The heart of the dinner season is upon us, and I am loving every minute of it.
I gave ThePerryNews.com a couple of listings of dinners that I knew about. I noticed that I missed some, so hopefully you can read these in the comments section.
Jim must have found out about the Woodward Christian Church dinner because I have not see or heard about it. I usually get a call from Madonna about it, and I have not received any call as of yet.
The listings of dinners do better in terms of readership than my usual stories.
Saturday, Oct. 26 was an eventful day for fellow community church dinner connoisseur Dan Haymond and myself. There were five events, but one was a long way’s away. Three of the choices filled up the three meals for the day.
The first event was the Bouton breakfast in Bouton. For several months each year, they host a community breakfast that raises money for community projects. I have noticed recently that some of the people who used to work this breakfast have not been there, and some other people have been working. This is a labor-intensive project and takes many dedicated people.
Dan took four of his grandchildren to this event, so I drove myself up to Bouton. They always have fried eggs — you can also get them scrambled if you ask — sausage, ham, fried potatoes, biscuits and gravy, pancakes, toast and orange juice milk and coffee.
I had two helpings of the biscuits and gravy. It is always delicious. A lot of people attended, and Dan stayed late and said that people were coming in right up to the time for closing. I went home and fell asleep.
When 11 a.m. rolled around, it was time to head to the Booneville UMC for their annual chicken and noodle dinner. You need to get there early or you may be out of luck. One year we were late, and only desserts were left. We learned our lesson. Dan drove to this event.
In Booneville they serve chicken and noodles with mashed potatoes. They had a large choice of salads, of which you could take two. They also had many pies to choose from plus a choice of beverages.
I did not take any potatoes, and I cut back on the portion of noodles. They were delicious along with the other items. Funds raised are for church improvements and missions. The United Methodist Women of the church were hosting this event. I went home again and slept until around 4 p.m.
Then it was time to figure out choices for the next dinner. There was a chicken and noodle dinner at the Hopeville Community Church in Hopeville, Iowa. Too far to go.
There was supposedly a harvest dinner at the Stuart United Methodist Church that same evening. I received an email from the pastor about this the month before, but I could not find any other verification that there was a dinner. Churches need to update their websites and post such events.
We decided to head to my work town of Polk City and attend the Polk City United Methodist Church Harvest dinner. Guess what it was? Chicken Noodles! I drove to this dinner.
Polk City is a bedroom community. During the day you hardly see anyone around town. If you leave after 4:30 in the evening, there are hundreds if not thousands of people coming into town from the surrounding area. It appears to be very wealthy. The church is new and very modern.
The project that they were raising money for was the Hunger Hike, in which they go in and bring food to the homeless of Des Moines. I also noticed some very small houses behind the parking lot. These are for a program called Jappa. These provide short-term housing to get people off of the streets. They then are worked with to find permanent housing, get services that they need and find steady work.
This meal was also very good and included chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, many salads and several choices of beverages.
I ate well that day but by the third meal, I was ready to not eat any more.
Thanks for letting us know about these. We love coming to the ones we can.