Hey its Cali from Mount Union. Katy and I had a busy weekend and a stressful week. Last friday we had a community picnic at Maple Beach Park. Usually we only serve kids but we had adults come and eat too. Our supervisor got a volunteer firefighter to come out and show the kids the fire truck. Munchy the mascot was there and the kids loved him! We served 61 kids and 16 adults that day. Saturday we were at the farmers' market in downtown Alliance. It was a lot of fun. We had kids paint rocks to look like bees and lady bugs. I also brought my bug collection and our supervisor brought some of her honey bees. This really got people's attention. One family stopped and said that they found a huge beetle on the sidewalk by the market and they took me over to get it. It was a huge red-brown stag beetle. On the fourth, Katy and I were at Silver Park with our supervisor doing a nature scavenger hunt with kids and adults. 75 people did this! We had a lot of fun. On monday the summer meals program was not serving because of the holiday. This week with the kids at Maple Beach was rough. They were extremely mean to Katy and I and to each other. Thursday, we went to the homeless shelter in Alliance to work on the two raised garden beds that were built there a few years ago. They were overgrown with weeds and it took about an hour to finish them. We also went to Feed My Sheep Ministries after and worked in the gardens there as well. We will soon have red tomatoes and cucumbers ready to eat in a few days. In our mid week evaluation, Katy and I crunched all the numbers of people we have interacted with in the past four weeks. Our total number was 1343 (give or take a few numbers)!!!! woohoo!!