GENEROUS GIFTS

Thanks to a generous donation made to the Sanctuary and the kindness of Jen Sawyer of Jens Custom Crafts, whose website we have linked on the right under Blogs We Follow, the Piggles shall be receiving a brand new, custom-made Snowflake Hut and YumYum will have his very own CandyCane Tunnel since Calvin sort of "borrowed" his and...sort of kept it! Meanwhile, Coconut sort of "borrowed" MacNutPie's customized Cuddle Cup because she was living happily in her cardboard box until she dragged said box over on TOP OF MacNut's Cuddle Cup and became part of the 99% and OCCUPIED Pie Street, leaving MacNut out in the cold. So, he will be receiving a Hut only slightly smaller than the beautiful snowflake hut pictured here...and Jen is going to surprise us so we don't know what it will look like.

Just so you know, Jen makes beautiful, soft, moisture-wicking, washable things for a whole bevy of darlings from dormice and hedgehogs to cats and anything soft and cuddly...chinchillas, ferrets, you name it! O.K. we made up the dormouse. Are they real? Yes, they are. They just don't live here. They live in England we think.

Bedtime and way past...good night, all...we can hardly wait to send you another photo essay of Guinea Piggles play like Guinea Villagers in their new GuineaVillas! Mayhem certain to ensue and entertain.

And donor person, even though you are still without power and cannot read this: THANK YOU!
WE ARE DEEPLY GRATEFUL AS IT WILL BEGIN SNOWING AT LOWER ELEVATIONS THIS WEEK AND IT IS ALREADY BrrrrrrrrrrrrCOLD!

Sincerely Yours,
YumYum and the Piggles

My Best Friend and Me!

Last month when one of the companies mom does business with offered us a free photo mug, I jumped at the chance to put this on it and send it to Eric to remind him how much fun we had "bonding" two summers ago up in the high Sierra Nevadas! He said opening the package was like trying to get into Fort Knox or something because we all took turns with the tape and since it got stuck on our delicate toes and long feet, we kind of made an impenetrable mess! But he said Lorien laughed and laughed. Yeah, that surfer really funny, him thinking me a hamster.

But we're good, we're good now, and in the next post you can read about how I inspired him to do a wonderful act of generosity even though I am not named specifically in the newspaper article or on Eric's Facebook or anywhere, actually,
but only because I am YumYum, TOO HUMBLE TO TAKE CREDIT FOR SUCH AN ALTRUISTIC IDEA THAT I THOUGHT OF ALL BY MYSELF EVEN IF
ERIC AND HIS BRO-IN-LAW GET ALL THE CREDIT FOR THE IDEA THAT I THOUGHT UP ALL BY MYSELF O.K. NOT REALLY BUT I COULD HAVE.

Thank you,

YumYum

My Buddy Eric Still Doing Good Stuff!

PFINGSTEN: Molly the Owl is still making the rounds, with a recent stop in Africa

^^^CHECK THIS OUT!^^^

Yesterday a newspaper article published the coolest story about Eric's book,
"Molly the Owl" making her way across the world, doing good works for
needy people. (Well, who among us does not need Molly? I mean, really?)

Molly like the Energizer Bunny, she just keeps on going...touching millions over the

webcam and now, countless more, in the farthest reaches of the world!

Go Molly, Eric, and Lorien and Lorien's brother and his family and - and -

well, good on ya, mates!