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October 22, 2007 - Monday
Another year goes by...
It was 18 years ago today that I stopped using drugs, so wanted to repost this today...
Have
11 of the Bingo Cage Kits left, so if anyone wants one for their youth
group, please read below, take care, God Bless, and have a Great
Week.....Mikey
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Let's get some BINGO Games Going!
I
was actively involved in church youth groups from the end of 6th grade
until the day I graduated from high school, then on graduation night I
began to use drugs, when I decided to get off the drugs (a little over
16 years ago), what I had learned in those church youth groups made it
a lot easier to understand what I had to do to get off and stay drugs...
One
of my fondest memories when was when the first youth group I was
involved in would go to a senior citizen's home and get a Bingo game
going for them, we would bring white elephant gifts from home to give
them as prizes and would play until all of them won something, one
person would call the numbers, while others would help them mark their
cards and know when to yell "Bingo!" and others would go around to
visit those that didn't come to play Bingo, it was a lot of fun and it
taught us a lot about helping others...
I
would like for more church youth groups and youth organizations to do
this, so I am in the process of purchasing 12 (to start with) Bingo
cage sets, with cards and markers, to send to church youth groups or
youth organizations that would like to go to an assisted living center
(think that's what they call them now) and get regular Bingo games
going in those facilities...
So I have all my ducks in a row, the church youth group or youth organization will need to have "all" of the the following info on the church's or organization's letterhead...
Name of church youth group or youth organization...
Mailing address of church or organization...
Contact email address...
Name and adress of assisted living center...
Contact name and number for church or organization... (to verify)
Contact name and number at assisted living center... (to verify)
Mail it to...
MikeyWear
PO Box 2759
Angleton, Tx 77516
Let's get some Bingo Games Going! Hope everyone has a great weekend, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Hurricane Relief...
I keep hearing about some sort of tropical disturbance that was near
Africa and may be heading towards the Texas Gulf Coast, haven't worried
because if it gets anywhere near here it will be so sensationalized
that I won't be able to not find out all about it and still have time
to take the needed action to take care of Deb and all the critters here
at our zoo, so in the mean time, here's a re-post of some things I
learned during the Katrina relief efforts about getting help to folks
and who to send my contributions to...
Please
note that the Robert I refer to here became Barbedwire Bob a number of
posts later in this blog, hope everyone has a very Wonderful Weekend,
take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Ways to help the post-Katrina Relief Efforts...
Hey All!
I
really don't know where to start, there are so many folks in the
Houston Area that have evacuated (and continue to evacuate from New
Orleans) that it seems new shelters are being opened almost hourly and
Houston's mayor is talking about opening up the Astrodome, and that's
just this one phase of the relief efforts...
One
of the things a lot of us worry about is if all of the donations we are
making are really going to go to help or are the folks taking the
donations skimming off the top and only giving part of our donations to
the relief efforts, so here are some that I know that will actually
help with the relief efforts...
You can donate to Star of Hope Mission (http://www.sohmission.org/)
and designate it to go to the Emergency Shelter, I went up there last
night to donate 70 MikeyWear t-shirts and jumpers and they are totally
overwhelmed trying to help folks that came to Houston to get away from
the disaster, there were so many young children there last night that
I'm sure all the clothing will be passed out to them this morning, to
make sure it goes to clothes for the children you can buy them yourself
at your local Salvation Army/Goodwill/etc... (so you can give more) and
ship them to:
Star of Hope Mission
Women & Family Emergency Shelter
419 Dowling
Houston, TX 77003
You
can make donations to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund
(designated for disasters in the US) or to really make sure it goes to
help with the relief efforts you can donate via their website
specifically to the local Red Cross Chapters in the areas that have
been hit by Katrina...
Clear Channel Communications has set up a site with other ways to help at http://www.stormaid.com/, with
as much scrutiny that Clear Channel is under, I'm sure that all
donations to the organziations they list will go to help with the
relief efforts...
Hope this is helpful, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Time to rant...
In
this blog I have been trying to nicely say that instead of only sending
money and wait for it to be processed to get the needed help to the
folks whose lives have been completely torn apart by Katrina, right now
you can take needed items or send cash to places where folks are not
wasting any time at getting these people food, water, and clothing...
Well, after tonights experience, I am not going to be as nice...
I
had heard on the radio there were folks that couldnt get help at the
dome because they didnt come to Houston on one of the busses and they
were in the Fiesta parking lot at Kirby and OST and there were problems
there with folks that were not grateful for what they were given and
wanted more from the folks that were helping, like beer, I knew that
there would still be folks who would immediately need the things that
are necessary for all human beings to live, so when I got home I said
to my best friend Robert "well Robert, some folks are saying that the
National Guard should be brought into handle the folks that they won't
let into the Dome and they need food, so are you ready to go?" and
after getting about 30 minutes of rest we were on our way...
