Recycling Center with Answers post2

2/9/13 continued

Well.... we have the answers to yesterday's post for you today!!! Here are the questions: 

1. Did we make it back to the recycling center before the went on their lunch break?
2. How much did we collected from the six bags left at the C4C trailer?
3. Did Trav/Sav start a new tradition for Recycling days?

After our first trip to the recycling center, we booked it back to the church to load up again! We only had 50 minutes to drive back, load up, and unload again. As soon as Trav pulled into the church parking lot, I set the timer to see how long it took us to load.

 

Total load time.... 1 minute! LOL! We were on FIRE {well, Trav was since I was just taking pics- LOL}!!! We jumped back into the truck and headed back to the recycling center, which is about 15 minutes away.

That being said- let's do some Math: we drove 15 minutes back to the church....loaded and jumped back into the truck for 1 minute....then drove 15 minutes back down to the recycling center. Q1: Did we make it back to the recycling center before the went on their lunch break? YES!!!!

That brings us to Q2: How much did we collected from the six bags left at the C4C trailer? 

Total pounds of aluminum cans recycled for trip #2: 66 

Total pounds recycled for C4C as of 2/9/13: 3,265 pounds!!!!! 

Usually, this is the end of the post-- but we have one more question to answer! Q3: Did Trav/Sav start a new tradition for Recycling days? YES!

Our last visit to the Recycling Center {HERE} ended with a lunch and milkshakes at the local Chick-fil-A.  Trav and I stopped there again for lunch. While we were eating, someone went around the restaurant asking people to donate blood.... I haven't done that in a long time....so I went in the Big Red Bus. 

Congrats everyone!! Cans4Christ is doing awesome!!! Keep collecting your cans and random metals:)

Recycling Center with Questions post1

2/9/13

It's time again! We really need to take the cans in to the recycling center! Here's a picture of what the back of the truck looks like...

 

and here's a pic of what the trailer looked like the other day...

Put that together and that means we are headed to the recycling center ASAP! 

We were so busy trying to unload and rebag the trailer that we forgot to take pics of what the trailer looked like this morning! However, I did take a break to snap a picture of our ECC member, Jay. He dropped off some cans while we were there! AWESOME!

Thanks, Jay!! Keep 'em coming!

While unloading the trailer, we found a bag with a Christmas sticker on it. We are thinking this is from our Canning President's mom, Pat!!! LOVE it!

We finished up at the trailer leaving behind 6 super large black bags. They just wouldn't fit--even with the new web! Look at how full the truck bed is! 

We headed to the center with our first load and it was actually kind of quite there-- that's because it was like an hour before lunch! We were lucky to have two guys helping us unload the truck.

Total pounds of aluminum cans recycled today: 141

Total pounds recycled for C4C as of 2/9/13: 3,199 pounds!!!!! 

Again Trav helped unload this massive mound of bags while I waited to check out. I think I got some better pics of him throwing the bags this time:) 

Come back tomorrow to find out if...

1. We made it back to the recycling center before the went on their lunch break
2. How much we collected from the six bags left at the C4C trailer
3. Trav/Sav start a new tradition for Recycling days!

Extended Canning Crew

2/9/13

Welcome to ANOTHER edition of the "Extended Canning Crew"!!! Read THIS post for more details. **NOTE:: We would love to see YOU as part of our ECC!!

We are so thankful for friends and family that save cans for us. It's even better when neighbors start to ask about it (well... sometimes they ask why we have a pile of bags in our driveway... but that leads to us talking about C4C!). After one of these conversations, our neighbors Peg and Bill save cans for us each week! Today we walked out to find two bags near our truck tire. 

 THANKS so much, Peg and Bill!!!

If you would like to be a part of the "Extended Canning Crew", take some pictures of your family or yourself collecting cans, crushing cans, or dropping off cans at the C4C trailer and send them to {Cans4Christ at gmail dot com}. 

**Please include: names of all people in the picture, explain what you were doing and how much fun it was, as well as your email address.

Forced ECC

2/8/13

I was overwhelmed when I pulled into the church parking lot today-- the Cans4Christ trailer was overflowing with about six big bags sitting next to it. I knew that Trav and I would be headed down to the recycling center tomorrow so I just went inside and continued with my scheduled meeting. 

But as soon as I walked inside the office, several people informed me that cans and bags somehow made it across the yard and near the back road. We thought maybe someone moved them... or there was a can bandit in the neighborhood... but then I remembered that there was a storm the night before with lots of wind! I didn't even see these bags when I pulled in-- I was in shock from the overflow that I missed the extra bags in the yard! LOL!

After being told three or four times about the cans and bags, I decided to start asking people to help me collect them back up. Everyone was "busy"....except for Belinda M.! 

Belinda is a HOOOOOT! She drove us over to the side yard because it was too far to walk-- and it was kind of hot out:) 

You can see that the wind was STILL blowing pretty hard while we were picking up the bags. 

Here's what the trailer looked like after we finished picking everything up.

Look at all of those cans!!! You might not be able to see all of the big black bags-- but there are about six large bags full of cans next/in front of the C4C trailer! LOVE it!

And here's a picture of Belinda afterwards! I labeled this post "Forced ECC" because I kind of forced Belinda into helping me--- but I bet you anything that she is now hooked on "canning"! LOL:)

THANKS, Belinda!!! Welcome to the Extended Canning Crew!!! Let's do it again soon:)

2nd Time-- 2x the FUN

2/4/13

We have mentioned our friend Courtney several times on the C4C blog... but this is her 2nd time joining us for the Monday Night route! 

I tried to take some fun pics...but of course my photography skills proved to be less than the best:) 

Oops-- a bit blurry! 

Much better:) 

Kates joined me as well! As always... and without fail... Kates spotted several cans in "our spot". **NOTE: I think I'm going to make this spot a regular pick-up! LOL! 

Good eye, Kates! Esp. since I was driving a bit fast down this road:)

This trip was extra fun (or 2x the fun) because we spotted a NEW pick-up location! It's always great adding to the route list!!! More cans = MORE money for our church building fund!! 

Kates was so sweet--she left a note and a C4C flyer in his mailbox:)

We finished up the night with a posed picture-- it looks like these gals had a great time tonight!!! Fun is always on the agenda for C4C:) I looooooove canning with my friends!! 

Extended Canning Crew

2/3/13

Welcome to ANOTHER edition of the "Extended Canning Crew"!!! Read THIS post for more details. **NOTE:: We would love to see YOU as part of our ECC!!

This week we actually took a picture of our friend Jeff R. We caught Jeff with a can during our Super Bowl party, which wasn't really a Super Bowl party-- we had a "food, fun, family/friends, and board game" night! We never even turned on the football game! LOL! 

 THANKS so much, Jeff!!! One can at a time:)

If you would like to be a part of the "Extended Canning Crew", take some pictures of your family or yourself collecting cans, crushing cans, or dropping off cans at the C4C trailer and send them to {Cans4Christ at gmail dot com}. 

**Please include: names of all people in the picture, explain what you were doing and how much fun it was, as well as your email address.

It's About Time...

2/3/13

...that I cleaned our canning gloves!

I'm sad that I didn't get a before pic... these gloves were GROSS! I made sure to wash them on the "sanitary cycle"!! 

I bet it doesn't take long before they get dirty again-- we are working with "cans" {LOL!}!