2010 Storage

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Work moved on in the warehouse sorting books by subject and shelving them where they belong. In preparation to being boxed and put on a pallet and moved out to the big warehouse.

This shows you part of the job ahead now that the books are boxed and ready to be moved out to the big warehouse. Yes, as you will see because of lack of room I have to pile things into the rafters of our units.

Here goes the first cart load out to the pickup.

First load of the day all wrapped up and ready to go to Curl's big warehouse.

The only help I had, this young man did the part I like the best, unloading the poor old pickup.

Dragging the pallet to the back of the pickup.

Up goes approximately 1500 pounds of periodicals .

The pickup is probably breathing a big sigh of relief getting that load off.

This is load two for the day. This was a piece of cake to load as all the boxes were the same size. What I wouldn't give to have boxes that were all the same size all the time.

About now I am wondering if I have even made a dent in what has to go out this summer?

Load three for today. This will give you a bit of an idea what a problem different sized boxes make in building a pallet load.

This is it for today well, wrapped and ready to go to Curl's to be unloaded. I must be crazy to move three loads out in one day. Every box gets lifted 4-6 times by the time I pull them off the piles, load the hand cart and sit them on the tail of the truck, climb up and try to stack everything tight. Sometimes that will take several tries to make it all fit right so the stack doesn't fall apart. Then comes the fun of wrapping the load in place in the pick up, not easy. Well that made room for the load of books coming in as a donation.

July 23, 2010 Thank you Mr. UPS man for helping to load these big boxes in for me. I ask folks to use smaller boxes and keep the weight down to 35 pounds. I sure didn't get that with this load all were over 50 pounds.

This is what he unloaded before I even knew he was at the house. The rest of the load went straight into the pick up as shown in the first photo. These would not have fit any way as another layer would not have been safe. Because they could fall off the truck when going around a corner. So I came back for a second load.

As you can see big boxes that are this heavy take a beating in shipping and cost more to ship than those that are under 50 pounds. UPS surcharges for these big ones, I don't blame them as none of us wants to try and horse them around.

Yes I backed the pickup as close to the front door as I could before loading the rest of these up. These were 55-75 pounds each.

Here is the first load piled in the unit that I had emptied out in anticipation of these coming. The four really large boxes behind them are archival supplies, nice and light and easy to move.

This is what happens to over weight large boxes of books in shipping. I don't know if we lost any books on this box full or not.

At last all are piled in our unit and will sit this way until I have time to open each box and catalog the books.

More books have been packed out on the pick up and on August 3, 2010 another large donation of books and vertical file materials came in. Now this is the size box that I love to deal with as they seldom go over 40 lbs.

About now is when the old pick up decided to break down, luckily I was empty and had been at storage working. Of course I had no camera to take its picture up on the flat bed wrecker which we both got a ride home on.

Next came the problem of figuring out how to move more pallets of books out. Jeff out at storage came to my rescue with a pallet jack and the folks at Curls had gotten some smaller trucks with drop tails at some time recently. So we were back in business. We had a way to get the stuff moved while our mechanic healed up and could work on the truck after his shoulder surgery. Turned out the truck breaking down was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Now this is the way to do this job, set up the empty box.

It is sure a lot easier lifting books in a few at a time.

Will these all go into this box?

Another box filled up and being taped closed so the next layer can be added on top of it.

Grandma needed a break and to take the three grand children while the folks went to the coast to celebrate their anniversary. So we planned a camping trip at Stub Stewart State Park with our church group. Left to right is Chris a friend from church, Emma (4), Victor (7) and Andrew (2) on their first ever camp out. This day we took a short hike while waiting for the rest of the families to come.

Kyle and Chris (out of sight) were helping us put up our tent. Victor is in the back getting the tent stakes and hammer for the next step. Grandma couldn't have done this with out everyones help.

Andrew wanting to know is it time to get up yet grandma?

Emma getting her "Puppy" fix with a friends dog "Lucky".

I provided crafts for all the kids and every one as you can see all were having a good time learning new things.

Aug 20, 2010 8:16 pm: One of the most spectacular sun sets I have ever seen. This was taken from our camp site.

Aug. 31, 2010 A day at the fair with my cousin and checking out the Pendleton both for Ruth. The TV monitor lower right is showing a photo of Thomas L. Kay. He was the founder of Thomas Kay Woolen Mills in Salem. The precursor of Pendelton Woolen Mills in Pendelton.

Ruth and I met with Mark J. Kralj about finding a grant writer. We also talked about other funding possibilities at the offices of Ferguson Wellman Capital Management.

The box & mixed storage unit is full up with pallets staged to go out later.

Unit A1-84 More pallets staged to move out as soon as I get the rest of the eight loaded. that is all the pallets that will fit on the small drop tail truck.

Well this unit was full up with books and looks much better. Now I will have room to sort out many more boxes of books.

Ruth treated me to a trip to Pendleton for the 100th Pendleton round up. Let 'er BUCK! My first ever Pendleton Round up. What fun we had.

The clown and I clowning around with our cameras.

The box where all of us were. Ruth C. Bishop is on the left, Janice M. Healy in the middle and Kay Bishop on the right under the sign. We sure were having a good time.

The truck with the worlds largest Pendleton blanket getting set up for the Indians blanket dance.

A group of dancers including some of the Pendleton woolen mills gang.

As you can see nearly everyone was down on the field doing the blanket dance including me helping to make history. This was a lot of fun and a wonderful break from packing pallets.

22 Sept 2010 Ok it is time to load up. The fellows with the truck just drove in, I managed to stage all the pallets but a couple by the time they got here at 7:30 am. They couldn't believe I had moved all of them out ready for them by myself. I just laughed and said it is just part of my job.

Now here is the "Right way" to do this job. Even if it does take two men to do it.

Up it goes, soon to be loaded into the truck.

Wow! I can't believe how fast these guys were getting things loaded up.

This one decided to give them a little trouble, I think I loaded it a bit to heavy. Clay paper gets heavy really fast.

Ok here goes in the last one. Tally this year is 10 on the pick up and 8 in Curl's truck. So you can see I didn't do anything this summer.

All eight pallets are loaded and parked in the "can". He is getting ready to put the load strap on so nothing can move including the two hand trucks.

All set to head to the big warehouse. Time for a break.

23 Oct 2010 Ruth and I at the fall GFO Conference. Here is how to take notes the fast way with a digital camera with the flash turned off.

Paula Stuart-Warren was the guest speaker. We learned a lot from her.

18 Nov 2010 Ruth and I had lunch with Pendleton's Archivist and conservationist Richard Hobbs, getting more ideas about funding and grant writers.

5 Dec 2010 Leland Meitzler giving us our first day's lecture of the Christmas tour that he hosts.

Ruth sneaked up and got this of me working on scanning a page in a land atlas for Wisconsin. This page shows where some of my family had lived and where their land was located.

9 Dec 2010 Making a note about Kentucky county boundary changes during Arlene's talk about boundary changes and how important it is to know about them.

10 Dec 2010 Donna Potter Phillips AKA Mother hen having some fun with Bill Balter. Every morning we had a great breakfast and exchanged small gifts. Yes, that is really a Victorias Secrete bag. You will never guess but it held post it notes. Bill and Donna are two of our hostess with the moistest, they are so much fun.

12 Dec 2010 This year the mountains had a lot of snow on them, so they made the first part of the flight home spectacular.

The end of another very busy year with the library.