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State: TEXAS
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July 28, 2008 - Monday
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Hurricane Relief...
Current mood:  grateful
Category: Life
Hurricane season is underway, so here's a re-post of some things I learned during the Katrina relief efforts about getting help to folks and who to send my contributions to...
Please note that the Robert I refer to here became Barbedwire Bob a number of posts later in this blog, I hope that everyone has a very Wonderful Week, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Ways to help the post-Katrina Relief Efforts...
Hey All!
I really don't know where to start, there are so many folks in the Houston Area that have evacuated (and continue to evacuate from New Orleans) that it seems new shelters are being opened almost hourly and Houston's mayor is talking about opening up the Astrodome, and that's just this one phase of the relief efforts...
One of the things a lot of us worry about is if all of the donations we are making are really going to go to help or are the folks taking the donations skimming off the top and only giving part of our donations to the relief efforts, so here are some that I know that will actually help with the relief efforts...
You can donate to Star of Hope Mission (http://www.sohmission.org/) and designate it to go to the Emergency Shelter, I went up there last night to donate 70 MikeyWear t-shirts and jumpers and they are totally overwhelmed trying to help folks that came to Houston to get away from the disaster, there were so many young children there last night that I'm sure all the clothing will be passed out to them this morning, to make sure it goes to clothes for the children you can buy them yourself at your local Salvation Army/Goodwill/etc... (so you can give more) and ship them to:
Star of Hope Mission
Women & Family Emergency Shelter
419 Dowling
Houston, TX 77003
You can make donations to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund (designated for disasters in the US) or to really make sure it goes to help with the relief efforts you can donate via their website specifically to the local Red Cross Chapters in the areas that have been hit by Katrina...
Clear Channel Communications has set up a site with other ways to help at http://www.stormaid.com/, with as much scrutiny that Clear Channel is under, I'm sure that all donations to the organziations they list will go to help with the relief efforts...
Hope this is helpful, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Time to rant...
In this blog I have been trying to nicely say that instead of only sending money and wait for it to be processed to get the needed help to the folks whose lives have been completely torn apart by Katrina, right now you can take needed items or send cash to places where folks are not wasting any time at getting these people food, water, and clothing...
Well, after tonights experience, I am not going to be as nice...
I had heard on the radio there were folks that couldnt get help at the dome because they didnt come to Houston on one of the busses and they were in the Fiesta parking lot at Kirby and OST and there were problems there with folks that were not grateful for what they were given and wanted more from the folks that were helping, like beer, I knew that there would still be folks who would immediately need the things that are necessary for all human beings to live, so when I got home I said to my best friend Robert "well Robert, some folks are saying that the National Guard should be brought into handle the folks that they won't let into the Dome and they need food, so are you ready to go?" and after getting about 30 minutes of rest we were on our way...
Ive found that the best way to help folks in situations like this is to show up and ask what they need and then go get it, so thats what we did, when we got to the Fiesta parking lot there was the usual amount of vehicles for a normal business day, so we looked around and saw a smoker in the parking lot of a closed down crafts store on the other side of the corner and that was it, so we drove through one time to access the situation...
There was some dudes that had brought the smoker and were cooking the meat and putting it out on tables where there was already a bunch of stuff to go with it, there were cases of water and sodas stacked, a little bit farther down there were boxes of donations of clothing and toiletries, and people were constantly driving in the parking lot and dropping off more so they never ran out of anything, the folks needing help were getting the immediate help they needed, and I have never seen something like this before, no mater how well planned or organized, that was as orderly as this...
There were women from some church that were asking women with children if they had a place to stay for the night and if told no would say you do now and took them to a place to stay for the night...
Toys R Us across OST had agreed to let them set up in their parking lot after they closed, so they could be at a place where there was light when it was dark, and everyone made the move with no problems at all...
None of this had been planned in any way, it was not being put on by any organizations, there was no one processing anything or anybody, no one was telling anyone what to do, and all the folks there were getting the immediate help that they needed...
None of the folks helping wasted any time with unnecessary talk, they didnt pat each other on the back and tell each other what a great job they were doing, they just got the job done...
