If you watch the Rose Parade...

[pippin_999]

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> > on New Years Day, take a look at the Dr. Pepper float (it's 
> > number 29).  I helped decorate it! > Pippin
> 
> That is really cool!!  How did you get to volunteer for that?  of 
> course, I'd love to do it, but I'm on the other side of the country!!!

  Our Temple youth group went partners with a Girl Scout troop 
which decorates every year. I was one of the drivers. Newbies 
often end up chopping strawflowers or sorting seeds so we 
were lucky to get to work on the actual float. The lowliest job is 
sweeping up, which is assigned as a punishment detail to 
anyone who commits a mortal sin such as talking back  to the 
paid crew or worst of all, leaving a pot of glue unattended. Glue 
pots (there are four different kinds of glue) must be returned to 
the glue shed and never ever ever left on the float.
    We also spent a lot of time cutting up whole Christmas trees 
to get foot long fluffy branches.

Pippin