Hello, Steemit!

in #introduceyourself7 years ago (edited)

Hi, Steemit! My name is Cherie. I’m new to the platform but I do have friends here who have promised to help me find my way around. In fact, I’m involved in a test project that pays SBD for real-world work. So, I hope you’ll follow my blog and see how this works out!

I live in Central Appalachia, in the same county as @rhondak, who posts often about the problems in our area. She runs a nonprofit animal rescue that I’ve worked with extensively. A group of animal lovers on Steemit and in The Writers’ Block have a plan to raise enough SBD every week to pay me a small hourly salary. I’m a single mother who works in the food service industry, and need part time work. At the same time, the rescue needs help. It would be a great arrangement if we could solve both of these problems through Steemit.

I’m not entirely familiar with cryptocurrency. I understand that it’s real and converts to USD so I can pay my bills with it. This makes me the ideal candidate for a project like this, because I represent the “average” demographic of new user coming to Steemit for the first time. If I can make this work, anyone can.

My goal at this time is to give the rescue nine hours of work a week. That’s three hours a day, three times a week. At $10 SBD an hour, this would work out to $90 SBD per week. I plan to make plenty of posts with photos and videos so people can see what their SBD is helping accomplish. The animals are real and their needs are real. Anything we can do as a community to improve the circumstances will be an investment in the future of Central Appalachia from a humanitarian standpoint as well as animal welfare.

I am going to show you some pictures of me and some of the animals who’s lives impacted mine through this rescue. In a couple of the photos of the dogs getting ready to leave on transport, you will see my tears. Rescue is not always easy. But it is always rewarding. The Happy Tail photos of these dogs in their new homes will say it all. A great example is this photo of Ruger, the dog with me in my header pic for this post, with his new owner in Vermont. It was hard to let Ruger go, but he has a great home now, and all the heartache was worth it. Ruger was a dog I had watched suffer for years on a short chain at a neighbor's house, without proper shelter from heat in summertime, or from the cold and ice in winter. It was such a relief when I could finally help him, and I knew then that rescue was definitely one of my higher callings.

One of the other things I find truly remarkable about rescue is that I can include my son Masyn. He loves animals, too, and with this, he can be hands-on involved, as well. Here is a photo of him with a dog named E.J. who came into rescue very unsocialized. Now, thanks to Masyn, we can say for sure that E.J. is great with kids!

My camera roll is filled with photos of Masyn and dogs. I love my son, and I love that he loves helping animals. Below is a pic of him and a dog named Jaxx, a very sweet but shy dog who finally found a home in New England. There's also a picture of me crying my eyes out as Jaxx boards the transport van north. He now lives with a wonderful family in New Hampshire.

Another dog my son and I met in rescue is Harvey. Harvey was found one Christmas Day chained to a signpost beside a busy road. The photo is blurry, but if you look closely, you can see that Harvey is tethered in such a way that he can run right out into the middle of traffic. The clip on his collar is visible even if the actual cable is not.

Here is Masyn on a car trip with Harvey. We found out Harvey likes to ride!

And here is Harvey at his new home in Maine. :-)

And here is me crying again, just before putting little Gillespie on transport to Vermont. Below that is a photo of Gillespie in his new Vermont home.

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Hey Cherie! Welcome to steemit community! Good luck to you with upcoming posts and part time job. Thanks for doing important job!

Thank you for the well-wishes. I'm here at the rescue working today. :-)

Hi Cherie, welcome to Steemit!

Nelle also says Hi! =]

Hi, @mindgeek and Nelle! Oh my gosh . .adorable!

Welcome to steemit, and all of us in Writers Block welcome you as well.

Hi may I know what is Writers Block?

It's a chat channel on the Discord App. Best way to find it is to check out @rhondak posts. But it's a place for writers to hang out, there's a room for submitting work for feedback.

Thanks @andrewgenaille
@gmuxx already lead me to the channel, and I already had my first poem thru their help just this morning, everyone is awesome-ly helpful
I just posted my poem, and its my first ever english poetry. Thanks for your response 🌼😊😊

Hi thanks for your response @andrewgenaille
@gmuzz already lead me to the channel and I got assistance with my poem just this morning. Everyone ia helfpul. I just posted my first ever poem because of them 😊😊😊

There's also a great room for @andrewgenaille comics!!!

Let's see if we can talk her into joining Discord, too. ;-)

Thank you so much! I'm glad I'm here. :-)

Wonderful to have you 🙌

Welcome to Steem! With all those dog pictures you're sure to fit right in. Will follow for more. Feel free to follow or contact me if you need anything!

I'll have more dog pics on here than people want to see. Just give me time. LOLOL

Welcome to Steemit, Cherie!

Tiny, our wonderful bearer of goodness and light. (With her very own namesake puppy.)

So you're Tiny, huh? That's so awesome to meet you! I'm here with Tiny pup today. :-)

Welcome to Steemit, and welcome from The Writers' Block. This will be a fun experiment to see the real world impact Steemit can have in helping out a very worthy cause. Will watch with interest and help as much as I can.

Thank you so much, @GMuxx. I hear you're at Steemfest. That's wonderful! I hope you have a good time.

Muxxy! Ohhh, we just need some way to get Muxxy pup to you in England . . .

Hi may i know what is Writers Block?

Sure thing. Click @thewritersblock and see the first post.

Welcome! My last attempt at raising a little funds to help wasn't very successful, but us writers are persistent folks and we'll keep working at it!

Hey, we'll get there. Thank you for all you're doing to help the rescue and to help me help the rescue. :-)

We sure will keep working at it! Just as we're working on finding little puppy Bex a good home. :-)

Welcome to Steemit @cherielayne,
you are dog person ai? That's nice!. Keep blogging you will like it here on this platform.

Oh, yes. I'm definitely a dog person!

Welcome!! What great work you are doing!!!

She does do great work with the dogs, too. We can vouch!!

Thank you! :-)