03-22-08
Yesterday was fun, I started at the country store, I shared my training day with another lady, I guess the store owner wants double backup, just in case… anyhoo, it was great fun, we learned the basics, where all the lights are, how to light up the coolers, how to run the register, how to run the ancient gas pump, well it’s not THAT old, but you do have to do things in a certain order, or else the pump will lose prime and will not pump anything until a repair guy comes out and fixes it, it’s not a good thing to do! The main thing we do up there is talk to the locals, I met more people and dogs that day, a lot of the people I saw I had met previously, at least once, it was nice to see everyone again. I don’t know when I’ll start for good, I hope next weekend or the following week after that, as far as I know, it’s every other weekend (Friday and Saturday).I know one of the first things I’ll be doing on the next day I’m there is dusting, the store is pretty clean, but I noticed the can food has a layer of dust on the tops, that is pretty standard out here, everything has a layer of dust no matter what you do, it’s non-stop dust here, perhaps it will not make much difference, but I have to try. :)
While I was training, Bob helped out on a storage building outside behind the store, there is a RV/camping place out back, it’s not much, but it’s not supposed to be much either. This building had roll up garage doors on it, the owner wanted barn doors on it, she had already make one door herself (she is pretty talented with her hands too!), so Bob had a template to go by, she was very happy with it and impressed with how fast he goes. He went back today to finish the doors (there is another set to be made) and to do some other things. After that he is supposed to go help our friends repair their new(old) house so they can get moved in faster.
Garden
A few days ago, we started working on our garden area, we have a clearing not too far from the cabin, it’s flat and the ground looks great, there are trees surrounding the clearing so I hope it will be a bit protected from animals and weather, at least it will not be an eyesore to anyone. We will have to fence it around and over the top to keep out the deer, birds, raccoons, skunks, foxes, peccaries and any other hungry animals. Bob asked me how big an area did I want to garden, I answered as large an area as he can fence in, …
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