On the drive through it looked like they had and were going to continue to get all they needed but charcoal, so made another drive through to ask the dudes running the smoker to make sure, they said they needed some ice too, so we got them enough charcoal to last through tomorrow and enough ice to last through the night...
After that, since it was the 4th quarter of the Texans game and they were losing, we decided not to take Kirby and ended up on Fannin, I would describe what we saw, but the TV is fairly accurate about what a mess it is and I dont need to get my blood pressure up before going to bed, so take care and God Bless..Mikey
Ps: We didnt see anyone, during the time we were there, that was trying to get free beer...
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Food, Clothing, Toiletries, Shelter, Etc...
If you have collected food/clothing/toiletries/etc... and would like for it to go today to folks that need it, instead of just collected and stored while the collection sites wait for the Red Cross to tell them where to take it, take it directly to any of the Red Cross Shelters or the Star of Hope, you can also watch the news to find out about other places that are getting immediate relief to the folks that need it...
Note: 2nd Baptist Church on Shanks Road in Angleton now has evacuees in their beds, any and all food/clothing/toiletries/etc... will be very helpful and rapidly used to help the folks they have there...
If you have a shelter with empty beds and don't know how to fill them, watch and/or listen to your local news on TV and/or radio and you will be able to find plenty of folks that desperately need those beds...
And while I'm at it,there will be a MikeyWear booth today at the Blues and Bikes Festival, that the City of Freeport is having today from 1 to 11pm, Mikey the Clown should be there by 3pm to pass out candy to the kids, you can find out the details by going to the "Meet Mikey" link at MikeyWear.Com...
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Charcoal and Ice Needed Near Astrodome...
The folks that are helping out the people who were turned away at the Astrodome, in front of the Toys-R-Us at the corner of Kirby and Old Spanish Trail in Houston (note: the blog about them may have already been transfered to my blog archives), will need at least 200 lbs. of charcoal tommorrow, they will need ice too, at least 500 lbs., but due to ice donations by others and the limits of their storage capacity, please check with them 1st before bringing more than 100 lbs, you won't be able to get a reciept to take your donation off your taxes, but it will help get, many, many, many folks that are out of the "relief effort" loop the immediate they need, I know my limits and know that I am going to be too exhausted tommorrow to take anything up there, take care, God Bless, and G'night.....Mikey
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Move to another corner of Kirby and OST...
1st off, want to tell you about something I have learned during all this, where you really should wear a winter coat if you are in a Mercury Tracer with 400 lbs of ice in the back seat, wearing shorts and a t-shirt is tolerable if you only have 300 lbs of ice in the back seat...
The folks that are helping the people who were turned away from the dome are no longer 24/7, but will be there from morning to evening, still serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and will now either be at the closed down craft store parking lot or off to the Old Spanish Trail side of the Fiesta parking lot, same corner, don't know if the military Humvees that were in the Toys-R-Us parking lot when we left have anything to do with the move or not...
Was told that yesterday there was a big argument (looks like I picked a very good day to collapse and not go up there) between the different folks that were helping, some of them wanted to accept cash donations and the others wanted to refuse cash donations, resulting in the folks that were wanting to take cash donations leaving, so they will not accept cash donations there and will only accept what is needed to help the people...
Thank you to whoever came by and donated charcoal! Combining that with the 120 lbs I brought today, they should have enough to last them a few days, the biggest need that they have now is lots and lots and lots of ice, but what is really the best thing to do is go by and ask them what they need most to help before going to buy anything...
Due to no longer running 24/7, at the end of the day they are taking what clothes that are not distributed down to the Star of Hope for the Clothing Distribution (once again, the keyword is: "Distribution") Center on Ruiz...
It's time for bed, so take care, g'night, and God Bless....Mikey
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
For those new to this blog...
Note: A lot of what I have written about the Katrina relief efforts and how you can get immediate help to the folks that need it has been rolled over to the archives...
I don't know of a shelter that can't use everything that is donated, but one of the biggest needs at the shelters I've heard from is childrens clothing, still suggest, though, that if you are going to buy something, go by the shelter 1st and ask them what they need the most...
Have been ordered by my friends and family to stay home and rest for a few days and I'm too tired to argue with them, so guess what I'll be doing?
