Feeling like a cabbage head

I belong to a couple of professional organizations, and joined three other women from one of them yesterday to sort food at Second Harvest Food Bank.

I had no idea what “sort food” meant—but in this case it meant packing five heads of cabbage into a carton (to make 16 pounds, roughly). Seems that in the Bay Area, they get produce pretty much all year round, so the hungry people they serve in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties don’t have to depend on canned goods.

Even though both the organization and SHFB were disappointed in our turnout (they were expecting more members to show up), in a little less than two hours we met the goal of packing 150 cartons (and I assembled about 120 of said cartons).

That’s more than a ton of cabbage, and my muscles are telling me about it.

So if you don’t mind, I’m going to slap some more pain patches on my shoulder and do some stretches.