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Running a Cub Scout pack committee, with 100 Days of Scouting entries.
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October 6th, Reviewed my be a scout presentation for tomorrow night. October 7th, Helped with info packets for roundtable, Gave a quick present at roundtable for BeAScout.org, Committed troop to teach knots at our Troopadillo Adventure (Webelos Woods like event).
Yesterday, I went to promote powder horn and the troop to a pack. I also picked up the keys to the church. Today I ran to the scout shop and picked up a copy of the TLT syllabus. I grabbed my son a copy of the Den Chief handbook.
I spent days 3 - 6 at my second weekend of Powderhorn. I now have many new resources and ideas for the troop. COPE was very challenging. Rappelling didn't hold the glamor for me it had in my youth. although it was cold a couple of nights, cold for South Texas that is.
So while I prepared yesterday, I ended up writing my thoughts and it evolved into my scoutmaster's vision statement. It will take a while but I hope to get the Scouts to come up with their own vision of our success.
In my last post, I laid out that I'm going to become Scoutmaster tonight. I have had a couple of weeks to plan for this, but I really haven't done much to prepare for tonight. The current Scoutmaster hasn't said a word about this to me, that has me a bit on edge.
Was it really may the last time I posted? So much has happened in the last few months. I have worked my self out of my real job. The company decide to use me to move their servers to Rackspace managed hosting, a local company from San Antonio.
While this doesn't really answer the question... It does help you to figure out how to harvest and prepare the fruit of our beloved Prickly Pear. Just don't go hugging any of them. From Survival Guru Tony Nester Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia spp.)
This week started out with a call that a fellow scouter had died suddenly. He will never know how much he inspired me to be a trainer. He really focused on getting us trained on the trained patch level. Mr.
I told @scoutdude that My storage arrangements for camping gear was a blog post so here goes. It all lives in my garage. We also have a pop-up, but I prefer to grab the tents and go as I can decide to go camping on the way home on Friday.
About mid February, I registered a URL for my district UC service and a toy for me. I wanted to see how google apps and sites tied together and how best to use it. You can get an awesome front end view from the Scouting units that have come to use Google apps.
I'm off to the new Intro to Outdoor Leader Skills. It isn't really a new course as far as I know It's just the first time my council has offered it since it became a requirement for Webelos Leaders. This meant that council had to make a new flyer for the Class.
My wife is fully engrossed in that American tradition called Girl Scout Cookies. I haven't seen her most of the week. Now that is partly because I haven't been home much, but neither has she. She is at booth sales and delivering cookies.
Life is what you make make it. That pretty much sums up my Adventure Base 100 experience. I'll talk about that portion later or not at all. AB100 was not a standalone event for the Alamo city. Yet they managed to place the AB100 in an area of the rodeo grounds that received little to…
Well it all started about 6 months ago I had to take a break from blogging and finish some things up. You know little things like Wood Badge, Finding someone to get my back, getting trained for a new position.
Today is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. Today I have ran across some that are incorrectly saying it is the Anniversary of the Boy Scout Movement IN America. Troop 1 in Pawhuska Oklahoma has the honor of being the First Boy scout troop in America.
Heresy, I say, It is heresy. Scouting in the US is not a contiuum but 4- 6 seperate programs that should not be mixed. I love making input where I think I can change things that can be changed. Some of you may ask why I said 4-6 programs.
It's been a while since my last post. I need to get back into it, for me. It helps my mediocre typing skills. I find it ironic this week that the BSA Innovation Engine email comes from Good Ideas @ BSA.
I've seen tweets from people having trouble with the updated Scouting Community. I'm posting Here so they can see what's been reported. Issues Since Upgrade on May 31 By Maria Manzella Please report issues that have occurred since the upgrade on May 31.
My planning agenda seems almost continuous right now. Last month we wrapped up the SummerPlanning. I've planned out a fishing derby for this weekend and a skit for our may graduation ceremony in the past month. Now to move on to the Rest of next year.
Last April, Our pack went family camping and had a fishing derby. The Webelos Leader at the time, had asked that the pack buy groceries for a Pancake, egg and bacon breakfast. It was approved and was a hit. What has been lost in the short time since April 2008 and this past weekend is…
I was in a chat room and the topic of training came up, it wasn't the normal every boy deserves a trained leader vs untrained leader vs how to get people trained. The discussion was how can we afford to get trained?
Ok is everyone up on their Chairman duties for this time of year. You should have recharter done or wrapping up. You should have moved on to planning the summer. We want to wrap this up soon. You should have the summer shcedule ready for the April Pack meeting.
I have been very lax in blogging recently. I am trying to wrap up my Wood Badge ticket. I have been relatively active on the scouting community. I recently had a request for my address from the Project manager Linda Flemming.
