Hello Blurt!

in helloblurt •  4 years ago  (edited)


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Hello, Blurt! My name is Denise and I go by dswigle on almost every platform I have been on. I live in the Washington, DC Metro area and one of my favorite places to be here is down at the Capitol. It is a stunning piece of architecture, as is the rest of the downtown area. Every year, the Smithsonian Kite Festival, now called Blossom Festival litters the sky. There is something magical about seeing all those kites dancing in the air around the Capitol and the Smithsonian Castle. Pardon me while I break out in song.


Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite
Let's go fly a kite!
From Mary Poppins

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There is a challenge called #MarketFriday. Some of you here are familiar with it and many never heard of it. I started it years ago and it has become a popular place for sharing cultures, different ways of marketing around the world, and learning a little about each other. That and it is a little fun. I am going to see if it will be a fit for here. Here is where it all began.


Seriously, Where would we be without our little bird? Fly your kite, then follow the bird!


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If there was any doubt about it, I am all about the flowers. It's my thing. I love them. I do. You can always count on it. There will always be a flower in my post.


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I live for my time outdoors. Walking, hiking, looking for the next shot that catches my eye. I also have a love for finding hearts in nature. My eyes is trained for them. It is so cool to happen upon one. If you find one, let me know! I would love to see it.


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You may have noticed I'm a little eclectic, it's true!! From me to you, I lie to you not. But, that seems to be how I run on the inside and it has carried it out. Good or bad, it is part of who I am and I must own it. This is but a small piece of who I am and I hope to get to know everyone a little bit better.

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The Washington Monument, also known as "The Needle."

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Thank you for visiting my post 💖 Don't ever forget what a wonderful world we live in, people. Some days, it is not as easy to see, how awesome it really is. Kindness counts. Wherever you go, whatever you do.


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  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Welcome to blurt. Here is a couple of post that I always recommend for anyone that is new to blurt.

WELCOME

Learn the community Tags

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Thank you so much! I read them and then forgot where I saw them!! I appreciate the welcome!

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No problem 👍 they are a great place to understand more 😁

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:)) I did learn more and thanks again!

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Welcome to the Blurt! Please follow us on twitter- https://twitter.com/blurtofficial. Join our Official Discord server- Here

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Thank you and thanks for the link!

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Welcome to blurt, good to see you :D

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Haha! Hi!!! Glad to see you here! :))

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Welcome to Blurt! I'm happy to see you here. Thanks for bringing #marketfriday to this platform. I hope it will do as well here as it has on other platforms.

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Thank you! I think I will look around and see what kind of challenges they have and get to know people before I engage it. I wanted to introduce it to see how it may fare! Thanks for the welcome!!! So good to see some familiar faces!

Oh it is great to see our little friendly bird make it over to Blurt bringing the Market Friday fun with him!

After Steem and Hive, maybe the third time is a charm...

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

I am checking it out and seeing how challenges work here first, then perhaps I can do that. Hey, Market Friday is thriving on Hive and did on Steem until I moved to Hive. It would be fun to see it here.

The third time may be another charm.

Welcome

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Thank you so much. I have finally made it. :))

Welcome to Blurt, @dswigle!

I know you from giving away Steem/Hive tokens to other Users and so allow me to send you some Blurt tokens as well. As you may learn by now, there's a transaction fee for every activity you do here. It's actually cheap but it helps to have a few liquid Blurt in your wallet.

I went ahead to send you some Blurt since you're almost out of liquid tokens.

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Once again, enjoy your stay. Blurt-On!

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Thank you!! That is so kind of you! I do love tipping people and I actually didn't realize it cost me to upvote, so thank you so much for your generous gift!! I just landed today and just getting acquainted with everything! Thanks for letting me know and helping me along the way!

You are awesome!

  ·  4 years ago  ·   (edited)

Transaction Fees, this is something that might take you a few days to get accustomed to. It's something that's not experienced in Steem/Hive however based on my experience, the rewards are far greater than the fees.

