When I work with Form-A-Feed my days won't be excessively early. I will have to be across town and start work at 8am and the drive takes about an hour. On the days that I am at Kuiper Dairy, I have to be there at 4:45am and that drive takes 20 minutes, so I'm up at 3:45! However, I have really enjoyed learning how to run the feed equipment at Kuiper Dairy. Cal, the guy teaching me, is pretty understanding when I mess up.
I learned how to run the equipment on Thursday. It was pretty basic but I was having a particularly hard time making sure that the feed came out of the wagon at the correct rate. I had at down all right on Thursday so on Friday Cal a few times. The 1st time was okay; the second time, not so much... In the second pen that I had to feed, the feed wasn't coming out fast enough so I adjusted the door. I didn't realize that the door control got stuck in the "Open" position and before I knew it, I had 600lbs (of 2000lbs total for that pen) of feed in one spot. (The feed is supposed to be distributed over 500 feet, or something like that.) I was not impressed with myself and I was ready to fix it myself with a shovel once I finished feeding out the rest of the wagon. However, Cal had one of the outside guys fix it with the payloader. They feed 2 loads in the morning and 3 loads in the afternoon so Cal took the next load to even out my patchy job. This time he told me to really only watch how he was working the door. I did that and then he told me that I was going to feed the last load of the afternoon. That load went MUCH better! Each pen got really close to the amount that they were supposed to and the door didn't get stuck open or closed, so I felt better by the time that I headed home.
Friday night was spent with my roommate Heidi and her friend Venka, who is visiting from Nebraska. We watched Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids, told stories about friends' weddings, they told stories about their weddings, and we had a really fun time.
Once I got over the different air quality that made me feel really sick on Wednesday morning, I am coming to really like Arizona. I like not having to worry about being cold when I leave for work at 4:15am. I like sitting outside on the porch writing my blog pieces and doing other various paperwork for my internship. Arizona is really brown. I am truly in the desert. However, the area where I live is really nice and so there is grass and flowers all around the neighborhood. My roommates and the people I've met so far are great! I look forward to getting to know them better.
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