I've been slacking on posting!

It's been some time since I blogged. I wasn't any more frequent at writting when I had a journel as a kid. I have been thinking about posting, just not getting around to it.

I think it's just that time of year, everything comes first except what you want to come first and enveitably something unexpected and unneeded will come up to through you off.

Things seem to be more undercontroll now (that's normally when it goes way off track around here) so we will redirect our focus to the adoption.

Our book drive efforts on a local scale have kinda fizzled. I was so motivated! But, apprently no one else was. I called every place I could think of just asking if we could use their parking lots as as pick up location or if we could post some flyers in their buildings. "NO NO NO NO. We don't suport that kind of thing." "If we did that we would be inundated with requests" That came from my own church. I was so discouraged. Our first fundraising effort beat down before we even got started. It would have been bad enough if no one had shown up but, to not even be allowed to post a flyer in your own church!!!

I will give kudos to both our local recreational centers. The Northglenn center said yes to the use of their parking lot and posting flyers without hesitation. And, although the Thornton center couldn't say yes right away, they did say they would look into it.

So we do have one place that will allow us to use the parking lot and post flyers on their message board in the lobby. Still not enough visability to get the quanity of books we needed to raise any money. I started looking at other options. I was not giving up on this idea. I knew I could help raise the funds we needed with books and promote reading which is good for everyone.

Thanks to the Longmont Library we hit on the right avenue! I was able to buy a large selection of books left over from one of their FOL sales (Friends Of The Library). They gave me a good deal and we have a grage full of books. Not, the book drive we started with but, still very successful. Thank you Longmont FOL!!!

We are also working on a car wash and flamingo flocking. those will start sometime after Easter.

I'll keep you posted!