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poltr1Friday night, John (one of my New Warrior brothers) and I drove out to the Red Bird Center to do some much-needed cleanup on Saturday. Shianne was gracious enough to let us spend Friday night in one of the cabins. Despite the rainstorm that night, we woke up bright and early. I had a breakfast of coffee, hard boiled eggs, and a bagel.
The first task was to scrub the bathhouses. John took the upper one (near cabins 1-5); I took the lower one (near cabins 6-10). The sinks, toilets, shower stalls, and floors were scrubbed. (I didn't have glass cleaner, otherwise, the windows would have been done as well.) The next task I worked on was to inventory the tool shed. The next task after that was to mop up the water that had leaked into the basement of the lodge. I used a floor squeegee to push a lot of the water toward the drain, and whatever didn't get pushed got picked up by the Shop-Vac. We then broke for lunch.
After lunch, I then worked on sorting the tool area inside the lodge, pulling out all the tools and sorting them by either type of tool (hammer, wrench, saw) or function (carpentry, plumbing, electrical). After that was done, I washed one of the serving carts in the kitchen, which had accumulated a lot of dust. I then helped move furniture in the lodge so that someone else could sweep and mop the floor. The last task of the day was assembling a healing lodge (commonly called a "sweat lodge") from saplings. We had to bend and arch the saplings and tie them down.
There were about a dozen of us working that day. We got a lot of the requested tasks done. After a small dinner, John and I drove back to Dayton.
The first task was to scrub the bathhouses. John took the upper one (near cabins 1-5); I took the lower one (near cabins 6-10). The sinks, toilets, shower stalls, and floors were scrubbed. (I didn't have glass cleaner, otherwise, the windows would have been done as well.) The next task I worked on was to inventory the tool shed. The next task after that was to mop up the water that had leaked into the basement of the lodge. I used a floor squeegee to push a lot of the water toward the drain, and whatever didn't get pushed got picked up by the Shop-Vac. We then broke for lunch.
After lunch, I then worked on sorting the tool area inside the lodge, pulling out all the tools and sorting them by either type of tool (hammer, wrench, saw) or function (carpentry, plumbing, electrical). After that was done, I washed one of the serving carts in the kitchen, which had accumulated a lot of dust. I then helped move furniture in the lodge so that someone else could sweep and mop the floor. The last task of the day was assembling a healing lodge (commonly called a "sweat lodge") from saplings. We had to bend and arch the saplings and tie them down.
There were about a dozen of us working that day. We got a lot of the requested tasks done. After a small dinner, John and I drove back to Dayton.
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Date: 2008-06-02 03:34 pm (UTC)