Today I got up a little earlier than is usual on a Saturday in order to bring donuts and coffee to the people who I would soon be working with. There were, perhaps, ten people there--including the pastor--when we began the morning with a prayer. Then it was onward to stacking boxes!
Lots and lots of boxes. Apparently the basement of St. Johns is used as a storage facility for old paper legal documents. There were perhaps three hundred boxes, the size of a box of printer paper, filled with files and redwells.
The sad thing is that a significant number of them were water damaged. Especially the ones on the bottom. Apparently it has been a pretty wet season here in Wisconsin, with a lot more rain than usual.
We lifted the boxes from a too-narrow bunch of pallets to thicker pallets that would properly support rows of two, five boxes high. We also had to make sure that the ID stickers faced outwards.
There were a lot of files! Thousands, probably tens of thousands! All the boxes apparently belonged to the same file storage company.
I don't know what the arrangement with the whole storage thing works, but it's strange to find old legal files in storage in the basement of a proper church.
After that, I single-handedly vacuumed the sanctuary with a backpack-style vacuum. It was the first time I had ever used one!
Then we wrapped the day up with a lunch of hot dogs and mac and cheese.
A good day!
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