By mommie2zs in Buds — Jan 30, 2018

What A Friday!

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Two wonderful gentlemen replaced our gutters on Friday morning. This is one of many, many steps in the plan to “Keep The Basement Dry!” The house had a mishmash of various sized gutters with underground drainage that was useless and too many downspouts.

Now we have larger gutters, larger downspouts, no mishmash of sizes, and a much cleaner look. That was a great beginning to the day.

Plus they liked the cookies I baked for them.

Friday afternoon the children and I headed off for our first time volunteering with Open Table Nashville to set up the shelter for the homeless folks who would be staying that night.

We set up beds for 16 folks, which is nearly twice the number we host at our church. This shelter is held at a United Methodist Church which has a large gymnasium.

It was interesting to see how different facilities organize space for the guests. The beds were set up quite close together, although the coordinator told us folks would push them around to get a little privacy. This shelter also houses both men and women. They have restrooms with showers, which is a bonus.

The church brilliantly had an attic space where the mattresses and supplies were stored. These were tough, plastic covered mattresses. (Think college mattresses that are pretty indestructible.) The coordinator told the children to toss them down the stairs.

Let the fun begin:

It took us a little over an hour to make the 16 beds. The guests were arriving as we finished up the last bed, so we got to say hello to them and wish them a good evening before we headed out.

Buds was waiting for us at home, preparing a delicious chicken tetrazzini dinner.

We had a hilarious time as Monkey tried to get our google home to play her Peter Mayer song list. As you’ll see, technology will take over by driving us slowly insane.