Sam's Year of Service Adventure

 This morning, after breakfast, I headed up the mountain to go hiking.  It was about 10 miles up a super curvy dirt road.  The hike was really beautiful and had some great views of the city, the mountains, and the plains.  When I got done with my hike, I found a little Mexican restaurant just off the road from where I went to the trail.  It was a really long wait, but it was a super cool place, and the loaded nachos were delicious.  When I got back to the house, I relaxed for a little bit, and then we went to a park.  From the park, Christian and I went to DQ to get some blizzards, and then we went back to the park to play some more.  Then we headed back to the house, and we warmed up some more pizza and mozzarella sticks.  After supper, I played with Naomi for a while, then held Josiah while Christian put Naomi to bed.  Josiah got pretty upset, so Christian had to put him to sleep.  Then I relaxed the rest of the evening before goi...

 Today I started my day at Bentley.  Since I had to come back early, I drove the Honda.  I did a few work orders at Bentley, and then it was already time to come back.  When I got back, Olivia and Alexus had a lot of flyers they needed help folding.  There was a lot of folding, but we visited the whole time, which made it go faster.  When I was done folding, I took the van home.  When I got home, I had some lunch and then relaxed for the afternoon before making some sloppy joes and baked beans for supper.  After supper, we watched a couple of episodes of Firefly, and then I went to bed. 

I started my day by driving the Honda down to the shop for the oil change.  Bill picked me up from there, and we went to inspections at North Weber.  They were uneventful and nothing crazy.  When we were done with inspections, Bill took me over to Bentley.  On the way, he bought me a burrito for lunch from Quijotes.  At Bentley, I finished the last make-ready, did a few random work orders, and then had my lunch.  After lunch, I helped Alden clean out the pit of doom again.  When the pit was clean, I did a few other work orders, and then Bill picked me up.  We went back to the shop to get the Honda, and on the way back, I tested the sound system, which was exceptional.  When I got back to the office, I backed it into the parking spot so everyone would know I drove it.  Then I headed home.  When I got home, I ate some food. I don't know if it was supper food, but it was food.  Then I relaxed the rest of the evening.

 Today was pantry day.  We were down a few volunteers today, so I did the Trader Joe's pickup by myself.  When I got back from Trader Joe's, we put everything away and made some Vash boxes.  Then we had lunch.  After lunch, we opened the pantry.  It was a really calm day for the most part, other than having to turn a drunk lady away.  We had a new leasing agent at the pantry today for her training.  At the end of the day, we packed up and headed back to the office.  At the office, we put stuff in the fridge, and then I headed home.  After I got home with the box, I headed to the urgent care to have my stitches removed.  It was quick and easy, and I stopped for milk and some liquid bandage on the way home.  When I got home, we had some grilled cheese and tomato soup for supper.  After supper, I led a learning component about Kansas and the towns of Goessel and Newton.  After the learning component, I relaxed the rest o...

 Today I was over at Bentley.  We started by watering our retention pond and then checking out an apartment that we thought might be abandoned.  After that, I got to work on some make-readies.  The first one I went to, I glued a drawer back together, and that was it.  Then I went to another make ready and put on some new door stops and fixed a door hinge.  The next make-ready, I had to touch up and reinstall some sliding closet doors.  I also had to patch some holes in the walls and do some touch-up painting.  Then I headed to the next make-ready.  In this make-ready, all we had to do was finish installing a door.  We got the holes for the new hinges cut and then got the door hung.  Once the door was hung, we took a lunch break.  After lunch, I had to go remove tape from a door that someone had put on there to try to mess up the door.  Then we had to go install a new screen door for a lady.  After that, I went and got...

 Today, we started by going to Sprouts to pick up food.  Then we went over to the pantry to put everything away.  When everything was put away, it was time to reorganize since we got a new fridge.  We decided to move our canned good storage shelf to a different wall so the fridge fits better.  Next, we adjusted a bunch of shelf racks so we could fit extra apples and potatoes on the shelf, so they would not be sitting on the floor.  We finished up by dealing with the doomsday food that was donated.  We had to repackage some of it, and we just put the rest out on our freebie shelf.  When we were done at the pantry, we headed over to Westside and delivered the bread.  When we got back to the office, we took our lunch.  After lunch, we had a volunteer show up who was going to get our library organized for us.  After we took her over there to get started, Jenni and I ran around and did a bunch of libraries.  After we were done with ...