Scoutmaster Moment This time of year everyone has an extra twinkle in their eye. This past week the troop had the annual gift exchange, a bit different from last year’s due to COVID and the impracticality of doing another lock-in overnight in the gym, but quite fun nonetheless as everyone enjoyed the opening of gifts and [...]
Scoutmaster Moment I searched about looking for something inspiring for this week’s SM Moment, and since I covered Thanksgiving in last week’s note I turned to “this day in history” topics. One website entry kept tugging at me. On this day, Nov 29th 1942 coffee rationing started in the US. Other foods rationed out due to World War [...]
Scoutmaster Moment Tuesday’s meeting plan shifted in response to observations during last weekend’s campout with a noted need to review the troop cleaning procedures and give a thorough cleaning to the chuckboxes. All patrols from both the troops thoroughly cleaned the checkboxes and reviewed the 3-pot cleaning method as well as stove and griddle cleaning procedures. [...]
Scoutmaster Moment The Scout motto is “Be Prepared”, we do this in many ways in our Scouting activities, and hopefully those lessons also seep into other aspects of our lives. We prepare for hikes and campouts by starting with the Ten Essentials. We prepare with plans, with lists, with knowing where to find needed items within [...]
Scoutmaster Moment The Scout motto is “Be Prepared”, we do this in many ways in our Scouting activities, and hopefully those lessons also seep into other aspects of our lives. We prepare for hikes and campouts by starting with the Ten Essentials. We prepare with plans, with lists, with knowing where to find needed items within [...]
Scoutmaster Moment The Scout motto is “Be Prepared”, we do this in many ways in our Scouting activities, and hopefully those lessons also seep into other aspects of our lives. We prepare for hikes and campouts by starting with the Ten Essentials. We prepare with plans, with lists, with knowing where to find needed items within [...]
Scoutmaster Moment A very busy Scouting Week! Saturday was our COVID revised Scouting for Food (SFF), 4 troop members represented at th 893 food sorting a VRES, and then one was able to help unload the truck at the food pantry. We sorted and delivered over 3200 pounds of goods to the pantry. From the status [...]
Scoutmaster Moment This weekend was perfect for camping. Dry and warm during the day, cool and dry in the evening - the rain from Hurricane Delta even held off until everyone was home and unloaded. My goal for the weekend was to get the troop back into camping mode after most of us hadn’t camped since [...]
Scoutmaster MomentThis weekend we saw the passing of one of a sitting Supreme Court Justice. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg served on the court for 27 years and spent much of her career as an advocate for women’s rights and gender equality. She first applied to be a clerk at the Supreme Court in 1960 she was [...]
Scoutmaster MomentAn optimist's view of success can include anytime a lesson is learned, new knowledge obtained, some benefit absorbed by an activity. Some success is easily observed; a sprinter crossing the finish tape, a high mark on an assignment. Few things in life are so clear, many events that may appear to go without a hitch [...]
