Food Basket Day

Good Wife Sue pointed out to me that the ECW ladies had green beans on Wednesday, not corn. I had corn at my Thursday meeting with the Board of Directors for Kaskaskia Workshop, Inc., a non-profit on which I serve. I knew it was a vegetable of some kind! AND, the symphony was "Reformation" not "Revelation." Anyway, it was good music. More later......

Well, later has now come. I'm doing this on my new laptop - a Dell Inspiron. So far I like it, but the transition from XP is rather large. Vista seems to want to do things its way, not the way I have grown comfortable with. When I first loaded some photos from my camera, I didn't pay attention to where they were going. Trying to find them later was a real chore. But as I have grown more comfortable with the machine things are getting easier.

Today at church we did our annual Thanksgiving Food give-away to 16 families, which included 43 people. That doesn't sound like much, but it is a nice thing for a small family sized church (25 - 50 members) to do. Each box of food cost us $29.44 and it will feed a family of four for three days. Given the state of our economy here that three days can b really important. So I am glad to be able to do it. Helpers this year were Bill and Chonita Smith, Wayne and Sandy Garner, Marcia Lever and Good Wife Sue.

Wayne and I drove to the Save-a-Lot store in his pickup to get the groceries, then everyone chipped in to put them into boxes. After that Wayne, Sandy, and Marcia left while Bill, Chonita, Sue and I stayed to do the actual give-away. From 10:00 AM until noon, people drove into our driveway and picked up their food baskets. All were very thankful, but that isn't why we do it - we do it because we have been told to care for the least of Christ's brothers and sisters.



Good Wife Sue and I are off to Nebraska to spend Thanksgiving with family. I don't know if I'll have time to blog, so in the meantime,

Sleep well and God bless all. TAD+