Many hands make light work.

My church group had a service project this morning. The flyer that I got on Sunday said the following.
"Service Project. Come beautify our community by pulling weeds around our local Post Office. Bring your shovels, rakes, gloves and any other weed removal equipment. Bring the whole family and invite your friends and neighbors. If you have a 5 gallon water jug, please bring it full of ice water."

The project was scheduled from 7 till 9 a.m. this morning. The mayor of Gilbert showed up to help too. It was a good opportunity to meet people in the community. I was a little surprised when I saw the field we were suppose to clear. The flyer said we would be pulling weeds and so I had envisioned small weeds. I was wrong. This was a field of huge sticker bushes that were taller than my head. They didn't mention that in the flyer.
I wasn't the only person in my ward who was surprised to be tackling sticker bushes. Some people showed up wearing short sleeved T-shirts and shorts. Fortunately, I wore sturdy jeans and a long sleeved jacket. After about 30 minutes, we hadn't made much progress. All those sticker bushes were actually what turn into tumble weeds. I thought they might come out of the ground more easily if someone were to just push on them from the side kind of like how the wind blows a tumble weed out of the ground. So that's what I did. I took my shovel handle and started walking right trough the middle of the field. In no time the field of tumble weeds was all cleared and everybody got to go home 20 minutes early.