If you were following my Facebook today you know it was a crazy morning. I had planned to shovel sand today. We are taking 2 of those molded plastic kiddie pools to the Rez along with a lot of sand left over from a project here at our house and making sand boxes for the little ones. So after 3 cups of coffee (it was a short night) I got to work putting the sand into bags and when the strong bags were filled I filled garbage bags inside 5 gal. buckets. I'm still not sure how to load them onto the truck since the buckets do not have lids. Someone suggested duct taping them but we can't stack them that way ... so I'm not sure but I am sure we'll figure something out.
I got almost all of them finished when I got a call from Walmart ...
I've been buying school supplies from Walmart for Backpacks For Pine Ridge for 8 years now. I have asked many, many times if they would let me order the supplies since I buy so many but until yesterday, never found anyone there willing to help me out.
Yesterday I was there and happened upon a lady putting tissue on an endcap near the school supplies ... so I figured, "why not ... doesn't hurt to ask again", and what do ya know ... she not only was willing to help me but she went the 3rd and 4th mile to do so. She got on her computer and found out that they had 6000 folders in the back (they usually tell me there aren't any back there) and that a truck was coming in later with notebooks on it. She wrote down what I needed and then stayed after her shift - on her own time - and pulled 2400 folders and put them on a skid with a note for no one to touch them. Then today was supposed to be her day off ... but she went in and pulled 2400 notebooks for me and then gave me a call to make sure I got them. Amazing! Its hot here today. The heat index is up over 100 degrees and she was supposed to go swimming today but instead went in to take care of our school supplies. Wow .... Yeah, her boss is going to get a letter from me telling him to do whatever he has to do to keep her.
Since plans changed so fast I posted a request for help picking up the 4800 notebooks and folders, but then had to run out really fast because some folks at Walmart were giving my friend there a hard time about holding them till tomorrow. So off I ran...
And after Brian and I loaded one load into his car and my Jeep, Dewayne Hitsman showed up with his SUV to help load the rest. THANK YOU Dewayne!!
1st load
