October 24th is “Make a Difference Day,” and I can’t help but mention our tent raffle again. $1.00 MIGHT get you a brand new Coleman Sundome 4-person tent,  and WILL bring you the joy of helping to make a difference in the life of a pediatric cancer patient. Goodness, what else can you get for a dollar, a fattening greasy hamburger somewhere? KOA Care Camps will put that money to much better use, getting a child with cancer away from their frightening, painful routine and into the experience of camping, something so many of us take for granted. Go to our sister site, Picture Camping Goods and Gear, to register and enter the raffle, and God bless you for it!

Hello, Dear Reader. I hope you’re doing well! We are, and to spread the love we’re raffling off a Coleman Sundome 4-person tent to benefit KOA Care Camps for children with cancer. It’s a program run all across the U.S. and Canada that gives pediatric cancer patients a chance to go camping, leaving their normal worries and concerns behind for a week, and we’re behind it 100%!

Raffle tickets are only $1.00, and you can enter the raffle at our sister site, http://www.picturecamping-goods-and-gear.com. You’ll have to register at that site to get to the restricted-access Paypal page (that’s so we know how to contact the winner!).

Go on and enter– if you’re new to camping, winning this tent will give you years of family enjoyment. Even if you have five tents already, it would make a stunning present this holiday season, and you’d be helping a most worthy cause in the process. OR, you can replace one of your older tents, donating IT to your local homeless shelter, and upgrade your tent collection (we know you’re out there!!).

What else can you get with a dollar? Nothing that can compete with the joy of knowing you’re easing the burden of a child with cancer, I know that! Be a blessing to someone else today, and enter the raffle. Thank you!

This is my 500th post, in just five months, and pretty much all I can say is, “This is my 5ooth post!”

Nah– I can manage more than that!

First of all, I expect my posting to slow a bit for two reasons. First, school is back in session, which means I’m back to teaching, and I have yet to figure out how to do two things at once (no multi-tasker here!). Second, much of the country puts camping to bed after Labor Day, and there will be fewer quality posts to report to you. However, all is not lost– there are 499 posts in our archives here, and many of them are real gems, so I encourage you to explore “previous posts” when you need a camping fix.

Now I’d like to invite you to join our Ning group, Family Tent Campers. Just click on “Ning” on the horizontal menu bar, above. One of my goals for this website is to foster community among family tent campers, so there you go!

I’d also like to ask you, from the bottom of my heart, to donate $5.00 to KOA Care Camps for children with cancer. Read my post, National Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month, for more information about our fund-raising drive on their behalf. I know raffle tickets are usually only about a dollar, but this is such a worthy cause, and $5.00 is ultimately so small an amount, that I feel confident in asking it. Think of it as a paltry $5.00 donation, with the added benefit of possibly winning one of the dozen pie iron & cookbook sets that are available, and the definite benefit of enriching the life of a child suffering with cancer.

Thank you so much for reading me! I look forward to my future posts as much as I’ve enjoyed these first 500!

Thanks again,

Jean B. in SC