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I'm not in the habit of reviewing products, but I got this as a gift and figured I'd report on it. The great parents from our Webelos II den gave me the Camp Maid 4-piece combo set as a gift at the end of our time together and the scouts bridged on to various troops.
The troop decided to add a "Game Day" to the calendar this year, which seemed like a great idea to me, particularly for a winter activity. I have a great passion for games of all sorts (my other pastime when not scouting, though that blog doesn't get the same love as this one), and even…
I'm testing out some of the other templates and formats for the blog. Let me know what you think. If viewing on a computer, you can change the layout. There is a drop down menu on the left, that probably starts out at "Flipcard" but you should be able to change it to the other…
Just before they bridged, the Webelos in Scout 2's den worked on the "Panda Award" as one of them called it. As Webelos to earn it, they had to get three activity pins: Forester, Naturalist, and Outdoorsman. Outdoorsman we had completed back for the Webelos badge, and we had recently done Naturalist on a nature…
Feb. 17, 2009 It was my first committee meeting as a parent and scouting volunteer (sort of, I had been an ASM and "adult leader" when I turned 18 and was registered for about a year and a half in that capacity, but I didn't much feel like and adult, and didn't have the parent…
Scout 3 finally had her first campout as a Girl Scout! She's been a on few family campouts with us as a Cub Scout family, and our own personal camping trips, but this was the first official Girl Scout overnight trip, to Camp Fleming She was quite excited to go, and eagerly took her packing…
I spent my last day as a Cub Scouter this past Saturday at the pack's Blue & Gold dinner. It was our seventh Blue & Gold as a family, and the final one for our second Webelos II scout. It was just before that first Blue & Gold seven years ago that I went to my first committee…
I finally finished the career arrow awards for the den last night and was able to take a great big sigh of relief. I took on quite a big task, but I wanted these awards to be very cool and personal, not just something I bought online.
Oy! It's almost the end of January and I haven't made a post. Not a good start to the new year. Still settling in after the bust holiday season, I've been trying to about the computer in the evenings (and, well, I got some new video games for Christmas so those have been a distraction…
My employer likes us to log our volunteer hours (probably so they can take credit for helping the community, though I'm not acting as a company employee per se in my volunteering hours). So I do, and it is interesting to see how they stack up.
It's been a busy year. Here's a list recapping all of our events and links to the ones I've posted about. Date, Unit, Event, Category 1/10, Pack 700, Pinewood Derby, event 1/17, Troop 117, Rocknasium trip, Campout 1/23, Pack 700, Webelos Bridging, event 1/24-1/25, Troop 117, OKPIK, training 1/31, Troop 117, Eagle COH, Troop Meeting…
Grrr. Hootsuite is supposed to be feeding my posts to Facebook & Twitter to share with everyone. Apparently it lost connection and hadn't posted the last week of updates. It should be fixed now, I'll have to monitor more closely I guess...
Day 7 (Friday) Day 7 was the last full day at NOAC. the next day we would be headed home. For most of the attendees, the morning was spent helping with a huge "service project" were they tested out the campus's emergency response system by participating in a campus wide fire drill.
Day 6 (Thursday) Day 6 was the third full day at NOAC (fourth actual day of the conference) with more training classes. This day had me attending the "OA websites" class to learn tips on building websites for a lodge and tips on communication.
Day 5 (Wednesday) Day 5 followed the format of the previous day, with training in the morning and free time in the afternoon. The training this day was the same for the whole lodge, and we attended with other lodges for the seminar the "Secret to Ruling the World" about how each of us can…
Continuing our much delayed recap of NOAC 2015... Day 4 (Tuesday) This was our second day at the conference, and the first full day. The morning started off with training classes, which we had chosen months earlier in in the online registration.
Another part of the pack meeting the den ran last week was singing the "12 Days of Scoutmas." Several weeks ago, I spent a good part of a den meeting working with the Webelos in the den to plan the agenda for the pack meeting.
Our Webelos II den was in charge of the December pack meeting, so we did a couple fun activities that I'll cover over the next few posts. The first was building an army of marshmallow snowmen to take over the world (well, maybe just to take over sugar dreams of the scouts).
Dec. 2, 1957 - The Northest Ohio Council holds their Class of 1957 Eagle Scout Court of Honor, the first event of this kind sponsored by the council according to the article on another page. My father is pictured farthest to the right.
Day 3 (Monday) - The day we finally get to NOAC! We woke up and had a quick continental breakfast, and then it was back on the bus again for the shorter drive from Kalamazoo to Michigan State University. We got to the dorm...and then had to wait for check-in.
Thank you to all those who have served, or currently are serving, our beautiful country!
Looking over the blog, I saw that I had thought at one point to include some more file templates people could use. When I was committee chair, the first year in the role I thought it would be cool to publish a "Pack Annual Report" to describe all the cool things we did that year.
