Bringing Home the Bacon

I came one step closer to owning a live pig, last night. How interesting! Some background might help….

On my Ways You Can Help Me page (button at top of this page), I have a link that allows you to make donations, if you want to share your appreciation for the site that way. I’ve been surprised and extremely grateful about how often readers use it. Thank you! It really puts things in perspective, when I’m feeling tired or bored with writing on the site. How can I stop when people benefit to the point that they want to give me a cut of the money they’ve started making?

On that page, I also said I’d be happy to work with you to make a non-traditional donation work. Just to be whimsical, I said “If you want to give me livestock, I want to find a way to accept it.” So, I guess I shouldn’t have been too surprised when, last night, someone suggested that maybe they could give me a hog. Wow!

Of course, I immediately went to check the terms of the lease on my apartment, and while it doesn’t specifically outlaw hogs, if you read between the lines I think the anti-hog sentiment is clear enough. So, like I promised, we’re talking about how we can work that out. Who says you can’t bring home the bacon daytrading? :-)

The other great thing about the website is meeting a variety of people. As part of talking to this guy, he sent a link to the site about his farm. Check out the Rosewood Acres site (they also sell some products and services if you are interested). There’s a page on their philosophy of raising pigs happily and naturally, with comparison pictures to caged pigs. It’s just intuitively obvious when you see them side by side, which situation feels more “right.” This is one of those issues I’m aware of, but rarely have to think about, so it’s nice every now and then to get a reminder.

So maybe something will come of it, or maybe not. Truthfully, as many donations as there have been, there are far more emails telling me donations are imminent. Most of those never actually happen, but I’m thrilled that people are even considering it. It means a lot to me, to be able to help people take steps toward succeeding in this great profession.