Hello All Good Steemians!
After my first contest, I have learned there is some value in having Steemit contests on a regular basis. It is beneficial to some folks and it is a fun way to engage too! Once you start having contests on a regular basis, it gives more people a chance to hear about the contests and opt in!
So, welcome to my first ever Better Than Fair To Middlin’ contest! In keeping with the name, I will continue to post the contest during the middle of each month for an unknown, but decent stretch of time!
There Will Be Variety!
I like to keep things interesting, so the challenges (and the prizes) will be a bit different each month. Pay close attention to the rules to make sure you get a chance to win a bonus prize!
Why Better Than Fair to Middlin’?
Fair to middlin’ is a phrase that many US farmers adopted as another category for describing quality of crops. Especially in the southland, where I am from, it was used to describe cotton.
Although you may find a few variations, in my homeland it means the general and somewhat variable quality or grade between poor and excellent. Not the best and not exactly average either, but definitely good enough, or maybe just a bit better!
My father was a Yankee transplant that came to the south because he was stationed at a nearby Army base. After he met my mother, he decided to make a home here. By this time the fair to middlin’ phrase had expanded to become a way of answering the question; “How are you?” My father really got a kick out of this colloquialism, and every chance he got; he would announce his status or condition as fair to middlin’!
I Want Better!
If you are doing better than fair to middlin’, you’re definitely doing well, and that’s what I want for all my fellow Steemians. Let’s do better than fair to middlin’!
August Challenge - Open to all!
Bounty
If you enter the contest you get an upvote from me, which provides a share of the bounty (amount will vary each month) that I place on each of my contest posts! So enter! What have you go to lose?
What You Need to Do!
As some of you already know, my father was a very special person in my life, so in remembrance of my dad, the first challenge is to write about a special person in your life! Tell me about someone you both love and admire, and tell me why you feel that way!
The Rules:
1 - Your entry must be no less than 300 words.
2 – Please do not go over the maximum of 800 words!
3 – Place the url/link of your entry as a comment to this post.
(Post must be easily accessed and read from the Steemit platform)
A Few More Details:
$ - Bounty for the August Better Than Fair to Middlin’ is 6 Steem.
- Contest deadline is right up until payout for this announcement post.
- I will pick my top three favorites from all the entries, so it is subjective!
Bonus Prizes:
- First Prize – 3 Steem
- Second Prize – 2 Steem and 1 Plankton
- Third Prize – 1 Steem and 2 PAL
Caveat - You must be a Plankton token owner to be eligible for a bonus prize!
(If you are not a Plankton HODLer, you can purchase Plankton in the Steem Engine.)
Good Luck to All!
Wow! Your contest is flawless. I love how you wrote it. To add more fun, let me add 1 SBI share to all 3 winners of your game, it's on me. I just realized, after HF21, we need more of those little upvoters to make it here in Steemit, so we better invest in them now. Thank you for doing this, not a lot of people are focused on quality, I like that in your own little way, you are making quality a priority. That is what has been filling my thoughts lately, how we can let the Plankton give focus to quality. Not really award winning pieces but decent posts, in preparation for what's coming after HF21.
Wow! Thank YOU for your support! I really appreciate you and what you are doing for Planktons and Steemit! <3 <3 <3
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Awesome! Will do! 😘
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Awesome contest :) Will signal boost \o/
Also sent you 5 Steems to boost the prize pool <3
Hope you will get a lot of awesome entries :D
Thank YOU so much for your support! I really appreciate it!
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"Bravo!" for doing a contest! It is, indeed, a great way to engage, and a good way to help smaller accounts grow! Perhaps I will sponsor by sending you some Steem sometime! 🙂
That would be fabulous! And hopefully you will want to compete in a few of them! Thank you!
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6 Steem sent as prizes for your next contest! 🙂
If you need some Steem-Engine tokens, too, let me know!
Wow! Thank you for being so awesomely supportive and generous!
