Coffee

Rhodie Ranch said:

I wanted to love and laugh at your post, Bay. I think you and SIL got the best of it all!!

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I bet her SIL really appreciates her having such a good person around. That's a rare thing today

I've wondered about @Rhodie Ranch .

We are almost to the holiday season; some would say that we are already there.

How are things looking at the food bank? Gearing Up?

Reading a little about Columbus and his voyages this morning.

Seemed like quite a mess. I didn't know/remember that they lost one of those 3 ships on the first trip and he nearly lost track of a second one. Christopher was quite upset and may have had reason to believe that the ship's captain was insubordinate.

They left 39 members of the expedition behind in the Caribbean and, returning a year later found that they had been lost to a native attack. This was 120 years before the British misfortunes in Virginia and the Roanoke settlement.

Anyway, Columbus and crew were there right at this time of the year. Luckily, they weren't faced with a Hurricane Melissa smashing its way through the islands.

Coffee is ready. I got to go get feed this morning, a super bag of 1,000 pounds. Then home to scoop it into 5 gallon buckets, then pour into metal trash cans. Doctor appointment Thursday and PT Friday for SIL.

Gearing up on hump day for the final days of the week, month and DST!

I'll be fine ... not sure about the neighbors.

i've had years like that one day...

Thanks for asking, @digitS'

Monday, I got informed that We are making changes at the food bank. Starting in November, I'm to watch addresses (I'm the computer gal and I get their names in the car lineup). If they have other than our local small suburbs addresses (Battle Ground, Brush Prairie, Amboy, Heisson, Lewisville), I'm to tell that starting in the new year, we will no longer be able to serve them. We get tons of folks from Vancouver, which is a huge city and has five pantries alone. Many folks (including my friend who is the Fair Canning Super) make the rounds to all the food banks every month. Its simply not sustainable. With the loss of millions in federal budget, govt layoffs, and then the upcoming loss of SNAP, our process is not sustainable. I, for one, am in total agreement. I hate seeing the abuse every Monday when I work.

Same here: Major changes include the North County Food Bank's September 30th move from its longtime Wheeler location to a new site between Manzanita and Nehalem, impacting its size and services. Additionally, federal changes, like the new SNAP work requirements starting November 1st, will likely increase demand for food bank services in Oregon, despite the Oregon Food Bank receiving significant cuts to federal commodity programs that have reduced its food supplies.

Coffee is ready. I've got to gulp down my second cup and get outside to do chores, then to pick up SIL for stress test. That will take awhile. I'll have to find something to do besides sit in a waiting room full of people staring at their phones. BORING plus I don't do well just sitting still like that.

Food banks. I'll be back volunteering at the tiny community here locally. There are so many people scamming the SNAP program, plus so many other government benefits that take away from the people who really need it. I watched a video last night of a woman bragging that she hasn't worked in 15 years, gets section 8 housing, SNAP and other benefits and now MAD that her food is going to be cut off. If I was a leech on society like that, darned if I would go on social media and announce my worthlessness to the whole world.

I was reading yesterday and this morning about a country in Europe and its history during feudal times. The author noted that nearly the entire population were either tenet farmers (serfs), clergy or the aristocracy (lords of the manors). Merchants traveled from place to place selling their products. These traders arrived with the Fall of the Roman Empire which didn't extend into this northern country. Displaced people, freed of imperial borders, were the primary members of this group.

Here is a map of a typical estate. Village farmers, the manors were often fortified and the lords, subjects of a king. The church had an important role. simple dimple Except for the complexity of the fields but, since 100's of years and many generations lived this way, everyone knew their place.