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Break Time!

This weekend Ian was heading down to Colorado Springs for a paintball game, so I decided to go home and visit my family. We both worked really hard so we would not have any homework to do all weekend. As a result, this weekend became an amazing time of rest and fun. I was able to get a ton done, as well as rebuild my mom's computer. It's been a really long time since I was able to sit down and just work on a computer, so that was awesome! Bethany and I had a chance to hang out and just laugh together for a while, which really helped. Now next weekend I get so see the Ebersole family! The CSM homecoming game is against CSU-Pueblo (where Ian's dad teaches) so this should be really fun. I like taking a break, this is pretty nice!

Happy Birthday Momma!

It's my angel Momma's birthday today! She came up and spent the weekend with us, which was an awesome time. At the end we did a walk for children with Down Syndrome. I love my Momma!

Coming Back!

You didn't think I was gone, did you? I'm back! Just needed a short break from the blog to let everything settle down. I received too many complaints about not having a blog my final year of college to not continue. So I'm back! It will be sporadic and will have more pictures than words, but I'm still here!

The Line Up

Last week Aaron realized I did not know the names of every machine on site and decided it was his responsibility to teach me. Therefore, at the end of the day when most of the crews had headed home, Aaron took me outside and taught me about all the machines. Not just the names, but we also looked in the engines and purposes and different ways they could be used. If I can remember all of it has yet to be seen, but it was all still pretty sweet!

The Show Stopper!

Recently half of our flow (the south side) went from 400 gpm to 60 gpm. We were in a bit of panic, trying to figure out what was wrong with our dewatering pumps. We even rewired the entire south side pumps at which point in time I learned a ton about circuits and breaker boxes. After two weeks we made a couple crucial discoveries. The first was that one pump was burnt out but the rest were fine. The other was that a small rock had gotten stuck in the mazy, a part of the system that sucks in air. As soon as the rock was taken out, the flow rate shot back up! The rock is shown on top of a mazy. On one side we wrote "The Show Stopper" and the other side says "The Party Stopper" in spanish. The rock is stained orange from the oxidized iron in the water.