I woke up with a splitting headache

 Sometime in the middle of the night, took my Excedrin, went back to bed.  I still had a fair to moderate headache around 8 when I got up so I figured the Handout would be out.  

I have to do physical labor moving the Bibles around, walk to/from bus stop, stand in the bright sun, ride a very noisy and jouncing bus, etc.  

But I started to feel better.  One problem I have with these middle of the night headaches I never remember when I took the pills, so I can't take more when I get up.  I need to get a whiteboard and write the time.  

Anyway I thought let's see what happens if I take my antidepressant because a lot of times that flips a headache all by itself.  I took it and still felt OK.  I took a hot shower, still fine.  Maybe I can do this.  I did my God Time.  

I was very disappointed to find my cargo shorts had a stain of some sort on them so I wore jeans along with my "garment of praise" neon orange safety t shirt.  I do play in traffic.  

Last night, I did up the "Praying for you daily!" cards, 25 each in English and Spanish.  I put those in the Bible along with the "4 Things" tracts a sponsor sent me.  I had really nice purple themed Bibles today and I love purple.  

I loaded about 40 whole Bibles on the cart and then had another dozen or so in my tote bag.  I had the big orange sign, the one that says "Free Bibles! (happy face) God Loves You!"  I like that one a lot.  Here it is in better days:  

That's actually the corner I worked today.  

So I got to the bus stop around 11:30 and got to Acres Homes around noon.  It was dead to start.  Plenty of cars but no interest.  But the weather was nice and everyone had their window down.  I had several young Spanish men looking at me with interest (not in me just in what I was doing).  I would approach them and offer them a Spanish Bible and they would say thank you and take it!  I did that for about an hour and several Spanish Bibles.  

Then I started getting the English.  I had 2 cars, different times, wanted a Bible after the light had changed and traffic was roaring past.  I yelled at them to "come back!" and made the come around motion with my free hand.  They both said OK but they never did.  The ones that got away; maybe next time.  But I'm not getting run over if I can avoid it they were going FAST.  

One sweet recipient: an older minivan pulled up and the back drivers window came down to show a young boy in a booster seat.  He asked me what kind of Bibles I had, I told him.  I asked what he wanted and how many.  He asked his mother, in Spanish.  She told him 2 of both languages, so I handed them over.  Then they drove off!  I never saw the Mom.  

I worked for another hour.  When Ron and I used to work together, I would work at the north side of the intersection (De Soto and Antoine), under the oak trees.  I would face north and wave at the southbound traffic.  Ron would face south, towards the intersection, and wave at southbound traffic.  And when I worked with Ron I would often get a few people, every handout, who saw Ron and wanted a Bible.  

I now have the small sign mounted on the front of my cart and it is "Ron" facing south.  I had 2 guys who went past, stopped, and came back.  The second one basically asked me for everything I had so I gave him a couple each English and Spanish, and some New Testaments.  He said he planned to give them out to friends.  He was bilingual.  

That was it!  Now the fun part, load everything up and head over to Tacos Gloria food truck for a taco and a Jamaica.  They were delicious although that green sauce was hot enough to numb my tongue!  

I still had the small sign mounted on the cart, and wearing the Free Bibles hat, when I went to the grocery store.  No one in the store wanted a Bible but as I left a lady selling something outside the door - electricity - dental work - something like that, stopped me and got 2 Bibles.  

NOW I'm done.