David, congrats on walking up to quiet.
Don, congrats on great checkup.
back is going to be hurting tomorrow but we boxed up just under a thousand pounds of sweet potatoes, seconds, mostly due to being big, but who cares when you cook them...all comes out the same, perhaps just not restaurant sized.
Very pleased to report potato giveaway was well organized, but started an hour later than we thought. So there was a line, and then the head guy there, who has a voice that could carry ten miles, started preaching, and the clapping started, and the singing started, and my ear was going nuts so I had to go back to truck. We were the only folks not of color there this morning. Here was this giant pile of 22 tons of potatoes, and after awhile our reaction was all the same, we aren't making a dent in it...
Then they stopped taking names and having a line and it became a free for all. All very nice and very polite, but think of big city
airport baggage carousel, off a really big plane, and way too many people trying to pack in to get the luggage going by. Well these potatoes weren't moving but we were running out of elbow room for a while, and you step out and someone steps right in. A good time was had by all, and those potatoes will be gone in days in the local community. I wonder what that pile will look like tonight or even if it's there.
We had to drive out in the opposite direction because so many parked cars had jammed the street.
I only went down a no exit street once...

but we turned around fine.