Beautiful Community!!! I have been healing up and in bed over most of the past three months from my 4th (and hopefully last) major surgery in a journey with breast cancer. Eric is also rocking it and feeling strong, now just over a year out from treatment himself.

We are so flippin HAPPY TO BE ALIVE and to be so beautifully held by such a loving and generous community. THANK YOU!!!!

Nothing like tandem near-death experiences to put us in touch with how FLIPPIN GRATEFUL we are... to be ALIVE, to have a HOME, to be IN LOVE, to have our HEALTH, to parent the most amazing KID, THE MOST AMAZING FRIENDS and so much more.

As a WAY TO CELEBRATE LIFE, we've been raisig money for this awesome, three-generation, hard-working family. They were our neighbors then became our friends and are, if I might add, the most beautiful animal sitters, advocates, tenders and companions.

For THIS REQUEST... we have been collaborating on AFFORDABLE HOUSING efforts in Missoula over the past four years. In this particular effort, we are helping our dear friends find a safe, secure and affordable place to live for themselves and their menagerie of animals... all under one affordable roof.

These friends are passionate animal advocates, working in vetrinary clinics for many years, and deeply dedicated to animal rescue. They are incredibly hard working with full-time jobs but faced potential homelessness in this current housing market, along with all of their animals and grandson.

Today, I am seeking to raise $10,000 to build a fence for this family and their pack and pride of fur babies, and to replace part of the old carpet with a highly affordable laminate flooring. We all know how carpets and animals do! Try carpets and 13 animals?! Ha!!!

This FENCE & FLOOR is one piece in a beautifully collaborative equation that adds up to safety, securty, stability and HOME.

Thank you for considering a small gift in this collaborative effort. Whether you are able to give $5, $50, $500 or $5000... each gift concretely provides safety and home to a beautiful, hard-working, deeply generous family. THIS IS COMMUNITY!!!!