Ive
found that the best way to help folks in situations like this is to
show up and ask what they need and then go get it, so thats what we
did, when we got to the Fiesta parking lot there was the usual amount
of vehicles for a normal business day, so we looked around and saw a
smoker in the parking lot of a closed down crafts store on the other
side of the corner and that was it, so we drove through one time to
access the situation...
There
was some dudes that had brought the smoker and were cooking the meat
and putting it out on tables where there was already a bunch of stuff
to go with it, there were cases of water and sodas stacked, a little
bit farther down there were boxes of donations of clothing and
toiletries, and people were constantly driving in the parking lot and
dropping off more so they never ran out of anything, the folks needing
help were getting the immediate help they needed, and I have never seen
something like this before, no mater how well planned or organized,
that was as orderly as this...
There
were women from some church that were asking women with children if
they had a place to stay for the night and if told no would say you do
now and took them to a place to stay for the night...
Toys
R Us across OST had agreed to let them set up in their parking lot
after they closed, so they could be at a place where there was light
when it was dark, and everyone made the move with no problems at all...
None
of this had been planned in any way, it was not being put on by any
organizations, there was no one processing anything or anybody, no one
was telling anyone what to do, and all the folks there were getting the
immediate help that they needed...
None
of the folks helping wasted any time with unnecessary talk, they didnt
pat each other on the back and tell each other what a great job they
were doing, they just got the job done...
On
the drive through it looked like they had and were going to continue to
get all they needed but charcoal, so made another drive through to ask
the dudes running the smoker to make sure, they said they needed some
ice too, so we got them enough charcoal to last through tomorrow and
enough ice to last through the night...
After
that, since it was the 4th quarter of the Texans game and they were
losing, we decided not to take Kirby and ended up on Fannin, I would
describe what we saw, but the TV is fairly accurate about what a mess
it is and I dont need to get my blood pressure up before going to bed,
so take care and God Bless..Mikey
Ps: We didnt see anyone, during the time we were there, that was trying to get free beer...
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Food, Clothing, Toiletries, Shelter, Etc...
If
you have collected food/clothing/toiletries/etc... and would like for
it to go today to folks that need it, instead of just collected and
stored while the collection sites wait for the Red Cross to tell them
where to take it, take it directly to any of the Red Cross Shelters or
the Star of Hope, you can also watch the news to find out about other
places that are getting immediate relief to the folks that need it...
Note: 2nd Baptist Church on Shanks Road in Angleton now has evacuees in their beds, any and all food/clothing/toiletries/etc... will be very helpful and rapidly used to help the folks they have there...
If
you have a shelter with empty beds and don't know how to fill them,
watch and/or listen to your local news on TV and/or radio and you will
be able to find plenty of folks that desperately need those beds...
And
while I'm at it,there will be a MikeyWear booth today at the Blues and
Bikes Festival, that the City of Freeport is having today from 1 to
11pm, Mikey the Clown should be there by 3pm to pass out candy to the
kids, you can find out the details by going to the "Meet Mikey" link at MikeyWear.Com...
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Charcoal and Ice Needed Near Astrodome...
The
folks that are helping out the people who were turned away at the
Astrodome, in front of the Toys-R-Us at the corner of Kirby and Old
Spanish Trail in Houston (note: the blog about them may have already
been transfered to my blog archives), will need at least 200 lbs. of
charcoal tommorrow, they will need ice too, at least 500 lbs., but due
to ice donations by others and the limits of their storage capacity,
please check with them 1st before bringing more than 100 lbs, you won't
be able to get a reciept to take your donation off your taxes, but it
will help get, many, many, many folks that are out of the "relief
effort" loop the immediate they need, I know my limits and know that I
am going to be too exhausted tommorrow to take anything up there, take
care, God Bless, and G'night.....Mikey
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Move to another corner of Kirby and OST...
1st
off, want to tell you about something I have learned during all this,
where you really should wear a winter coat if you are in a Mercury
Tracer with 400 lbs of ice in the back seat, wearing shorts and a
t-shirt is tolerable if you only have 300 lbs of ice in the back seat...
The
folks that are helping the people who were turned away from the dome
are no longer 24/7, but will be there from morning to evening, still
serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and will now either be at the
closed down craft store parking lot or off to the Old Spanish Trail
side of the Fiesta parking lot, same corner, don't know if the military
Humvees that were in the Toys-R-Us parking lot when we left have
anything to do with the move or not...