Day 2 (Sunday) Day 2 started with trying to figure out how the group dynamics would work getting the clans to breakfast and getting all 88 people feed in a timely manner at the small hotel restaurant. Then we headed off to the local water park, apparently Illinois's largest (though similar in size to the…
For Throwback Thursday, here are some picture from the flag ceremony Scout 1 took part in. I missed that one, luckily a friend snapped some pictures. We've gone now each year since, and at Memorial Day to. Thank you to all our veterans!
NOAC Day 1 (Saturday): Travel day Our first day on the trip started early, waking up at 3:00 a.m. to be at the airport around 4:00 a.m. for a 6:00 a.m. flight to Chicago. Getting 88 people through ticketing takes a while but we manageed with minimal chaos.
This is my recap of our adventure to NOAC 2015. This is the background and prelude to the trip. NOAC (the National Order of the Arrow Conference) was announced back in 2012, but the hype started building over a year before the event.
Here's my next infographic, a guide to the lodge flaps from my current lodge, Amangi Nacha 47. I plan to eventually do ones for my original lodge, Stigwandish 114, and it's successor Wapashuwi 56.
I've posted and shared a photo album of pictures from this year's NOAC.
Scout Expo" took place this past April in the Golden Empire Council. It was essentially a council-wide camporee, and was hosted at Beale AFB. We got to see some of the base, including the Predator drones pictured above. They are really large, as you can tell from the pick-up truck in the picture.
I found this really cool photo from NOAC that shows everyone in the arena for one of the shows. If you went, see if you can find yourself. And to all my friends, look for me and Scout 1. It's almost like Google Maps with how much you can zoom in and out. http://gpxtag.com/photo/noac2015
Scout 3 worked on a cool project at her Brownies meeting. They are working on learning about finances, and talked about how credit cards work, and that you have to pay them back when you get the bill. They made samples checks and then as a craft made piggy banks.
@thecubscouts @scouting #cubscouts #boyscouts Here's the Webelos handbook history.
@thecubscouts @scouting #cubscouts #boyscouts Second in the Cub Scout handbook histories, we have the Bear Handbook.
@thecubscouts @scouting #cubscouts #boyscouts Next in the line of handbook histories, we have the Wolf Handbook.
Eagles by state, 1912-2011 My NOAC Centennial Lodge So here's a comparison from an infographic about Eagle Scouts , showing where Eagle Scouts are from. Again, not a scientific survey of where scouting is most popular, but an indicator. It does follow the general trend of where people I met at NOAC are from.
@oabsa Found my dad's old OA Handbook from the 1950's. It was really cool to see the history in it, his history as a youth Arrowman. He had recorded his activity in his lodge ( the same lodge I was inducted in).
I came across a program from the 41st National Conference of the Order of the Arrow (or what we would call the 1956 NOAC these days). I didn't know it, but my dad had gone to that conference as a scout.
@boyscouts #scouting #boyscouts A fourth infographic on BSA handbooks, this time for the Fieldbook.
@oabsa @boyscouts #boyscouts Another infographic, this time on the history of the Order of the Arrow Handbook editions.
A while ago I got a 12" Lodge dutch oven, and then the a cook book to go along with it for ideas. In the past, I've mostly only seen people use it to make dessert cobblers (and that had been about my extent of use except for Jambalya once ), though I know it is…
#scouting I found the infographics I posted the last couple of days were coming across very small when viewed, something with how blogger publishes stuff I guess. I updated the posts with the original size images, so they should be much bigger and easier to read now.
#boyscouts #scouting @scouting Second in a series of infographics about the various scouting handbooks, this one deals with the Boy Scout Handbook (or Handbook for Boys depending on the era).
Trying my hand at creating infographics. This one is on the past Scoutmaster Handbooks. Most can buy easily and fairly cheaply through Ebay. I've managed to acquire all of them now except the B-P books.
It's all about the details, "sweat the small stuff." That's the message of the book I've recently finished. Now this isn't directly a scouting-related book, but I figure anything with "guide to life on Earth" in the title, much less an astronaut's version, has to be a good read.
So they had a pretty neat activity at NOAC this year. Everyone registered and on staff received a Poken device . Pokens are little devices that contain your contact info, and exchanges it with people you meet by high-fiving the two devices together.
I came back from NOAC having traded for a few more past conference patches. So I decided to make a display like they had on display in the museum, showcasing the collection. I have to thank my late father for collecting most of the ones after 2000.
Had a great time at @SectionW3N conclave, met @OANationalChief Alex Call and @OAWestChief Nathan Lee. The "Meet the Man" Q&A with them and the 6 or so section chiefs was inspiring. Ironically OAWestChief started following my twitter earlier that morning before I met him I think.
Ready for the Section W3N conclave to begin! It should be a beautiful day. @sectionw3n @racesonoma
It's been quite on the blog lately, but I'm still here and have good stuff to share soon. With two summer camps and NOAC all in the span of 4 weeks, I've been behind on my normal duties and haven't quite caught up.
A question I've heard in Eagle Scout Board of Reviews is "what's the difference between a high school quarterback and an Eagle Scout?" The answer being the quarterback is done when high school ends, but the Eagle Scout carries that with him forever.
