[at-l] OT...Earth Friendly Christmas present

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

We donate the December part of our tithe to Heifer Project, a worldwide
organization that gives animals appropriate to the region to help destitute
people raise their standard of living.  It may be a goat, from which the
family can get milk and sell wool.  It may be a water buffalo to help in the
field.  You get to pick the animals and areas.  Great fun.  Last year, I
gave a water buffalo, David gave rabbits, and Maggie gave a goat.  We
haven't had time to decide yet for this year, but it'll be something good.
anklebear

----- Original Message -----
From: kahley <kahley7@ptd.net>
To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 12:45 PM
Subject: [at-l] OT...Earth Friendly Christmas present


> Some folks said they'd be interested in what Mike and
> I decided to buy for ourselves for our Earth Friendly
> Christmas Gift .  We were considering an on demand
> water heater but have decided to put that off until our
> existing unit dies and I get more comfortable with the
> idea of a gas appliance.
>
> I have my share of irrational fear too <sigh>
>
> Instead, we have decided to try and charm/pay our way into
> a different dock for our pontoon boat.  There is a commercial
> campsite just a few hundred yards from the place where I maintain
> the artificial reef.  If we can talk them into renting us dock space,
> even though we don't rent a campsite, it will cut down the
> amount of gas/pollution we use/cause with the boat during
> the year by a factor of 10!!!!!!   It will likely cost a lot more money,
> but the savings in gas/oil as well as time means it fits with
> our formula for our Earth Friendly Christmas Gift
>
> Since summer is a while off, and since the contributions to
> local charities in general and the shelter with which we are
> involved, in particular, are down since 9/11, we are taking the
> $400 bucks we had allotted for Christmas and buying toys.
>
> Yesterday I stated and what a hoot!  You can really stretch a
> dollar if you try and I filled the car with dolls and stuffed toys
> and action figures.  Now I'm going out and spend the other
> 200 on games and books.  It has been soooooo much fun!!!!!
>
> I hope any of you who can will consider buying a toy or 12
> and donating it to a local shelter.  They are out there.  "Haven"
> is in the county seat of the next county so maybe it could
> be 30 miles away but there are kids everywhere who really need
> a bit of your Christmas generosity.
>
> I found the most excellent big, stuffed lions and leopards and
> Siberian tigers (no lynx there either <g>) at Kmart for 8.00.
> I would have flipped to get one of these when I was a kid!
> They are wonderful!!!!
>
> Tis the season to be nice to the Earth and to the Kids!!!!!!!
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