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!}! 

Sunday Morning Best

2/3/13

Quick posts today-- just wanted to show how dedicated Jason is to Cans4Christ!!! When he sees us working outside by the trailer, he always is willing to jump in and help-- even in his Sunday Best!!! **I need to think of a Canning nickname for Jason-- email us if you have an idea;) 

JWP Letter

1/31/13

JWP sent us another letter the other day! **Click HERE for info on JWP and his prayers for Cans4Christ! 

Here's what JWP says about C4C this time: 

It reads: You guys are doing an amazing job with the "Cans 4 Christ" with all the cans you collect for the church building campaign. It's so cool you and your friends- "Canning Crew". I really appreciate what you're doing besides you guys would have achieve your dream from "Cans 4 Christ". 

Translation is a bit off-- but it still touches my heart! I love that he prays for C4C and our church!!! 

Friday Morning Help

2/1/13

This morning it was SUPER DUPER cold out (I believe it was in the 50s!!!)!! I'm so lucky that I had some help gathering cans today! Trav was available to come along and that means that Olsen joined in the fun too!

I was trying to get a picture of Olsen and Trav-- but my photography skills are not the best! LOL!

This is a bit beter--You can kind of see Olsen in the back, as well as my pink jacket. 

Even though it was cold out, Olsen still hangs his head out the window!

Trav got out and collected the cans by himself from almost all the stops today! What a sweetie! 

You can see Trav in the mirror-- he's putting on his gloves to collect this bin of cans.

Same as the Other Day but with Wind

1/30/13

I say today's bike ride was the "same as the other day" {referencing THIS post}... but let me start at the beginning....

Trav and I were able to get in a quick bike and canning ride before he went to work. I'm a bit leery and can't trust our bike trackers {see post mentioned above}... so I made sure that Trav and I started out at zero together! Here's Trav resetting his tracker:) 

We set off and instantly had trouble biking because of the wind! We don't mind biking into the wind-- but here in FL the wind tends to shift directions quickly, which means we are 99% of the time riding into the wind. LOL! 

Going a bit slower, we started picking up cans and having fun. I didn't bring my iPhone this time because it was charging, so Trav was taking pics while riding:) He yelled at me from across the road saying, "Smile!" and as I looked towards him he snapped this pic. I asked him why he was taking a picture of me, and his response was because "he is always on the blog":) 

Towards the end of our bike ride, the speed of the wind picked up. So for this last can, Trav had to literally hang on to his bike while using the grabber to get the can! LOL! 

On our way home I couldn't keep up with Trav-- the wind was too much for me! I ended up only going 6 miles per hour into the wind.

So why is this bike ride the "same as the other day"??? Well.... although we started out at the same time, and we rode the same distance never doing a u-turn/etc..... Trav still went farther than me! 

This is the first time we've shared a final bike/canning pic that is our shadow! We are trying to get creative:)

Miles: apparently I only went 2.95, and Trav went 3.01 miles :)

Bags: 1 bag

Canning Crew UNITE

1/28/13

I don't know if you remember that cartoon back from the 80/90s called "Captain Planet"? HERE's a link to the theme song and HERE for the cartoon intro (which is what I'm referencing for the title of this post-- esp. the part where the "planteers" hold up their rings to unite). 

I think the Cans4Christ Canning Crew held up our imaginary rings to unite tonight for our canning route;) The Canning President, Kates, and Canning Princess, Tami, both joined in the fun!

I have to say that Kates and I normally laugh during our route, but tonight there were extra giggles. For example, Tami would yell out "CAN!" and I would stop the truck so she could get out and get it. After awhile, Kates jumped in and then they both told me I had get out and get a can! I tried to explain that the whole idea of driving on Monday was that I didn't have to get out:) LOL!

 They saw several cans in the woods.... 

and Kates decided to go get them! 

We had a great pick-up tonight! I looooooooooove canning with my friends:}