I feel like posting on my blog. I have totally exhausted the weather (maybe it's exhausted me), my garden (it's doing great). and Hubby hasn't done anything noteworthy since getting lost.. He's mowing the lawn right now. That keeps him out of trouble, and fills my home with the fresh scent of newly mown grass. You have to love that.

I was snooping through my photobucket gallery and I found a picture that reminded me that I did have something worth sharing after all.



For some people, Batman fills the bill, for others Johnny Depp as Captain Jack does it. When we think of heroes do we always think of the super powered cartoon characters, or is there someone...just an ordinary person that fills the bill for you?

When I do my client, it's usually during the 11am to 1pm hours. On the days that I'm there she gets Meals-On-Wheels. The driver, David, is a middle to late 30's young man who works on a farm and in his "spare" time delivers meals and does odd jobs for my client. He has proved to be invaluable to my client and is one of the reasons that at 85 she is able to keep the outside of her home looking as good as I keep the inside. He's a hard worker, and my client is not the only one he does the odd job for, although he is most consistently called by my client.

The town of Lee Center experienced a microburst storm at 5 am Wednesday morning. The winds were so strong that it uprooted trees and moved them to other areas. Houses and garages were damaged, wires were down and many of the roads were impassable. David has MOW clients he needs to deliver to on the roads that were closed Wednesday. He delivered to EVERY one of his elderly people.

The fire department told him he shouldn't be in certain areas and he went anyway. Yes, it was a foolhardy action. It was something he could have regretted. Assuming he survived. His motivation was the knowledge that for some of these people the meal he delivers is the only decent meal of the day.

In our county, if it's snowing too hard in the winter the entire program stops for the day. No one that actually works for this program would have said a thing to him if he chose not to make those deliveries. He's a volunteer, they pay him nothing but mileage to do this. This is not something he does for profit, this is something he does from his heart. I don't know his last name, but David is my hero. Waist length hair and all.

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There really were angels watching over the village of Lee Center on Wednesday. These are pictures of the storm damage I found on our local news channel website.







This gives some idea of the scope of the storm and what David went through to deliver his meals to these people.