Yard work

At the end of Thursday, a man from a landscaping company had come by asking if we would accept a donation of a collection of shrubberies and trees to be sold as fundraiser. Cheryl naturally accepted, but recognized that we didn't have time to empty the entire truck (I later had to count how many had been donated - 72 trees and shrubs altogether).

So, the first thing we did the next morning was attempt to empty the truck. Given that it was over 80 degrees outside and I was not used to performing physical labor to this degree, the job took longer than it necessarily needed to. To speed things up a bit, Cheryl decided that I should move the plants to the front of the truck by myself so we didn't need to constantly climb onto the back of the truck. The plan was that I would jump down after completing this task so I could return to the job of carrying the shrubs and trees. However, I poorly planned out events and placed a wall of shrubs by the back of the truck, preventing my exit. After some delays, Cheryl created an exit for me and I continued work as normal.

After a long time spent on the physical labor, a man from the Habitat Restore came by and asked us why we were carrying the shrubs and trees by hand when they had carts in the Restore. Cheryl claimed that she hadn't known we had any. At this point, only seven of the 72 plants were left, but things went more than twice as fast with the help of technology.