Monday, September 26, 2016 – Recycling Planters, Watering, Yard Work

This morning in our 7:00AM prayer meeting at FM (Facilities Maintenance) the managers honored Elder and Sis. Stevens who are going home this week. They’ve served their 18 months on their mission and both of them have worked in FM the whole time. We are good friends with the Steven’s; they are in our “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo” cast with Sis. Johnson and I.

A busy day of work today. It’s time to remove and recycle all of the terracotta planters in Nauvoo. We started on the main street named Mulholland in downtown Nauvoo where the FM placed about 30 very large terracotta planters along the sidewalk in the business district last May. Today we loaded all of the planters in my big trailer and hauled them to the compost pile for recycling at the FM compound.

Next we went to the visitor’s center and removed and hauled away another 30 planters. All of the terracotta planters in downtown Nauvoo and at the visitor’s center were very large and some were extremely heavy planters. Sometimes it took 3 men to lift them into the trailer. About half way through the project our managers, Scott and Richard brought two tractors with front loaders to make the job a lot easier on all of us. 

 

While I was helping with the planter removal project Sis. Johnson was watering the rest of the planters that weren’t being recycled today. She also watered most of the flower beds in historic Nauvoo. She was using the big water tanker truck to do the watering. The project took her all morning.

My next assignment was to water the FM’s greenhouses. Later I helped Richard blow all of the fall leaves away from the historic sites on South Main Street in historic Nauvoo. It is “Fall” and the leaves are definitely falling. However it is only the start. Really there aren’t that many leaves to blow away but they are unsightly none the less. When we start having overnight frost, then we’ll really be in the leaf cleanup season.

Back at our new house I spent about three hours working on weeds, trimming, pruning, raking and hauling. My dump truck is almost full of all the clippings. But the grounds around our new house (It’s called the Haas House because the last family to own the house was the Haas family) look a lot better now. Sis. Johnson has big plans for the flower beds.