Share Your Feast
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Today was Food Lifeline day, and the project we got to work on was NOT in the freezer for once. Instead, we spent the morning assembling bags for the Share Your Feast food drive, and while the picture on the main website does not our group, it does show what we had to do. Each $10 bag of groceries contains a box of corn flakes, 3 boxes of mac and cheese, a large can of tomatoes, 2 cans of tuna, a jar of peanut butter, a can of peaches, and an small bag of spaghetti. Our job was to assemble the bags from the flats of food, and staple them closed for distribution out to local area QFCs.
We moved over 11K lbs of food, about 8600 meals using their calculations, in 988 of the $10 bags. (And we so wanted them to let us go back after the count to do those last 12 so we could make it an ever 1000) I acted as a runner for one of the assembly tables for the first hour, hauling flats of food from the big pallets to the table. It was sweaty work, which was fine, as the warehouse is kinda cool (but not freezing like the freezer section!) So my arms are kinda achy, but I figure I moved about 3K lbs of food either running it from the pallets or stuffing it in bags. I love doing that.
After, we were went out to lunch, but we missed a turn someplace and ended up a little out of our way. Lar knew of a great burger place near where we ended up, but when we found it, it turned out to be over-21 only, and Ev was with us so that was a no-go. We finally ended up at the Old Spaghetti Factory and had a lovely meal, only when we came out, my car had lost its power steering somehow and started making the most horrific grinding noise. As my shoulders and arms were protesting the effort required to steer, Lar took over driving for awhile, and we headed out.
Lar had been going to help a friend move this afternoon, and we made it to the friend's house just fine--it was about 5 miles from where we had eaten--so we called AAA from there. We were also pretty close
sherrold's house, I called and asked her partner for a ride back to our place, while Lar continued with the packing and stayed with the car. That's all worked out, and the car is now at the garage in Redmond, but they won't be able to work on it until Monday.
So far, November is full of awesomely mixed news days.
We moved over 11K lbs of food, about 8600 meals using their calculations, in 988 of the $10 bags. (And we so wanted them to let us go back after the count to do those last 12 so we could make it an ever 1000) I acted as a runner for one of the assembly tables for the first hour, hauling flats of food from the big pallets to the table. It was sweaty work, which was fine, as the warehouse is kinda cool (but not freezing like the freezer section!) So my arms are kinda achy, but I figure I moved about 3K lbs of food either running it from the pallets or stuffing it in bags. I love doing that.
After, we were went out to lunch, but we missed a turn someplace and ended up a little out of our way. Lar knew of a great burger place near where we ended up, but when we found it, it turned out to be over-21 only, and Ev was with us so that was a no-go. We finally ended up at the Old Spaghetti Factory and had a lovely meal, only when we came out, my car had lost its power steering somehow and started making the most horrific grinding noise. As my shoulders and arms were protesting the effort required to steer, Lar took over driving for awhile, and we headed out.
Lar had been going to help a friend move this afternoon, and we made it to the friend's house just fine--it was about 5 miles from where we had eaten--so we called AAA from there. We were also pretty close
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So far, November is full of awesomely mixed news days.