Day 46

 Today was pantry day.  We started with the usual morning meeting, before heading over to the pantry to drop Jenni off. Then, Doug and I went and did our pickups.  We did not get a lot of food today.  Luckily, we ended up hardly having anybody at the pantry.  We were through our sign-up list within 30 minutes of being open.  We did have plenty of people trickle through that were not signed up at the beginning, so thankfully, we were kept busy.  However, we were not kept busy enough for us not to spend some time cleaning out the kitchen at the pantry. I don't know why we had some of the stuff that was in there.  We had way more cleaning supplies than we would ever need, and we also had a bunch of dishes that would never be used.  We also tried running the dishwasher for the first time in who knows how long, and it caused the sink to back up.  Luckily, one of the maintenance guys was there and was able to help get the garbage disposal unplugged.  Towards the end of our time at the pantry, Michael Oyer, Christian, Leigha, and Naomi showed up at the pantry for a tour.  After the tour, I packed myself a box and then helped get everything loaded into the van.  Then we headed back to the office and got everything unloaded and put in the fridge if needed.  Then I headed home and rested for a little while before heading over to the pickleball courts, where we were planning to meet for the learning component.  Michael Oyer taught us all about playing pickleball.  He taught us a bunch of rules that I had never heard of.  It went really well overall.  After we were done playing pickleball, we headed to Panda Express for supper.  I had some good chicken and noodles.  I also got myself a dr pepper.  After we shared some good conversation around the table, we headed back to the house, where I rested for a while until everybody was back at the house.  Then we played a dice game for a while before I headed to bed.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 28

We got up at 3:30, hoping to hit the road at 4 and then be on the trail at 4:30.  We were pretty close to on time.  We were hiking Mount Princeton.  Since we were in a van, we had to hike from the lower parking lot up a Four Wheel Drive trail for 3 to 4 miles.  When we finally hit single track, it didn't take long for us to be rock scrambling.  We had about 3 miles of rock scrambling to the top.  About half of it was just along the side of the mountain, but then we really turned uphill and had a pretty steep scramble to the top.  We finally made it to the top, and it was an amazing view for a little bit.  A snowstorm was moving in quickly, and we watched it start from a nearby mountain and slowly come toward us.  We had a slippery scramble down the shale on the mountain.  Then the snowstorm caught us, and it was kind of just a sleet, but it made all the rocks very slippery.  By this point, some people were fighting headaches.  ...
Read more

Day 26

Today I was with maintenance again.  We started off by going to Arcadia to do some inspections.  These rooms were much better kept than the last apartment we did inspections in.  We only had to do 3 rooms, so it didn't take long.  Then Bill took me over to Bentley, where I continued taking pictures again.  I did pictures most of the day, and then Bill picked me up at about 3:30 and we headed back to the office.  It was my day to cook, so I decided to make a pizza, which turned out pretty well.  After supper, we decided to try another community youth group for young adults again.  It was kind of like a church service with singing and a sermon.  I was not super into it because it was a non-denominational group, and they just do things a little differently.  On the bike ride home, my chain fell off while crossing the bridge over the highway.
Read more

Day 32

Today was pantry day.  Since Trilby hurt her finger yesterday, she tagged along with me to the pantry.  I started by running to Home Depot to get a wagon wheel for the wagon at the pantry.  When I got back from Home Depot, we picked up Doug and went over to the pantry.  Jenni was sick today.  We dropped Doug off at the pantry and then went to pick up the food at Sprouts and Trader Joe's.  We had a relatively light haul from Sprouts, but a fairly substantial haul from Trader Joe's.  We got everything put away in the pantry in record time and then had time for a good, long lunch break.  There were not a lot of good options for lunch, but eventually I found a pretty good sandwich.  After lunch, we started the pantry and had about 20 to 30 people come through.  It was not that many people at the end of the month, because usually by that time their government funds have run out.  Once we hit about 2 o'clock, we pretty much didn't have an...
Read more