One of our traditions at Small Biz Survival is the Brag Basket. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one June 3-5, 2011. Since this is the time of year when we harvest wheat in Northwest Oklahoma, let’s celebrate all your harvests. What great news have you harvested lately?
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| Digital Wheat Basket By Pictoscribe on Flickr |
Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing. It’s here so you can introduce yourself, share some good news, or congratulate a friend.
Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back, you hide your good news and accomplishments that might inspire others.
Speak up and add yourself or another deserving soul in the comments. We all cheer, and everyone feels great. It lets you meet each other a bit. Reading each others’ stories brings us a bit closer to being a community.
How does it work? You write a comment on this post, email me, tweet me, or comment on Facebook. You tell something great about your week, or you give applause to someone who did good stuff this week. Or you celebrate something wonderful that you tried that failed.
This is not an ad. (I delete the ads.) It’s a conversation with friends. So jump in. And remember to cheer for each other.
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This is more about planting than harvesting, but it just happened, so I want to post.
Here in North Platte, two of our most beloved attractions, Buffalo Bill State Historical Park and the Lincoln County Historical Museum are threatened by flooding of the North Platte River. A local farmer, and soon more local farmers donated one-ton soybean bags because sandbags were in short supply, and those that were available were expensive.
Naturally, I tweeted about it, and it was picked up by tweeps in South Dakota, where they are facing devastating floods. A local feed store there is the drop-off point and they’re mobilizing farmers to donate.
We haven’t heard if it is going to be successful, as they haven’t been tested yet, but each bag is equivalent to 10-12 sandbags and can be filled in a minute using a couple of bobcats. Our locations are lining the ground with plastic, then using the bags to anchor the plastic which is then pulled over the makeshift berm.
Hope this turns out to be an answer for others facing flooding.
Muriel, I love that community spirit and ingenuity. I also love seeing the idea spread online. All our best to you, as you face the floods.
Way to go with the great use of ag supplies. My entry here also is in regard to the flooding which is so wide spread.
The Missouri River is at or above flood stage in several places and the dams in South Dakota will be slowly opened over the next few days, with levels in some places set to rise another eight feet according to the news. Many entire communities have been evacuated. I spent part of my weekend helping a friend near Omaha move his items out of his home, which is about a mile away from the river.
There was a great story in the news about a very small town in my county, Blencoe (pop. 247), and I want to designate my bragging for them tonight. They have built an earth berm around the whole town, the surrounding farmers gladly giving up the production on that land to save the town. I pray that it holds.
Shannon, that story is worth a “wow!” What a community effort.