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I wear my tan shirt, a bunch of knots, troop neckerchief and green shorts. Not the BSA ones because the legs are too long. I only wear my woodbadge beads, district awards ... at court of honor's. And my OA sash only at OA events. Only one shirt to rule them all !

OK, I am pretty psyched now. There is a meeting tonight and my son said he didn't want to go because his uniform is dirty and he wants to set a good example when he shows up. That is a good sign.

I do it for the hand shakes 🙂

I ama district vice-chair for communication and I started a thorough newsletter and most find it very useful. Front page contains a calendar for the next three months, the rest is pictures and articles of interesting information. For your position, make sure the training is offered, staffed with quality instructors, and at a convenient time for volunteers.

Welcome

There is a ship near by, they have 7 sailboats and 10 active scouts 🙂 We are going to sail with the skipper at the end of the month. Civil Air Patrol? Tell me more about that.

When you arrive, if the staff thinks your bags are too big they will provide you bags to transfer into. I am sure you will be fine. Sounds like you will have a lot of experience onboard. Some of our scouts took a bonine everyday, I have sailed before so I didn't take anything. We didn't get sick. I used a inflatable sleeping pad, it is a Klymit pad (the V-Luxe) and was a little wide. The standard Klymit pad would work better.

No a Sea Scout Ship. It is a separate entity from Venturing.

My son is burning out on Boy Scouts, he had a blast at Sea Base sailing. Anyone here do Sea Scouts? If so, how did you mix that in?

One person brought their own snorkel gear, they just need to put it into a mesh bag they can borough at Sea Base. The gear they have is pretty darn decent so we all used that. They only thing I would bring is a prescription mask if needed. We bought the duffles from Seabase, everything fit in that fine. You don't need a lot of gear. This is the bag we used: http://www.fsbshipstore.com/duffelbags.html . The bags fit as carry on luggage. Each boy had a string bag they used for their camera, playing cards, book. Feel free to ask questions, if you need someone to join you on the bi

You are welcome. It isn't physically challenging like other HA but it is mentally challenging. I would go back in a minute.

We just returned from Sea Base this week. I thought I would write up a trip report, maybe there will be something useful for crews in the future. If not, I promise to include a couple of pretty pictures. Every crew is different so YMMV. Our crew: 4 boys and 4 adults. one boy is going into his senior year of high school the others were all entering their freshman year or 8th grade next year (almost 14 or just 14). Our boys did not have a strong bond coming into the crew and tend to be on the introverted side of things. I would have prefered there to be 3 adults rather than 4, 2 is a

Yes absolutely. As a father of daughters who were Girl Scouts and seen first hand how the program didn't work I would love to help guide girls if they wanted to scout.

Ok we are back, I will post a report tomorrow. What an amazing time we had.

Our crew is so excited!

Yes wide mouth nalgenes, shaking soaping water works well to clean it, a bottle brush is even better. We keep the nalgene in the cooler, I would rather wash a nalgene that is only used for eggs than the mess a ziplock bag the split and spilled eggs all over the place.

I really like the Osprey Talon 22

I have a spare nalgene that I use for my eggs on campouts. no need to worry about the eggs breaking in the ice chest. It's sole purpose is this on the campout. no it isn't humor, it works great.

pretty much can't go wrong, throw it all in the nalgene and shake it up, cook it and put it in the tortilla 🙂

I'm with you, Nalgenes just plain work! Bummer knockoff brands seem to break easily.

Sadly, Girl Scouts at least in our council don't follow a good process of communication. I wish there was such thing as a Life to Eagle coach position for Girl scouts. I have gone back and forth myself with the local Girl Scout council when this was happening and they didn't seem to get it. The only times they actually got on the phone was after I pointed out the inflammatory remarks they made in email to my daughter demeaning her and her project. I expected my daughter to be able to handle the communication and project management of her project but when they basically acted like bullies a

Here in Texas we call those things Breakfast tacos.... 🙂 We do similar breakfasts with a few differences: Pre-cooked bacon, crumbled in a bag no potatos Small tortillas, usually flour or corn We pre-crack the eggs and put them into a nalgene, that way you just shake the nalgene up to scramble the eggs and pour it into the pan to cook.

Y'all think I only think of Eagle or Gold award being the point. I am not saying that at all. What I am saying is that I would like to see consistent rubric for these projects rather than complete randomness even in the same council. That was the point of this thread, not the complain about me thread. I agree that attaining Eagle or even the Gold award is not the end goal of scouting, but it is the most quantifiable goal in scouting. Advancement is only one of the methods of scouting, but it shouldn't be discounted as unimportant either. My son is a Star scout and probably won't g

I wish that was the case in my daughters girl scout district. They had a board of women review the project that had to be submitted to their meeting 2 weeks prior to their monthly meeting. They reviewed it and send an email back a week later saying how it was rejected with vague comments like "We want to see more". Her responses to them had to be in writing and they would review it behind closed doors a month later. After 6 months of this, my daughter had other school obligations and was just done with their politics. And her girl scout troop leader pocketed all the money she had raised..

They should require actual planning and thought IMHO. Spreading mulch or building yet another gagaball pit are just cookie cutter projects that don't need much leadership and planning to complete. If this award is the pinnacle, it should be something that requires the scout to get outside of their comfort zone and lead.