Wait...what?? You've never heard of an Okapi? You better brush up on your little-known threatened species from Central Africa then.

The WWF (World Wildlife Fund, not the wrestling federation) is currently having a massive blowout sale with door busters on all threatened species!!! If there was ever a Christmas gift to become a total idiot over, this is it folks.

Okay, so you don't really get to buy the threatened animal, but you do get to adopt one, and with every donation $50 and over you get an adoption certificate, photo, gift bag and a stuffed animal of your adopted animal in return (donations of $25 gets you the certificate and picture).

So go down your Christmas lists this year and choose a different animal for everyone on it. Come on, who wouldn't want a Three-Toed Sloth, Giant Anteater, Sumatran Rhino or African Wild Dog under the Christmas tree this year? Believe it or not, every single one of those animals is actually pretty damn cute in stuffed animal form. You can choose from over 90 different species to adopt, each with a corresponding stuffed animal.

Do something and do it now!
JD

TAGS: animals, adoption, okapi, sloth, dog, WWF, World wildlife fund, animal adoption, stufffed animals, toys, christmas, gifts, holiday

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Although Halloween is now a week behind us, I need to share a truly amazing, truly eye-opening and inspiring story from the holiday.

Now that I am no longer living in a high-rise with restricted floor access, I have all kinds of little people in crazy costumes ringing my doorbell again on Halloween. It's been a good 5 years since I've seen kids dressed up for Halloween and 5 years since I've had to pass out candy to trick-or-treaters. I admit, I missed it.

This Halloween my wife and I had plans to head over to a friend's house, and being the new family on the block we didn't want to be the jerks with the porch light off not answering the door; so we made the decision to be "that" house, the one with the bowl of candy on the front porch and a sign above it that reads "Happy Halloween, please take one". Knowing all the youngest kids hit the streets early we thought they would get first dibs at the candy and then the first group of older kids would clean us out and probably even take the bowl and punt our pumpkins.

Flash forward 4 hours later.....
We came home to in-tact pumpkins, a bowl still on the front porch and...get this...half the candy still in it!!!! Now tell me this simple little occurrence does not inspire as much hope in the future generation for you as it did me. It's the little things people....the little things.

Do something and do it now,

JD

TAGS: kids, halloween, candy, children, holiday, october, good

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I was happy to have been here to celebrate my first 4th of July holiday in nearly 5 years this past weekend. There is nothing quite like a 4th of July BBQ, boy have I missed the annual tradition. I hope everyone had as nice and relaxing a long holiday weekend as I did.

Big changes in my life as of late and lots to begin writing about as soon as I get settled into my new life back here in the states. Stay tuned for more.

Cheers,
JD

TAGS: holiday, BBQ, barbeque, 4th of july, july 4th

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Sometimes a picture says it all. I hope everyone had a great weekend, I sure did. Bring on Monday and all the GOOD in the world!

TAGS: Holiday, 4th Of July, Giants, Baseball, Sun, Friends

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