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What a wonderful way to remember your dad! Love the idea for this contest almost as much as I love that phrase (and yes, this Yankee has actually used, "fair to middlin" on more than one occasion - not sure how it made it's way up North, but so glad it did! 😊). Putting my thinking cap on now...
💕💓💗
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STOPTo support your work, I also upvoted your post!
please check your SE Wallet, sent some PLKN for your contest.
😘. You are awesome! Thank YOU!
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My entry:
https://steemit.com/palnet/@deantonio/my-gratitude-to-the-best-ever-father-of-us
Thank you for sharing your story about your fearless and dedicated father!
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Hi @cindyhartz, can you tell me what the end date for entering your contest is? Thanks!
Hi free-reign! I posted this very late EST on 8/15,so it very much depends on what time zone you’re in! It will pay out late on the 22nd EST, and you have up until payout to enter! Does that help?
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Yes, @cindyhartz that's what I was looking for. I wanted to see if there was enough time for me to write something, as I'm working on something now. :) I'm on EST also. Thanks!
Perfect!
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Good afternoon @cindyhartz
This is my entry:
https://steempeak.com/steempeak/@cdaveboyles23/how-i-love-my-father
Thank you for contributing this wonderful story about your dear father!
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Here is my entry https://staging.busy.org/@chrismadcboy2016/my-entry-of-august-and-first-ever-better-than-fair-to-middlin-contest-by-cindyhartz hope you like it @cindyhartz.
Thank you so much for sharing your story and your sweet family with us!
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I thought you wouldn' like it @cindyhartz LOL! thank you
Do ghosts count, not that many left now for me, just ghosts
Ghosts definitely count. Three of us have already written about our favorite ghosts!
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Boy I haven't heard that term for years @cindyhartz. My grandfather used to say it all the time. Brings back fond memories, perhaps I'll start using it again :)
I have heard this phrase before but never knew the background for it. Now I know so thanks for sharing that better than middlin' anecdote!
Good luck to all who are entering the contest as well.
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Thank you Nicky! 😘
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Your dad - gotta love him! And yes, the fair to middlin' is such an apt description for not perfect and better than average for a crop. In that vein, let me share the first in a series...
https://steemit.com/broccoli/@fionasfavourites/wastenotwantnot-i-hnwy45b20s
PS - this post has been sitting waiting for me to read - for days. The days have run away from me.
Great initiative and I look forward to future contests - and to reading your selected winners' posts :D
Thank you Fiona! Daddy was/is my favorite person, bar none !I understand the feeling - where does all the time go? I need to check out your broccoli!
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Glad to meet another Daddy's girl! Miss mine - gone 19 years this November. Bless him. Enjoy the broccoli!
This is so awesome of you!! Thank you and I hope to enter!
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Thank you! 😘. I hope you enter too!
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Thank you Joan!
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Wonderful contest @cindyhartz and amazing support from some great Steemians. Great idea to use you dad as inspiration too.
You know it on the support! Daddy provides much wisdom and inspiration!
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What a great contest, I think I'll sign up for it, I'll see how to structure it!!
Awesome! I’d love to see an entry from you!
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What a great way to honor your father @cindyhartz. I hope you receive plenty of entries for you to choose from. 💕
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Thank you! 😘
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Good morning @cindyhartz
My entry:
https://partiko.app/olivia08/the-best-father-of-us-ecddd3fd2850c?referrer=olivia08
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Olivia, thank you for telling about your loving father- he is one in a million!
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Yes, now every minute of the day he proved his love to my Nanay,, what we called to a mother in she Philippines Nanay as mama and Tatay as papa. Nanay and Tatay mostly used to call a poor parent jejejeje
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My entry:
https://steemit.com/palnet/@powermom/i-miss-you-papa-and-mama
Thank you for sharing your story about your wonderful father. You will always have him with you in your mind and heart.
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My Dad used to say "Fair to middlin'" all the time when someone asked him how he was doing. I grew up in Texas and had Texas roots, so it was a phrase embedded in our culture.
Definitely a phrase that gained a lot of popularity in a great portion of the. US! 😉
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