This morning I woke up and wanted to make the absolute most out of my day today. My last day at the Sicangu Nations Landscaping Enterprise is tomorrow, so I was so excited with what God was going to do with my day today.
I ate breakfast-- a peanut butter sandwich-- and started my devotions. Since I finished Acts yesterday and enjoyed reading about Paul so much, I decided I would start Romans today. I read the first chapter, then headed out to work.
When I got to work, the first thing I noticed was Percy walking into the office. That was pretty crazy. I wasn't very confident that he would be coming back into work after 4 days of absence. It's cool though, because he does really good work and he's a hard worker, so it was nice having him back in the office building picnic tables and whatnot.
I sat down in the office, and as people started to show up, Nixon started going over the jobs we needed to get started on and where he wanted our crews today. Our two big focuses were still the Rosebud Pow-Wow Grounds and the fence job in Mission. So it was decided that David would go out to the Pow-Wow grounds to finish tilling the arena; Ernie and Kels would go to do an estimate; Marky would take some youth workers to mow; and R.J., Fergie, and I would go to Mission to finish up that fence.
We left almost immediately for the fence project, but when we got out there, we realized we left a lot of stuff in the other truck, when we switched trucks with Ernie. This was really unfortunate. Ultimately, we legitimately couldn't continue work on the project because we didn't have a string line to make sure everything was being set up straight. We called Nixon to ask him a couple questions and he said he needed us to come back, so we did.
When we got back, we picked him up and grabbed all of the tools we needed, except for the string line. That was still in the other truck. Since we really needed that string line, we met up with Ernie and Kels to grab the line. Nixon needed to go with Ernie to get gas for David at the Pow-Wow grounds and go to RBP, while RJ, Fegie, and I went out to the fence, so Kels jumped in with us to help us out. Oh and we couldn't find the string line.
Again, since the string line was integral to our project, we too had to stop at RBP too, but we got there way before Nixon did. We found string line and fence pliers (we needed those too), but I knew we had a pair of fence plier, because I was there when they were purchased. We called Nixon to see if he could check around the truck for the pliers, and he told us that he had found the string line, but couldn't find the pliers. We bought the pliers then waited at RBP for Nixon to show up.
It took a while, but Nixon finally showed up. He had some bad news about an accident that had happened on one of our projects and he said that the bosses were angry. They almost called a mandatory meeting for us, but since there was admin leave for the day so everyone could go vote, they left it alone until tomorrow.
We ended up discussing the bad news for a while, then we got the string and headed out. When I got back to the fence site, Jonny and Greg were they to check out what kind of work I had been doing, because they had never seen one of my fence projects before. It was good to see them. We chatted for a few minutes then they took off.
Since we had some pretty crazy delays, we only ended up working on the fence for a couple hours that afternoon. We strung the line, dug the last two corner post holes, put in the smaller wall posts (these alternated between steel and wood), then we leveled everything off, filled them in and called it a day.
We got back to the office around 3pm, and most everyone was ready to take off for admin leave, but Nixon was worried about the Pow-Wow grounds. He didn't want to have the work we did tilling wasted by waiting too long to lay the seed, so we loaded up equipment and headed out there.
When we got there, we realized we should probably get a landscaping rake attachment for our tractor that we were renting, because raking the entire arena by hand would not be very enjoyable. Plus it would a waste of the little time we had left in the day. We tried to call Ernie and David and have them go pick up the other attachment, but the trailer we were using had a flat and Nixon didn't think it would be too big of a deal to wait until tomorrow to finish this up.
We all met back at the office and talked about a game plan for tomorrow. We wanted to get out to the grounds as early as possible, so Ernie said we should all get to the office by 7, then we can pick up the new attachment and get out to the grounds by 8ish. Nixon agreed, so that was that.
I got back to the house around 5:30pm, ate something for dinner, then decided to try to get some more of my blog written. I knew I had to wake up super early and I was super exhausted already, so I ended up going to bed around 11pm. That is the earliest I have been to bed in a very long time. I guess all this landscaping has finally caught up to me.
Thank you for taking the time to read through this blog and support me in my ministry!
God bless,
Brenden
Things I learned today:
1. Kels loves to dig holes. He hates carpentry.
2. If you're going to till the ground to get ready for seeding, you need to seed within 24hrs of the tilling.
3. Romans 1
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