No need to thank me folks. The way I figure it, if something like this had happened to me, ya'll would be doing the same thing for me.
It just happens that right now is a slow time for us here at work (and my boss is pretty laid back), so I've got time to coordinate things. I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I do have time.
A special thanks to Darrell for offering to donate the customized knife.
It'll surely be a work of art once it's completed!
On the donations, if you made a PayPal transfer
and haven't received a confirmation PM from me about it, please let me know!
There's been a couple of people who made transfers but they didn't go through for some reason. On thing that we can figure is that the first letter in my PayPal address is a capital letter, not lower case. That may have been what threw at least one of the transfers off. Anyway, I've been sending confirmations to everyone after I get a transfer (and will when the money orders start arriving) just to let them know that I got the funds.
We're rocking right along.
Thanks again for all of the folks who have helped out!