Staff musings were absent the last couple of days, so i'll do the noble deed of filling in for Casper and Joe...but they were busy with good reason...here's the rundown of what's been going on at the Center - and what's what's coming in...
The last couple of weeks have been a little hectic...your's truly, Lee, and Charles have taken over Food Service duties since Becky's retirement from the Center. I have learned a whole lot about food ordering, food cooking and food serving...so as luck would have it, only the largest groups of the year attend now...
A gigantic wedding, an Emmaus Walk, another gigantic wedding, and another Emmaus Walk will fill the month of October, with day-use groups sprinkled in for good measure. It has been exciting learning the ropes and trying to streamline the kitchen operations...but I have learned one thing...serve good coffee, and have plenty of it...
Coffee could possibly be the most important food/beverage on the planet...have you ever heard anyone say "I can't get going without my coffee!" I am the same way, too. I guess I go tthis from my dad...my mom drinks a little, but daddy drinks it by the gallon. Coffee is defintely the most expensive fuel on the planet, atleast normal folks fuel...a gallon of gasoline is about $2.50, depending on where you are...a gallon of Starbucks Coffee would run you about $10.00. Thankfully, we can make our own coffee, and save a lot of money...If we could only make our own gasoline...and some people have perfected making gas (not THAT kind of gas....).
Switchgrass and corn are used to make ethanol, which appears in virtually every tank of gasoline now...while it is cleaner than traditional gasoline, it is not quite as efficient. 30 Gallons of ethanol E-10 Gas is equal to about 24 gallons of regular petrol...
Gasoline isn't the only thing utilized to power a car...obviously there are electric cars...you may not recognoze one when you see one, but it'll probably have a celebrity or hippie in the driver's seat...there just a tad to expensive for regular folks to purchase.
The Eastern 4-H Center tries to conserve energy at every step...we recycle more trash than we send to a landfill...that's nothing to brag about, though...I'm sure we could do more. We have compost heap that we use to dispose of raw vegetable, coffee grinds, tea bags, and egg shells, too. We also like to turn out the lights and unplug all of our devices. These things are just responsible, we can always do more.
"Going green" takes some green. But going "green"' will also save green, and turn friends "green with envy."
Enjoy the day...
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