Good Morning Good News, December 11, 2012

Morning from all 1289 of us who are thanking YOU this morning for our breakfast nums  !!! 

When God looks down and smiles on

Rikki’s Refuge in the morning,

this is what he sees!

Joe mowed that R out in the field, with no aerial help at all, just right from the ground, no stakes to lay out nothing, just doing the curves and straights on the tractor.  He wasn’t even sure what it looked like.  He just knew what he wanted to do.  Then one day a skydiver said, what’s over here?  I saw this giant R.  Then a friend Bill flew over with a friend in a private plane and saw it, but he didn’t have his camera.  Now it’s there on Google !!!!

Is that cool or what ?

WOW Rikki’s really does look like an oasis of safety and protection out there, doesn’t it ?

Here’s my trivia question for today!  

Tell me what the different areas mean to you?  The red, the pink, the yellow and the blue?

And what will they mean at 12:12 pm on 12/12/12 ?????    This is the most exciting news in years !!!!!

Every acre of land in our circle of protection gives hundreds and hundreds, even thousands of animals from bears to little bugs, protection and the chance live their natural lives ... well naturally  !!!!!!    And that’s all cuz life, from the smallest little creature ... to the biggest one of all ... all deserve kindness and a happy home, cuz that’s the way the planet is spposed  to be !

ONLY SIX MORE DAYS

so please do your voting !!!

That simple little act, bring 4,000 meals to the critters

Please vote with us daily in every session of the

SHELTER CHALLENGE

Help the animals win money to buy food with your easy, simple, free votes !!

http://animalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces

and enter Rikkis Refuge in VA in the USA,

and always remind them that it’s Rikkis Refuge in VA in the USA and let them know that's it's easy, quick, FREE and no apps or sign ups, peoples hate those apps that keep sending out stuff AND that they can vote every day on every puter and phone they have !!!   Every day !!

ANGEL TREES

are supercool !!!!  And they are here to help Rikki’s Refuge during the holiday season ....  All the way till the FIRST of the New Year !!!    we need Angel Trees cuz money don’t grow on trees.  But good pressies of nums and supplies can magically appear under out Angel Trees !!!

So far look what YOU have made happen under the Angel Trees !!!

Horse Food 250 lbs

Pig food 425 lbs

Goat food 300 lbs

Chicken Food 300 lbs

Cow Food 300 lbs

Guinea pig food 74 lbs

Rabbit Food 259 lbs

Bird food 211 lbs

Dry Cat Food 552.2 lbs

Canned Cat Food 749 cans

Dry Dog Food 1,225.70 lbs

Canned Dog Food 264 cans

Santa’s Helper making a delivery from the Angel Trees to Rikki’s Feed Store !!

That’s “store” as in to keep the food a fore da aminals eat it all, not as in “store” to sell it !!!!

WOW !!!!!!  THANK YOU ANGELS !!!

You can find our Angel Trees at

Rikki's Refuge Christmas Wish Trees 2012

Come grant an animal's wish this Christmas Season at any of these Rikki's friendly locations. Choose an animal with a Christmas wish, purchase the item off the ornament and donate it under the tree. Our Santa helpers will be picking up all donations and delivering to the refuge thru Jan. 1. Help make an emu, cat, dog, pig, goat, horse, or chicken happy this Christmas with your donation. Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Fredericksburg

Petco at Harrison Crossing

5717 Plank Rd, Fredericksburg, Va 22407

Tractor Supply of Fredericksburg

4178 Plank Rd, Fredericksburg, Va 22407

360 Feed Supply

5037 Plank Rd, Fredericksburg, Va 22407

Roxbury Farm and Garden

601 Lafayette Blvd. Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Confederate Ridge Animal Hospital

2301 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Spotsylvania

Harvest Market

7610 Heths Salient St., Spotsylvania VA 22553

Giant at Hilltop

10346 Courthouse Rd. Spotsylvania VA 22553

Orange

Orange-Madison Co-op

13323 James Madison Hwy, Orange, Va 22960

Village Farm Feed and Garden Center

28284 Constitution Hwy, Rhoadesville, Va 22542

Orange Tractor Supply

13226 James Madison Hwy, Orange Va 22960

Dollar General

13260 James Madison Hwy, Orange VA 22960

Culpeper

Culpeper Animal Hospital

441 Aspen St, Culpeper Va 22701

Culpeper Farm and Home

15172 Brandy Rd, Culpeper VA 22701

Culpeper Tractor Supply

588 Culpeper Town Sq, Culpeper Va 22701

Richmond

Southern States Co-op

8718 West Broad St, Richmond VA 23294

Kroger

1140 West Huguenot Rd, Midlothian Va 23113

Charlottesville

Pet Supplies Plus

1240 Seminole Trail, Charlottesville, VA 22901

Annandale

Giant at Bradlick Shopping Center

6980 Braddock Rd., Annandale Va, 22003

Truck of nums from Angel Trees

Hey Rikki’s Elves !!!!  When you’re picking up from the Angel Trees -- snap a pic and send to me !!!! 

Pretty amazing footage of an osprey

My Great Grand Pa has an Osprey who sits on top of the mast of the sail boat at his house.  It sits there and calls out .... and it sounds like a song bird ....  you can hear one here  http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Osprey/sounds

I’d have though such a big bird would have a big tough sounding voice. 

Office Angels

Not to worry --- I sorry I been having to take care of things and not able to get all the names posted yet, but I will, I’m working on it, I’ll have you up there soon as my Office Angel AND Your name will forever be on a beautiful full color sign !!!!    I’m getting caught up !!!!   

In the mean time, there’s still room for you if you haven’t signed on as an Office Angel ...

here’s the details http://rikkisrefuge.blogspot.com/2012/11/office-angels.html

And now Let’s SING .....

On the Fourteenth Day of Christmas

Look What Came to Rikki’s,

Fourteen 
Peacocks Plotting,

Thirteen 
Humans Helping,

Twelve 
Temperamental Turkeys

Eleven 
Pouting Pussies,

Ten 
Crotchety Creaking Canines,

Nine 
Grumpy Geese,

Eight 
Kicking Kittens,

Seven 
Guinea Fowl Freeloading,

Six 
Lizards a Lazing,

Five 
Guinea Pigs a Gnawing,

Four 
Elderly Equines,

Three 
Burly Bossy Bovines,

Two 
Rabbits a Mating,

and a Chukar in a Cherry Tree.

 

YOU are the SUNSHINE

that makes OUR Christmas BRIGHT

Please put a penny in our old cat’s hat!

Thank you, Vincent D. Cat and Duke Thomas Peabody

Ohzzz  keepp all themz paws crossed ....  if all goez right I gots like great big happy news tomorrow ....  two news ... how about that !!!!   One is sparkling and shiny and wonderful for Christmas .... and the other has 2,786,315.4 feet .... uh oh .....  this be good ????    We gotz nuf houses ..... ?   Stay tuned .... and find out tomorrow !!!!

Seez you all soon,

               Love, Opie