October 2, 2026
It’s been a rough week for me medically, I’ve been totally miserable.
BUT!
Thanks to everyone’s help (here, Bluesky, Mastodon, email regulars), early last week, I placed a BIG second set of orders to feed 10 more families for more than 1 week. We’ve been tracking the TWENTY EIGHT shipments. Most have arrived, a few went astray so we’re following up on the ones needing to be reshipped, and the weirdness w/the PO claiming they couldn’t deliver when the front step was right there where it always is(!!), etc. My contact, D, has been game through all of it. He’s fielding these hundreds of lbs of pantry and canned foods to organize and distribute to the Red Shirt community. He’s working on getting it all organized and confirming receipt of everything before he distributes.
He’s sent a few pictures, and it’s looking good!
I have a *little* money left to send a few more essentials but I have to let him get this distributed first, I don’t want to break him! I’d love if we could get them through the winter but I know fall has only started. Still, getting their pantries full for a couple-few weeks is meaningful and I couldn’t have done this without y’all. I’m waiting to make sure everything gets to the destination before I share our total food buys <3
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September 25, 2026
1. The Big Fundraiser push is going pretty well! Our first shipment of goods went out to the families last weekend. We were able to supply some goods and food to ten families (comprised of 52 adults and kids). Maybe only a week of food but not too shabby for a start.
I’m working on a follow up shipment to help the rest of the folks in need in this very rural village so am continuing to collect donations as long as folks are able to contribute.
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September 18, 2026
1. We made it to the end of the week. Not entirely in one piece but we made it here.
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September 11, 2026
1. I’m doing a big fundraiser push for Lakota groceries. We’ve got a contact in Red Shirt, one of the more remote and poorest areas on the reservation, willing to organize within the community if I can get bulk supplies to him.
The Growing Lawlessness in California’s Forests. Two frog biologists were kidnapped in the woods. More bizarre situations may come.
Police Are Spending Opioid Settlement Funds on Flock Cameras
Ok, WTAF??? Why is this possible??? How one woman’s Tesla was remotely controlled – and used to harass her – by an abusive ex-partner. Enrico Pucci was able to control his former partner’s electric car remotely, controlling its speed, temperature settings and lock
A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world’s ocean currents.
September 4, 2026
1. After a rare household failure to eat all the bananas before they ripened, I baked this banana bread in the kids’ fun shapes silicon molds.
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August 28, 2026
1. Yes, we don’t love Amazon but if we must have it (as we do for charitable giving and direct aid): Magic & Mystery original series!
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August 21, 2026
1. I cooked dinner three times this week! I haven’t been able to do that in years.
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