Saturday night - a long day

Sis got home from her church retreat this afternoon.

I agreed to help serve lunch at the church to a group of volunteers from another church. They planted trees and plants in our courtyard and put down mulch. Sis made up bowls of egg salad and tuna salad and I made sandwiches out of that and pimiento cheese spread and brought three trays of them. The pastor is out of town today but she bought soft drinks and cookies to serve them. We also brought some potato chips. So we just put everything out on a buffet table in the fellowship hall at noon and let them serve themselves. Two other ladies came to help serve also.

I left before the volunteers had finished their work in the courtyard so I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see how it turned out.

Sis does a lot of crocheting and other crafts. She had our third bedroom all set up for her craft room, but she had so much stuff in there she could hardly move around. So over the last couple of weeks she bagged up a whole lot of it that she doesn’t use anymore and donated it to a thrift shop near us. They were glad to get it.

Right now she is working on crocheting chemo caps. She has some other crocheting projects that she has either started on or plans to.

I don’t do crafts, but I sure do love to read. I have two six-foot high bookcases that my husband built me and I have them full of books. I also have books on smaller bookshelves throughout the house, as well as on my bookcase headboard and stacked in the corners. I re-read the ones I really like, so I don’t like to get rid of too many of them.

I picked up some extra Thanksgiving-type stuff to donate to our food pantry. They will be open on November 18th and will try to put as much things in for Thanksgiving as they can. I brought 10 boxes of Stove Top Stuffing, 10 packages of gravy mix, and 2 cans of cranberry sauce. They ordered turkeys from the food bank and the things they usually give out, such as rice and beans, fruit, canned green beans, etc. Sis usually picks up bread at the bread outlet store and donates enough for the number of families that usually come. They usually give out food to nearly 100 families a month. With the economy the way it is right now, there are more families than ever that are having a hard time making ends meet.