Strengthen the Good

I mentioned this a bit ago - and today received word of the first charity that STG is supporting.

You can read all about it by going here.

Read about how the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice will match dollar for dollar contributions made to aid victims of Hurricane Charley.

As with anything of this nature, please do your own investigation and decide for yourself if this is something that you can support. I will leave these links here for the next little while - actually, probably until I return from my trip to Ohio.

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Credit where credit is due. The lovely redesign of my blog was done as a surprise by my talented designing daughter, Lessa. I especially like the purple moose hiding back there in the background - you can see him before the page loads completely. Thanks, kiddo. Nice 'do. And, you know how I love to be surprised.

So, folks, if you are looking for a re-do of your own - Lessa's your gal. ;-)

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Okay, so I am coming down to the wire for my vacation. I leave Kenai Tuesday evening - fly to Anchorage - hop a jet to Chicago - another to Columbus, and arrive Wednesday afternoon. My friends will meet me and then comes the fun of just relaxing - doing as much or as little as we want - simply enjoying each other. There are some planned things as well, but mostly this will be a down time for me.

One of my friends from church tonight said it best - a time to heal - what a thoughtful and caring thing to say. I sometimes feel selfish for taking this extra time - after all, hubby and I just had a dream vacation in Hawaii for our anniversary - but then again . . . sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. I am blessed that he is so understanding about this - blessed to have the time off work - blessed to have friends who will put me up in their home.

And, it will be nice to get out of the smoke for a bit. Not sure, but it may be what is causing all of my sneezing and such. I'm sure that it is an allergy of some sort, but have not had it this bad in years past. So, perhaps it is all of the smoke still in the air from the various fires around the state.

Night, friends.

Posted by Purplemoose at August 22, 2004 09:24 PM