I try not to repost many things but this was very good. I viewed this in the Leave No Trace blog. It is an advertisement from AARP on prespective. Lost Generation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA Leave No Trace Blog - http://leavenotracecommunity.blogspot.com
I love the Die Hard movies. I'm a big fan of Bruce Willis. I recently watched "Live Free or Die Hard. " (Yes, it was like the eleventh time.) In the movie there is a bit of dialogue and being the Hero or "That Guy".
I was recently reminded of the Tradtion of the Ashes. For those that may not have heard of the tradition. This was passed to me at my Wood Badge class. ( long live SR-923! Long Live the Beavers!) Campfires are a tradition in Scouting.
I watch Cnet for interesting tech stories. Today I found a good one on utilizing a GPS to help get around better and faster. Here's the link to the story. Getting lost with a GPS? Unfortunately, yes For those that want the quick version.
This year Iwas in the mood to have more Christmas spirit. So how do I get and show more Christmas spirit? I thought to myself. I finally decided aftera trip to Party City, I must get a Santa hat. I have seen 100 different regular red and white Santa hats, verying from a 1.50 to…
Ok so I have gone over the roster. I know where everyone is. I have talked to the current leaders and know who wants to keep on, who is going to try something new, and who is just moving on.
Last spring I went to Woodbadge, I thought about my ticket items for nearly a month between weekends. I have items that enhance me and ones that enhance the program. I'm not struggling with my ticket items but i'm not progressing really well either.
Working in IT, MIS , Network Administration or whatever you want to call it is very often the job of an unsung hero. You work in a room that's loud as all get out. Alot of times in some dark closet of an office or cubicle.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about getting things started. How do you get things going in your pack. For us it was getting started participating in a Webelos Campout or Web-o-ree. I have been thinking back to that campout.
I have already wasted 288 hours since I was handed my recharter packet. There is currently 90 days left before recharter. So what should have I been doing and what have I done? First off according to the packet I should of had this 15 days longer than I have.
Nearly two weeks ago I recieved my recharter packet. I plan to post on rechatering soon, but I need some more time to look over my packet. So this post is me stalling, but hopefully helping some one save $40 or more dollars on a modern cave wall.
A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device. An axiom is a principle that is accepted as true without proof.
I have intended to update the blog recently, but truth be told I have spent the two weeks trying to relax and de-stress. This Wedensday, I left work feeling ill. I'm still not 100%, but I'm back at the grindstone.
Many times we need to get things started. We need to get the meeting going. we need to get the pack involved in belt loops, district activities, training, council events. As Chairman you can take the pack to the bug juice but you can't make them drink.
Last night I had the pleaseure of watching my son grow. Now I have this priviledge everyday, but it is often akin to watching grass grow or paint dry. My son has a bunch of opportunities his friends don't have.
Back when my son started in kindergarten, he went to a brand new school. So the council founded a brand new unit. I'm foggy about this first year. I think most of the people who stepped up for the big roles were military.
Thank goodness my portion of the weekend popcorn sales are over. Ok, it's for the most part that I'm done. I'm popcorn kernal so I'm still work on popcorn until December, argh. I know a few people follow me on twitter.
Do you do Flag Ceremonies at your unit camping events? Have you ever priced a "camping" flag pole for your unit. We went camping last weekend and the weekend before I was standing in the electrical section of my local Lowe's.
I was looking for another topic to post on today. I thought I would have to wait until after this weekend's Pack Camping experience. Not so, I had an email that just chapped my hide worse than wearing shorts soaked in salt water on hike.
It's not often that scout leader's get recognized. Of course we don't do this for the recognition, but it is still nice to hear that thank you every once in a while. Saturday, we had a show and sell location at a local sporting good store.
In my last post, I breifly mentioned that I was against scout accounts. I had a comment asking why. I think I need to clarify the position a bit. Maybe I'm not against the account as much as I may not fully understand it, or that it really doesn't work well in the program we…
Man, how time gets away from you. As the popcorn Kernel, I have my big kickoff this weekend. Whew! what time getting popcorn figured out. Since Fundraising is a big agenda item let me give you a few words of wisdom, maybe.
I told my self this month was the month I was going to a district committee meeting. So last night was the district meeting. It was basically my committee meeting on a higher level. I have to say that I went to myscouting elaerning and took the district committee fast start.
It has been busy the last two nights. We had our district wide School Night For Scouting on the 3rd. My district, Keystone picked up a few more than 300 scouts. I turned in 15 scouts with one withheld for payment of fees.
Friday we had our first pack meeting since school started. We invited all of our prospects. We had 3 that joined, one brought back the application from our school'sMeet the teacher night. That is a little less than 20% rate of return on the parents that signed in that night.
We are in the midst of our recruiting drive for Fall 2008. As I have been sidelined in one of my recruiting schools, I had to make a presence at a pre-rally night event or "Meet the Teacher" night. My objective at this event was to soothe my parents who have kids attending the school.
