Today is September 17th, 2025!

Greetings and salutations, dear Reader, and welcome to this obscure, American blog! It's pretty hot to many of you for this time of year, at least if you're here in the Northern Hemisphere. According to Google, it's only 73F outside, but I'm in my mid-fifties and, *man* am I hot right now! 😂

I sure hope this grant-writing thing takes off soon, we're pretty sick and tired of living in a $300, 30 year old 5th wheel camper. We are grateful, we make it work, but naturally, better is better; right? He's on retirement, and I hadn't worked for nearly ten years, primarily due to my health. Recently I've found that I can do grant-writing from home, at any and all hours, and that accommodates my need for frequent rest and multiple doctor appointments. Primarily, though, if I'm able to actually help secure funding for the numerous nonprofits who need the help, that's aces in my book - everyone wins! 😎

Getting back to our current situation, it might sound dire to some of you, but it's never far from my mind how wealthy we truly are, especially in comparison to so, so many other people of the world right now! I mean, we have: food, clothing, shelter, luxuries like air conditioning and a car of our own, and I could go on. We are so blessed! And the best part is the fact that God is with us. Who could ask for anything more, right? We would like to be more comfortable, physically, though, and of course, we want to spoil our animals even more than they are now and that takes money. 

It's all good, though! Money comes and goes, after all. I'm just ready for a bit of it to trickle back in to our lives. It's tough out there, y'all. I'm sure you know, though, dear Reader, right?! 

I finally submitted a full grant request to one organization today and feel many things at once: first, is "yay! I think I did it!" followed immediately by "Oh my GOSH, now what's going to happen?" with an immediate "and now... we wait" type of thing. 

I also have this major list of tasks required in order to finally get the local homeless shelter and resource center up and running so that we can finally serve the precious, important people who Jesus calls "the least of these" in the New Testament. It will be such an honor to bring people the comforts of life: food, clothing, hygiene and laundry needs, somewhere to go inside from the elements and be safe, somewhere to rest, somewhere that they will each and all be treated with kindness and dignity above all else, period. That's the goal. God dropped this in my heart and I'll do all that I can while I live to make this happen. For them. For Him! 

What dreams are on your heart today, dear Reader?