Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Challenge: Book-Based Project or Hobby

This is part of the weekly Blogging Challenge over at Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate, you can find the prompts here. They also put up a post every Wednesday where you go and link your response -- and see everyone else's. Check out their homepage to find it.

Today's challenge is "a project or hobby of mine inspired by a book", and... I don't really have much of an answer for that. I mean, when my parents made me learn an instrument in fifth grade, I chose the harmonica because of Escape To Witch Mountain, but I'm not sure that counts:
A. It was because of the movie; I only read the book later. (The book is actually really good, though.)
B. I only practiced Harmonica for a year; sixth grade was guitar, and eighth grade was piano.

However, there was a recent project inspired by a book. It just... wasn't entirely mine. It was a school project that I helped Firstborn with. And if you really want the full details on that - along with advice and guidance on how to build a 3D cardboard map - you can find it under the School Projects Will Be The Death Of Me tag.

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  1. That was a great series of posts. I hope your kids never have projects like that one again. :D

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    1. Never let it be said that I didn't support my kids' schooling...

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  2. LOL Death by Science Project. I hope you don't have to go through that again. But I enjoyed reading it. LOL Thanks for sharing. Here's mine though not so entertaining I'm sure. https://www.tenastetler.com/a-project-or-hobby-inspired-by-a-book/

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    1. The science project turned out to be worse than the map.

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  3. that's a great thing. I would love to learn to play the harmonica.

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    1. It was kind of fun. Though in retrospect, the early days of practice were probably pretty painful for my parents.

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  4. I shudder at the memories of school projects, Michael! Ha! Great post!

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    1. It's going to take a long time for those scars to fade, I suspect...

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  5. I don't know what your child received as a grade, but I'd have given him an A. An A+ if he'd gotten approval earlier. Thanks for coming by.

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    1. He did pretty well on the science fair, but the cardboard map I was fairly proud of just because he did about 90% of the work. I just showed him to do it, and set up work areas so he wouldn't (for example) accidentally spraypaint my car while working in the garage.

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  6. Can I just tell you how glad I am I homeschooled my kid through elementary school and didn't have to do that kind of a school project? We did a lot of things with bugs and dogs, lol...

    And, IMHO, the harmonica counts if my fire lizard does (finally found the picture of me holding the dang thing and put it on the post, lol). Thanks for visiting earlier!

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    1. Oh, I'm going to have to go back and look at that!

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  7. So of course I had to go look at the Great Cartography Project. So funny! Thanks for sharing, Michael.
    And I think the harmonica counts too!

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    1. I was actually really pleased with the way it turned out, but Lordy there's a reason why I don't do those kinds of projects unless I have to.

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  8. Funnily enough, I never learned any musical instrument. I rather wish I had.

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    1. I was never interested enough to get particularly good at it, but I can't say I never had the chance.

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