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Comments (11)Crime isn’t an issue in my part of the city. However porch pirates know no city boundaries... they hit everywhere... and that we have just like all the other neighborhoods around us. Watching deliveries on my security cams... I bet the delivery people will leave packages on the outside of the fence if it’s tall and they think it’s locked. Also if you drive around my neighborhood during the day on the weekend. Many neighbors are outside relaxing on patio chairs sipping cocktails and waving & smiling at all the neighbors driving by while kids are out playing. So I wanted to have an outdoor courtyard in front of the house as a weekend outdoor living space... but more modern than just having a porch. I was also thinking 4ft, just wanted to be sure... many of the other houses in the neighborhood with the same floor plan have a 4ft fence in the same area... but closer to the house... just to close off the entry way....See MoreI guess Thanksgiving dinner is free this year!
Comments (57)https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_9243bb74-ecfa-11e8-8f73-0f42fb5dada2.html "The Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank is filled these days with people volunteering their time and sorting food donated for the hungry. But what this 170,000-square foot facility on Choctaw Drive doesn't have as the holidays start is food. The situation has gotten bad enough that the charity, which serves an 11-parish area, is putting out public calls for extra help, for extra donations of food, and especially for money to purchase additional food. High-profile disasters, including hurricanes Florence and Michael, as well as the ongoing wildfires in California, have diverted the supply of donated food as well as drawn away cash donations that might ordinarily have gone to help hungry people locally at Thanksgiving and Christmas. “You would ordinarily see all of these shelves full,” said Mike Manning, pointing to two tall, long and nearly empty stretches of metal shelving at the rear of the facility. These shelves is where the the charity normally stores its dry, canned and staple foods. Manning, president and CEO of the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, said instead he is flush with candy, a relic of the Halloween holiday, pointing to a big box of M&M bags. “We’ve got a lot of candy,” Manning said. “That’s not what we need.” About 30 volunteers, several of them employees of ExxonMobil, were on hand Monday sorting donated canned food. Many people brought their families. The empty shelves are not visible from their work area. Katie Skiles volunteered on Monday with her father Joe and brother, James, but she said she has worked there by herself since she first volunteered more than a year ago. “My parents made me come,” Katie said. “Now I love it.” A senior at Lee High in Baton Rouge, Katie, 17, said she was not aware of the food shortage. She said she might talk to the National Honor Society at her high school about doing a food drive. The warehouse currently has about 1 million pound of food in its inventory, about half of the normal inventory, Manning said. One million pounds of food is also roughly what the food bank distributes each month to its 100-plus member agencies, he said. And to top it all off, this is normally a time of peak inventory, when the food banks stock up in order to have sufficient supply for the early months of the year. “I’ve never see it this bad going into the holidays,” Manning said. Besides recent disasters and the resulting “donor fatigue,” another food supply factor is the shrinking donations over time from commercial grocers who carry less excess inventory than they used to, Manning said. To help restock, the food bank has asked local schools to do special food drives. What would help most, though, are cash donations, which people can donate online on the charity’s website, Manning said. “We are kind of held hostage by the national situation, unless we can get sufficient money to purchase food,” he said. It doesn’t necessarily take much money to help. Manning pointed to palettes full of canned vegetables without labels on them. These cans, when they have commercial labels, cost 70 to 90 cents a can at the store, but without the labels, they cost the food bank between 5 and 10 cents a can. Manning said he’s talking about having a more formal fund drive around New Years to raise money, but he’s been too busy to pull together anything more formal sooner. “We’re in firefighting mode right now,” he said. “We’re just asking for help.”...See MoreMissing package
Comments (29)So the mystery continues but the package arrived. My landline phone rang four times which mean it's a legit call. My weather radio just issued a siren so I had trouble hearing. When I turned it off this guy who I thought was a telemarketer was, in fact, the FedEx driver. He said where did I want the package delivered. I said NOT the front porch but either the side porch or the other street door which is where they always are. I asked if it would be delivered today and he said it's at that door. Turns out he was in the FedEX truck parked at my side street where the package was. Where it was for the last 24 hours is a mystery. This guy was as articulate as a five year old. But it's a big box and my husband was right about it not being stolen. That has never happened around here but I am a suspicious by nature person. I guess I watch too many crime shows. Thanks all for your help....See MoreInstant Pot came yesterday
Comments (7)you could do the water test... then HB a few eggs. I started out doing 1 egg, then moved up to 2. now I usually do 4-5 at a time. which reminds me - I need to go put some on to HB! watch Jeffrey's video for beginners - pressureluckcooking. he's also coming out with a cookbook. I thought it was out already but reading on the IP FB page I think it's still in the future a few months. that's the only one I'd buy. otherwise use tried and true websites like Jeffrey's, Amy and Jacky's, this old gal's etc. they each have tons of recipes to try and are often listed on the IP FB page....See Morepudgeder
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