#37 I am forever in awe of my Creator.

        Tuesday was technically our first day of work. We met up with a few older men and women that lived in the community that were going to help us out that day. We started off working in a lower area by a house, pulling scotch broom and taking down a few old trees and limbs. I started off with the chainsaw, surprising a few of the old men it seemed like. The area in which we were working was so hot not only because there was no breeze (since we were at the bottom of a hill); but it was also the hottest day of the year thus far in the area. One thing that went wrong was one of the chainsaws started to act up. So I tried starting it up which it did, but the chain wouldn't move so I decided to take it up to the car and take it apart to see what might be the problem. After I worked on it, it seemed to run fairly well so I got back to work. After work we went back home, had a meeting, dinner and then went to bed.
        Wednesday we went to the same sight to finish up pulling some scotch broom and lopping a few more dead branches. After we were done with that sight we headed over down the road to pull more scotch broom. It wasn't very fun but we all knew it was very important work because the road that we were working on was the only road out of that area during a fire, that had a little over 500 houses! We ended up leaving a about 10 minutes early because a fairly large storm was coming and we didn't want to get caught in it while working.
        Thursday was a funny day because our unit leader was coming over for most of the day to have a meeting with us about the project. For the first couple hours our Unit Leader and the guy above him had a meeting with our sponsor so the rest of my team had to clean the whole house. After their meeting our sponsor left and then we had a meeting with our Unit Leader, explaining how the project is going and any concerns we might have. After they left we headed to do a couple hours of busy work and then were done for the day. Later at night silver 6 was invited to the annual fire safe pasta dinner where most of the California foresters come out and have a presentation of their accomplishments. The pasta was okay but most of the team ended up feeling pretty sick after words so we weren't sure if it was possible food poisoning  or maybe it was too rich.
          Friday we started of at a snap clients house and had to cut down all of her trees along the side of her driveway, which was very, very small. After we cut them down we had to limb them up and stack them along the fencing. One neat thing that Melissa and I saw when we cut off one limb was in the middle of the tree we cut was a perfect little heart. The older lady lived with her daughter and both of them were so sweet. When I talked to them they kept telling me how tall I was haha. After that house we went to one more house and didn't have to do much there. All we did was take out a few bushes and rake a few leaves. After that house we were treated to frozen yogurt. While we ate, our main supervisor, donna talked to us about how we are a team and the importance of having each others back. At night we all were excited because we were going to Lake Tahoe over the weekend!
       Saturday morning we left at 8:30am and got to the Lake Tahoe area around 10:30ish. Our first stop was at a lookout next to the lake. The views were absolutely beautiful so obviously we had to take a bunch of pictures. After that we left and sense our hotel rooms weren't ready yet we went to a few shops that were a ways down the road. I ended up getting a super comfy "Lake Tahoe" crewneck. Later on in the evening, the girls in my room and I ordered pizza before the team went snowshoeing. After they ate they got ready to leave while I stayed in the room and watch movies. I know it sounds boring and wasteful to stay in the room when your around Lake Tahoe but 1.I had no desire to go snowshoeing in the dark, 2. it is good to be alone sometimes and 3. I saw so many beautiful views from the lookout that we went to earlier that day.
       On Sunday we left Tahoe around 11 and had to stop on the way home because our car needed more break fluid. My team and I ended up walking around the town that just had the basic stores/restaurants (Michaels, panda, Maurices,etc...). As a team we went to Chili's for lunch because we had a good amount of extra funds. We ended up arriving back home around 4ish and started to get ready for the next week.


                                                                                                                                      ~Savannah

Lovely little tree heart.

Lake Tahoe!

found my store!

Silver 6 ladies!