Are Top Ten Lists Still Cool?

Our last project was helping an elderly lady (Sophia) with yard work and a little cleaning. 

Top Ten Things I learned with Volunteer Chore Services...

1. Volunteering is just as much about connecting with people as it is about producing something tangible.  For Sophia, having people around to talk to was just as significant a contribution as all of the cleaning and yard work we did.

2. If Eric ever wants a career change, he could become a landscape architect; he did an amazing job rejuvenating Sophia's herb garden.  Or he could try electrician.

3. Courtesy of Sophia: a certain sulphur spray that you can only find in a certain Mountlake Terrace nursery is the only all natural way to keep your grape leaves healthy, but the stuff smells awful.

4. Volunteering is way more fun than sleeping in until noon...plus you feel better about yourself because you've already had such a productive day and its only 2 pm on a Saturday.

5. Akshat and I are an unstoppable force feared by ivy all over the Beacon Hill region.  We removed three large trash bags full of the stuff, and got to the 'root of all ivy,' which was the size of a small tree trunk.  Well, at least 3" in diameter.

6. Kris and Rob are pruning machines.  Kathleen already covered that one but their speed and artistic skill with the clippers was impressive.

7. Removing a blackberry root ball is equivalent in difficulty to summiting Everest. 

8. Don't start a top ten list if you only have seven things and can only get to eight by saying how you don't have enough points to fill up your list.

Prabhu Adie
New to Seattle Team