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My first Christmas card came in the mail today and it’s from Dan of Plano, TX – one of the Bag’s biggest fans.  So that’s $1 I’ll donate to help fight lupus, and Dan was even nice enough to include a small contribution as well.

A small recap of the experiment of me trying to see if any of you are willing to send me a Christmas card:

Option 1:  You can make a direct donation to the Lupus Research Institute in memory of Kim Geeding.  Have the acknowledgement sent to my address, and I’ll consider that my Christmas card.  I’ve done some research, and out of all the lupus organizations I feel most comfortable with the Lupus Research Institute came out on top.

Option 2:  If you just want to send a card and no money, then I will total up all the cards received before Dec 25, and for each card donate a dollar (up to $50) to the Lupus Research Institute.  If you include any money, I’ll make sure to donate the funds directly to the Lupus Research Institute. 

Send all cards to

Keith “BagOfNothing” Geeding
421 Vista Noche Dr
Lewisville, TX 75067-8345

Please be sure to include the “BagOfNothing” in the name so I know the card comes from a reader and not the dentist or plumber.

Charlie is a wild-born coyote who was unexpectedly delivered to my doorstep this past April after both his parents were shot for killing sheep. Whatever reservations I had about raising a wild animal simply didn’t matter – couldn’t matter – when I realized his survival, at least in the short term, depended on me.

At the time I write this, Charlie is nearly six months old. I don’t think of him as “my pet,” even though he sleeps curled against me every night (every night except the nights around a full moon), and happily rides in my truck, and adores my cat. I don’t wish to own him, just to live together in harmony. And that we do.

I take pictures of Charlie every day. And from the very first weekend, I have sent out a daily photo via email.

This website is an archive of Charlie’s daily pictures and my stories of life with a coyote. I post a new photograph every day, but it is a five month lag behind real-time.

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There are a lot of cute pictures:

These are just a sampling of the 347 ornaments hand-created by artists whose designs represent America’s national parks, memorials, seashores, historic sites and monuments displayed on the tree in the Blue Room at the White House.

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This is the Texas ornament, which doesn’t look all that Texan to me.

Is Sam Adams Utopias which contains 27% alcohol per volumne and retails at $120 for a 24-ounce bottle.

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