Still in Kansas

Coffeyville had a major flood in July 2007 which devastated much of the town especially the east side where our campground is located.The Walter Johnson Park, where we are parked is about 1/8 mile from the Verdigis river so we are hoping it doesn't rain much! The area is struggling to rebuild. I would guess that the number of us Workampers living here for a few months will help the local economy.

We have now completed our first week of 10 hour days, or should I say survived our first week of 10 hour days! I mentioned in an earlier post that this would be an adventure. Well....hiking to the bottom of the Grand Canyon was an adventure, kayaking down the white water of the Guadalupe River was an adventure, but this is WORK!!! It is just really physical and we are sore and tired by shift's end but we rest up on our days off and are ready to go by the time we return to work. The work is fast paced and the time goes fast as well. Yesterday after lunch we were told there were 3,000 pieces that had to be out by 4:30 and there were only 4-5 of us working on the line! So they moved more people over from another line and we got the order out with time left over.

Much of the plant is now working mandatory overtime which is 5 10 hour days a week but our department of Shipping hasn't started that yet. Workampers have the option of working the overtime and many of them are jumping at the chance. We will have to see how we feel about it when the time comes.

The weather here now is much like it is in our home town in Indiana except we do get the north winds that chill to the bone. But the sun shines and that is a plus. With us in a warehouse 10 hours a day, it doesn't really matter much. We get hot in there, in fact, many folks are still wearing shorts. But we only have 5 more weeks and then we will be in sunny Arizona. Woo Hoo!