…Is what the folks at BBM always remind us, and Lorie, Al and I experienced that today, when we worked at Loaves and Fishes, the local soup kitchen. While it’s not part of the Back Bay Mission campus, they rely heavily on daily volunteers from BBM to help prep and serve.

When we arrived just before 8 a.m., they were nearly finished serving 75 breakfasts. We immediately launched into lunch prep, already underway, and Abe, the “chef de cuisine” put Lorie and me to work making salmon patties.   Before lunch we assembled 55 “Martha’s Meals” (their version of Meals on Wheels) to be delivered to shut-ins before lunchtime.

Then it was full speed ahead to be ready to serve lunch at 11:30. 184 salmon patties later, along with beans and rice, carrots, salad, rolls and donated cupcakes…another 150 were fed. As we were leaving, the regular volunteers were prepping chicken and a couple of sides to be delivered to a “cold shelter” in town later this afternoon so the people there could get a hot meal. The nights are cold here, and there’s no overnight shelter that has the capability to prepare hot meals. So today Abe and his small crew fed 300 people. There’s a special place in heaven for folks who do this work!

Meanwhile, work continued on Porter Street, pictured here “before:”

Siding commenced today. More tomorrow when I will finally visit the worksite to see firsthand what’s going on. Thanks to all my contributing photographers!