Church Food Drive

     There's a church literally a stone's throw from my home. I don't attend but that's a totally different story. Anyway, if not for the ditch/creek in between I could walk there more quickly than drive.

     Last week they dropped off an empty grocery sack with a note that they'd be back by today around 9:30 AM to fetch them up for a food drive for the less fortunate.
     There are only 11 houses on my cul-de-sac and I am semi-pleased to report that 4 of the 11 filled their sacks. That's better than one third so it's not too bad but we could have done better. I usually do most of my grocery shopping on Saturday morning and one or two  extra sacks of food wasn't going to make or break my budget.
     We're expecting a cold front to come through this weekend so I set to thinking what would be most appreciated? I know what I like of a cold day so I loaded up on chicken soup, ramen noodles, hot cocoa and some canned veggies to add to almost anything for homemade soup or stew.

     What originally got me to thinking seriously about moving out of the trailerhood was when a tornado ripped through. It missed my trailer by a barely comfortable margin and my brother's by an uncomfortable one. A huge oak broke a trailer in half right next to his but the storm didn't even blow the leaves off the trees in his yard.
     I at that time lived only 3 miles from the grocery where I work and am shamed to say I by myself donated more than a $1 million a week grocery did. One of my coworkers asked what I was doing the day after and I said I had to go to another store to buy stuff. He kept pressing the issue until I said "It's for my neighbors who lost everything in the tornado, butt hole!" Then he started for some reason saying I was "trying to buy (my) way to Heaven". I was so close to finding out which of us could kick the piss out of the other. Instead I asked did any of his neighbors lose anything. Turned out some lost all and he did not a thing to help them.

     So to make a short story long some say "Give until it hurts". I say instead "Give until it feels good".