Dear Readers, the time has come when we will attempt another trip to our family’s lake cabin. And: we need help to have this family vacation.

Last year we ran out of funds and had to scurry back to Grays Harbor – back to dried beans and the relative ease of home. This year, I’d like things to be different if possible.

We are hoping to take a six-day vacation at our ancestral family cabin (c. 1937 a little west of Olympia). We don’t need a great deal of funds, but we do need enough to pay a cat/housesitter a small stipend, use the town’s laundromat, to get the groceries we need, to take a trip into town and maybe buy the kids some comic books, and put together a few extras for Ralph’s birthday celebration. Having had a car break down, kidney disease expenses, counseling for my child – and for the rest of our family, as well as the washer and dryer in the past few weeks has left us without vacation funds.

Donations can be mailed (P.O. Box 205 / Hoquiam WA 98550), or sent through Paypal:

Thank you, as always, for your many kinds of support.