Dear family, friends, students, friends of friends, 2nd generation students, and random strangers!

I am doing a virtual fundraiser to benefit our awesome local humane society!

The Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region (HSPPR) is a local non-profit that is a 4-star (highest rating) on Charity Navigator. They're not part of a national system and they rely on donations to continue their awesome work that includes helping people in need with low cost MOBILE clinics and emergency services, trap/neuter/release of feral cat populations, lost/found services, and working with other rescues/shelters in the area to try to get EVERY adoptable animal a home.  Erin and I have volunteered with them since 1994. Lately, we do events like this one! 

For every $20 donated, I will commit to logging 10,000 steps. (I'm supposed to be doing 10,000+ steps/day, because it's healthy.) I'm kinda terrified by this, because some days I walk 2,000 steps. Most days, I walk 5,000 steps.  On one day, I walked 15,000 steps!  I'm doing a Conqueror Challenge of "Walking to Mordor" (Lord of the Rings reference) ... I just made it to Bree!  

NOTE: My page goal is $500, because I've raised that in the past. That's 25 days of good healthy walking!