Ladies and Gentlemen, WELCOME to the 2007 Glove Notice!

This year, the Guiding-Your-Hands-To-Gloves* organization is so pleased to bring our  important message to a global audience for the first time through the World Wide Web.

If your response is "Don't be silly, Guiding-Your-Hands-To-Gloves, not everyone in the whole world has heard about the glove thing," we are forced to admit it -- you're correct. At the time of this publication, there are some remote regions of The Congo and Eastern Wayne County who do not yet have access to this vital message -- but believe me, people, we're ON IT.

If you're hearing about this for the first time, let your fingers thank a friend for referring you. We'll wait.
If you're a repeat glover, let your fingers thank yourself. You've earned it.

Either way, once again, the truth of this annual message is here for you. 

OUR ROOTS:
Gregory Gerard, our president and founder, spent his twenties combatting excruciating end-of-finger slits in his skin during winter.  It's the same old story -- Boy goes outside, Boy develops small but intensely painful cracks around the fingernail area, Boy cries himself to sleep until April.  After a number of years of experimentation with alternative solutions (excessive hand drying, prescription lotions, hot-water soaks, Vitamin E applications...and more) he discovered the true cure for cuticle cracks. 

Determined to proliferate this vital information, he has spent more than ten years reaching out every autumn with this simple imperative. 

OUR ANNUAL MESSAGE:
From October 1 - March 31, wear your gloves every time you're outside, unless the air temperature exceeds fifty degrees Farenheit.  Yes, everytime.

YOUR INADEQUATE RATIONALIZATIONS:
"I can take it well below fifty degrees," you dismiss us. 
"My friends will laugh at me for wearing gloves in October!" you cringe.  
People, we know what we're talking about.  Our archives are chock full of testimony from Forty-Nine Degree Nancys and Forty-Eight Degree Eddies who learned the hard way.  While they're out shopping for another bottle of cheap vodka to soothe the cuticle pain, you're here shopping for the truth. 

Congratulations.
You've found it.

BROWSE:
We invite you to visit the rest of our site, including this year's GloveTestimony by repeat columnist, Elizabeth Boice.  If you're a new GloveLover, visit our past issues in the GloveArchives.

PLEASE FEED THE ARTIST:
If this annual glove message makes as much sense to you as it does us, please visit our founder's "other" writing at WWW.JUPITERSSHADOW.COM or visit his blog at myspace.com/JustCallMeJupiter.

And, once again, we thank you for your attention to this noble pursuit.

(*our name derived from the Native American word GUYHATOGLO
meaning "to relieve intense emotional or fingertip scarring")