Day 213 April 13

 Today we started with the Sprouts pick up.  It was not very good, but there were a lot of prepared meals.  When we got to the pantry, I decided to wash some of our organizer trays, but when I turned on the water, the hose I was going to use broke, so I helped put everything away instead.  We were expecting the delivery of some shelving while we were there, but it did not show up.  We had to keep ourselves busy for about an hour before we could go to Westside.  We left for Westside at 11 and delivered the bread.  Then I dropped Jenni off at the office and made a quick Goodwill run to get rid of some clothes we had.  When I got back from Goodwill, we took lunch.  While we were at lunch, Doug went to a FedEx store and got our shelves.  He made a great dad joke today to.  "Hey, Sam, did you know that FedEx and UPS merged?  Now everyone is real FEDUP."  When Doug got back with our shelves, we went back to the pantry, and while I put the first one together, Jenni emptied the back room so we could get it in.  Then we filled the first shelf up with mostly cans of beans and a few other things.  Then we put the second shelf together and added it to the back.  We filled this one with mostly vegetables and pasta.  There are some pictures of the shelves in the album.  When we were done reorganizing, we had an incredible stack of boxes, which took about 5 trips with the wagon to haul out.  When we were finally done at the pantry, we went over to Shamrock restaurant supplies to see if we could buy ground beef in bulk somehow.  It turned out the only way to buy it was in 10-pound tubes, which was not going to work out for us.  Then we went over to Woodbine to check in on our volenteer that was organizing the library.  Then we went back to the office, where I had a few snacks to put away, and then Jenni gave me a ride home since I had driven the van in the morning.  When I got home, Michael had made his famous chicken wraps, which are always good.  After supper, we had worship night and continued our series on the Sabbath.  After worship night, we watched an episode of Firefly, and then I went to bed.

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