Katrina relief

What I can do

• give money (Red Cross, etc)
  Done, though I should do more, especially since I now have the company matching form to send along.
  
• give stuff (clothes, books, etc)
  It seems inefficient for me to ship to TX, LA, etc, myself, but I do have bags of clothes I was going to donate. I wonder if I should wait until people arrive at the AFB on the Cape, then get a carload of stuff to bring?
  
• give time (entering data about people trying to find other people)
  I've been trying to do this, but there's a glitch in the system about unacceptable date formats (I'm not the only one getting this error, either). So I wait, frustrated.
  
• give blood
  Need to set up an appointment sometime in the next couple of weeks.
  
• give space
  Guilt. I feel like I should offer space, but I'm leery, as well. I don't want to deal with explaining the vagaries of my kosher kitchen, and I've been burned once already by helping out an acquaintance-of-a-friend who turned out to be a bit scary, and stayed overlong.

However, it still bothers me to the point of gibbering rage that hurricane relief seems to be so much a volunteer operation, sometimes hindered by government, when it's government's job to deal with this, protecting the citizenry.

Farm share, week 13

This week's share included:

• a pound of peppers (all sweet, some bell, some long. I got a variety of colors, red, yellow, and purple.)
  
• a head of celery or of fennel (I got fennel.)
  
• a head of garlic
  
• 1.2 pounds of onions (yellow or red. I got all yellow.)
  
• a head of green leaf lettuce
  
• a bunch of cilantro (I gave it away at the distribution.)
  
• 2.25 pounds of potatoes (mostly red skinned, but I found a couple of purple ones, too)
  
• 2 pounds of tomatoes (I got a huge Striped German, and two small red tomatoes. There were Striped Zebras, too.)
  
• a bunch of kale (I got dinosaur)

I'm slightly disappointed that there was neither winter squash nor melon. Or more arugula :-).