The
twigs wait with bated breath for this day to come each year. Yes, one would
think I'm referring to Christmas but it's actually the Annual Stake Temple
Square Clean-up Day. They even convinced us to give up our Moab vacation in
October to be home for this event. We're pushovers for the twigs so we
acquiesced and then had the great luck of being able to attend the Clean-up as
well.
There was a huge gathering of people from all along the Wasatch Front to clean up beds and pull the summer/fall flowers, then get the beds ready for winter planting. What an operation!
This planter had been completely full of geraniums, parsley, dahlia's, etc. just an hour earlier.
We put the plants in garbage bags, then turned over and raked the soil. These handy dandy little trucks would carry our garbage to large dumpsters outside of Temple Square.
Our girlie had a good story about a little truck like this. She had been standing by a planter, opening a garbage bag, when she heard one of the people in charge ask for a volunteer. No one responded so they asked a second time. She's a little shy but was brave enough to speak up and say she'd help. Turned out they needed someone to ride along in the little truck, carrying the bags to the dumpsters. It was the job all the rest of us wanted. Kudos girlie, for speaking up! :)
There was plenty of fun shenaniganizing going on too, like trying to put things in Hunter's hood.
Friends helped me catch a snapshot or two.
After
all the clean-up the kids got to have a pizza party. Good times! :)
