Breakfast

An entertaining and jovial hour at breakfast this morning. Things were a bit unusual since JR and Adam happened both to be absent the same day, and so Trevor and I started things off on our own.

But quickly the room was filled with six of the regulars, all with hearty appetites. I heated up what was left of the egg casserole from last week and quickly moved on to the rest of the lasagna which we had for this week. (I often feel bad when we have nothing but dinner food to give out for breakfast, but they liked it better than the eggs!)

The ensuing discussion centered on G's story that his uncle once tried to kill a rattle snake with a power saw and only barley missed getting struck. The table was packed full and when W came in too I heated up a second plate of food (one is usually enough). Finally G told us that ever since seeing that snake with his uncle he couldn't pick up a stick without thinking it was a snake. E, especially, thought this was hilarious and laughed over and over again for several minutes, petting Sammie intermittently. Soon E's laughter was funnier than G's story.

Then they started talking of preparing for the rain that's supposed to come for the next three days. Looks to be a cold rain too, if the north breeze this morning is any indication. I gave out a few large garbage bags that help keep the few possessions they have dry. I was sorry to be out of bus passes when a couple of them wanted to go to a place they knew of to get rain coats. Hopefully some day passes will come in today.

It was a sublime view indeed as, towards the end of the hour, I sat back from the group, all still gathered around, and noticed that our latest copy of the Catholic Worker was sitting on table in the midst of them. As things were winding down W picked it up and started reading one of the articles.