It's wonderful to see so many people in other parts of the US stepping up to the plate to help these folks, it's helping more than you will ever know, take care and God Bless......Mikey
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Should have taken my own advise...
We took another 300 lbs of ice up to where folks were helping the people who were turned away from the dome and they are no longer there, saw only 40-50 people walking aimlessly around the neighborhood in a daze, instead of masses of folks, evacuees can now come off the street to get processed at the Dome, they even put the entrance for that about 2 blocks away on McKee off of Main, so it looks like most of them took advantage, the Katrina Debit Cards should get the rest of them there, in other words, things are coming together in Houston...
With 300 lbs of ice still in the back of the MikeyWearMobile, we took it down to 2nd Baptist Church in Angleton (making it over a ton of supplies that the Mercury Tracer has hauled to either the Kirby/OST Relief Site, Star of Hope, or 2nd Baptist in Angleton), they currently have 25-30 beds open and have people there, waiting to help any evacuee that comes there with the paperwork to get financial aid...
Heard on the radio that the population of Baton Rouge, LA has tripled in size since this all started and I'm sure that any cash donations to their local Red Cross will be used wisely, you can also make your donations to them over the web...
After I've had a chance to get a good night's sleep, will start listing updates on shelters locations here on this blog, where folks can take food/clothing/etc... to be used to help these people without it having to spend any time going through the collection centers to get to them...
And yes, I'm being a hypocrite by saying this, because I didn't follow my own advise, but you really should ask the shelters what they need before you go buy anything for them, take care and God Bless..Mikey
Monday, September 19, 2005
Local Red Cross Chapters...
So that no confusion exists, I am not recommending that everyone donate only to the Red Cross Louisiana Capital Area Chapter (Baton Rouge, LA), but am giving an example to point out the importance of donations to all of the local Red Cross Chapters...
The reason I chose the Red Cross Louisiana Capital Area Chapter (Baton Rouge, LA) for MikeyWear's contributions was to point out what they had done and were doing, in May they were already preparing, asking for volunteers and training those volunteers, for a potential hurricane disaster, then by the grace of God Baton Rouge was not hit and they were able to kick out the jams immediately to help those that came into Baton Rouge and needed help...
What they had been and were doing was brought to my attention by a good number of the folks that came to the Kirby/OST Katrina Relief Efforts for help, who made it that far because of the help that they received from the good people of Baton Rouge, so it was that particular local chapter that was on my mind at the time...
Take care and God Bless.....Mikey
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July 3, 2008 - Thursday
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Trust
Current mood: grateful
Category: Life
On my profile I wrote that I've been asking only for God's guidance, leaving it entirely up him where I end up going, which although not the easiest thing to do, it keeps me going because I want to find out where he is guiding me, so I would like to share the prayer that I pray...
Dear God, I have no idea where I'm going. I do not see the road ahead of me. Nor do I really know myself. And the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean I'm actually doing so. But I believe this: I believe that the desire to please you does, in fact, please you. I hope that I never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it at the time. Therefore I will trust you always. For though I may be lost and in the shadow of death I will not be afraid, for I know you will never leave me to face my troubles all alone. Amen.
I hope that eveyone has a really Wonderful Wednesday, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
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June 17, 2008 - Tuesday
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New! * Vera’s Green Chile Bread!!!
Current mood: grateful
Category: Food and Restaurants
For those who are new to this blog, please feel free to add me as a MySpace friend at:
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Here's a new recipe from out of the bag that "Chickasha Oklahoma Legend" Grandmother Vera gave Dad before she passed away...
Green Chile Bread
1 (4 oz) can green chiles - 1 cup corn meal
1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
2 1/2 tsp baking powder- 1 1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp soda - 2 eggs - 1 cup cream style corn
1/2 cup + 2 tbs buttermilk
1/3 cup fresh bacon drippings
Rinse chiles, remove seeds, and spread flat to dry on paper towels. Mix cornmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Beat eggs lightly. Stir in corn, buttermilk, dry mixute, and drippings. Spread half of the batter in greased pan. Cover with chiles, cut in inch strips, and half oft he cheese. Spread with the rest of the batter, then cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Cut in squares and serve warm.
