Difficult Day with Pleasant Result & Giveaway Hint

 We had to be out of the house by 9:30 this morning. Of course, I could only get 3 hours sleep the night before. I gulped down Special K, bananas and milk. Tommy had eaten breakfast earlier. We both made a sandwich the night before, packed those with yogurt cup for me, the other half of my banana, and applesauce cup for either one of us and a spoon. We were set. 

I knew of a food giveaway and was determined to get some for the family of five little girls. We got there at ten and were behind blocks and blocks of cars. My feet were so swollen 4 hours later when we got to food. The truck must have been late. 

Two boxes was my allowance. I asked the guy loading if I could get another box. He said he did not make the rules. I said it was okay as he apologized that he could not do that. I said I was wanting it for a family of five little girls. He closed the trunk and said, "Wait a minute." He came back with a box and a bag of chicken thigh quarters and a whole chicken. I thanked him profusely for the half-second I had before we had to drive away. 

Now, we got three boxes, 3 hens, 3 10-lb bags of chicken thigh quarters. 

We only kept one hen, a snack pack, a box of Kraft Velveeta mac n cheese, and 6 tiny Red Delicious Apples, and twenty snack cups peaches.  For this we were gone from home 9:30 to 2:45 and the car ran for the whole time. Tommy loves the little snack cups of peaches.

We gave to the family:

2 hens, so large they must have been capons

3 10-bags of chicken thigh quarters

3 #10 cans of baked beans

5 snack bags (contents below)

3 frozen bags of turnip greens, maybe 2 lbs.

3 bags frozen cream style corn. maybe 2 lbs. each

2 bags with 6 apples each, so 12 tiny and very crisp Red Delicious apples

10 snack cup peaches

3 boxes Kraft Mac n cheese Velveeta

Now, for the snack bags. I think maybe these are meant to appeal to children. Each snack pack had:

1 meat stick, one string cheese, one tiny pack Cheezits, one juice pack, straw/napkin/spoon sealed in little package. There is a candy bar shaped 2 oz white cheese. Tommy eats all this stuff. We kept one of these bags and gave them five bags. 

The guy said to Tommy, "This is amazing! Thank you so much!"  Knowing five little girls will eat well makes the brutal day with all the heat and overbearing sun and swollen feet worth it! 

About 3 pm, I went to bed for a nap and could not sleep, I will go the bed early tonight. 

The celebration at Rickwood Field in Birmingham is quite the professional spectacle of entertainment. Plus, there is a ball game, not an exhibition game. 

Remember the giveaway? I will give you a hint. There will be no cowboy hats. Hardhats will be required. You have to get this exactly correct since I gave you a hint. Enter again if you already entered and want to guess again after the hint. 

I am so tired and braindead that I don't know how to make a link. Just go to yesterday's post and enter with that link. 

At this rate, I will not be up to going to the rodeo! I am going to bed.

It was a pretty day here, very warm. How was your day?

What did you do? What are your plans for tomorrow?