A happy Heifer holiday

[which]

For the last four years, we've been donating money to Heifer International, which provides livestock and training to bring people out of poverty, instead of buying presents for our family (so far, we've donated a llama, a water buffalo, five flocks of chickens, trees, geese, and some beehives). The people who receive the gifts have to pass on the offspring to other people in their communities, so there's a multiplier effect. We're all pretty happy with it.

The +1 for me, though, is that every year I get to design the card (my favorite was the year of the chickens and the water buffalo).

This year: bees and trees.



For whatever it's worth. Which seems to me to be a fair amount.