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Ten calendars! Ten winners! (Pictured in this post are just some of the calendar pages from A Very Clover Calendar. You can see the entire calendar at my CafePress page.)
Without a doubt, the most wonderful readers on the internet are right here. Not only are you wonderful to me, you are wonderful to each other. YOU amaze ME every day. A few days ago, I received an incredible email. I can’t tell you the whole story. I can’t tell you the name of the lovely person providing this giveaway. She would like to remain anonymous. What I can tell you is why she is doing this. She recently lost a dear loved one and the holidays are very difficult for her this year. Rather than dwell on her own sadness, she wants to do something to bring happiness to others. And so she offered to provide ten 2010 Chickens in the Road calendars to the readers of my blog. It was, she said, the money she would have spent on Christmas gifts this year for the loved one she has lost. (Can you read this without crying? I can’t!)
It’s very important to her that the contest be open to everyone–not just U.S. readers. Everyone can enter, no matter where you live!
Contest entry period: You can enter to be one of the ten winners every day starting today (November 18) until 6 p.m. (U.S. Eastern time) on November 25. The winners will be drawn that evening (November 25) so that I can have my blog, with the winners, set and ready to appear at my usual early-morning posting time on Thanksgiving Day (November 26).
Prizes: Ten calendars will be given away by random drawing. There will be ten winners, one calendar for each winner. (If you’ve already bought the 2010 Chickens in the Road calendar, you can still enter! You might win a second one to give away and share the love!)
Who is eligible: EVERYONE!
How to enter: Two ways to enter!
1. You can enter once per day by leaving a comment on the latest blog post.
2. You can get in additional (up to 10 more) entries every day by posting on the Chickens in the Road forum. Each forum post you make (up to 10 per day) counts as an additional entry. The only thing I ask there is that you please actually join in and participate in (or start) discussions on the forum as your entries. (Please don’t simply post something like “contest entry!” as your forum posts–those won’t count.) We have a lot of fun over there, so I hope this will encourage some of you to c’mon! Talk to us!
*Note: It’s not necessary to state in either your blog comments or in your forum posts that you are posting as a contest entry. ALL blog comments (one per day per person) and forum posts (up to 10 per day per person) will be automatically entered in the drawing.
Good luck to everyone! You have all given so much to me simply by being here (not to mention all the voting!), and I am so glad to be able to provide this opportunity to give something back to you. And thank you thank you thank you to the anonymous donor making it possible!
Please vote today to help me get this job! Read why I want this job so badly here if you missed it. Remember that you can vote every day. And please tell everybody you know? (If you weren’t here yesterday, see my contestant video either here or at my voting page on the SAM-e site.)
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Click here to vote!
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THANK YOU! Watch the vote count here. It’s sort of addicting. (They have now sorted the list alphabetically, so you’ll find me near the bottom.)
The voting runs through December 7. These are early, early days yet and the competition is going to be fierce, so please stay with me!
And don’t forget–comment here for your first entry of the day for the calendar giveaway. Then go here to make additional entries: The Chickens in the Road forum.
UPDATE: This contest is now closed. The winners are (by random drawing from all blog and forum comments during the contest period–identification is referring to how you post or your username if registered):
Valerie
Box Call
M.J.
Julie Harwood
Helen
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Darlene
CityGirl
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I voted!
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I voted! :-)
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As an aspiring writer myself, I also admire the extent of your blog. I just started blogging recently and hope to one day have as many readers as you do.
Again, great video and good luck with everything!
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Should we also comment on the picture you post daily, or just the written entry that you post each day? (Ok, it’s late and I should be in BED! Actually, it’ spast late and gone on to be EARLY! kwim?
I’ve voted and will keep voting.
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I would LOVE one of your calendars, Ive been lurking here for a while now…..
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Suzanne, I love your video for the contest – chickens and ducks – wonderful and very cute.
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Clover would look lovely in my kitchen!
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I voted!!! Upward and On!
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I love the pictures, but my fav is the first one with the tiara.
Great calendar.
Voted!
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What a generous thing to do to honor his or her memory. May we all be so giving during this holiday season by giving something back to others.
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I laughed at the above photo comments! Very nicely done!
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Just an idea and yes, I would love a copy (censored or uncensored version)!
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Clover is just the cutest thing.
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Suzanne, what I love about this blog is that it isn’t all about you, that it isn’t shallow, that it’s pure and fun and honest.
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I am heading over to vote for you now.
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(Where did all the kitty gravatars go!?
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Thank you Annonymous Donor, I’m so sorry for your loss
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You have gives us so much just by sharing your life with us. You have been such a blessing to me. I made your Grandmothers bread last night and as soon as I started putting the flour into the yeast mixture, the smell was amazing! Brought back so many memories of my mom baking bread. Thank you!
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Voted again today: 2039 votes.
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After I wiped the tears that volunteered after reading that you have a reader who is going through some sorrowful times. My prayers go out to that person.
And if I win a Chickens in the Road Calendar, well, that wouldn’t be a bad thing! I love all the pictures of Clover, and I think her being on my wall all year would just bring a smile to my face every day!
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Voted again and posted it to my FB page!! w000t!!!!
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Blessings to the anonymous donor.
~Andrea~
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By the way – if you have a computer at work and a computer at home you can vote twice in a day! Don’t know if this is cheating or not, but Suzanne is so very deserving to win the Good Mood Blogger I’ll take a chance!
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I’ve been lurking and reading your blog for a while now and really enjoy it.
