Days 28, 29, 30 and 31: Zoooooom!
If I waited one more day I could just write this as a weekly update. But then again, 14 2/7 weeks of scouting doesn’t sound nearly as cool as 100 days. I have been crazy swamped with work and scout related things. I haven’t had a chance to put it down here. Lets see if I can remember what I did for the last four days…
Day 28 (Monday) was my son’s Wolf den meeting. They all brought their collections to share. The collections ranged from rocks to foreign money to nerf guns or sports trophies. The den leader brought his collection of Star Wars figures from the 70′s that are still in the box. Amazing how it brought back memories of when I was that age. We had a great time and I enjoyed my night as a scout parent.
Day 29 (Tuesday) was spent preparing for the Pack Leader’s meeting that was on Wednesday. I put together a handout to get everyone thinking about the Annual Pack Planning meeting that will be at the end of next month. Since the pack hasn’t done the planning meeting in the past (I assume the Cubmaster put most of it together) I wanted to explain what the goals were and how we were going to end up with a calendar and a budget.
To get the ideas flowing, I made a list of our pack activities for this year as a starting point for thinking about what they want to do next year. Here’s what we’ve been up to (or plan to):
- Join Night (Aug)
- Bomb Robot Presentation (Sept)
- Family Camping Trip (Sept)
- Trail Cleanup Service Project (Oct)
- Pumpkin Carving (Oct)
- Scouting for Food Service Project (Nov)
- Pocket Flags (Nov)
- Ice Skating Holiday Party (Dec)
- Scales and Tails Lizard Show (Jan)
- Pinewood Derby (Jan)
- “Magic” Blue and Gold (Feb)
- Trivia Game Show (Mar)
- Campfire Pack Meeting (Apr)
- Hunter’s Glen Service Project (May)
- Tiger Picnic (May)
- Jack Nicol Resident Camp (Jun)
- Pack Hike (Jul)
- Adams County Fair Parade (Jul)
I also included the Journey to Excellence criteria for next year, so everyone knew what was expected.
Day 30 (Wednesday) was the Pack Leader’s meeting at my house. It was a good meeting, and had a decent turn out of about 15 of the leaders within the Pack. Two dens were unrepresented and three committee members weren’t there, but it was also Ash Wednesday so I can see why we didn’t have the whole crew. During the meeting we reviewed the Blue and Gold and then looked at Pack meeting plans for the next three months. We also talked about our upcoming service project and the aforementioned Annual Planning Meeting.
There was some discussion about awarding belt loops and pins at the den level instead of at the pack meetings, and making a bigger production out of the ranks, religious awards, and things like LNT or Whittling Chip. The votes in favor were coming from the newer den leaders (Tiger/Wolf) while those that have been around a while (Bear/Webelos) were against the idea. Something tells we will be revisiting the topic before too long.
Day 31 (Thursday) was another crazy busy day at work, but I did get some Wood Badge prep things done. I got an email from the course scribe, outlining what we need to do for the pre-course meeting this weekend. I am still really excited about the training, it is going to be awesome! I just wish somebody would figure out what the actual course number is. I’ve seen it as all of the following so far:
- WE5-61-11-1
- WE5-61-1-11
- W5-61-11-1
- W5-61-1-11
Isn’t all of that supposed to be a national standard numbering thing now? Not that it is the end of the world, but it just one of the little detail things that I’ve noticed. I’m pretty sure it will have zero impact on what I learn. Just consider it some mental thumb-twiddling since I’m so excited but don’t have anything to do until Saturday.
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