Ingenious. It’s the best word I can think of to describe the current summer camp fund raising project currently going on at our church. It’s called “Flamingo-ed.” We got flamingo-ed last night while we were at our daughter’s play… so it was someone who knew what time we would be at the play. Here’s how it works: a church member hires hit men from the youth group with CASH to flamingo some other unsuspecting church member’s yard. There is a clue note left at the scene of the crime. Ours read: “It’s gonna take a lot of loonie to get rid of this bird, aye!!!!” So, we can surmise that it is someone with a chip on their shoulder about Canadians… who was obviously educated in an American school. Aye should be spelled EH and the plural of loonie would be loonies. Brother.
With 50 flamingos spinning their wings in our front landscape, we have a choice to make. #1 Contribute to the youth group to have them removed. #2 Add a little extra moola and label someone else’s yard. #3 Buy insurance from the youth group to ensure that we don’t get flamingo-ed again. Funny thing in the desert is, the ground is so hard, the only place the flamingos can plunge into the earth without a jack hammer is near sprinkler heads or where water pools. I’m thinking we need to pick some unsuspecting fellow church member who truly has desert landscape WITHOUT sprinklers…. so the youth have to bring a sledge hammer and a spike to successfully complete the task. (That is a bit of my evil side coming out.)
Needless to say, if you have church family that have a collective good sense of humor, this is an awesome fundraiser.
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