Climb For Climate Change

 Today we got out for our weekly walk.  One might say "It's a long weekend, the snow will go away, why walk today?"  Well let me say this, it was such a beautiful morning for a walk in the snow.  It took us much longer to walk a smaller distance but it was so wonderful and peaceful.    We travelled through Davis Bay today and the trails behind in Chapman Creek Area.   Exciting news is the creation of our website:  https://climbforcc.org  Along with this came the knowledge that we needed an Instagram account and a TikTok account.  I made Cody double over as I called it "The TikTok".  Oh he makes me laugh.  So check us out at climbforcc on both of these mediums. I am of course new to all this technology.  It is crazy to think that all of this can help us reach our goals.  I am a firm believer that putting it out there will get us going and that is the case.  I mean, I never expected a website and thanks to Tot...

 It is hard to believe that about 72 hours ago we finally launched our donation sites!  It is also a strange feeling.  You see in my head the pages would go up and magically we would get $10000.00 in donations over night!  Yes that was how my brain thought.  I mean SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!  People left right and center would donate right?  $10 hear, $20 there, who knows maybe that magical person would even give $1000!  The night we posted, not a single donation came in.   Disappointed for sure.  One has to sit back however and think, it will all come together.  Today as of 8:15pm we have $850 in donations.  I remind myself, that this is $850 more than were we started and $850 more then either place had (okay $500 and $350 more).  It is a start and guess what it is a triumphant start! Cody and I felt awesome today as well.  We made it out in the snow to the SPCA in Sechelt.  We met Buddha and Grayson. Two of the ...

                                                                         BCSPCA  WE DID IT!  It took sometime but we finally have the okay to move forward!  I am so happy.  We are going to be raising the funds for the BCSEA ($10000.00) and the BCSPCA - Sunshine Coast Branch ($20000.00) for solar panels. You might ask why we choose who we did.  Cody loves animals and has done many camps over with the SPCA.  We wanted to choose a non-profit in order to help decrease their costs, make them greener and help benefit locally.  So this was a pretty easy one to pick (and did you know they are located on Solar Road?, Go figure!). We also wanted to think bigger and benefit an organization within BC.  This is where the BCSEA came in.  We learned about an aw...

When Cody and I first thought of doing this, we thought to ourselves "Just start a go fund me page, put in the goal and we are good to go."  Needless to say this has literally become a part-time job for me.  We are constantly working on things, from the next practice walk to who can we reach out to for sponsorship. The biggest hurdle however has been, who wants the money for Solar Panels.  Wow you must be thinking to such a statement and yet I still shake my head.  You see I would think handing over $20000.00 towards solar panels would be a no brainer.  Apparently, it takes time and effort to get an answer of acceptance.  We don't have many stipulations here.  Cody and I wanted it to go to a non-profit organization so that they can reap the benefits of lower hydro bills and that the funds must be used specifically for this use.  I guess even in the business of helping, you still have to answer to higher ups.  So tonight (in T-Minus 15 mins), ...

 In January Cody and I decided we needed to train for this walk.  What you can't just get out and do the walk mom?  Nope, we need to prep.  Cody has been involved from day one and he is great at picking out places to walk.  Each week we have been attempting to do about 10km.  Cody let's me know where he wants to walk and I try to pick a spot to traverse.  We have decided to stick to the roads.   Why?  We will be walking cement on our main walk so we want to be as prepared as possible.  To date we have done 4 walks (each weekend we get out, with our first walk being the test run and three since). We are preparing to listen to podcasts on our main walk.  So far this has been a great thing to have on hand but not needed.  The amazing gift that Cody has, is the gift of gab.  He is a smart, inquisitive kid who never stops seeing things and questioning them.   Attached is a photo from each of walks so far. 

 I have to admit I challenged my son and his immediate answer was "No Mom, I can't do that".  I told him to think on it and that is how this all began. You see Cody is 10 years old and is amazing with helping our community out.  At 8 years old he decided to do a food drive in our small community of Tuwanek.  He than moved on to raising funds for the Sunshine Coast Wildlife Organization.  Followed up by raising funds through Earth Rangers for the Wolverines. He is a giver and so I thought to myself, what can we do together (he often feels left out as I am a Girl Guide leader and do bundles with my daughter)?  So I challenged him to raise a bunch of money ($30000.00 is our goal) but told him if we were to ask this much we needed to work for it and so this walk is how it all began.  We are just finalizing who the funds will go to, but it is for Climate Change. Of course, not knowing if he could do it (or should I say, I would survive), we did a test walk ...