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Did you find a painted rock with either "Signfire.net" or "#K3Rocks" on it?

The Signfire rocks act as an advertisement and as a business card so to speak. You can keep it to remember my website address or you can rehide it for someone else to find. I appreciate your help in my free guerilla advertising campaign.

The "K3Rocks" were not my idea but they definitely inspire me to participate all the time. The original #K3Rocks Facebook group is here. But it's worth looking up the hashtag on X, Bluesky, Instagram and other social networks as well.

The point of the Hide-A-Rock game is kept deliberately simple so that people of all ages & abilities can enjoy it. An artist paints a small rock and then hides it somewhere and hopes the person who finds it enjoys finding it as much as the artist enjoyed making it.

Optionally, there are other add-on rules to some hide-a-rock games, regionally, but that covers the core principle. Sometimes, a hide-a-rock game that uses an internet hashtag like #K3Rocks wants everyone who finds the rocks to photograph themselves with the rock they found and rehide it somewhere as far away as they can from the place where they found it. In this case, the "winners" of the game are the rocks that have traveled the farthest distances around the world.

When you make a purchase or a donation to Signfire you are supporting the beautification of Kankakee, IL. In my spare time, I clean up massive amounts of trash from the roadside, obscure parking lots and those weird in-between areas that aren't really anyone's job to clean up. Every attempt is made to recycle the items that I dispose of but it's not always safe or practical to do so. I have likely already picked up 800 gallons of garbage from Kankakee County alone.

The biggest litter producing culprits are gas stations, fast food restaurants and Walmarts. But occasionally dumpers who will go out in the wee hours of the morning to throw out things like mattresses, spare tires and insulation material are major problem-people in both urban & rural America.

If you would like to donate to this endeavor or my other projects, you can use my CashApp here. As I am not registered as any kind of charity, please keep all donations from $5 to $200. (I'm not trying to file a 501(c)(3) for picking up Doritos bags!)

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