Send a Boy Scout to Camp

A few weeks ago we saw a flyer at the local gas station with the headline “Send a Boy Scout to Camp”.  Upon closer inspection, we discovered the local boy scouts were raising money to go to summer camp for a week.  They were looking for some odd jobs around the neighborhood to raise the funds.

Scott happens to work with Andy, the dad of two of these boys.  After we came up with a small list of things the boys could do in our yard, Scott talked with Andy about having Michael and Devon come over for a couple of hours.  They were available over Memorial Day weekend, when we happened to be gone.

Now, you have to take into consideration that these boys are 8 and 10.  They really can’t run a chainsaw, weed eater, rototiller, etc.  Most of our work required one form of this or another.  We had two trees that Scotty and Scott  had recently cut down.  They boy’s job was to take the cut up wood and stack it in the wood pile, on the other side of the yard.  They were then supposed to take all the little branches and put them in the burn pile so they could dry out to burn later.

The wood was cut up in pretty big pieces, so Andy had to chop it down to smaller pieces.  Our wheelbarrow is really big, so Andy had to push it over to the wood pile.  The woodpile is getting pretty high, so Andy had to stack the wood because the boys couldn’t reach.

It does appear that the boys were able to drag the little branches to the burn pile though.  It also appears that they had time to practice some of their boy scout skills, based on the outcome:



One thing is for sure, these boys will definitely pass “building a shelter” at camp. 



Scott was pretty excited.  It’s the best $20 worth of yard work he has ever paid for.  As for Andy, I think he deserved a few Advil and a six-pack of beer by the time he was done.