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Ok, so I am a little jet lagged and ended up voting last night instead of in the morning when I usually read your blog and vote. And when I went to vote this morning, it thought I had already done so. Just a reminder to readers that the “day” in most internet contests such as this is not a physical calendar day, but a 24 hour (sometimes less) time period. I will be back tonight to vote, but I need to work my way back to morning so I can vote when I read. Either that or you will have to make two posts everyday!!
ps: Had a new calf born while I was gone.
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OMG!!–I must check the voting nearly once an hour–it is like a child waiting for Christmas morning!!
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–Cathy
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I voted and have it set up to vote from my phone.
Thanks for making it easy to be able to vote.
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And what could be better than a little bit of Clover?
Well, maybe Annabelle, or the chickens, or giant puppy, or boomer, or the ducks,
oh my, we love them all!
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I saw that someone here takes Sam-e, I’m thinking about trying it too, I just read the info about it yesterday and I’m still deciding.
Go Suzanne!!!
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Thanks to the donor for the contest and I hope she knows that my heart goes out to her for her loss.
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I voted yesterday and today. I sure hope you win.
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How nice that another applicant for the Sam-E job was impressed enough with your video to come and visit your blog, and to pay you such lovely compliments! That’s the true spirit the Sam-E people are looking for, someone who can inspire even her competitors to be generous toward her!
Along with so many others, I would like to express my heartfelt condolences to the lady who will be experiencing the holidays without her loved one. I pray she’ll take some comfort from the many warm thoughts winging her way here.
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(I learned that “trick” from my kids. lol)
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I do want to shout that “I’m finally a grandma!!!” My daughter had an absolutely beautiful, perfect boy yesterday, 11/17, by C-section. He leaped into the world at 8lb 12oz, 21.5 inches long. I’m sorry interrupt your blog with this, Suzanne, but I’m just so excited!!!
And boy, are you way ahead in the votes!!!
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And I love Clover! I told my DH I wanted a goat. He decided it was time to commit me…
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I have to also say – that contest ain’t even close! I now crown you the winner, early!
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I just love your blog. I am voting for you every day and I pray that you will win. My husband just started a new job after being unemployed for 10 months. It is so hard dealing with unemployment and how to pay for everything without the money coming in. I too have a farm and was worried sick about my animals and that I wasn’t able to provide for them like I was used to in the past (with weekly paychecks!). We (husband and I) “did without” more than they did though…. but, now it’s getting all better again. Pray does work!
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I’d LOVE to have a Chickens in the Road calendar hanging on my wall!
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I can sympathize more than you know. I lost my mother on November 25, 2006. Thanksgiving that year didn’t exist for us. It’s still hard to make it through this holiday.
I hope you find some peace and know that you’ll make 10 people very, very happy!!
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I voted every day the last time and I will this time too.
Good Luck!!!!
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I think the Same E is looking good and I sure vote everyday.
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Suzanne I can’t believe Clover puts up with some of that stuff.LOL
I hope you get the job. The voting is nerve racking.LOL Off to vote
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Does this work like DWTS? Our votes count half, Sam-e votes count half?
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Second, I love voting for you, Suzanne and I’ll be voting every day and making sure to encourage all my friends and family to vote too. We won’t be happy until you’ve got that job!
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Your soft-spoken voice matches your gentle spirit; you made a great video. Good Luck!
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Meanwhile, I have been voting for you each day. I’m dismayed that another competitor has almost 2000 votes – yikes! I will keep at it and hope others will do the say to keep you way above the fray.
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about it reminds me of the Cool-rise white bread that my dad used to like to make. I’m really looking forward to spending some time here, too bad I’m at work right now!
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Glad to see you doing so well in the contest and will vote from my home computer this evening. I heading to the forum next to see what’s going on. Happy Wednesday.
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You are absolutely going to win. All of us just know it!
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Clover is just too cute in the pics!
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Voted for today.
Thank you to anonymous for their generosity! I am really sorry about your loss and I hope this holiday season you will find comfort all over the place. Wherever you are, here’s a
just for you.
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Prayers to the lovely lady who is donating the CITR Calendars for your contest! I hope that she does well and that this contest helps lighten her heart.
You don’t have to enter me in the contest since I get to pet Clover and feed her cookies on a semi-regular basis. I am very grateful to all the loyal bloggers out there who are supporting my wonderful cousin, Suzanne. Suzanne is a peach!
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What a sweet thing for that lady to do in the memory of her loved one!
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off to vote for you on Sam-E !!! Good Luck!!
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Suzanne: YOU WILL WIN THE CONTEST!!!!!! No doubt!!!
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Thanks for such a lovely story….what a sweetheart she must be.
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I have the sam-e button on my site.
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Adding my thanks and wishes for comfort to the dear one who donated the calendars.
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I’ll have a look at SAM-e, too.
Much love to you and the anonymous doner! CITR Calendar come to me!
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On another note, I AM addicted to watching the vote tally. If this goes on much longer I’ll need a 12 step program.
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I voted on my home computer, on my work computer, and on my phone. Am I obsessed with Suzanne winning this job or what?
Love you, Suzanne! Reading your blog has helped me find the joy in ordinary splendor each day! Now, kick their butts!
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Yep…..smiling goats………what a great way to begin your day!
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I read a book that teaches a new no knead, refrigerator bread baking technique and I wondering if Grandma Bread will work for it. I’m putting that on my list too.
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Have a great day!
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