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I volunteered today to help build a float for this weekend's Citrus Bowl Parade.
Just as the Rose Bowl Parade floats are covered with flowers, the Citrus Bowl Parade's floats are covered with citrus fruit...oranges, tangerines and grapefruit.
The process for doing this is to loop thick orange rubber bands around chicken wire that's attached to the (often rusty) I-bar that comprises a lot of the float and then put a fruit in the rubber band. Keep this up until most of the surface looks like a rolling mound of fruit. All I can say is that after four hours of this, my knees hurt, my back hurts, my fingers look like they've been chewed by wolverines and I'm sure glad I had a tetanus shot this year. I declined the opportunity to be one of the workers who got to lean off a lift, attaching citrus to the top of the floats. This old gal keeps her feet on the ground, thank you.
There are only four days to get the six floats finished, but lots of volunteers show up for the 4-hour shifts. It's surprising the number of out-of-town visitors who hear about this and forgo a day at the parks to participate.
It was really fun, though. People of all ages from children to seniors working away like mad. My crew consisted of me and a few middle school girls, delightful kids who really put their best into it.
Come Saturday, I'll be downtown cheering my float as it goes by.
Just as the Rose Bowl Parade floats are covered with flowers, the Citrus Bowl Parade's floats are covered with citrus fruit...oranges, tangerines and grapefruit.
The process for doing this is to loop thick orange rubber bands around chicken wire that's attached to the (often rusty) I-bar that comprises a lot of the float and then put a fruit in the rubber band. Keep this up until most of the surface looks like a rolling mound of fruit. All I can say is that after four hours of this, my knees hurt, my back hurts, my fingers look like they've been chewed by wolverines and I'm sure glad I had a tetanus shot this year. I declined the opportunity to be one of the workers who got to lean off a lift, attaching citrus to the top of the floats. This old gal keeps her feet on the ground, thank you.
There are only four days to get the six floats finished, but lots of volunteers show up for the 4-hour shifts. It's surprising the number of out-of-town visitors who hear about this and forgo a day at the parks to participate.
It was really fun, though. People of all ages from children to seniors working away like mad. My crew consisted of me and a few middle school girls, delightful kids who really put their best into it.
Come Saturday, I'll be downtown cheering my float as it goes by.
