Sam's Year of Service Adventure

 Today I helped some people from church move.  We assembled the menno movers, and we worked all morning moving furniture to their new house.  There was nothing too big, but it was a lot of trips since we did not have any big vehicles.  When we were done moving, we had lunch, and then I did not do much the rest of the afternoon.  In the evening, I made some crunch wraps for supper, which turned out pretty good.  After supper, I made a cake mix that we found while cleaning out the kitchen cabinets.  The cake was good.  In the evening, I watched Shanghai Knights with Christian and Leigha.

 Today I was over at Bentley again.  I started by going through the make-readies with Tony to see what else they needed.  When we had finished, we went over to our storage unit, but we forgot the keys and came back.  When we came back, we got caught up, and it was no longer worth going back to the storage unit.  Instead, we went and looked at a sink clog.  It appeared it was clogged a lot deeper than we could get to, so we put some liquid heat down the drain, which made it good enough to use through the weekend.  When we were finished with that, I went and put a door kicker on, and then it was already the end of the day.  When I got home, I played with Naomi for a while, and then I went to the nearby gourmet mac and cheese restaurant and got lunch.  After lunch, I went to the phone store where they cleaned my charging port out so it would charge again.  When I got back to the house, I played some video games before getting ready for Grec...

 Today started with an all-staff meeting.  After the meeting, I rode with Alden over to Bentley, where I did a property check and then worked on a make-ready.  We fixed a lot of little things and did a bunch of touch-up painting.  When we finished the make-ready for the time being, we went and checked out a sink that was leaking, but we found no leak.  Then we went and checked out a lock that was broken, but it also worked just fine.  Then we started on another make ready that only needed a little touch-up paint and some hinged tighted up.  When we were done with that, we went to The Taste of Philly and got some Philly cheesestakes for lunch.  After lunch, we did a little more work in the make-readies, and then Tony finally got there.  We went and checked out a broken window and then made a Home Depot run.  At Home Depot, we met Josh, and he had a door that needed to be hauled, so we took it down to Enfield for him.  Once we had dro...

 Today was pantry day.  We got a late start, so all the volunteers beat us to the pantry.  When we got there, I took right back off to go get Trader Joe's.  It was the smallest pickup I had ever seen.  It was only 10 boxes.  They said that since their warehouse is in Texas, they have not got their deliveries for the past few days because of the ice storms.  Since we barly had any food to put away we were done early and had a long lunch.  After lunch, we got started, and it was a very steady yet very easy day.  I helped move some meat and eggs around as needed and carried out some boxes when it was busy, but otherwise I was able to just walk around and make sure everything was running smoothly.  When we were done for the day, we hardly had anything to pack up, since we had hardly had anything to begin with.  We took about one cooler's worth back to the office and unpacked what we could into the fridge.  After that, I finished pu...

 Today, Tony picked me up in the morning, and we went straight to Home Depot to pick up some window tint for the Bentley clubhouse.  We did our best to get it put up, but it just wasn't working.  Once we had given up, we went to an apartment and checked out a stove that worked fine and showed them how to remove their dishwasher filter.  After that, we went over to The Ridge for an eviction.  We did not have to take anything out of the room.  While we were there, I shovelled some of the sidewalks around the proptery and we had to check out a toilet that would not flush.  When we were done at The Ridge, we stopped at a gas station on the way back for some drinks, and then we took lunch.  After lunch, we had to install a pin pad lock.  We got the lock in quickly, but it was tricky to program.  Then we went over to VSR, where we showed Posh how to install a part on a shower and delivered some ice melt.  When we were done at VSR, we went...

 Today I got picked up by Doug since it was really cold this morning.  Since Jenni was gone today, Doug and I went and made the pickup, and then we went to the pantry.  Doug helped me unpack some stuff, but I did the majority of the work while he went and delivered bread.  We got a bunch of cases of eggs last week from Natural Grocers since they over-ordered, so I had to find a place for all of them.  When I had finally moved things around to where they were good, I shoveled the rest of the snow off the sidewalk around the pantry, and then I cleaned the pantry.  After I was done cleaning, I had a lot of time to wait for Doug since he was in a meeting, so I tried to open a stuck padlock on our shed there.  I was not successful and decided to start eating my lunch, but then Doug showed up.  I finished my lunch back at the office and then got the piece of glass I bought last week cut to size for the library door at Bentley.  When I had that piec...

 I skipped a few days because I was sick, and a few other days because I did not do anything besides shovel snow.  Today we had church.  Before church, I went out and did some shoveling, and then I went to church by myself since Michael went to the Broncos game.  I met Christian and Leigha at church, as they had just finished their retreat.  After church, I went to my host family's house for lunch, and then we watched the Broncos game.  When the game was over, I headed home in the snowstorm, and then the roads were really bad.  When I got home, I played with Naomi for a while and held Josiah.  Then I ate supper and relaxed for a while until we finished the evening by playing Overcooked.