once a month

what started out as a weekly blog has slowly dwindled to a monthly blogging. so here are some updates:

-- week 25 pictures will be unlike any pictures we've posted yet!

-- i'm kinda ready to shave; beard is crazy long, thus eating is a challenge. but this is where i remind myself why i'm doing this.

-- i had someone say the other day, "why not just give directly to water wells for africa? why do we have to have the beard" and guess what? they're right. that's just it...we don't HAVE to have the beard; we GET to grow beards in hopes of making more people aware of a situation close to our hearts and hopefully having others join us in helping a village get a new water well! after all, i can't even count how many people ask daily/weekly, "why the beard??" good chance to share...

-- my post-beard shave will be a new one; one i don't think i've even ever seen on anybody; i call it 'catfish'.

-- we're at about 1/3 of our goal in terms of donations and pledges. alot of people use the 'tough economy' excuse as a reason not to give...even a little. only makes me think about the people in africa who have to get their disease infested, dirty, nasty, smelly water from a mud hole and/or corrupted stream; i bet they wish they could worry about a 'tough economy'.

-- i can't say thank you enough times so i'll say it again and again....thank you to all of you who have donated and/or pledged toward this beard-a-thon. week 31 will be here soon and hopefully we'll be able to add to the chunk of money we've collected so far; we hope to send a fat check to wwfa in mid April!

have a great week or month or whenever i get back here for more updates, random thoughts, or deep discussion...

-- greg