Destiny Hisey

I volunteered at Pass It on Clothing Closet (https://passitonbellevue.org/) in my community. They are an entirely volunteer-based organization that provide clothing (and some other miscellaneous items) to any person; they do not have income or residency requirements for their customers. Customers are limited to 100 free items of clothing each month. Each fall they also have a coat giveaway that is limited to folks who live within our school district. They do limit winter coats to one per person in your household. 

Here's the pile of donations that I had the pleasure of sorting! (I certainly did not get through all the bags.) I sorted and put about three racks of clothing on hangers for the volunteer staff to tag and put on the floor. I had to stop because I ran out of room for sorted clothing.

When I was leaving, they did ask me if I was planning to regularly volunteer. Unfortunately, their regular volunteer hours are during the workday. I suggested I could be back to use our quarterly community service hours if they'd like.

It surprised me to see the condition of some of the donations: dirty, ripped, stinky, completely unusable. 

I was grateful to be able to see how a volunteer run non-profit is serving in my local (small) community. It was encouraging to see how much work they are able to do with so little resources (i.e., money and volunteers).

Just a word of warning to folks that the hooks on the inside of the all gender bathroom door are not intended for bags. There was no indication of this on the door. I hung my laptop back on a hook. After a few minutes my bag fell to the floor (that happened to have standing water). The hooks are magnets, not actual hooks for hanging bags.

On 12/8/2021 at 9:54 AM, Jennifer White said:

River Rae met Santa for a quick lil photoshoot Thanksgiving weekend. This weekend he visits the house to read a story and share cookies with the kids! Hopefully Ill have a few more photos to share with you all next week! <3 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How did sweet little River Rae get so big?

We have a very sad Santa that comes to my husband's family Christmas. At least his butt wasn't hanging out of the ripped pants like our last pre-COVID Christmas!

I googled black-owned restaurants in Cleveland and most of the good ones I found were a bit from from me on the west side. (I'm in the West Park neighborhood of Cleveland.) I discovered Southern Cafe in Lakewood (https://www.southerncafeohio.com/lakewood-west.html) with a good looking menu.

I'm going to give them a try.

We have created a team in Microsoft Teams for all those interested in Needle Craft Wednesday. Click this link to join the team: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3a07b7c76af3d34d3389470cfba12508f5%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=03fdd9b6-8db4-4f0d-b41e-d0dc2f9f4505&tenantId=fb597529-0cf1-4ff9-bb65-9cb33111f5f5

I scheduled a recurring meeting in Teams for every Wednesday at 12:30 for us to meet up. Find this post, it was made on 6/9/2020 at 1:04. Click on the meeting to add the details to your Outlook Calendar. On Wednesday at 12:30, you can just click on the link in your Outlook Calendar to join the meeting.

There have been puzzles  being worked on the mezzanine for the past several months. Join in on the fun when you have a moment. 

Another puzzle has been completed. There is a stack of puzzles on the couch. Feel free to pick the next puzzles. (Puzzles in the stack on the right have been completed.)

Tomorrow is Wednesday --- That means it's time for the needle craft group to meet.

Do you knit, crochet, or do some other needle craft? Come and join us!

A group of needle crafters meets on Wednesdays at noon in the Mezzanine for lunch.

Bring your lunch and whatever needle craft you're working on. Perhaps we can learn a thing or two from one another, or at least enjoy some good company.

We completed another puzzle.

Sadly, it was missing a few pieces and had extra pieces. Hopefully we'll have bettet luck with the next one.