules of the challenge or how to submit. You came to see the submissions and what streaks continued and what streaks flamed out:
Micky Augustin (Woodward, Iowa) – 202 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 211 weeks
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 188 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Des Moines, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 173 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 10 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Boone, Iowa) – 129 weeks
Lowell Davis (Clive, Iowa) – 98 weeks
Lowell Davis (Ames, Iowa)
Scott Degeneffe (Iowa) – 117 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 1 week
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 177 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 189 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas)
Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 127 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 16 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 128 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 200 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 180 weeks
Sara Lockner (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Boone, Iowa) – 12 weeks
Deanna McClain (Boone, Iowa) – 46 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 208 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 209 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) – 7 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Pella, Iowa) – 140 weeks
Deb Powers (Pella, Iowa) – 64 weeks
Deb Powers (Pella, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Omaha, Nebraska) – 203 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Boone, Iowa) – 32 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Ames, Iowa)
Carla Stensland (Mount Vernon, Iowa) – 200 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 144 weeks
Sarah Toot (Austin, Texas) – 174 weeks
Sarah Toot (Austin, Texas)
Mike Vest (Iowa) – 78 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 204 weeks
Submissions from 33 participants this week. A moderately liked theme.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Nebraska
- Oklahoma
- Texas
Here is the Year 12 list of places where submissions have been taken:
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Washington D.C.
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Argentina
- Chile
- Dominican Republic
- England
- Ireland
- Mexico
- Northern Ireland
- Spain
That is 37 states, 1 district, and 8 foreign countries!
There were a few milestones this week. Suzie joined the Double Digit Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Vest joined the 1.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! Woo! Carla and Teresa joined the 200 Week Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! And Cathie joined the 4 Year Streak Club!!!! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! But it wasn’t all unicorns and rainbows. Johnathan couldn’t build on last week’s submission. His streak is over before it began. Mary’s streak is done at 2 weeks. Worst of all, Jen’s streak is finished after 3 weeks!
Enough dwelling on the past! Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:
ODD CAMERA ANGLE
ODD CAMERA ANGLE! What a great theme for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
This is the fifth time ODD CAMERA ANGLE has ever been a theme. Here are some of my favorites from the Ghost of ODD CAMERA ANGLE Past:
Julie Johnson – Year 1 – Week 40
Monica Jennings – Week 326
Carla Stensland – Week 359
Micky Augustin – Week 395
To look at the entire ODD CAMERA ANGLE archive, click on the link below:
I look forward to seeing your interpretation!
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing your image in this place that is a bit odd next Monday.