Officials at Loaves and Fishes and St. John’s shelter for women and children were part of an Oprah program showing the number of new people who have fallen victim to homelessness. 

The donations didn’t come directly from Oprah but organizers said after the Sacramento homeless were featured on her show they have received calls from Florida to Texas.

So even if we aren’t glad to have the problems of our homeless people on national TV it is a good thing to get a little help from our friends.  Maybe this can be another reminder that we all need to do our part to help.

Loaves & Fishes

A few weeks ago we heard that the City of Sacramento didn’t like the fake grass a man in Natomas installed so he didn’t have to mow his lawn.  Maybe he should consider getting a couple of goats as a green alternative to the old lawn mower.  It seems that more than one person has thought of that concept here in sunny California; there’s even one business that has goats for rent called Goats R Us.  Check out this story in the Sacramento Bee about renting goats to clear weeds and brush.

This gives us all kinds of ideas to apply the concept; we could buy a goat, rent a goat, borrow the neighbor’s goat, have the neighborhood association goat (included in our neighborhood dues of course), have the goat crew that comes once a week.  Then before you know it there will be goat napping and rewards for stolen goats, laws governing how many hours a week a goat can work, goat benefits, goat unions (no not weddings).  Then there’s the off shoot businesses; goat grooming, goat transportation (can’t just put those things in the back seat of the Volvo), and the list goes on………………