If you give a mouse a cookie...

Okay, so I'm greedy, greedy for my veterans!

First I wanted a cookie...

I thought I'd make one quilt for one veteran who was injured, and be done with it... one year and seven quilts later I knew I needed to enlarge this project to beyond myself, there were too many veterans to cover. With the help of some local ladies, and joining the Wyoming Quilt Guild, we have given out over 50 quilts to veterans, and have more made ready to give out. To get the quilts out, I needed larger forces, hence my involvement as a VACTL for our local VA.
Then the words my husband kept repeating about so many veterans in the nursing home have so little, tumbled around in my head, and through SA I heard about the lapghan project for VA nursing homes. I spoke to the local Fiber Guild, and SA, and now we have 33 of the 50 we need for Christmas (the local ladies reasured me yesterday that three of them have a total of 9 more, and through SA I am reassured the last ones will be here too - big applauds to Shelley) - now we will cover all 50 nursing home vets with lapghans at a party in early December!!

Okay, so I have a a few more cookies, but I'm greedy you know, I want more, no I want the whole pack and some milk to go with it...

There seemed to be so much need at the VA for other things, of which SA has been very generous - blessings to Patti, Twyla, Sam and everyone else involved. But their is a greater need at the Domiciliary, soooo, I new I needed to apply to Wal Mart for that grant of which we got $500! I had SA give them the items in gas cards and vet packs (they are awesome by the way), but I look at the 5 vet packs, and now I want to cover EVERYONE in the Dom with a vet pack.. and I am adding fleece blankets I purchased to each pack, but still, we need so much more.

Now I want a case of cookies, and a few gallons of milk...

We have decided to have some of the local media come in to see the quilts we are giving out, the lapghan project in its near completion, and the vet packs and other items from SA... I am thinking people might purchase more vet packs for the dom?.?.

Perhaps, just perhaps we can do this by Christmas, so I am going to look at all the SA info, and work every angle I know how to get each person in the dom one vet pack, and one fleece blanket...

Did I tell you how much I love cookies..????