It was exactly 7:07 PM I
was just getting started on fixing dinner. I've been thinking about
building a spaghetti dinner for the past three days. I took out a
pound hamburger on Thursday thinking I would put together a spaghetti
dinner then the one thing led to another and my day just got away
from me. Today is my food bank day I usually go on Saturday I go to
the food bank and today was rather remarkable. I really was thinking
I was not going to go to the food bank today because they're supposed
to be heavy rain this morning. My food bank window is from 10 to 12
and usually there's a pretty healthy line to have to wait through..
Only one person can go into the food bank at once it takes about five
minutes for that person to circulate through. I have only been going
to the food bank for about two months now. Theoretically if you
qualify for food bank services you can go up to three times a month
to get a food box. The weather has been wet and cold the last couple
weeks I've gone to food bank. However, I stood in line with the
others and went through the doors when it was my time. It's not like
give you a box you did go through the line and select different
things. I think the food bank volunteers think I am finicky because I
often turn down the selections they offer choosing really just a few
of their offerings usually frozen meat, fresh vegetables and
sometimes some of the baked offerings. What was spectacular about
today the rains did not come as forecast and there was no line
whatsoever when I got to the food bank. Not a single person was in
line about right in. I got three frozen choices today 1 pound
hamburger, frozen chicken breasts and a pound of frozen turkey ham –
– the turkey ham is actually really quite good. I spaghetti
macaroni (is that redundant?) Can of potato slices, strawberries, a
lot of very nice wheat bread and a host of other items included a
mystery bag (a life-sized set paper sack full of anything they can
think to put in their but you don't know what it is when you get) the
last mystery bag I got was full of candy bars good ones baby Ruth,
the peanut butter bar and others in some hard cand. Today's mystery
back however was full of popcorn the kind you put in the microwave. I
would rather pop my own corn on the stove but it's always good to
have microwave Orval Redenbacher popcorn if it's available and today
it was.
At 7:07 PM tonight as I
was beginning to process vegetables for spaghetti sauce I heard three
explosions close by. I thought at first these were gunshots but is
really too loud for that. There's a nice little park adjacent to our
housing complex a lot of low-income folks, Third World or is in
minority folks use that park throughout the year I've heard gunshots
there before. On the third explosion I think caught a flash out of
the corner of my eye. It was definitely the explosion. Next, I heard
and saw fire engines and he stopped right across the street from my
apartment's. There is rain falling out as much as I want to go out to
the fence to see what was going on across the street I stayed in and
worked under. A few minutes later the rain ceased and I ventured out.
The fast food joint, Arctic Circle, across the street was dark, very
dark, not good for Saturday night. Emergency vehicles were parked
across the street and there were a few people wandered around the
building. One of the neighbors of the apartment complex standing with
me noted that it looked as if one of the telephone poles/power lines
on the corner of the building look like the top had broken off. It
then made sense to me the explosion of flash I witnessed was a
transformer exploding. The explosives are very loud I'm afraid that
Arctic Circle may be toast.
I chopped onion, green
pepper and garlic which I added to the hamburger and fried
everything up. One of the cans picked up at the bank today was
spaghetti sauce which are added to the hamburger and vegetables. I
cooked spaghetti which I also got from the food bank today and
eventually added everything together it was kind of dry I added
another can of spaghetti sauce. The entire kitchen took a hit. The
kitchen is chaos I will work on it tonight and tomorrow. I'm waiting
for the spaghetti to cool and I will but the spaghetti in a plastic
container to eat next week. I've even got cookies for the food bank
which I usually never choose but today I felt special. Chaos in my
kitchen on Saturday night.
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