First they give you instructions and demonstrate how to make each package the right weight and combination of ingredients.
Then we picked out jobs. Some are warehouse workers who replenish the ingredients when the packers run out of product.
Some stick instruction stickers on the plastic bags that hold enough food for six meals. We got to taste the food - it reminds me of a chicken rice casserole, with no chicken! It's really not bad, and a great improvement on grass, rocks, and dirt that some children eat around the world.
We packed enough food to feed over 7,000 children. I wonder where they will send it this time?The second Saturday in May was Waterbrooke Spring Cleanup Day. Joe (in the golf cart) is the boss and put us all to work at various tasks. Paul is getting his assignment.
You've got to be kidding me - move these rocks?
Oh ... RAKE the rocks that the snow plow pushed into the grass back into the parking lot. Hopefully by next summer that will be an obsolete task. Raising $20,000 to pay for tarring the lot is a bit of a challenge.
Of course, there are plenty of weeds in the gardens to dig out as well as hostas and things to plant.
Everyone pitched in, from four year olds to senior citizens!
Okay, Anna mostly watched, but she was a big encouragement.
Carl wielded a mean weed whipper, so the younger ones had better stay out of his way.
A popular choice in jobs for the older boys was cutting dead wood for the fire pit, and manning the fire to get rid of dead branches.
The little guys would have preferred making s'mores.
The third Saturday in May Paul and I played and sang at a wedding. Would you believe the bride and her sister were named Jane and Joyce????
Today (another Saturday) I am blogging, exercising, and cleaning to get ready for a Casey invasion on Monday - Memorial Day. The brothers (plus me) will hit the links at 8:00 am.m and then were having a brat bonanza back at the ranch. I'd better go get to work.
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