Our senior years are spent doing as many things together as we can.

Volunteering – here we are with some other folks from the Protection of Sea Turtles.

This day, a group of us volunteered for trash pickup along the streets of Ocean Isle Beach.

We spent about three hours on our assigned streets-

Then we, along with a hundred other volunteers-

Met back at the park, where they provided lunch and drinks for us.

We sat here on the stage and ate and talked.

From mid May to mid-October –

We are on the beach in some manner for the Protection of Sea Turrles.

This will be our fourth season of volunteering.

We also volunteer for our church for the Brunswick County Food Pantry.

This involves the second Saturday of every month –

Where our church operates the county food pantry.

We are there between 8am and 8:30 am.

We have 20 to 30 volunteers –

And I am usually assigned to direct parking.

Sherry works inside at produce, meat, eggs, or as a shopper who fills the cart with the supplies each family gets.

As a shopper, she wheels the cart outside to be loaded into the designated car.

Loaders perform this duty, and then she returns inside for her next order.

On the other assignments –

She works at an item storage spot and fills the order as the shopper wheels the cart by.

Outside- a volunteer directs the car to me-

I greet them and ask a few questions, and then instruct them to a spot and “BACK” in.

Many people have trouble backing into a spot –

And I help them.

I give them a number that they show on their dashboard-

And if they are unable to walk over to the sign-in station-

I give them a colored sticker that is placed on the windshield.

We have roving volunteers who will then come to the car and get them signed in.

I tell them when to go and sign in, and that someone will tell them when to go and pick up.

They remain in their cars and are loaded by volunteers.

We handle about 100 to 130 cars during the three hours we are there.

Most are seniors, and many can not walk far.

Many are families, and the total number of people runs between 250 and 275.

This is a service much needed in our county.

Other churches do the remaining Saturdays of the month-

And we are starting on Friday – 6pm to 8pm.

There are so many families.

For over twenty years, together we have made this our supplement of choice.

Aging as healthily as we can together into our senior years.

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Together we walk the beach.

There are certain things that I do not do-

She has card-making, group chats, and women’s games.

But we golf together and with others.

We shop, and I drive.

We explore together –

We watch TV together.

We visit family and friends together.

Since this day – 6-25-1982 –

Our wedding day –

We have been together.

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