Can chute

February 2, 2012
Since I always have a nagging voice in the back of my mind reminding me that we don't have an adequate food storage, I signed up to help at the Dry Pack Cannery tonight. Plus, the rule is you have to do some type of volunteer service to buy the ever classic #10 cans filled with, in my case, black beans, flour, sugar, and rice.

My job was helping to can powdered milk and hot chocolate mix, wash the scoops, and then make boxes with this really ingenious contraption that you use a foot pedal to staple the boxes together with. But my favorite part of the cannery is the can chute. It's this long metal chute that comes down from the 2nd floor to the main level. The cans come zipping down it and make this distinctive clink-clink-clink sound. Maybe it's more of a clank-clank-clank sound. When I asked one of the missionaries if I could take some pictures of it after we got done, he just laughed at me. Apparently he doesn't know about my blog! :)

All this church service in one week is wearing me out!