Giving

November 6, 2022

I just wrapped up another Poapathon contest to get a design for our Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser. The designers were amazing, creative, and put forward several options that were great fits for our event. If you need design help it is an amazing resource! 🎨

October 30, 2022

We made another 90 Things 4 Good candles today for a total of 180 ready for the Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser!

Roughly 90 handmade candles in colorful cylindrical containers with wooden wicks arranged on a wooden table.

Dozens of colorful handmade candles with wooden wicks arranged on a wood table alongside pouring pitchers, a scale, and paper towels.

October 29, 2022

Making Things 4 Good Candles with the Digiboil is way faster and just easier. We made twice the candles in much less time versus multiple double boilers.

It is also a win that we can make them inside. Last years cooled outside and that can be too fast and cause tunneling.

Dozens of colorful candles in various container colors arranged in rows on a wood table, each with a wooden wick

October 29, 2022

We are doing our very first round of Things 4 Good Candles with the Digiboil. This thing can take a lot of wax! This is going to make candle production much faster.

Large blocks of solid white wax stacked inside a stainless steel brewing kettle with gallon and litre measurement markings

BrewZilla 35L neoprene-jacketed Digiboil electric brewing kettle sitting on a wooden crate in a garage.

October 13, 2022

POAP 5768722 at Donation made! Thanks for helping it happen!.

September 19, 2022

I decided to take a big “step up” in Things 4 Good Candles production and get a DigiBoil 9 gallon wax melter. Before we had three melters in two double boilers doing 3 lbs of wax at a time. Things4Good Fall Fundraiser coming November 12th and 13th.

DigiBoil stainless steel 9-gallon electric wax melter with digital display panel, spigot, and locking lid

September 15, 2022

Waiting for the Ethereum mainnet merge? Make your Gitcoin grants!

I supported ENS Fairy, POAPin, Internet Archive, EFF, and ethstaker in Grant Round 15.

My grants were matched 10x! 💰 I love how you can see the direct transfers in the transaction.

GAIS text styled with topographic map contour lines on a mint green background, dated September 07-22 2022

June 11, 2022

Mazie and I packed rider packets for next weeks Minnesota Ironman Bike Ride today. Our task was unboxing and folding at least 2,000 t-shirts to be put in bags.

Volunteers unbox and sort hundreds of folded maroon t-shirts spread across long tables in a large warehouse space with red walls.

Smiling girl standing behind a folding table stacked with hundreds of folded maroon t-shirts in a large warehouse space

Man and girl smile holding up maroon Minnesota Ironman Bike Ride t-shirts, surrounded by hundreds of folded shirts on tables in a large open space.

April 23, 2022

We had a big exterior project done this fall that finished in the winter. With the snow gone, I offered the kids a bounty to find nails in the yard. They decided to donate the bounty to charity. Proud parent moment.

Pile of rusty nails and screws scattered on weathered wooden boards in black and white

April 23, 2022

Support Ukraine via Nifty.Ink 🇺🇦

I have wanted to create my own “ink” on Nifty.Ink and my artistic capabilities are pretty limited. My one talent is block lettering. I also want to keep doing things to support Ukraine, so let’s raise $1,000 to donate directly to Ukraine via crypto. I’ve minted 50 copies of …

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