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Here are the Scouters chasing the 2nd Annual 100 Days of Scouting on blogs: Scoutsigns ( @Scoutsigns ) The Scoutmaster ( @bryanspellman ) A Scouter's Journey ( @dwmetz ) A Scoutmaster's Blog ( @stevejb68 ) Scouteradam's Blog ( @ScouterAdam ) KevinDevin.com ( @kevinhdevin ) Arlen Ward dot com ( @arlenward ) Scouting in NKY ( @jthoppe ) ...and Scouters posting only on Twitter: @jzweiac I'll update as more folks check in…
(Cake decorations by BSA licensee DecoPak through your local bakery) This time last year, we celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Scouting with the BSA by launching the 100 Days of Scouting program . The idea was to capture the big and little things we do every single day for Scouting--and maybe more importantly to make sure…
Our troop's PLC has planned a great campout for next weekend: The Flood You are camping at Wolf Gap when...a flash flood strikes! Most of your gear is swept away... Your adult leaders are downstream fishing...You can't make contact with them.
Well, the end is here. 100 Days of Scouting (and effort) have been tied up. There are other Scouters following along, completing their own 100 Days trails. Catch the spirit of Scouting--whether is is for 100 days or a lifetime!
Paperwork. Advancement forms, merit badge cards, new Scout applications, committee meetings. We are not always as "Leave No Trace" as we would like. But it all happens to make Scouting move along. More days: Day 91 Day 92 Day 93 Day 94 Day 95 Blogging could be considered a form of paperwork, too!
Camping is on the brain this week: campouts, service on campouts, Camping merit badge. There truly is so much to do and so little time. More days: Day 86 Day 87 Day 88 Day 89 Day 90 When in doubt, camp it out.
The end is near. Each day that passes, the 100 Days project draws closer to the end. I keep waiting for someone to offer me a small fortune to live on so that I can do Scouting full time. You have to have dreams.
Anyone every notice how much driving is involved in Scouting? I keep an old 15 passenger van simply because it is the easiest way to move a lot of Scouts and their stuff. And it is paid for. But "The Beast" is getting old, and that will present a new slate of problems in the…
Hit the three-quarters mark today! That means that many of you have been reading along for over 2 months now---and I appreciate it. Scouting takes a lot of effort, and reading other people's ideas feeds the fire More days: Day 71 Day 72 Day 73 Day 74 Day 75 From field trips to thinking, Scouting…
I really like the Centennial rank badges. Whether for Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts, having that "2010" on it signifies something special. This whole season of Scouting is something special. The Scouts we have in our pack, troops and crews now will be in their 50s and late 60s when the sesquicentennial rolls around--older than…
More Scouters keep commenting on 100 Days , and some are even joining in. It is great to be a part of something that is helping to keep Scouting a part of daily life. Kind of like going to church on Sunday versus living like every day was a church day!
100 Days is well past the halfway mark now. This is a busy time of the year. Webelos Scouts moving to the troop. Summer camp questions almost every day. And pack meetings...never forget the energy and stress that go into making a good pack meeting.
Despite the picture, Scouting isn't all fun and games. But it is a lot of fun. The 100 Days of Scouting is humming right along, cruising into the last few weeks. We have so much planned that is going to make it into the list!
April Fools Day is upon us. I was burned once pretty publicly and don't care to repeat it for anyone else. A Scout is Kind. Not that I mind being fooled in the comfort of my own laptop though...;-)
Yes, I just needed an excuse to put up the picture of this awesome locomotive. The mid-point of the 100 Days have come and gone, and I was too busy to make sure it got posted properly on Scoutsigns. More days: Day 46 Day 47 Day 48 Day 49 Day 50 Share your thoughts--have you…
Hard to believe that the mid-point of this 100 Days of Scouting challenge is right around the corner. I've picked up some great ideas from other 100 Days bloggers , as well as from the comments left behind. Hardly a day goes by that I don't learn something new about Scouting.
The Paw Paw Tunnel is a popular part of the Canal. Over 3000 feet long and hand-tunneled in the early 19th century. The C&O Canal Trust has a work day going on near here in early May. Across the border in West Virginia appears to be a large campground for the public.
C&O Canal Trust The C&O Canal Trust helps to coordinate the public and needs of the C&O. They recently opened 3 of the lockhouses to the public for overnight stays . Yesterday, I showed you Part 1 of a video series filmed by Thomas A.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I have a soft spot for the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal. Recently, we just avoided being flooded out by hours. The C&O Canal Trust just posted 122 pictures of the flood damage done.
We have 6 Webelos Scouts crossing over to our troop in a couple of weeks. Our SPL has been working with them this month to get them formed into a patrol--picked a leader, make a flag, and still working on the patrol yell.
This Weekend Patrol Box begins with the weather. We have had a lot of it lately. Everything from having our Klondike camporee snowed out (and re-scheduled for early April) to being run out of the C&O on a backpacking trip.
100 Days of Scouting about came to a screeching halt the other night. We have had a lot of rain lately, causing the Potomac River to rise to flood stages. Before that happened we were camping along side of it .
Anyone who reads this blog, realizes before long that our troop has a soft-spot for the C&O Canal. 184.5 miles of great backpacking or cycling fun. Except when it isn't. This is an excerpt from the C&O Canal Trust website : C&O Canal Declares Flood Emergency Flood Warning Expected heavy rainfall during the weekend of March…
Amazon The 100 Days of Scouting project is clearing the first mountain--a whole month or a third done, depending on how you look at it. And how are you looking at it? Have you gotten any ideas? Been inspired by some of the other bloggers ?
