"Road Closed"

I wake up each morning never knowing quite what I'll end up doing for the day.  Today I helped Tacia make bags in the morning.  The volunteers from the Boston Project arrived at ten, and the only food that needed to be processed was four boxes of potatoes to bag.  Knowing that the potato bagging would take less than ten minutes with so much help, I was wondering what I would have them do next.  Just as they were finishing, Nancy gave me a ring on my cell, and told me to take the volunteers outside.

A uniform company inhabits the space next to us in our warehouse.  They currently have a 30 foot dumpster in the parking lot that they have been in the process of filling this week.  Whenever the uniform company's customers change uniforms, or go out of business, or change uniform providers, the uniform company is left with extra uniforms.  The majority of these uniforms are long or short sleeve button down shirts with a name and company patch on them.

Nancy had me get some boxes, and have the volunteers begin sorting, folding and boxing the clothing.  Some of it we have already given away around the neighborhood, and we have 30 big boxes left at the warehouse today.  If we have time we will collect more of them tomorrow.

While we were working, one of the ladies at the uniform company told us that they have more uniforms inside the warehouse that they could give to us if we come back on Monday or Tuesday.  That way we could save a step!

In other news, you may remember that the road in front of our warehouse had been torn up a few weeks after I got here.  Two weeks ago they finally decided to repave half of the road.  Then, last week they decided to tear up the half that they had paved the week before.  Today they were working on the road again, and I believe theoretically they should do the whole thing this time.  We'll see...