Tony Brewer

In a recent previous post, I was talking about not being able to find any local soup kitchens.  I’m beginning to wonder if any exist anywhere anymore!  With this economy, and people losing their jobs and their homes, there certainly is going to be a big need for them!  I was just searching the local yellowpages on the Internet, trying to find some.  I went to local.com and did a local search for “soup kitchens.” 

The only thing that popped up was a listing for several local restaurants and some links to places where I could go to find soup recipes!  NormallyI really like the local.com website because it DOES help me to find local businesses.  So I’m guessing there just aren’t any soup kitchens in the area.  I wonder if and when any will appear!  It seem to me that is something that the Salvation Army would sponsor.  Perhaps I should try doing a search for the local Salvation Army and see if they have a webpage with information about it!

As more people are losing their jobs, I find myself wondering where are all of the “soup kitchens?”  It seems to be that in the not too distant past, I could not drive through a town without passing by a local “soup kitchen” but lately I’ve noticed that there does not seem to be any in any town I drive through any more.  Why is that, I wonder?  When I look through the local newspapers, I don’t see any at all!  When I “google” the words “soup kitchens” and the name of our town, it comes up empty.  In fact, I can’t seem to find any within a 100 mile radius!  Don’t you think that is strange?  I certainly do!

I’ve been hearing a lot about the increase in home invasions in nearby neighborhoods, and I’ve started to be a little bit more cautious with our belongings. So far the thefts haven’t reached this neighborhood, but it’s probably only a matter of time. Although we have a neighborhood watch program here, there are several houses that are hard to see because of the landscaping the homeowners have in their front yards. I think it would be a really good idea to suggest to our neighbors that we all invest in a  Home Security System for each of our houses for that extra bit of security that we are going to be wanting to have.

I’d hate to think of Teri coming home from running errands one day and interrupting a burglar in our house. I think a Security System could help to prevent that from happening. When we bought this house, we noticed that there were ADT signs on the windows, and a keypad on the bedroom wall, but we never did anything to activate it. Maybe now is the time to make that phone call. I bet we could get a good deal since the equipment is already here!

Teri and I tried the Angel Food Ministries food we’ve been hearing about this month. We bought the basic $30 package, which is supposed to feed a family of four for a week. It was rather a small box when we picked it up and we thought that there was no way there was that much food in it, but when we got it home and unpacked it, we were really surprised how much food was really in it!

We baked the frozen blueberry pie today, and it came out really terrific! I haven’t had blueberry pie in a few years; I had forgotten how yummy it really is! I think with this economy the way it is, we’ll be continuing to participate in the Angel Food Ministries program! It is a good value, and the food is good too.

As I drive around the countryside, I see all kinds of babies.  I see lambs, calves,  and foals frolicking in the meadows behind the stately brown wooden fencing.  I see young mothers walking down the sidewalks with their new babies in their new strollers or new fathers carrying their babies on their backs or chests with new baby carriers. I’m sure that the new mothers appreciate the fathers taking turns carrying the baby around!

On Easter Sunday Teri went gaa-gaa over the babies in church; she cooed and tickled every single baby she could reach! She was simply gushing over how cute they all looked in their new Easter clothes. The rest of the day she kept talking about how her biological clock is ticking and how she is going to want to start a family of our soon. I have to admit Teri would make a wonderful mother!