From Twitter @scoutfocus...
The last couple of weeks have been pretty weird. Snow not only cancelled our troop's backpacking trip (roads to the site were unpassable) but our council's winter camporee was cancelled due to too much of the fluffy stuff. The 30th edition of the Weekend Patrol Box brings you a lot of items that hopefully will…
100 Days of Scouting reached the 25% milestone yesterday! Much dancing in the street, at least at my house. We've had a rash of new bloggers join in the challenge, and I'm grateful for that. No matter if you just heard about it and want to start, or you've been following all along, today is…
Today will be Day 25 of the 100 Days of Scouting challenge. Each day, I log in a few items that I have done to promote Scouting--it might be a big thing or a small thing, rushed or well-thought out, good for one Scout or (I hope) all Scouts.
If you haven't caught on yet, I like Twitter . Especially Hootsuite , which is a great manager for Twitter. I have found a lot of great Scouters out there, many of whom blog or are otherwise very active in the Scouting world.
There is probably a bigger post to be made about transitioning your unit to the next leader, but this isn't that post. This is just a quick thought, and more of a question: if something happened to you tomorrow, what would happen to your units?
Found this via Twitter and @Insanescouter ...enjoy. Have you been fortunate enough to know Bill Burch? What a storyteller!
100 Days of Scouting had a great day to wrap up the first 20 percent of the challenge. Scouting blog aggregator HalfEagle.com has even opened a section just for 100 Days of Scouting ! We--you and I--are making a difference in Scouting.
More Centennial changes! Scouting.org has posted the FAQs about the new age and grade guidelines for the Venturing program. This adds a lot of information to the announcement. It was great to see so many tweets yesterday passing the word around quickly that the change was coming!
Quick news before the weekend: Effective May 1, 2010 , the minimum age/grade requirement will be changed to 14 years of age or 13 years of age and completion of the eighth grade . So a slight change. Or is it? Will this impact your recruitment efforts for the spring?
Our pack celebrated the Blue and Gold last night, keeping the same simple format we always use for B&G. Introduction Flag Ceremony Awards Potluck dinner Last night, we invited the troop and the new venture crew to attend as well, since it was the Centennial of Scouting.
Scouting magazine is due to your mailbox shortly. I really like the new design, and make use of many of the browser links in it (from the advertisers, too!). You don't have to wait for it to arrive in the mail though, read it online .
A little fun from Scouting magazine--what is wrong with the merit badges on the left? The ones on the right are the current* version. So why were they changed? Answer (scroll to the bottom). *Beekeeping is not a current merit badge, this was the last version of it.
100 Days of Scouting marches on. 600 Scouters can't be wrong--take a look and share your news. Or even better, start your own 100 Days project --just remember to share the link with us in the comments so we can follow your adventure!
100 Days of Scouting blog keeps rolling along--10% finished now! More days: Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Don't be bashful--stop over and share your love of Scouting!
In case you don't read the 100 Days of Scouting blog regularly, here are the links to the first 5 days: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Stop by and take the challenge!
I like the new 2010 Centennial rank awards. Adding the date makes them special, and I think we'll look back on them with fondness in the future. Watch for all of them in future editions of the Scoutsigns blog. Snow has been in abundance.
100 is a powerful number. 100 years of Scouting. 100% is everything. 100 degrees is hot weather, no matter where you are. On the 100th Anniversary of Scouting, I started a new blog: 100 Days of Scouting . The purpose is to record the positive things I do for Scouting each day--big or small.
This week's Patrol Box begins with a wash stand. I found this great image of a wash stand to share. Do any troop still build these things? or has this been swept off to the faint embers of memory? Many camp gadgets are still a great idea--and really help to reinforce knots and lashings.
Recently one of the boys in our troop won in a Trails End photography contest. So we are all pumped up now for the new "Boy Scouts of America: Today" photo contest. It is offered to all registered Scouts and their families.
OK, so it's a bit cold for much of the country. There is still a lot of Scouting going on, just under layers! This week's Patrol Box kicks off a new year! Actually, our first Cub Scout meeting of 2010 started with the Webelos den that will be crossing into our troop this spring, showing…
Twitter was a new tool for me to explore early on in 2009. It was quirky and just beginning to get a lot of press. Folks were trying out if this would be a fad or a solution. I read a lot about how to be a good member of the Twitter community--share information, try…
December was a quiet month between work, travel and of course Scouting (including our big annual ski trip). Here were the Top 10: Wildlife Promise: Be Out There: The Ten Reasons Parents Should Care About Outdoor Time For Kids http://ow.ly/QoE6 Ah… what fun for the boys http://ow.ly/NqcX I love it when Scouters are good sports.
November had a number of interesting topics, including "THE" stamp for the BSA Centennial. November's Top 10 : ScoutSigns: 100th Anniversary Postage Stamp to be Announced! http://ow.ly/zQkO #scouts New Post: Weekend Patrol Box #26 http://ow.ly/15ZTqe Assorted BSA forms to tuck away for a rainy day...
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Fall is in the air, no doubt about it. Depending on where you are it might still be toasty warm during the day, or the trees might be at the height of color, or you have already had your fill of snow.
