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Day 161 February 20

 Today is half day friday.  We started by going to Home Depot to buy a shelf for the maintenance room, and when we got to Bentley, we put the shelf together, and it is pretty awesome.  After we had the shelf together, we went and let the junk guys into the make-ready.  While we were letting them in, we saw that the concrete plant across the road from Bentley was on fire. We all stood on the balcony for a while and watched the fire.  When we were done with that, we went and did some more work on the maintenance room door so that it could at least lock over the weekend.  Then we had to go pass out some notices to a few different properties for reinspections.  We had to go to Ceders, Woodbine, and East Hills.  After we left East Hills, we had to go to UP and see the flood that Josh was dealing with.  Since Alden was on call, he was going to have to stay with the vendor, so Josh was showing us around.  When we went into one lady's apartment,...
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Day 160 February 19

 Today I was down at Bentley.  I started by cleaning some vestibules.  When Doug arrived at Bentley, we moved a bed and a couch for a lady who had mold in her house.  They had to tear apart a lot of her apartment, and she would have been in the way to stay.  When we were done moving Alden, I did a bunch of stuff.  We had to go to the locksmith to pick up a part for fixing the door to the maintenance room, and then we took lunch.  After lunch, we spent most of the afternoon working on our door and then trying to fix the gate for the playground.  We also had to go take a look at a make-ready that was completely trashed because some homeless people had broken in.  After we took our before pictures, we called the junk and cleaning people to clean out the unit.  At the end of the day, Alden took me back to the office, and I biked home.  When I got home, Christian had made some enchiladas for supper that were really good.  After supp...
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Day 159 February 18

 Today was panty day.  We started by going over to the pantry and getting some stuff in order since we were not there on Monday.  When the volunteers showed up, I went and did the Trader Joe's pickup.  When we got back, we put everything away and then ate lunch.  After lunch, we opened the pantry, and it ran smoothly for a while.  Eventually, a lady showed up who was not all there and told me some interesting things that I will not be writing down.  After she was gone, the rest of the day went smoothly.  At the end of the day, we packed up and headed back to the office.  At the office, we put some stuff in the fridge, and then I unloaded the dishwasher before heading home.  When I got home, I had time to relax before we had some curry for supper.  After supper, I got to hold Josiah for a while, and then he was happy to sit on the couch and watch us while we did learning component.  Christian built the computer that we have in t...
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Day 158 February 17

 This morning, one of my favorite maintenance guys quit, which made me really disappointed.  After the meeting, Vern, the new maintenance guy, and I took the big van over to Bentley and moved a stove out of a unit and into our storage unit.  After that, I took him back to the office so he could take his personal vehicle home, and then I picked him up at his house.  The wind was really strong on the highway, so driving the huge van was a little interesting.  When I had picked him up, we went back to Bentley, where he dropped me off.  I joined up with Alden, and we went and reset more outlets, and I turned a lady's heat on for her.  Then we had to look at a broken garbage disposal, which was under warrenty so we could not do anything.  After that, we cleaned a few more vestibules.  Once our battery for our scrubber died, we went to Home Depot to get a mop and bucket, and then we got some lunch.  After lunch, we had to go back to the storag...
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Day 157 February 16

 Today I slept in till 8, but it felt like I slept in till 10.  When I got up, I had some breakfast and then cleaned up my room.  We made some chicken patties for lunch, and then after lunch, we cleaned the garage, and I fixed our fence gate.  When the garage was cleaned, I decided to go on a bike ride to Garden of the Gods.  While I was there, I eyed up the Manitou Incline and decided I was going to go climb it.  I bike from Garden of the Gods over to the trailhead.  When I got there, my phone was almost dead, and I did not bring any water.  I called Christian and Leigha to come pick me up when I was about halfway up, and my phone died completely.  I just gave them a rough estimate, and I was right on time.  The hike was much harder then I thought it would be but I was still the fastest one on the trail.  The view from the top was really good, but there was a really cold wind, so I did not stay long.  When I got off the trail,...
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Day 156 February 15

 Today I slept in a little later than yesterday, and when I got up, I headed down to the lodge for morning worship.  The entire weekend featured excellent music and insightful contributions from Trent Voth.  After worship, we had another small group time, followed by brunch.  After brunch, I was on dishes with Michael.  Dishes for high school were so much easier than for junior high.  When we were done with dishes, we went and took a staff picture and then finished packing up and hit the road.  When we got home, I unpacked everything and did laundry.  I did not do much the whole afternoon or evening.
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Day 155 February 14

 Today I got up early and helped clear the snow since it snowed overnight.  Once the snow paths were cleared, we spent a while working on the tube run since it was kind of broken.  After we had the tube run useable we got to work on getting the pond ready for broomball and curling.  We had to plow the pond with the tractor and then scrape it clean for curling.  When the pond was ready, we went and had breakfast.  After breakfast, we had worship and small group time.  Then it was time for snow activities.  I did not have obligations, so I hung out at the tube run and the pond.  When the activities had finished for the morning, we had lunch.  After lunch, there was some free time before we had more snow activities.  I was in charge of human curling, but I played some broom ball while I waited for people to show up.  Eventually, some of the tabor group showed up, and we played for a while.  After those games, I had to help le...
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