I hope that everyone is having a really Wonderful Wednesday, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
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May 30, 2008 - Friday
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The mosquitoes are coming back, so...
Current mood: grateful
Category: Life
For those who are new to this blog, please feel free to add me as a MySpace friend at:
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Is hasn't been raining much here, so it's not that bad yet, but for those that have had a lot of rain and those that will get lots of rain, here's a repost of what to do about fire ants and mosquitoes, as well as pimples, athlete's foot, etc...
Monday, May 01, 2006
Bug Problems?
Ants and Mosquitos are back in full force around here, so going to write today about a few of the things we do to deal with them...
At our zoo we have a way to treat Ant mounds that works for 2-3 months (about as long as anything at the store lasts around here, we get a bowl of cigarette butts and pour a can or two (depending on the size of the bowl) of cola on the butts and let it sit for about 30 minutes, then strain the liquid into another bowl and sprinkle the solution onto the mounds, the sugar in the cola attracts the Ants to the solution and the combintion of caffeine and nicotine kills the Ants...
Now for Mosquitos, we use a lot of Cedar Mulch, as a part of my relandscaping project, I purposely have places set up in the front and the back yard where we can neatly dump a lot of it, there are times that the Mosqitos are driving the folks here in Angleton totally nuts and I won't even know there are any unless I leave our zoo, but when you buy it, just make sure it's fresh Cedar Mulch, because if it's last year's that the store still has, it doesn't work as well or last as long...
But lets say you still get bit by Ants or Mosquitos, well, we keep enough tubes of Hemmorhoid Cream around so one is always handy when we need one, a little dab of it takes care of our Mosquito bites and the times I've stepped on an ant mound and they are crawling all over a foot and/or leg, I'll brush them off and rub it liberally on the area they bit and 30 minutes later won't be able to tell that I have been bitten...
You can use the Hemorhoid Ointment too, but it's real oily and you can now get the generic version of the cream at all of the chain stores that sell generic versions of these types of products, so we get the cream, and besides getting rid of pimples (I believe the only reason teenagers have pimples is the stigma attached to Hemmorhoid Cream), we use it for athletes foot too and it's worked for the two legged males with that itching that men are known to sometimes have...
And here is something else I discovered, although they are not bugs, cats tend to bug their owners at times, and if you work at home and have cats that bother you while you are working in your office, I bought some toilet seat covers and placed them where they are known to nap in the office and they hardly bother me at all now...
I hope that everyone has a really Terrific Weekend, take care and God Bless....Mikey
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April 12, 2008 - Saturday
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Things to do with "THE BOX" other than think outside of it...
Current mood: grateful
Category: Life
Just a reminder that if you know of a church youth group or youth organization that would like to hold bingo games, with white elephant gifts for prizes in assisted living centers, you can go to the helping page (1st article) in this blog's archives for info on how they can get a bingo cage kit...
Welcome to all the new readers! For your benefit I'm posting this oldie but goodie once again...
Would also like to mention that this post has it's own page at:
I hope everyone is having a really Stupendous Weekend, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Do you get annoyed by all the experts and/or commercials telling you about how you should be thinking outside of "THE BOX?" Well, when BarbedWire Bob & I were going to Houston back in February to get some Miso (see 2/5/2006 post in the blog's archives), we started coming up with ideas for things to do to "THE BOX" other than think outside of it, resulting in...
Things to do with "THE BOX" other than think outside of it...
As Demonstrated by our two legged critter family and friends...
(along with Sissy, when she feels like it)
I would say "please don't do this at home," but since that would be hypocritical because, well, we did it at home, please be careful if you try something like this...
Recap of Episodes 1-8
In our 1st episode, the two legged critters in our zoo demonstrated how to poke "THE BOX" with the pokers we use when picking up trash in the Texas Department of Transportation's Adopt-A-Highway Program...
In Episode Two, they demonstrated how to smash "THE BOX" with a cinder block...
In our 3rd episode, they demonstrated how to beat "THE BOX" with baseball bats...
In Episode Four, they demonstrated how to take the stuffing out of "THE BOX" and set "THE BOX" on fire...
In our fifth episode, I gave the other two legged critters in our zoo a break and personally demonstrated how to place "THE BOX" in a pickle jar...
