July Raffle

I've officially started selling raffle tickets to go towards my adoption expenses -- at my last estimate, figuring the two trips to Africa, it will cost me in excess of $26,000! My friends have been awesome in helping me -- posting things to Facebook, sending out emails to their address books.

And recently my friend Claudia has started selling the eggs from her free-range chickens at work, with the majority of the money going to the adoption fund.

Our biggest fundraiser is a year-long raffle.

Here are the rules:

• Monthly drawings on the last day of each month
• $5 per chance or 5 chances for $20
• Enter as often as you like
• Your chances enter you in all "pools" until you're name is drawn -- in other words, YOU HAVE AS MANY CHANCES TO WIN AS THERE ARE DRAWINGS!
• More chances, more chances to win. Same person can win more than one drawing if they've entered more than once
• Enter online or in person with raffle ticket
• For consistency of drawings, all online entries will get ticket(s) filled out for them
• All items have been donated for this specific cause -- to help offset costs of international adoption
• All proceeds will be paid toward adoption costs
• Winner will be notified by email and listed on website by first name and city
• If not local, items will be mailed priority mail within one week of drawing. Winner will be sent tracking number.
• If you retweet or post to your Facebook, let me know, and I'll give you one free entry

All of the raffle items are listed in the sidebar to the right, as well as a Pay Pal button. The July raffle is an autographed, framed photo of Baltimore Orioles outfielder Nick Markakis. If you know anything about baseball, you know that Nick is really the only bright spot about Orioles baseball these days.