Was told that yesterday
there was a big argument (looks like I picked a very good day to
collapse and not go up there) between the different folks that were
helping, some of them wanted to accept cash donations and the others
wanted to refuse cash donations, resulting in the folks that were
wanting to take cash donations leaving, so they will not accept cash
donations there and will only accept what is needed to help the
people...
Thank you to whoever came by and donated charcoal!
Combining that with the 120 lbs I brought today, they should have
enough to last them a few days, the biggest need that they have now is
lots and lots and lots of ice, but what is really the best thing to do
is go by and ask them what they need most to help before going to buy
anything...
Due to no longer running 24/7, at the end of the day
they are taking what clothes that are not distributed down to the Star
of Hope for the Clothing Distribution (once again, the keyword is:
"Distribution") Center on Ruiz...
It's time for bed, so take care, g'night, and God Bless....Mikey
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
For those new to this blog...
Note:
A lot of what I have written about the Katrina relief efforts and how
you can get immediate help to the folks that need it has been rolled
over to the archives...
I
don't know of a shelter that can't use everything that is donated, but
one of the biggest needs at the shelters I've heard from is childrens
clothing, still suggest, though, that if you are going to buy
something, go by the shelter 1st and ask them what they need the most...
Have
been ordered by my friends and family to stay home and rest for a few
days and I'm too tired to argue with them, so guess what I'll be doing?
It's
wonderful to see so many people in other parts of the US stepping up to
the plate to help these folks, it's helping more than you will ever
know, take care and God Bless......Mikey
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Should have taken my own advise...
We
took another 300 lbs of ice up to where folks were helping the people
who were turned away from the dome and they are no longer there, saw
only 40-50 people walking aimlessly around the neighborhood in a daze,
instead of masses of folks, evacuees can now come off the street to get
processed at the Dome, they even put the entrance for that about 2
blocks away on McKee off of Main, so it looks like most of them took
advantage, the Katrina Debit Cards should get the rest of them there,
in other words, things are coming together in Houston...
With
300 lbs of ice still in the back of the MikeyWearMobile, we took it
down to 2nd Baptist Church in Angleton (making it over a ton of
supplies that the Mercury Tracer has hauled to either the Kirby/OST
Relief Site, Star of Hope, or 2nd Baptist in Angleton), they currently
have 25-30 beds open and have people there, waiting to help any evacuee
that comes there with the paperwork to get financial aid...
Heard
on the radio that the population of Baton Rouge, LA has tripled in size
since this all started and I'm sure that any cash donations to their
local Red Cross will be used wisely, you can also make your donations
to them over the web...
After I've had a chance to get a good
night's sleep, will start listing updates on shelters locations here on
this blog, where folks can take food/clothing/etc... to be used to help
these people without it having to spend any time going through the
collection centers to get to them...
And yes, I'm being a
hypocrite by saying this, because I didn't follow my own advise, but
you really should ask the shelters what they need before you go buy
anything for them, take care and God Bless..Mikey
Monday, September 19, 2005
Local Red Cross Chapters...
So that no confusion exists, I am not recommending that everyone donate only to the Red Cross Louisiana Capital Area Chapter (Baton Rouge, LA), but am giving an example to point out the importance of donations to all of the local Red Cross Chapters...
The reason I chose the Red Cross Louisiana Capital Area Chapter (Baton Rouge, LA) for
MikeyWear's contributions was to point out what they had done and were
doing, in May they were already preparing, asking for volunteers and
training those volunteers, for a potential hurricane disaster, then by
the grace of God Baton Rouge was not hit and they were able to kick out
the jams immediately to help those that came into Baton Rouge and
needed help...
What
they had been and were doing was brought to my attention by a good
number of the folks that came to the Kirby/OST Katrina Relief Efforts
for help, who made it that far because of the help that they received
from the good people of Baton Rouge, so it was that particular local
chapter that was on my mind at the time...
Take care and God Bless.....Mikey
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Monday, April 03, 2006
Things to do with "THE BOX" other than think outside of it... (Episode 7)
Do you get annoyed by all the experts and/or commercials
telling you about how you should be thinking outside of "THE BOX?"
Well, when BarbedWire Bob & I were going into Houston about 7 1/2
weeks ago to get some Miso (see 2/5 post in this blog's archives), we
started coming up with ideas for things to do to "THE BOX" other than
think outside of it, resulting in...
Things to do with "THE BOX" other than think outside of it...
As Demonstrated by the two legged critters in our zoo...
(along with Sissy, when she feels like it)
I
would say "please don't do this at home," but since that would be
hypocritical because, well, we did it at home, please be careful if you
try something like this...
Episode Seven
In our last Episode, Debbie had "THE BOX" on her bedside table...
