The St. Timothy’s youth group has for the last twenty-six years earned all of the money it needed to take its annual ski trip by “flocking.” Flocking is a tradition that makes the decorator in me cringe and makes the rest of me laugh. The youth group puts dozens of plastic pink flamingos in someone’s yard. In order to get the flamingos out, said person has to make a donation and then has the option of paying an additional amount to have the flamingos put in someone else’s yard.

