Pruning rose bushes

We enjoyed a fun service project this month. We (all but the three youngest children) joined with hundreds of other volunteers at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden to prune their roses. We had previously watched a video showing us how they prune their roses. We then show up at the designated time and got further instruction. It was pretty fun. Though, when you're not used to pruning and the clean up, it doesn't take long to get tired. We didn't get any good pictures but you can see a video summary here. Cathy was very grateful to learn how to prune rose bushes because we have 6 bushes in our backyard and she was able to get them pruned a week later.