This morning when we arrived at work at 6:30, we learned that our piler was down. There is something called a Lovejoy on it which sounds like it should be a wonderful thing, but that’s what was broken. While the mechanic worked on it we cleaned the piler and greased it until there wasn’t really anything more we could find to do on it, so we went to our cars and waited…and waited…and waited. Continue reading
This is a question for my female readers: Do you ever feel like when you tell a man you’re concerned about something, he pats your head and says, “There, there! Nothing to worry your pretty little head about?” Continue reading
Today the ladies saved the day! Continue reading
I took our camera to work today and got pictures of the boom that fell yesterday. Before I show them, I want to say that I’m enjoying working with the other Cindy, who will now become just plain Cindy since my friend Cindy works the night shift. Day shift Cindy loves to laugh and joke. It makes the day so very pleasant! Continue reading
After our experience at Savage, I’m sure some of you were questioning our sanity for agreeing to do the same things somewhere else. All I know is that before we heard from Steve yesterday that we could come to this new site, I was praying that if we got the job God would let there be nice people to work with there and that I’d have the strength to do it. I think God answered my prayer. Continue reading
Thank you to all those who wrote to cheer me up from the day I had yesterday. There was one incident I had forgotten to write about last night because I didn’t get yelled at about it yesterday. This morning in our stand up meeting, the boss didn’t mention our piler crew, but he did mention to everyone else that someone had forgotten to take a tare sample. That would be me. Continue reading
There was a potluck scheduled for 2:00 here in the fairgrounds this afternoon. The afternoon started out warm but breezy, I think everyone came, and there was lots of good food. Continue reading
This morning Mark and I drove down to Savage for our orientation with Sidney Sugar. We met on site at the field where we’ll be working. I had thought that everyone who came to Sidney would be sent to this work area, but apparently there are three sites near Sidney. There were only a handful of us in Savage. Continue reading
Thursdays are honey wagon day. The honey wagon is a truck that goes around and collects everything from our holding tanks since we have no sewer connections. The truck they sent around was so small it had to make several trips to empty and refill. Continue reading
This morning the camp host here at the fairgrounds came over and had us fill out and sign a bunch of paperwork for Express Employment. Then she told us to go to the hotel where they set up the orientation. Continue reading