Bucket Lids

Today we did Defensive Driving Training to be able to drive the government vehicles.  Now before you get excited and start imagining me driving a tank or swerving around cones.  It only consisted of 4 hours of online PowerPoints of learning about how to drive responsibly.  4 HOURS!  Then we talked more about food to bring to the island.  We couldn’t decide how many brownie mixes we needed.  Seriously, it was like a 20 minute conversation.  That and Kyle would not let carrot cake go.  Carrot cake, really?  Gross.  After we couldn’t stand that anymore, we went out side to organize bucket lids.  That’s how we transport and store items for the island, in buckets.  So we went through a crap ton of old lids to see if they passed the inspection to be reused.  Most of them didn’t make it…like 85% of them didn’t pass.  Then we had to power wash each lid.

 The lids that didn’t pass were to be thrown away.  But then I noticed that they were stamped with recycle 2s.  So we spent the next 45 minutes to an hour prying out the O rings so that we could recycle the lids.

It was a lot of lids, but they are ready and packed to be dropped off at the recycling center.

I just realized that this all about bucket lids.  But this has been a highlight so far. Actual physical work with the group.  We seem to work really well together and make jokes at the same time.  I think that we are going to make the solitary island time work!