Deacon Service Project: 1/27/07
On Saturday Morning we met at a widow’s house on Whitten & Driftwood (the house that always used to have the garage sales) to pick oranges. She has two big orange trees in her backyard and needed help picking them clean. Of course, we started with donuts and milk and then got to work. Her neighbors were there to help and we got it all done in less than an hour and a half. You can see from the pictures how many oranges we actually picked. We started out on the ground with citrus pickers but it wasn’t long before all the scouts were climbing up the trees. After a while the rest of us played catcher as oranges would randomly fly out from the tops of trees to our waiting hands. The only injury of the day was when Bro. Layton looked away at the wrong moment just as an orange came sailing down from above. He still has the bump to prove it! The boys were also fascinated by the hummingbird that visited us. We had a lot of fun and the neighbors were very appreciative of our help. All of the boys got one and a half service hours towards their next rank. Plus, we got to take home all the oranges we could carry!
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