my fifteen seconds

A few weeks ago I wrote about helping out at the Fountain Community Garden.  Well, even though at the end of the day they felt they were ahead of schedule, turns out they still needed a second work day, so of course we went again.  This time we started out in the kids area, weeding and arranging rocks.  But as more people arrived to the site the more we realized that wasn’t where our help was really needed so we switched tasks.

Next to us a fellow couchsurfer was filling up sandbags and stacking them up in a circle so we aided in that for a bit until it was done.  And then came the assignment.  My boyfriend had walked off and I am not exactly sure how it happened, but one of the supervisors gave him the job of continuing to dig the path where they would later lay gravel.  It only needed to be about three inches deep which sounded simple enough, but it wasn’t.  Still, the two of us kept at it, him with a pick axe and shovel, me with a shovel, and eventually two more helpers with shovels.  Time was running out but we were determined and somehow finished all the digging that needed to be done.  My boyfriend paid the price of his hardwork for days afterward, his muscles sore from wielding the pick axe for hours straight.

I can’t embed the video, but my shoveling skills made the news!  Click here to to watch the ABC news segment on the garden and try to find me!  I am so glad my fifteen seconds of fame came from doing a good deed and not a cameo on COPS are something similar.