Above is a photograph of the third delivery of Wish List requests to the Cambridge Food Pantry. We cannot thank you enough.
Here is today’s Wish List. We’re looking for Rice Pilaf tomorrow.
This image may be familiar to anyone who has lived with a Lab. I won’t spoil anyone’s dinner by saying what she was chewing on, but it was in a manure-filled pasture. Enuf said Maria caught this charming picture of a happy Labrador. She tried to lick me when I got home, but I passed. Later, I said. She looked disappointed.
They really will eat anything.
Photo by Maria Wulf
I had a doctor’s appointment at the same time as the eclipse, so I was shocked on the drive to Saratoga to see almost no cars on the busy road there. Our busy world emptied out to look at the sun.
I was listening to the radio and hearing the excitement. When I pulled up in the parking lot, a young couple—Skidmore kids, I think—approached me as I got out of the car.
“Did you see the Eclipse?,” they asked, concerned. “No,” I said, “I was driving.”
“Here,” the young man said, “borrow ours.” He showed me how to put his protective glasses on over mine, and I saw the very end of the eclipse, which took my breath away. So did his kindness.
The was black, with a crescent yellow around the sun’s right side. I only looked at it for seconds, but I was as touched by these kid’s generosity as I was by the eclipse itself.
When I got home, I had a photo of Robin, my granddaughter, watching from the subway as she came home from school. The eclipse was beautiful in itself, but it reminded me once again how different people are when they actually do something together and face to face. I stopped on the way home for some ice cream, and Maria and I sat outside until the wind got cold. She looked for shadows but didn’t find any.
Emma said Robin really got into it. No surprise.
Sarah’s food choices today are healthy and inexpensive breakfast choices for the children of the pantry users. The first is Life Breakfast Cereal, 13.0z, Boxes, 3 Pack. $8.19
The second choice is Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheat, Cold Breakfast Cereal, Whole Grain, High Fiber Kids Snack, four boxes, $15.12.
You can see the entire Cambridge Food Pantry Amazon Wish List Here. You can browse or buy a different item on the list. Sarah’s lists reflect what the users want and need and what the pantry has run out of or can’t get from the usual sources.
Jon’s choice from today’s Wish List is Always Ultra Thin Feminine Pads For Women, Size 2 Long Super Absorbency With Wings, Unscented, 58 Count (Pack of One), $9.95.
There is a real need for the pads for women.
We are trying to bridge the gap between what the users want most and what the pantry offers. The pantry is just about out of bar soap and Colgate Tooth toothpaste.
If you are sending donations that don’t come from Amazon and need a sending list, it’s Sarah Harrington, Cambridge Food Pantry, 24 E. Main Street, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.
Maria needs a museum fix; she is hungry for a dose of art. I love going to museums with her. The Williams College Museum in Massachusetts has a beautiful, quiet space for meditation. I’ll be there after a walk around the museum.
We’ll be back this afternoon, except for a good morning hello. I’m taking Sunday off, so I’ll be only book reading and photo taking. More later. We had a great brunch this morning at the local diner with Cindy and Larry Casavant (she is the goat lady, and he is the goat man).
Still life, firewood for the wood stove.
