Day of Caring

We have been nagging Erin for over a year now to take us to work with her. We want to play video games for money too. So we were really excited when she said we could go with her last Friday. But she forgot to mention that today was the company Day of Caring. So instead of playing video games we got to pull weeds. O well, at least it was for a good cause.

We got up early and had to drive all the way across Seattle. Good thing we have good sheep eyes, so we could spot the signs. The weeds were hiding from us. But we are smarter than them.

That way!

Once there, we had a long explanation about what was a weed and what wasn't; what we should pull and what we should leave; and what to avoid as not to get itchy. Wool is itchy enough for me so I made sure to have the proper protection. It was really nice of them to have gloves for everyone. Although, like always, D.J. wasn't paying attention and didn't get a pair. And, like always, D.J. paid for it later. There were lots of thorns and itchy stuff in there.

D.J. you need to wear your gloves!

I started to pick the little cute weeds with Angela (nice girl that drove Erin, VJ, D.J., and me). Erin and D.J. went to untangle the trees and bushes from Morning Glory vines. I heard Erin be very specific about how to do it but again D.J. wasn't listening.

Wee!

It took Erin 5 minutes to untangle D.J. And as for VJ who came with us, well I don't know where he went. He seems to have other things in common with D.J. besides his name. But no matter we all got lots of work done. Put it all in a big pile. Look at how much work we did.

I'm king of the hill.

After we were done, the nice ladies that explained what weeds to pull thanked us and offered us brochures and suckers to take home. I told them we all ready had one sucker and DJ was enough of a handful. But then I realized she was talking about candy. I love candy.

Who you calling a dumb dumb?

We all decided that we did such great work we deserved to go have a drink. We were really thirsty sheep and we did get a little sun. So Angela took us to this place called Jolly Rogers. The refreshments were great and the appetizers were yummy. I never had fried pickle before. I was a little unsure about them but Angela was right. They were good.

Ahhh...refreshing

All in all it was a good day. We had a good time and we did a good thing. But we aren't letting Erin off the hook for never taking us into work.