"Melba's Jammin'" wrote

> I'll load up 8 gift bags in a few minutes. A gathering of the ladies
> this morning. Each bag contains a loaf of homemade white bread, a bag
> of caramels, a bag of turtle bites, a bag of peanut or cashew brittle,
> and some chocolate caramel delights. I'll need to make more nut
> brittles and turtle bites and caramels for other bags. And more bread.
> I hope I can get to the supermarket before it gets *really* crappy here.
> Crappy is on the way.

Good luck! Soup kitchen just came by and picked up the Dashi and Potatoes
plus the canned goodies for distribution. The breadmaker is making the
second loaf of 4 for the Sunday soup kitchen and the crockpot is now making
the sweet potatoes with honey and figs. The second batch of Dashi for
Sunday will be made then as it's a fast dish. (Don's defrosting the fish so
he can cut it tonight).

I no longer do the serving line (cant stand long enough) but we add what we
can in these hard times for others.

The 'soup kitchen' is a local church thing. No truely 'homeless' folks but
lots of single moms and elderly on fixed income etc. It's not just soups,
but they always have 3 big tureens of them. 1 is normally chicken, one is
normally a hearty vegetable-bean, and the other is a fish based soup
(frequently from us).

Used to be just on Sunday but times have been hard enough they are now doing
it on Saturday as well. One of the ladies who runs it lives very near and
drives right by on the way up, so she picks up the stuff from us and drops
off the pots on her way home.