Julie B. Beck Conference

For all those who went and took notes, could you please post some of the main messages and things that stood out to you?

RS Blog

This blog was started by some D2 sisters back in 2007. It has included different things at different times including:

-pictures and summaries of activities
-hub for handouts/recipes/info from activities you may have missed (The Davis way, saving a tree and all!)
-birthdays (with initials only- we don't want to spread all of your names all over the internet.
-sister spotlights
-a "Need this/ Want this" ongoing SWAP (awesome!)
-yahoo-moment announcements (remember when they used to have the "good news" moment in RS?LOL
-hub for ward member blog listings


I just got admin rights sent to me from an RS sister who is no longer in the ward, so I've added all of you as authors. Want admin rights to do fancy things to this? Lemme know!

Emergency Preparedness Night- Oct20th

Canning
-learned that fruit is the easiest to can
-you don't need any fancy machines, just a tall pot
-Set jars on lids inside the pot to keep them from directly touching the bottom
-peel fruit (sometimes optional), cut up, cook up, throw in jars, boil for awhile (pears were 25 mins), done.
-want to start an email group for "i just saw a great deal on ____" to help people increase their food storage
-What's the point of canning?  If you eat a lot of (peaches/applesauce) and find them for, say, 19 cents a pound (or free from a friend/family orchard), you'll save a ton of money by buying fresh produce super cheap and canning it for later use.

Food Storage
http://www.providentliving.org/ is the church's website to look for prices on food storage, and suggestions on amts.
-church could "borrow" the can sealer if people wanted to meet at someone's house to seal a bunch of dried goods in those big #10 cans
-3 months worth (not a year) is the goal for students
-buy extra of what you already eat and figure out a way to keep rotating it.
-Most canned goods already last about 2 yrs.
-Kathy's the representative in our ward
-Most bakeries will give you free 5 Gal. buckets since they throw them away after using up all the contents (mostly icing)

72-Hr Kits
-Find some sort of bag to collect it in (IKEA bag, old backpack, bag from DI, hiking pack, etc)
-collect things from around the house
-store in ziplocks to squish out air and keep dry (clothes too).
-buying MREs (Meals-Ready-to-Eat) from some sort of online supplier can eliminate the need for a great handful of items otherwise needed to open, cook, prepare, eat off of, and store food.
-store impt documents, phone numbers, credit info
-store money in small increments and a roll of quarters.

Scanned in pictures of awesome lists from an old BYU Emergency Preparedness Seminar to come.
COMMENT with other great ideas you've heard about from other wards, other schools, other people. BRING IT!!

Relief Society Quarterly Activity-Sept 30th, 2010

What a fun way to learn lots of great things!! The decorations were super cute too. Great job ladies! And we sure missed some of you, and are excited to share what we learned with you!! Have fun looking at pics. Click on them to see them bigger!

Relief Society Broadcast Sept 25, 2010

Parking at Orchard Park

Just FYI-

If it's the weekend or after 4:30pm, don't stress about parking here at OP. That said, DO make sure you park in a visitor or O2 space so you don't take someone else's assigned space.

Just sayin.

Oh, and during the day (up til 4:30) get a visitor pass from whomever you visit in case I'm not the one on call doing parking that day (because I generally recognize most of your cars!)

Thanks :) and much love.

Oh, and you're always invited to OP activities if you care to come "all the way" over here :) Ice cream this Tuesday at 6:30 before Michelle's Baby Shower! mmmmmm!!!

May is Bike Month!

I love bike month! There are so many awesome activities to join throughout the whole Sacramento area. Check out the "Million Miles May" events on the following link. For those who register, there are random prize drawings. You can enter miles from biking around town, to work, to church, exercising... anytime you're on your bike. Go to the linked website and register under "Davis LDS Relief Society 2nd Ward" (apparently someone registered the ward in past years because it was already an option) :) And mark your calendars-- on May 20th from 6:30- 9:30am at the Farmers Market, the Bike to Work Breakfast is going on and for those of us that have signed up, you get a free T-shirt.

http://www.mayisbikemonth.com/events_local.asp?partner_id=12

Here are the events just for Davis...

http://cityofdavis.org/bicycles/may-is-bike-month/2009/