i participated in the 9th annual garlic mustard challenge at Potapsco state park. Potapso park is being overrun with this tiny plant. It has a four petaled flower atop a long stalk and grows like a weed on steroids. It loves sunlight and grows in clearings. It's roots don't go that deep so it's easy to pull. Overall we picked 2057 pounds worth of this monster plant. It was a lot of fun and we split up into groups to better exterminate the invading plant. Garlic mustard is an invading species that is threatening to destroy the local environment. I was a part of the Catonsville high environmental club team thing. I do not actually attend Catonsville high but my brother's team lacked members so i volunteered. There were only two freshmen, my brother the senior, and one teacher. i didn't actually sign up for their team but rather was a phantom helper. The winners were the first to go to the prize table. The first place winners were judged by how much weight per person in the group. The UMBC team won that one. The second place was graded on how much weight overall. That one went to a troop of cub scouts. I think it is assholish for the college guys to go before the kids to the prize table. the table was adorn with stuffed animals and toys and things like that but the assholes from UMBC decided they wanted the good toys. Anyway all they kids got the stuffed animals and the UMBC students got the big kid toys like desk swimmer things. You know the things that have their head and butt sticking out so it looks like they're swimming. Every one got a basket of candy. we ended up in like 6th place behind 3 boy scout troops. this suited me just fine being the phantom helper has it's perks. i wasn't actually a loser because i actually didn't exist. I ended up getting this cool puzzle box thing that holds money. It's hard as hell to open but sooo cool. My brother got a desk pet alligator. Pretty cool.
besides the prize table it was all around a pretty good time. We had picnic games like the egg toss, a pillow case race, an egg toss, a three legged race, a bubble gum blowing contest, and limbo. It was awesome!! My brother is freakishly tall so he lost at limbo, but the little kids won so i approve. he actually lasted a lot longer than i expected. He's like 6ft 5. He's huge. he could play basketball if he didn't suck at it. I lost because i suck at limbo. We did the egg toss together and lost it due to confusion. we kept throwing it back and forth and didn't realize you only had to do it once. This one kid and his dad kept competing against the little kids. i hat that. he was like 12 years against a 6 year old. Two little kids won the eggs toss. They were really good. They were like 4 yards away. We also participated in the 3 legged race, but due to height differences couldn't get it together in time. we lost to the same kid i told you about, the asshole one. We lost the bubble blowing contest to another high school girl but she gave her prize to one of the cub scouts. That is how you don't be an asshole. It's ok to be competitive but just don't be an ASSHOLE!!!! Sorry but I'm going out of order here. This year they didn't have the egg toss before the pillow case race. It was much better. Less messy. Me and my brother lost to the asshole kid. It was cool. there was also a scavenger hunt in the woods. We didn't do it. I went out into the woods and a dog about 15 feet away started barking at me. Not meanly, but like a stray. It left when i stared it down. I followed it of course. It wore a dirty collar so I assumed it was a pet dog escaped to live in the woods. It was an old collar. It circled around the picnic area. It came around to the front where the volunteers were weighing the garlic mustard. It watched for a while and one of the volunteers brought it some pizza and fed it. It seemed scared. A few stupid kids tried to go up to it while it tried to get away from them. I pointed out the obvious fact that it didn't want them to get close. That scared a few of them away, but one stupid girl kept trying to pet it. Eventually it left much to the disappointment of the stupid people. as i was leaving i saw the volunteer guy feeding it more pizza so i hope it found a home. All and all it was pretty bad ass.
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