Pointless Prize: Freezing Saddles Gives Back

[kmrice]

I’m still in the game—Got some of my garden club buddies together to clean invasive vines out trees along the WOD in Falls Church. We cleaned vines out of four apple trees.

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[Judd]

The Four Mile Run Conservatory has multiple upcoming events. Volunteer and attend one of the events below in February to get 10 points:

World Wetlands Week Walk – Saturday 2/5 @ 1pm
Litter Clean-up – Saturday 2/12 @ 1pm
History Ramble – Sunday 2/13 @ 10:30am
Nature Trivia Night at Port City Brewing – Thursday 2/17 @ 7pm
Litter Clean-up – Saturday, 2/26 @ 9am

[Judd]

Phoenix Bikes Adult Volunteer Nights are returning March 1st. Sign up at https://phoenixbikes.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d5ff90288752e322471168dd5&id=d214b7552d&e=a323e14d4d

From their newsletter:
We’re looking forward to restarting our adult volunteer nights in March, where adult volunteers are welcomed into the shop to work on bikes to be put up for sale or donated to a community member in need. No experience? No problem! We’re happy to help our volunteers learn bike mechanics during our volunteer nights.

Our first volunteer night will be held on Tuesday, March 1 from 6:15pm-8:00pm. If you want to get your hands dirty working on bikes and improving your mechanics skills, sign up here and keep an eye on our Facebook for announcements about future volunteer nights.

[Sophie CW]

Donated a pint at blood drive at Tikvat Israel today:
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[Judd]

5 points! Plus another 5 points because I hate all of the porcelainberry along the WOD. 10 Point total!

@kmrice 214703 wrote:

I’m still in the game—Got some of my garden club buddies together to clean invasive vines out trees along the WOD in Falls Church. We cleaned vines out of four apple trees.

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[Judd]

50 points for donating blood! I’m awarding 5 bonus points for giving blood upside down. 55 points!

@Sophie CW 215511 wrote:

Donated a pint at blood drive at Tikvat Israel today:
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[Judd]

We have a new points leader, but it’s still anybody’s game to win 500 bucks for their favorite nonprofit organization.

Player Total Points
Sophie CW 95
Gina 90
Boomer2U 70
Komorebi 55
kmrice 55
Mtansill 45
CaseyKane 35
Sfrank 25
lordofthemark 10

[Judd]

MEGA POINT OPPORTUNITY in celebration of Black History Month.

The DC Public Library is looking for virtual volunteers to help add descriptions to signs from last year’s Black Lives Matter protests in Lafayette Square. I’ll award 25 points to anyone who volunteers and posts a picture of an interesting sign.

Full details and registration is at: https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/5974957

Description from the site:
Celebrate activism in DC by helping provide access to posters collected from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence in Lafayette Square.

Celebrate activism in DC by helping The People’s Archive add posters collected from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence in Lafayette Square to our digital collection Dig DC. Learn to create descriptions, called metadata, at this hands-on virtual event. No prior knowledge of metadata is required to participate. All skills levels are welcome. This event will be completely virtual.

[Gina]

Joined the Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail again today. This time we worked on trail edging near Gravelly Point.

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[Steve O]

Well, I tried.
I’ve been giving blood for decades. I made an appointment for Monday afternoon to give a double-red donation at the donor center on E St. in DC.

When I got there I was told it would be a 45-minute wait (plus, from past experience, the almost 2 hours it actually takes–which is also absurdly inefficient). That was unacceptable, especially since I had an actual appointment. I left.

After a couple of follow-up conversations with Red Cross people, I have learned something. Yes, there is a blood shortage nationwide. However, that blood shortage has nothing to do with lack of donors, which is what their marketing seems to imply. I had to wait weeks just to get an appointment, because they are completely booked. The shortage is a problem with staffing; there is no shortage of donors. If anything, there are too many donors.

So my giving blood or not will make no difference in the blood supply. Knowing that, I am not willing to put up with the nonsense of interminable waiting to give blood that someone else would give if I weren’t there. Same amount of blood collected either way.

So no points for me.

[Sophie CW]

Biked to the Rockville Bike Hub to help prepare for their Open House event tomorrow: https://fb.me/e/6fkCwhu4n
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[kmrice]

I spent the afternoon in the Red Cross blood donation center downtown. (And I heard a similar story—staffing shortages prevent more blood collection events). I did not have to wait as long as you Steve-about an hour, in and out

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[Sophie CW]

Couldn’t get more miles in today, but I did bike to a Vision Zero rally in the morning then to the Rockville Bike Hub open house.
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Sorry, I don’t know why these photo are upside down!

[kmrice]

Biked over to join the Four Mile Run Conservancy yesterday for a stream bed clean up along the Four Mile Run trail (note the bicycling connection[emoji1]). Lotta trash out there.
A couple of wet shoes later (fortunately not my bike shoes), we’d each picked up 2+trash bags full!

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[komorebi]

I volunteered on Saturday 2/12 for the Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail cleanup event near Trollheim:

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This was the prize of the day:

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