I Met One of the Good People Today

I belong to the Longmont Freecycle group on Yahoo. We have a huge group and recycle everything imaginable. A lot of people outside of Longmont have joined and it gets pretty lively. When you are cleaning out your house or business, you post your item as Offered: *** in the subject line. Then you are contacted by people who would like the item, through your email. Then, if you get a lot of responses, you can post Promised:****. Once your item or items have been picked up you post Taken****. Hopefully; the person who got the item will post Received****with a thank you. Freecycle runs on the premise of wanting to help others, wanting to help the planet and really good manners. You email your address to the recipient and set the item on your front stoop for them to pick up. Pretty simple and since most Freecyclers are avid Internet users, posting on the Yahoo Freecycle for your city isn't a lot effort. Sometimes I think the stuff I want to pass on is junk and then I remember being young and broke and a free lamp for the living room is a great thing. I have gotten a lamp for a spare bedroom, office supplies and a CD stand made of wood and wrought iron, old torn and worn sheets for paint drop cloths, 3 pink spirea for my front yard and some pavers that I used in the backyard.

So I bet you are wondering about the title of today's blog. One of my neighbors passed away and her husband decided to pass on her cookbook collection. They had been married for 60 years and Harriet believed in cooking from scratch. My neighbor Mary got the box of cookbooks first and chose one. She passed the box onto me, and I let my two kids Katie and Ed go through it. Katie found a few she wanted. What I was left with was a box of pamphlets from the 50's and 60's. The color themes from the booklets made me laugh. Brown and aqua, sound familiar? Pop art, you remember those flower shapes with the circle and petals? Lime green and pink? Well, I really didn't have a use for them, so I offered them on Freecycle. A gal named Ivy asked for them. We made an arrangement for her to pick them up the next day after a vet appointment for one of her Boston Terriers. I happen to spot her as she drove up, so I brought the box to her car. We got to talking in the middle of the street which is pretty common here. Turns out she is a mom to 3 Boston Terriors. So I would say Ivy is a Boston Terrier fan. One day she was headed home, out in the country and spotted a very ill Newfoundland, Newfie. She took her home, tried to find the Newfie's family, and then headed to her vet in Denver, which by the way is a 50 mile one way trip. Took care of all of the Newfies ills, welcomed her to a definitely Boston Terrier family and has loved her ever since. One of the good people.