More and More - Day Fourteen
This day was a full day. Usual wake up, struggle to get up, find my way up, get ready, go.
Arrival was met with an immense lack of energy to find my way through the sanctuary to the building but with determination I made it there, as did everyone else. When putting away my food in the fridge, you can often see two bears outside the window, this time they were doing what I wanted to be doing.
We were fairly quickly put to use raking leaves out of the trenches, though this time the leaves were dry we could work quicker, is what I thought. The lack of moisture was a benefit but one replaced by that of an incredible amount of rocks covering the area we wanted to clear of just leaves.
By lunch time we had made it quite far but with intense heat and a level of manual labour not experienced before, we stopped to start collecting the piles of leaves we had mounded on the side of the bank. We only had three small plastic bags to collect the masses and so filled them up and made our way to have lunch.
Afterwards, we headed back out to continue our work only this time there were four of us (in the morning two were making the bear ice cream). With an addition of two workers and a brush added to our arsenal, we set off at a faster pace. In the hot sun, it was hard work, but good work. We cleared a good distance of leaves but had to leave them in piles beside the trenches in the hope the wind wouldn't blow them back in (lack of bags to put them into).
Upon reaching a distance worthy of satisfaction, we started making our way back to the main building to discover a delivery. Full of fruit and veg we made our way through the food, sorting, throwing and walking into each others paths (a lot of food in a relatively small space). By the time we had finished sorting, it was time for us to end our working day.
The bears had been enjoying the sun, jumping into the pools to cool down, sleeping, and sitting in the shade. This didn't however stop them coming to us to say hi.
Arrival was met with an immense lack of energy to find my way through the sanctuary to the building but with determination I made it there, as did everyone else. When putting away my food in the fridge, you can often see two bears outside the window, this time they were doing what I wanted to be doing.
We were fairly quickly put to use raking leaves out of the trenches, though this time the leaves were dry we could work quicker, is what I thought. The lack of moisture was a benefit but one replaced by that of an incredible amount of rocks covering the area we wanted to clear of just leaves.
By lunch time we had made it quite far but with intense heat and a level of manual labour not experienced before, we stopped to start collecting the piles of leaves we had mounded on the side of the bank. We only had three small plastic bags to collect the masses and so filled them up and made our way to have lunch.
Afterwards, we headed back out to continue our work only this time there were four of us (in the morning two were making the bear ice cream). With an addition of two workers and a brush added to our arsenal, we set off at a faster pace. In the hot sun, it was hard work, but good work. We cleared a good distance of leaves but had to leave them in piles beside the trenches in the hope the wind wouldn't blow them back in (lack of bags to put them into).
Upon reaching a distance worthy of satisfaction, we started making our way back to the main building to discover a delivery. Full of fruit and veg we made our way through the food, sorting, throwing and walking into each others paths (a lot of food in a relatively small space). By the time we had finished sorting, it was time for us to end our working day.
The bears had been enjoying the sun, jumping into the pools to cool down, sleeping, and sitting in the shade. This didn't however stop them coming to us to say hi.
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| Just getting out the pool |
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