And now, Henry has
"THE BOX" keep him company while I pick up 16 bags of trash (along with
the usual assorted debris) on April 1 & 2, 2006, during the Great Texas Trash Off, part of MikeyWear's participation in the Texas Department of Transportation's Adopt-A-Highway Program...
Regarding
having to pick up the trash by myself, well, the weather was nice, the
soil had soaked up the rain so there was no standing water or mud, the
wildflowers had started to bloom, a lot of folks driving by honked and
waved, and I had two of the most pleasant days that I've had in a long
time...
I was only able to get the Southbound side done and will
be doing the Northbound side next weekend, hopefully the "Family
Matters" will not be as rough and I will have some help, because
although pleasant, it's exhausting and I don't really feel like being
this exhausted two weekends in a row, take care, God Bless, and have a
Great Week.....Mikey
Friday, March 24, 2006
More Fun With Miso, Great Texas Trash Off...
Deb
and I have come up with a couple of ways to cook with Miso (see 2/5
post in this blog's archives) that Erwin today at the Observer
Breakfast said he hadn't thought of, we are adding a heaping tablespoon
of Miso to the water when cooking rice and boiling noodles, with the
flavor it creates we don't have to add any other spices, except
pepper...
April 1st is the day of the Great Texas Trash Off, it's where our civic leaders try to get everyone possible to participate and pick up litter in this state...
MikeyWear already participates in the Texas Department of Transportation's Adopt-A-Highway Program, where our bunch pick up trash quarterly
on the 2 miles of Hwy 35 that MikeyWear has adopted, between reference
markers 508 & 510 (off Spur 28 near Danbury...
Since the contract I had signed with TXDOT included that our spring trash pick up each year be on the day of the Great Texas Trash Off,
I thought it was odd that TXDOT kept sending me postcards asking if we
were going to participate, so I went down to street (our local TXDOT
office is a block away) to ask if we were supposed to do more if we
participated and was told that they just wanted to confirm it so they
could get the folks in our group some free stuff that local companies
provide to everyone who participates next Saturday, the Observer said
folks who are cleaning up Angleton will get commemerative t-shirts, who
knows what we will get...
Speaking of Civic Leaders, I spoke to
Charlie today at the Observer Breakfast and he said that although he
missed it last month, he would be at this Tuesday's Angleton City
Council Meeting to give them a piece of his mind, so I will definitely
be there and let ya'll know what happened on Thursday's blog post...
And for those that have noticed at MikeyWear.Com,
last weekend was real busy and there was no time to change the prices
back, so I extended the "$1 Off All MikeyWear" Sale another week (till
this Sunday at midnight), since there are so many new subscribers to
this blog that live in the Angleton Area I will be extending it again
till the end of the month (next Friday, March 31) at midnight (actually
Saturday Morning when I wake up) and if I still have any MikeyWear left
in stock they can save even more at the Flea Market next Friday, take
care, God Bless, and have a Wonderful Weekend.....Mikey
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Trash Pickup Photo...
With
everything that was going on, I didn't get a chance to have a photo
taken of the crew before TXDOT picked up the trash, but do have a photo
of the collected trash...
Will write a media release for the event early this week, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Friday and Saturday...
Treated
Friday the 13th as just another day and except for being very, very
windy at the flea market it was just another day and a pleasant one at
that, it was a very lucky day for my mentor's (who helped me stay off
drugs) widow when Barbedwire Bob and I went to her home to help
straighten the place up and Bob found the insurance check she had
lost...
Yesterday (Saturday), Noel,
Kayla, Barbedwire Bob, and I cleaned up the trash on the sides of the
highway that MikeyWear is responsible for in the TXDOT Adopt-A-Highway
Program, we picked up 19 bags of trash and a lot more large debris than
usual, once again, as we went southbound, the closer we got to Danbury
there were less beer cans and more chewing gum boxes...
We found
more than usual odd stuff too, more barbedwire than Bob can wrap around
his trash poker stick, a dustpan (Kayla didn't want to adopt the name
"Dustpan Kayla" and I don't blame her), a paint roller pan, 3 DVD cases
(one being a Spongebob movie), an x-ray of what appeared to be (it was
really scratched up) a child's head, two goat feed bags, and stuffing
of a pillow that appeared to have exploded and was spread all over a
section of the roadside...
On the way out there we were joking
about what we would do if we became part of an American Justice TV show
episode by finding a dead body, fortunately we did not find one and
hope we never do...
This afternoon will get pictures taken, including a few BOPs (Blog Only Photos),
I will post the press release on MikeyWear.Com and the BOPs here in the
morning, going to be doing the state sales tax paperwork this afternoon
and probably this evening too, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
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