A Good Worker

This summer has provided plenty of opportunity for service for our kids. Himbeere has been real good about going and helping for pretty much all of it. The Stake had a service project for the quarterly activity earlier in the summer. Out west of the stake house a ways is a garden park where the stake youth put in a good Saturday's work pulling weeds, moving bark and generally doing spring clean up.

That one had some perks that Himbeere didn't object to at all. He has a way of working his way into the cushy-jobs but he still gets the work done.

A few weeks later there was an eagle service project for one of the other boys in the troop. They removed an old boat house that had fallen down and was a real eye-sore. That day it was all rainy and a little cool but he still was there, working along until the work was done.

A little later there was another eagle service project. This time they were splitting logs and building a rail fence. Himbeere got some experience running a post-hole digger. Heavy machinery? Maybe not, but they got the job done.

The batteries on my camera died before it was all done so we didn't get any pictures of the finished product but it was a pretty nice looking fence.

Just last Wednesday the Elders and Young Men went out to the house of one of the members to move firewood for the family. They heat with wood and had been cutting it all out front so it needed to be moved back around behind the house, closer so it wouldn't be such a trek to bring in wood all winter. That one got done after dark. They had a generator and lights and all but we didn't end up getting any pictures.

Then this morning the troop had arranged to help out a retired guy who had some trees across the street from the church that had become diseased so some of them needed to be taken out. All the cutting had pretty much been done before today. The work today was just loading it all up and hauling it off.

He confided in me that he enjoys this kind of physical work. That's a good thing because life is full of it. Himbeere can be a good worker.