#6 Finally a Warm Day!!!

I'm sure some of you have wanted to know exactly what I've been doing in the Kitchen so here are a few of the jobs I've had. Above is the conveyor belt that I put the full trays of food onto that are then covered with plastic on the right of the machine. It moves at such a clip and if food is slopped onto the side of the trays I have to wipe it off with my gloved fingers so the film will stick.

When the chef asked me to do onions, I was a little surprised to then be given a 50 pound bag of onions!!!! Everything is on such a huge scale. These peeled onions when into a huge white tote.

Each tray here has 40 cups on it. I like filling the trays. No brainer!!!

Next, the cups can be filled with grapes, fresh fruit cocktail, coleslaw or here with the toppings for hamburgers. There is a group of DC young people who come in every morning to help and on this day they put the lettuce in the cups. I added tomato slices and another volunteer added onion bits.

These cups are then sealed in this little conveyor belt. As fast as we filled the trays, they were whisked away and put through the machine. There is lots of team work here which is nice to see and to be a part of.

Last week another woman and myself had to open all of these cardboard boxes. Take out the packs of pineapple and coconut fruit cups and dump them into these big white totes. The actual line of the 2000 meals we do takes just over an hour but I do other jobs before and after.

I pass this structure every day I go to the kitchen and honestly have no idea what it is but if you use your imagination isn't it the biggest _____ you have ever seen???

It takes me about 40 minutes to get to the Kitchen but this new job I have is only about 10 minutes away. This is the local hospital built in 2002. Very fancy schmantzy!!!!! It has been an interesting journey to finally get accepted as an Auxiliary Member. I had to fill out 6 pages of an application, a TB test, police check, phone interview, personal interview, written test and finally next week a day of orientation!!!! Plus $5 to join and $20 for the lovely smock!!!! It is a bit heavy on the rules which as you know don't always go over well with me but I'm willing to give it a shot. I will do a 4 hour shift each week. One week I will be the Courier Dispatch dispatcher using my phone and computer skills. The next week I will on the front desk greeting people as they come into the hospital and generally telling them where to go!!!! I'll be sure to keep you posted.

Last week we went to the eastern ourskirts of Orlando to get the man a new golfing glove as the old one was in very bad repair. It was falling apart!!!! He wore it once and the stitching came undone so today we were back to Dick"s. Dicked around by Dick's.

In January, I bought a fridge magnet that says "I Walked the Bridge" and said I would walk the bridge in February. Yesterday being the first of February was the day to do the deed. All the times I have driven over the bridge, I've never noticed that it has a curve on it. Hope it started that way!!!

Here's the man heading out ahead. Foreshadowing of events to follow!!!

I stopped along the way and took lots of pictures as it was an excuse to rest!!! This is our complex from the back. The solid white balconies are folks who aren't here right now. Our unit is in the farthest building to the left at the top.

Finally over the summit and on the downside!!!!

At the bottom of the bridge she crawled over to this picnic table and announced, "I'm not going to walk back!!!" To which he replied, "What are you going to do?" "Sit here until someone comes back with the car to take me home." It only took him about 30 minutes to come back!!!