Sorrys

Due to the unfortunate fact that my computer decided it no longer needed to live, I can not blog anymore except on the weekend and the few days of the week that I use my neighbors computer. I will not be giving up on you, It just means that my blog post will be farther apart. Do not think you must change anything because of this, I understand that I will miss emily's and laura's challenges.



My most sincere apologies, Hadley

Scoring and challenging

Note to all you challenge do-ers, the challenges for fall are going to be harder than the summer series. Bear in mind sometimes the challenge won't take just thirty seconds like they use to!

Scoring the series will be different!

You will not automatically win credit for doing one challenge. You will win credit for doing loops. If there are maybe 9 challenges in the first loop, and Emily wins six and Laura wins two and Brittany wins one, Emily will get one Point. You get credits for challenges won and Points for loops won. The person  with the most points on DECEMBER 1, 2008, will win the fall challenge series. Please understand that I am only making this scoring system so I don't end up juggling big number scores (example: Laura has 47 and Emily has 42 and Brittany has 35)

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THOSE PARTICIPATING IN THE HADLEY PRESS FALL CHALLENGE SERIES!!! 

L1;1

Welcome to loop #1 with a ... Halloween theme! Halloween is just next month, and because it's my favorite holiday, I thought I'd get people excited about it EARLY!!

Here's your challenge you ghosts and ghouls:

Complete 4 of the 5 activities listed and post them on YOUR BLOG! If you do all five, you get an extra point!!

• Post a picture of yourself in a halloween costume
• Find a picture of an animal in a scary costume (and give credit to the site you got it from)
• Write a short story or poem about halloween
• Post a blog post on your favorite holiday and why
• Write about what your being for halloween and why

Remember: All completions of an activity listed must go on YOUR BLOG!!!!

Fall Challenge Series

GOOD AFTERNOON LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND WELCOME, TO THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 2008 FALL CHALLENGE SERIES! RIGHT HERE, ON THE HADLEY PRESS! THIS WILL BE A CHALLENGE SERIES OF PUZZLES AND GAMES, THINKING AND SEARCHING, HARD AND EASY, AND OF COURSE... FUNNNN!!!!!!

It's here! The beginning of a brand new string of brain busting, goofball, stupid easy, funny, and every other kind of challenge you can think of. It's different this time around though. My challenges last time were just random things, not similar in any way. This time, I will have mini loops (that's what I call em'). They are mini series of challenges, all linked in some way. I will label the challenges L1;9. That means "LOOP #1, CHALLENGE #9" as the loop you're in is 1, but it's the ninth challenge in that loop. It may get confusing, but don't worry.

P.S. I'll give you a clue to the first mini loop : It's black and orange typically. and many kids are excited about it. Think you know it? Post a comment!

Prize time!

*Please note, since technical difficulties prevented me from posting this earlier, understand this message is late*

Congratulations Emily on winning The summer challenge series! I will as soon as possible award you with a prize. The prize has already been selected and will be awarded in a matter of days. Please understand that I am not always available to go to the store and may not have your prize for a little while. I promise from the bottom of my heart I will get you that prize though. Please be patient.

Congrats, 

                    Hadley

Words can't describe this irritation...

I never thought such a thing was possible... I was reading Breaking Dawn and playing with a penny I had found. I went to turn the page of the book, and dropped my penny. It landed on it's edge, precariously perched in just the right posistion. I laughed, and showed dad and Nick. I had created a monster! Nick and I practiced for about half an hour. The highest anyone got was 15 pennies! FIFTEEN! But dad pointed out that the grooves on the placemat were probably holding the penny's poisition. He stated that it was most likely impossible to do it on the polished table surface. Sure enough, Nick and I proved him wrong. After Nick got his fifteen pennies, he gave up, but I wanted to prove I could make twenty. I made twenty...then fourty...then sixty... Dad was amazed! We all were. Everything was dead quite while I concentrated.  When they had to pass the table, often some pennies fell. In fact, once Nick knocked 21 of my pennies. I managed to get them back up though. We had to eat lunch in the kitchen because I didn't want to make the table shake. I was finally at eighty after lunch. Just one more row and I would have 100!!!!!! Nick, being very careless, stomped across the dining room without thinking and BAM!!! All 80 pennies went tumbling to the floor. FOUR HOURS OF WORK FOR NOTHING!!!!!! Needless to say, I'm still not really talking to him...

The first photo is my eighty successful pennies, and the other is after Nick's egghead event, the third is looking down the row of pennies when I first started, this shows how the pennies are perched.

Challenge #11

What are they thinking? I went to a town called Bennington in Vermont, and there were all these lifelike statues. Your challenge is to think of a full name (first, middle, last) and to say what they're thinking. Good Luck! P.S. The pictures you see are not all of them! There were a ton! Since the pictures won't be in order, when you write their description, make sure you describe the picture you're talking about.