Sam's Year of Service Adventure

 This morning I went mountain biking at Palmer Park.  I picked a really bad spot to start from because it was a lot of stairs up to get to any other trail.  Once I had found my way to some easier trails, it was really fun.  My favorite trail was the Grandview Trail.  It was a long trail that was almost all downhill.  When I was done biking, I explored the park with the van a little more to find a better parking spot for next time.  When I was done biking, I went home and had some lunch.  After lunch, I didn't do much during the afternoon, and when Naomi woke up from her nap, we went to a playground.  When we were done playing at the playground, we came home and had supper.  After supper, I relaxed the rest of the evening.

 Today was a half-day on Friday.  We started the day by changing filters in building 4 apartments at Bentley.  When we had finished changing filters, we cleaned out the rock hole, then washed off all the tools.  When we were done cleaning up, it was already time to head back to the office.  When I got home, I had some lunch, and then Christian and I went mini golfing.  It was really fun, and the course was really nice.  After mini golf, I relaxed for a while, and then I made a breakfast casserole for supper.  After supper, I relaxed the rest of the evening.

 Today I was with maintenance.  We started the morning with an eviction at Alexander Court, and it was really easy.  After that, we headed to Bentley, where I spent a few hours working on a make-ready.  I had to put up more curtains, fix some drawers, and do a bunch of other little things.  When I was done with the make-ready, I went with Alden to Colorado West to pick up a sump pump since we found out we had a clogged drain in our city's runoff pond.  It needs to be unclogged because the city needs the water to drain, and it was starting to smell bad.  We had to pump it down about 3 feet, and the whole thing was full of rocks, so the water could trickle down.  We had to take all the rocks out, and they were disgusting.  It was an awful job, and it smelled horrible.  We did not finish the job by the end of the day, so I have to go back tomorrow and finish cleaning the sludge out and put all the rocks back in.  When I got home from w...

 Today was pantry day.  We headed over to the pantry, and then I went to pick up food from Trader Joe's.  When we got back with our pickup, we put everything away and had some lunch.  After lunch, we opened up.  It was a pretty busy day, and we had a new employee joining us.  When the rush was over, Jenni and I cleaned out one of the storage closets.  We had another rush towards the end of the day, and then we packed up and headed back to the office.  After I dropped off Jenni and the food at the office, I went to Woodbine to drop off some boxes and pick up a box of suits to donate.  I also went back to the pantry and picked up some more clothes that were there, and made a trip to Goodwill.  When I got back from Goodwill, I headed home.  At home, we had a learning component about origami.  After learning component, Christian and I made up some burritos for supper, and then we watched The Martian.  After we watched The Mart...

 Today I was with maintenance.  I started my day heading down to Bentley, where I had to shovel all the dumpster enclosures.  When I had finished that, I had to help with some insurance inspections of Bentley.  I had to climb into a couple of attics to check heaters and change a couple of filters.  After that, we glued a drawer back together and then spent a while picking up trash and dog poop.  When we were tired of that, we pulled out a bunch of posts from around trees that were getting broken by kids anyway.  When all the posts were pulled Jenni picked me up and we went to Natural Grocers to do the pickup.  We barly got anything but we were glad we still got some stuff.  On our way to the pantry we picked up Doug at the office and then went to unload stuff.  While at the pantry I ate some lunch and then we headed to the Attrium for mobile market.  It was a beautiful day for it and we had a really good turnout.  We even were ...

 Today was my first day back at work, so we had a long meeting, mostly just catching up.  After our meeting, we went to Sprouts and did the pickup.  We barely got any produce, and we didn't get much last week either.  After we picked up the food, we headed to the pantry and got everything put away.  When everything was put away, I put together our new shelf and admired the new fridge we got while I was gone.  When we were done at the pantry, we took bread to Westside and then went back to the office for lunch.  After lunch, Jenni and I drove around and looked at gardening areas for the upcoming gardening year.  We also did the libraries at those properties while we were there.  We have a pretty cool gardening program.  Our residents can apply for a gardening plot at their property or a nearby property if theirs does not have one.  We give them everything they need, like soil and seeds.  When we were done checking all the proper...