Shout out to my wife!
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@slc_dan -
your wife and her colleagues should be paid like executives, get stock options, a big fat bonus and a private chauffeur to drive them back and forth to work every day. Since that's unlikely to happen, they will all be our heroes of 2020 (as @Reef&Ruins mentioned).
After 3 weeks of of hibernation at home we took our backcountry vehicle and followed our neighbor's van to pick up 700 lbs of canned and frozen food plus a Jeep load of produce at the big Food Pantry distribution center in town. We drove it across town to a small local Food Pantry, where my neighbor volunteers weekly.
Usually the elderly volunteer for this, but that's obviously not a good idea now.
We 3 newbies quickly got a slap on the wrist for driving across the grass (aka the strip of dirt in the photo with all the tire marks).
The canned food pick-up had to happen in a designated time slot at the right bay. The left bay was meant for pick up of produce.
We quickly loaded up the 700 lbs in her van and used the Jeep to load the produce. The produce we had to select inside, trying to pick through it all, trying to select the best looking and get the weight of it all measured (they pay per pound, except bread, per loaf of bread)
Notice the no-driving "grass" strip in the foreground.
Selection of produce and bread
Neighbor's van full of canned food, some frozen, some refrigerated food
The Jeep, we could have taken more produce. Next time we will take more potatoes and less mangoes
That's not organic bananas.... it's a box with bread, rolls, etc and we took lots of Idaho potatoes.
Everything had to go into the basement, using a small elevator and some not so useful carts.... In the basement they have a food pantry, 2 super sized refrigerators and a huge chest freezer.
Pick up is tonight, the Food Pantry already had 7 new families last week, very unusual under normal circumstances.
The local food pantry expects the number to quickly increase now.
Good use of the backcountry vehicle now, even though the Jeep couldn't resist crossing the 3 ft strip of "grass".
