Of Eggs and Men
Posted in The Life of the Historian and tagged with Boys, food, Volunteering on June 27, 2009Today my care group from church went to a local food bank to help out. Our task?
Putting over a 1,000 dozen eggs in cartons.
It was a lot of fun, and actually didn’t take as long to do since there were so many of us. I personally probably packed up several dozen cartons of eggs. We had to make sure they were clean and uncracked…I don’t think I’ll look at an egg the same way again.
Afterwards we headed to Sonic to enjoy one another’s company, and there I shared my story about Polite Video Store Dude. They definitely keyed in on the fact that it was a amicable guy that I was rude to. Yeah, they know me (and my issues) too well…
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June 27th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Ronnica,
This post brought back memories of growing up on a farm with 20,000 chickens. :-) We had to gather the eggs, candle (look at the insides using a special light to make sure there was nothing wrong with them), run them through a machine that cleaned and graded and sized them, pack them into cartons, then pack the cartons into cases.
Yuck! Sounds like your venture was more fun than that. :-)
June 27th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
It takes MANY ways to serve…. even if its loading eggs! :) Good for you for giving of your time! That’s the main thing!
June 27th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I used to volunteer at our local food bank. It was fun!
June 28th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Maybe this is a negative side…I am all for helping those in need and it seems there are more and more. Then there are the takers. Have you noticed yet (I am so much older) all the “repeaters”. Are we helping those who never seem to try to help themselves and are just takers? And some are raising children in the same manner, that is all they know. I so enjoy helping others who are in need. I have been there also.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
a lady was telling me a different kind of egg story today… she used a glass of rubbing alcohol and an egg to deomstrate what alcohol can do to your brain or even a fetus… when she cracked the egg into the alcohol…it totally started cooking. whoa.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:15 am
@Lillie: Yes, much more fun. No chickens around. The eggs actually came from a prison farm somewhere else in the state. I’m just glad that those prisoners are able to give back some to the community!
@G. Zoe: That is sad, but I don’t think that minimizes are call to care for the poor in the Bible. I need to do more, that’s for sure.
@EmmaP: Scary…another good reason not to drink!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Oh! I was so hoping for a picture ;)
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 am
lol I probably wouldn’t look at eggs the same way again either!