Though, you might need to power-down a certain amount to keep your wallet funded with liquid tokens.

Also, feel free to check on the #blurtinitiatives (community curators). They are also very interesting curation initiatives :)

https://blurtfaq.org/wiki/FAQ_%E2%80%93_The_Bloggers_Almanac#What_are_tags

That page is maintained by @afrog and it's a reliable source of info about this chain.

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Thanks for spreading my work.
Huh! I have to change the address of FAQ. It looks horrible, when you don't mask it by markdown.

As horrible as it looks, the real value is the content. I was reading the contents earlier and realize that even I (been active for almost 3months) still learned something new from your page.

Kudos!


If it's possible to make the address shorter then that would be helpful as well.

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

I see what you mean. I wasn't aware of all the fees, and a couple people put some $$ in after they saw I ran out! Yikes. I will read more on this so it doesn't happen again. I guess I got a little overexcited upvoting. Such a bad habit when you are poor. :))

Thank you so much and I will check out these sites!

Nice to see you here! Wonderful introduction post. (Maybe someday I will get around to doing one of the those, lol.)

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

:)) Hello there!! I was so glad to come upon your post!! I just arrived today. So, tell me how you are liking it, and do you find it any different? You should do a introduce yourself post. It really lets people know you are here and you do meet new people.

Don't forget to tag it so it will be a standout as a newbie! :))

Thanks for stopping by!!!

I'm liking things a lot. Posts are paying very well and a little bit of Blurt gives some nice curation rewards. The community here is very friendly and I enjoy the fact that there aren't any flag wars. There has been a lot of growth in a short period of time and it sounds like some technical issues are being worked on. I wasn't so sure about the fees at first but it seems to be working well to reduce some spam.

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Glad you made it here too. We have a kind of war memorial here too. It's called "Chopsticks"
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Source: https://blurt.blog/photography/@ace108/10-11-war-memorial-park-or-by-ace108

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

:)) I like the name, now I will have to read about it! Thank you so much for the welcome, Ace! @ace108 Glad to see you here. It feels so much nicer with familiar faces.

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You'er welcome.

Welcome to Blurt! Please do know that everything in life takes persistence and consistence to succeed, such is applicable to Blurt. Do contribute your daily quote without plagiarism, spun words, or impersonating and engage with posts, doing this guarantee you a
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Thank you for the introduction to Blurtreviews! I look forward to checking out your post!

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Surprise! Welcome!
We have had problems with time so far, let's see how we will solve from now on, if we choose to post in two places (at least). So far, I have kept Blurt under observation and reposted from Hive. Now I notice an increase in activity and the fact that more and more colleagues are coming here. In this context I will have to start writing original posts, especially for Blurt.

I saw that you had a very nice reception, perfectly deserved for you. I join everyone who is glad to see you here.

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Haha! Yes! Time is not our friend, but, we will try to make friends with her. :)

Thank you for the welcome! I am still looking around, seeing what there is and so far, I like it. I like how the less time we have, we both search a new place and start posting there. :)

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I will try to follow you because I know you will have the same success here and that will help me too.

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

I sent you 10 blurt because here are fees for different activities (posting, commenting ...). I don't know what their value is. At first, I didn't know this and for a while I couldn't post, I couldn't reply to comments and then, because of that, I gave up.

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That makes sense now! I ran out of voting after a few posts, I didn't realize that everything has a fee!! Someone told me that a couple comments up and that has changed things for me, but, we will see how we can do with less time. Yikes, right? I kept hearing about it and more and more people joining in, so we shall see!

I just want a place to post with no drama and interesting things going on without being overwhelmed! :)
Thank you so much, Dan!! That was reallyy kind of you!

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Yes, I suffered the same. I complained about the lack of information and I didn't know where to find it.
I'm very glad to see you here, this will motivate me to take the job seriously.

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Yes!! Thank you once again!

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Welcome to blurt!

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Thank you so much!!!! :))