Doing Your Friends, Employees and Fat A Favor

My boss (the lab manager) thinks he is doing the employees a favor by bringing in boxes of treats, donuts, apple fritters, cookies and so on several times a month. He is such a great man and leader. I think many of us are getting tired of the same old thing. Yes, they are fresh and amazing, just out of the oven at his favorite bakery; but so full of sugar, sugar and more sugar.

My boss plopped these on my desk and said, “Have some.” Just a little thing, but makes those cravings in my tum. It doesn’t top the list of my best goodie or yum. So I’ll skip this treat, and not bite when he brings the chum.

He brings in three large boxes of a variety of fritters often. I quit having a whole fritter and just cut a small piece off when I go in the lunchroom. The problem with that is all those little pieces add up to one giant one. At first, i didn't like them. After trying some, I would get a sugar high, but then I began to like them. Now, I just have to stay as far away from them as I can.

Please dear Boss, How about some apples, oranges or bananas. I and many of us would love them. You are thin, but many of us are fighting a battle that is gargantuan in size.

Generosity at Easterday Farms

Onions --did you ever think of them as a gift? Not usually. We were given 200 pounds of them at Thanksgiving. 50 pounds of white, yellow and 100 pounds of red onions. They came from the Easterday Farms in Pasco, Washington as a donation to the Othello Hotel Museum, for their fund raiser. With only two people to fix meals for, I decided to share the abundance. At Christmas I bagged up one of each color and gave as Christmas neighbor gifts with this poem: "These Washington onions are full of charm, All the way from Pasco's Easterday Farm. We promise no reindeer came to any harm. Merry Christmas to you and to your swarm."

I still had some left this month, so I packaged up the red and white ones with this fun poem and handed them out to friends and co-workers. Happy Valentines in red and white. Have an Easterday Farm’s onion in all its might. You may think, that this isn’t quite right. Here’s to a healthy, fragrant gift wound up tight. Thank you Easterday Farms for sharing your wealth with the community. They have traveled from your farm to Utah and all of our friends and family.

Not So Super Bowl Partiers

I went upstairs to get away from the noise, Of the Super Bowl and all of the boys; Who were shouting loud for the best darn poise, Of their player, strategies & who he destroys.

This photo shows all the work people go to for Super bowl and other sports celebrations. Sure we watched it. I pulled out a half dozen things to snack on. I'm not willing to spend hundreds of dollars or hours making everything match and so forth. In the middle of the game, my husband allowed me to change channels over to watch an hour of PBS's popular Downton Abbey. It was the last episode of the last season and much more important than the fiftieth super bowl game. Thank you honey for that gift.

Then we flipped it back to Denver beating South Carolina and all was happy. We hardly even missed a play. I don't like the commercials as much as I used to. They have gone overboard and all seem the same.

Thanks to 1,000 Acts of Kindness

I just read in the community paper about a YMCA group that did 1,000 acts of kindness before Christmas. It was a fun thing for these young folk to do. They set a goal to accomplished it by a certain time. The reward was a party with their parents. This was such a great opportunity for the children to learn how easy it is to give of themselves.

This is being done throughout the world. Service and kindness go hand in hand. It is what will bring about peace. Weekly I serve by taking Meals on Wheels to the elderly. I have made some great friends over the ten years plus. There is a variety of homes: mobile homes, apartments and high rises. I snapped this photo in the elevator of a senior living housing unit. I love serving and you will too.

Just try doing 1,000 Acts of Kindness this year. Before long it will become second nature.

A Stolen Car & Safety Features

A car was stolen last week from our parking lot. It took just a second to start, then off they did trot. The owner has no wheels, and that car is now sought. Lock yours and hope it avoids their targeted spot.

Our Sample Receiving is a busy place, with customers and deliver trucks coming and going all day long. About 11 am when the FedEx truck was pulling in and others were coming and going, a white panel van pulled up. Someone got out, checked the door of a Honda, climbed in quickly, then proceeded to hotwire it. It only took a few minutes until he got it going. Soon the van drove off. The Honda backed out and followed it. The owner, was on the roof doing a repair and everyone was oblivious to the dirty deed. It's just not fair. The owner is a hard worker, with two jobs to make ends meet and now this happens. Our video surveillance shows it all going down, but the picture is grainy. The police were called and hopefully the car will be recovered, but it's not likely. Thanks to more protection on later model cars to help prevent this from happening. Be careful and lock your doors. That is the owner's mistake.

Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Gift to the World

Annually at Christmas the Mormon Tabernacle Choir does a spectacular performance. In fact they do four of them. The tickets are FREE, but there is a drawing. I never get chosen. I know some people that get in every year. Lucky them. The photo shows last years performers, which included the Sesame Street gang. It will be televised this year at Christmas on PBS. Be sure to watch it. Next year try for tickets. It is such a generous thing the Choir does every year and about 100,000 people are able to see it live. Thank you, Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Glad for Choices

My husband loves 2% milk, but I prefer 1% or skim. Isn't it nice we have so many choices. Whole milk, almond, soy, chocolate and more. Growing up, we had one kind, raw! Not pasteurized, homogenized or any 'ized'. With the three cows we milked twice daily, milk was a part of our diet and life. We churned our own butter, had cream for baking, whipping and delicious goodies. We could drink to our 'milk lover' heart's content. Now with milk at about $4 a gallon, we are more practical and choosy about what we drink.