Rainy Day

Yesterday, Emily and I were put straight to work in the warehouse by Mr. Lewis. Our goal for the day was to empty a 40-ft. trailer so that it could be towed away the following day. Before we could empty the trailer, we had to organize the warehouse. Vaughn and Allison arrived about 10 minutes after we did, and soon the warehouse was organized as much as it could be. The trailer held a variety of things like paint leftover from homes that have been worked on, insulation, batteries, solid wood doors. We started with the 1-gallon paint cans, and finished those off pretty quickly, but then we discovered the 5-gallon paint cans. There were TONS of them, and most of them were full to the brim. We eventually worked out a system of loading them into a wagon. wheeling the wagon to the warehouse, lifting the buckets on the pallet jack, and finally unloading them again where we wanted to put them. After lunch, we continued moving the various objects in the trailer until there were only the heavier things left. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Horst helped us with those, and eventually we emptied it out! Emily took some before and after pictures, so I'll try to get those from her later. The first picture to the right is the "burn pile" that we formed from trash in and around the trailer. As you can see from the smoke, everything that we burned was perfectly fine for the environment. The second and third pictures are of me and Allison in the clean skid loader. Unfortunately, It poured yesterday afternoon, and all that red dirt you see is now on the skid loader again. Oh well!