Give A Little

Margene at Zeneedle and Susan at 'I'm Knitting as fast as I can are yarning in knitters to donate to the Red Cross with fabulous prizes from the world of wool and such. Here's how you can help:

1. Donate online or by phone (1-800-HELP-NOW) to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

2. Let Margene and Susan know the amount of your donation by sending them an email at givealittle AT gmail.com. Put your name and the amount donated in the subject line.

3. If you would like to donate a prize to the cause, send an email to the ladies at the same address, givealittle AT gmail.com, and put 'prize' in the subject line.

Margene and Susan will keep a tally in their sidebars with the amount donated to date. Their mutual blog at Give A Little lists the prizes they've received so far. There you go, KNITTERS helping in anyway they can.

Amanda at clothesknit in Baton Rogue is living thru the hurricane nightmare with some wonderful insight and help ideas. Give her a shout out of support. Becky at Knitting Interrupted is still cleaning up in Milton FL. She missed the brunt of the storm but still had to suffer thru much of the rain and electrical outages. Katrina went right over the top of Miss Esther at Margariville and did serious damage to her home. Angels must have been on all their shoulders to have no lost of life or limb and their homes still standing.

I have put off SCREAMING just today about people still left at the Superdome and Convention Center. CNN said at 4 pm today, "the throng of evacuees has thinned. As many as 5,000 people were still at the Superdome, according to the Texas National Guard, and about 2,000 people remained at the convention center. I'm thrilled that something is happening. I'm having a very hard time with the fact that we can go fight a war and rebuild in other countries, but can't PLAN and SAVE our own citizens. But there are still so many to help. I'm off to the Red Cross. Seeeeeeeee ya.

And if you want to see a great little site on how we adults are viewed, in the eyes of a fourteen year old, as being so inept in our lack of control and planning for a hurricane, go visit Natalie and leave her a note at River of Flames. She has a very relevant music video to watch that really addresses some of the views of OUR American youth and all others that just don't understand the ineptitude.

Give A Little.