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! :-)

Welcome to Steemit! So glad to have you! @rhondak will get you going :)

Welcome! I'm a huge fan of dogs as well, I've rescued both a pitbull and a Belgian shepherd.

You'll do well here I'm sure, and the community's very supportive!

She's wonderful with the dogs. We can certainly attest to that! :-)

I love what I've seen of the community so far. And I love people who rescue dogs! Two of them, eh? And a pittie. . .you rock!

Thanks! Would love to have a few acres and be able to foster some more some day. Take care :)

You've rescued a Belgian shepherd? I love you for that alone! Which variety? (I own a Terv)

I'm not sure exactly. He was a foster care dog without good records... Slated for execution till he was rescued.

After looking into many possible breeds, I figure Belgian Shepherd is the closest match. 😄

Is he short-haired? Long? Coarse, wiry hair? Colour? Sorry, I tend to go nuts for a Belgian Shepherd. :-)

Medium fur (sheds a lot) Honey colour, black tipped ears, black muzzle, white tipped front paws, white chest. I think he's mixed with another breed, so I really hope this doesn't turn out to be one giant disappointment for you!

Nooo, no disappointment. Disappointment would be if you didn't show me a photo. ;-) White tipped paws are not according to breed standard but they do occur even in purebred pedigree dogs.

Here is a photo of our Tervuren shepherd, which is sort of what yours sounds like.
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Do ignore the ribbon, this is the only photo I have where she stands still. :-D

Okay I may be on the wrong track, or maybe my doge only has certain attributes of a Belgian Shepherd? Are you on discord chat? I'm Often Nice Coin #9811. I can share doge pics on there.

Welcome to steemit!!! @cherielayne

Thank you! :-)

Welcome to onboard. I love animals, nice to see you do too.Those are beautiful pictures with the rescued animals. Keep up with the good work and have fun doing it. Steem On!

I am excited for you and Rhonda. This will be quite the experiment, and I just know it's going to work. I found The Writer's Block about 10 days into steemit, and I spend every free minute there, interacting with writers, reading their work, and getting help with mine. What a wonderful community that can come together and try to do a little good for some animals that need our love.

Good luck with everything. I hope to see you at the Block!

And you are such an integral part of that community it's now impossible to remember what it was like without you! :-)

Hi, @steemitgraven29. Good to meet you! I can't believe how much support I've seen for the rescue here on Steemit. It's totally different from any other online platform I've seen...or even the local folks here. :-)

Welcome Cherie! We are all so glad that you are here and able to lend a helping hand to @rhondak. I'll be helping as much as I can... looking forward to your updates.

It's awesome of you to help the way you do. I appreciate and I know Rhonda does, too. :-)

Thank you, Dr. Butterfield!! LOLOL!

Welcome to Steemit, Cherie! I'm Andrei, one of Rhonda's friends from the writing workshop project that she is the lifeblood of (she's the lifeblood of a great many things, isn't she?). I heard about her plan to raise 90 SBD a week to help the rescue, but with how busy I've been I didn't have a clear picture as to what the plan was for that 90 SBD. All the same, I'm 100% behind you. This is an awesome project, not just because it helps you and Rhonda rescue animals, but because it provides a very valuable use case as to what we can accomplish on Steemit.

Welcome to the blockchain :D I'm following you now, so I'll be on the look out for your posts!

@cherielayne, remind me to tell you everything Andrei has done to help the rescue. He's also a Steemit witness you should vote for--I'll show you how to do that next time you're here. He is much loved and greatly appreciated.

Yes, Rhonda has told me about you. She's told me your character in the AI novel is definitely hotter than her lead character. Hahahaha!

Hi dear nice photography..

Hello. Welcome to steemit and good luck with your goals, gonna follow you :) Nice pics by the way, keep it up!

Hello and wellcome to steemit Cherie. Greetings from Bulgaria I like your intro and you are very altruistic person. I wish you good luck and success in all your endeavours. I will follow you jorney on steemit.

Cute dog :) Welcome to steemit! If you need help feel free to ask

Welcome to steemit cherie. hugs from the Philippines

Thank you! So you're from the Philippines? Steemit really is an international community.

Yes I am. Nice meeting you. ^^

A new Steemian ^^ hello @cherielayne I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community ! Nice post, wish you much luck! I will follow your account. Don't hesitate to contact or follow me at any time :-) See you around @tradewonk

realy nice blog, it was great to meet you at steemit, greetings

I love this! I’ve been thinking about going down to my local shelter and volunteering to take pictures of the animals every week. Anything to help them find families.

Oooh, please do go volunteer. Sometimes municipal shelters are hard places to be in, but you really can help save lives by getting involved. :-)

A good photo can help them get adopted quicker!

Cherie! Fancy meeting you here. :-)

Yes, imagine that!

@cherielayne

WELCOME TO STEEMIT!! 🎉🎊🎈

Country living looks wholesome and caring for animals at the Rescue shelter is indeed nobel. I am wishing you much success here on Steemit. It looks like you are off to a good start. It will take alot of work and dedication to start earning real rewards. I have been on steemit for two months now and I have approx $4.00 but on the flip side you are already 1/2 way there. I have a feeling you are going to do amazing. Thank you so much for sharing you story with us and I look forward to hearing more from you. Have a wonderful and safe Halloween with your little one.

Blessings,
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🎀 @theprettysoul 🎀

Thank you! Yes, we did have a great Halloween. He went as Rocket the Raccoon LOL!

Welcome Cherie! Oh my goodness, I'm so glad you found Harvey; what a horrible thing to do, but I suppose you're not stranger there to that kind of treatment of animals. Glad to have you aboard!

Yeah, people are mean to them a lot around here. I'm at the rescue today working and there's a dog here now that we think someone has mistreated. It's just heartbreaking. At least we can give some of them happy endings. :-)

Welcome to steemit @cherielayne! And thanks for helping @rhondak and all the animals at @tarc - you have my support!

Thank you, @jonknight. She tells me you're a cat person! :-)

I do love cats - people of all kinds actually!

Cherie and Rhonda, you're an ideal match -
Steemit, the ideal place to make this work!
GREAT photos, and what great things you do, ladies!!

Thank you, Carol! I've heard so much about you I feel like I know you already. Thank you for the warm welcome and for everything you do to help.

Welcome to Steemit :)

You will have fun here :)

Welcome to steemit Great introduction post.

I noticed something though, I thought I let you know for you might not be aware of this.

Not saying it is so, though. I'm in no way an expert ;)

Good luck :)

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