And since the photo of "THE BOX" at the end of Episode 5 was not very clear, Henry (introduced as my new Promotions Assistant) had graciously vollunteered to have his photo taken with "THE BOX" in it's current state at the time...
For Episode Six, Debbie had "THE BOX" on her bedside table...
Then during our 7th Episode, Henry had "THE BOX" keep him company while I picked up 16 bags of trash (along with the usual assorted debris) on April 1 & 2, 2006, during the Great Texas Trash Off, part of MikeyWear's participation in the Texas Department of Transportation's Adopt-A-Highway Program...
Then in Episode Eight, with the help of Henry, Seth and Caleb's Great Grandma Virginia hides an Easter Egg on top of "THE BOX" as she prepares an Easter Egg Hunt for them and Amy...
So what is next for "THE BOX?" Well...
To Be Continued...
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March 19, 2008 - Wednesday
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*New* Vera’s Butterscotch Snack Cake!
Current mood: grateful
Category: Food and Restaurants
If those who have the Stumbleupon toolbar on their browsers would give Things to do with THE BOX instead of think outside of it... a thumbs up I would really appreciate it.....Thanks!
Here’s a new recipe from out of the bag that "Chickasha Oklahoma Legend" Grandmother Vera gave Dad before she passed away...
Butterscotch Snack Cake
1 pkg (3.5 oz) cook & serve butterscotch pudding
2 cups milk - 11 oz butterscotch baking chips
1 pkg (18 1/4 oz) yellow cake mix
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Combine pudding mix and milk. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in cake mix.
Pour into greased 13X9 inch baking pan. Sprinkle with butterscotch chips and nuts. Bake for 35-40 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cool and enjoy!
I hope that everyone is having a really Wonderful Wednesday, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
  
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March 18, 2008 - Tuesday
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Views On Life...
Current mood: grateful
Category: Life
Since there are probably some folks who have been looking at iamnotagenious.com and are now checking this blog out to find why I am doing things like sticking out my tongue and dressing up as a really weird clown, here’s a repost of what I wrote here that should shed a little light on the matter...
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
About The Legend Deal
Since MikeyWear.Com started, I have believed (and still do believe!) that it will become a Pop Culture Phenomenon and a few months back realized that it becoming that big would make me a Pop Culture Icon...
And you know, I just cannot allow that to happen!!!
So since then, I have been putting a lot of time and energy to avoid "Icon" status by doing all I can to becoming a "Legend" instead...
Rest assured, every time I refer to myself as a "Pop Culture Legend In The Making" or a "Great Texas Legend In The Making" or simply a "Legend In The Making," a bunch of giggling is going along with it, and I mean a bunch of giggling...
Meanwhile, to be serious for a short very moment, I have discovered that with MikeyWear.Com I have the opportunity to make a difference and I will be doing my best to take advantage of that opportunity...
Do I have political aspirations? Well, after watching the Circus in the US House when they had their Friday Night non-binding vote on the immediate pullout of the troops in Iraq on CSPAN about a month ago, I don’t see how anyone could make a difference in politics (except maybe, Kinky Friedman, really like his proposal for "No Teacher Left Behind" legislation, will carefully study his proposal, as well as the rest of his campaign platform, before the March Primaries), and if I want to clown around, well...
I already am...
So anyway, if anyone actually takes this legend thing seriously, please do not be blaming me, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Ps: Regarding whether I actually become some sort of legend or not, well, now really, WHO CARES??? I sure don’t!
Thursday, February 02, 2006
So soon?
It has been brought to my attention that there are already folks saying and writing things about me that are not that nice, so...
If anyone hears or reads stuff about me that is not that nice, there are really only four options that they have...
Option A: Believe what they are told...
Option B: Not believe what they are told...
Option C: Wait and see if I really am going to do what I say I am going to do...
Option D: Not care...
They can pick any of the options, can also change their minds any time they want to, and there is no need for them to tell me which option they choose or change to...
If anyone decides to choose Option A and doesnt think they are going to change their minds, I would like to leave one last thought with them...
And with that out of the way, I am going to continue to do what I am doing, take care, God Bless, and have a Terrific Thursday...Mikey
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