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For those of you who missed the fun in the Science Courtyard on Saturday, here’s a quick recap.

1) Our team of super volunteers moved two 3,000 lbs pallets of Pennsylvania Wall Stone from the parking lot and into the courtyard

2) We then laid out the stones all over the courtyard so the Premiere Ponds folks can pick and choose piece by piece to build an 11x11 pond with a waterfall for the kids to enjoy.  

3) We emptied the pond of 100 gallons of water, 20 gallons of slime, 15 wheelbarrows full of gravel, 12 bowling ball sized rocks, one ceramic frog, one pair of scissors, and one hibernating turtle! (Ann Treadway will be picking up “Shelly” and brining him?her? home for the winter)

4) We rocked out to a somewhat confusing mix CD of greatest hits from Sire Records.  (“Mirror in the Bathroom” is still my fave, but I have to admit a fondness for “I’m Too Sexy”, especially when knee-deep in pond scum)

5) We cleared out some noxious weeds.  

All that said, while we did a whole lot of work today, there’s a little more left to do. Peggy Edwards and Lisa Caprioglio are organizing a planting day for the children later and I know she’d love to get some grown ups to help guide the children as the dig, amend the soil, and plant their very own school’s garden.

Holler if you’d like to join in the fun!

Also, anything you can do to help our incredible donors would be greatly appreciated.  Please send any business you can their way!

Montgomery County Rainscapes program -- $2,500 grant to pay for re-grading and plants.

THE GREENFIELDS COMPANY, Inc. – Landscape Architect oversight and labor -- Priceless

· Premiere Ponds -- $13,000 pond set and installation

· Pawtuxent Nurseries -- $150 gift card

· Benkhe’s -- $20 gift card

· Meadow’s Farms -- $20 gift card

· Takoma Park Public Works -- 20 cubic yards of leaf mold mulch

· PVBricks – 354 charcoal bricks

· Playground Specialists – 10 cubic yards of Engineered Wood Fiber

· NS Rentals --  equipment rentals as needed

· Saunders SLS – possible compost and sand

· Maryland Aquatic Nurseries, Inc. – $100 pond plants

I'm thrilled to announce that thanks to all of your support, Rolling Terrace has WON the Imagination Playground in a Box system. I can't thank you all enough for everything you've done to make this happen. This is an incredibly deserving school and you've helped give almost 700 children a great place to play. We'll be holding a press conference to officially announce this later in the year, and will likely be including the system in the Rolling Terrace open house at the end of August. If you want to come check out Imagination Playground in action, we'd love to have you. Thank you again for bringing this opportunity to Rolling Terrace. We're incredibly grateful.