Bountiful Baskets

A huge thanks to Melissa for telling me about Bountiful Baskets. I am so excited. I picked up my first basket today, and I am sold forever. Bountiful Baskets in a non-profit volunteer organization that basically finds good deals on produce from distributors and sells it to people for a small contribution. Basically today for $15 I had three huge and heavy bags full of fruits and veggies. This week the basket has: 8 or so peaches, a bag of purple seedless grapes, a cantaloupe, a tone of bananas, a dozen pears, store-sized box of strawberries, two bunches of celery, a bunch of broccoli, a head of lettuce, a small bag of carrots and 4 huge red bell peppers. Amazing. I paid $15, which is the minimum contribute, but I have decided to pay more. I would hate for something like this so go away, and so I feel like it is my duty to pay my part or more.

Also, I am looking for an Alpine neighbor to sign up to head the first B.B. site in Alpine. I am thinking we could distribute outside of city hall or Heritage park. I was going to offer my house, but then someone so kindly reminded me that that means I would need to be home every Saturday. Yikes. That is a big commitment. But, either way, I think this is exactly the volunteer thing I need right now. I feel a strong desire to do it, so we'll see how that turns out.

Also, I have every intention of uploading a picture of my goods from today, but that would involve getting up to find a wire and upload these pics. No thanks. However, if you see me on the street or if I hear you talking about fruit or food or basically anything, I will probably stop you and how you my pics as if they are gold medals. I am very proud.