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Dear Reader,
My grandson's Vacation Bible School instructor ordered 100 bananas for the kids this summer. But whoops, instead, the fruit company delivered 100 boxes of bananas to the church.
How many bananas are in one box of bananas? Give-or-take, 80-100 bananas in each box. That's a lot of bananas.
So every family pitched in and took some bags of bananas home. But after a week of eating bananas, my daughter-in-law called asking if I'd bake banana bread. And soon my kitchen counter was filled with bunches and bunches of bananas, that turned into 24 loaves of banana bread.
How do you get rid of 24 loaves of banana bread?
I gave banana bread to my neighbors next door and down the street, and neighbors I hadn't even met yet. "Here's some homemade banana bread. Welcome to the neighborhood." (To my surprise they moved in two years ago.) The mailman, the painter who was painting my living room, a man who helps me with my gardening, I even gave my chiropractor banana bread. But I still had banana bread left, and as tasty as it was, I discovered that too much banana bread, is kind-of-like too much zucchini in your garden. Word gets around the neighborhood. And when you ring, nobody answers. So I've frozen the leftover loaves of banana bread and I'll try again next month.
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Suzanne Beecher
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