Cub Scouts

[RobertN]

Anyone else out there with Scouts, or involved with scouts?

My son Ian just earned his Wolf badge. It was soooooo cool to see how enthused he was at the Pack meeting when he received the patch! He's in Den-1, Pack-117, Shingle Springs/Latrobe Calif.

In December, we did a Pack float behind my old Farmall. It was all of our's first parade. The kids won first place for a group org. It was just really awesome getting to surprise them with the trophy at the Pack meeting a few days later!
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[Thomas]

Thats great to read about your son!!
I think dad also enjoying himself w/ thescouts every chance he gets. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[RobS]

That's fantastic Robert! I'm hoping to get my boys in Scouts as they get old enough. I started in Cubs and made it all the way to Eagle myself. Great experiences all the way /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Jeff396]

My son just started in Tiger Scouts which is new since I belonged. It's kind of an introduction for 7 year olds with four kids in a den. We just finished our pinewood derby cars which we will race on Saturday. I still actually have my car that my dad and I built and I hope they will treasure theirs as much as I do mine. Anyway, it does a body good to see a bunch of "young men" saying the Pledge of Allegiance and carrying the flag./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Jeff

 

[MossRoad]

I just traded a guy $15.00 worth of my daughter's Girl Scout cookies for $15.00 worth of Boy Scout popcorn/w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif.

 

[PitbullMidwest]

Robert,
I'm an Eagle Scout myself. My boy (age 8) however is in Royal Rangers (a scout type orginization through our church). Its a really good program but it doesn't measure up to Cub Scouts in some areas.

Just this last weekend my son found my pioneering merit badge book on the book shelf. He just couldn't beleive that it said someone could actually make their own rope, so I rounded up was baling twine and we spent Sunday afternoon cranking out rope. We made enough for him and his buddies and inserted a peg in one end and I eye spliced the other. Now each boy has a 6' rope or they can hook 'em together if they need something longer.

I had forgotten how much enjoyment I get from teaching/doing basic scout skills. Enjoy your boy's Cub Scouts and try to encourage him to see it all the way through to Eagle, he'll never regret it.

 

[JerryG]

Great pictures. Boy Scouting is a very good thing for young boys and men. It helps instill many good qualities in them. My son is in Scouts and has worked his was from Cubs, Webelos and now in regular Boy Scouts. He is in a small troop with only twelve boys but they have six eagles. He has learned a lot.
Everyone please support Scouting any time that you can. In the last year they have lost some of their funding nationally. This was because of their moral standards and not allowing them to be watered down.

 

[Harv]

Congratulations on the new Wolf in the family, Robert!

Great pictures -- good-looking boy, nice-looking float, great-looking tractor and, well ... then there's the guy in the driver's seat.

<font color=blue>just traded a guy $15.00 worth of my daughter's Girl Scout cookies for $15.00 worth of Boy Scout popcorn</font color=blue>

Boy, I can relate to the ol' cookie sales thing, MossRoad. My own daughter is one determined li'l girl scout. Last year she (dragging her dad all the way) knocked on over 150 doors and sold 309 boxes of cookies. So far this year, she's sold 348 boxes and still has several days to go. The real fun, as you know, comes when it's time to deliver them.

BTW - out here they're selling for $3.50/box, so we'd have a hard time doing a $15 swap.

 

[Jeff396]

Is that a Wienerschnitzel in the background? I thought they all had to be that ridiculous looking A frame building.

Jeff

 

[MossRoad]

The cookies are still $3 a box here. My daughter does booth sales at a local establishement. Any girls from her troop can sign up for the booth sales, but usually only my daughter and one or two others sign up. They get to split the sales between whoever shows up. She has credit for 400+ boxes. Last year she got to go to 1 week of camp for free.

My wife is the cookie mom for the troop, so we have to pick up all of the cookies for the entire troop and distribute them to the families from our house. We filled a short bed pickup with cap and our van floor to ceiling with cookies. That's a little over 3000 boxes of cookies! Our dining room had cases of cookies four feet high and 3 feet deep around 3 sides.

Needless to say, I purchased what seems to be about half of them and have put on about 10 pounds in the last month. Got on the ski machine this morning and it wouldn't move. Had to oil it.

I was in cub scouts and boy scouts. I remember paper drives and canned good collections. Making rope out of bailer twine. Had a great time. We had trouble keeping scoutmasters due to people moving all of the time. My father would occasionally take over the troop for a few months at a time and we would have a great time on camping trips. Those were some of the best memories of my childhood.

By the way, I still have my pinewood derby cars and the 1st place trophy from the second year /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif.

 

[RobertN]

I think this building used to be a Del Taco or something along those lines. There was one in Orangevale, a suburb of Sacramento where I grew up, that was a typical box building, even when new. Most of them are though, as you mention, the A-frame building.

 

[RobertN]

One of the first things we did when Ian sign up 4 months ago was to get some rope for the boys. In my Fire Fighter academy, they gave us each a short piece of rope to practice our knots with. So, the boys have been learning some basic knots.

 

[PitbullMidwest]

I always liked the rope work in scouts, at one time I could tie every knot in the Boy Scout Illustrated Book of Knots and Lashings from memory. We lashed together a signal tower at summer camp when I was 14, what a great feeling of accomplishment to put your knowledge and skills to the test! My brother on the other hand (also an Eagle Scout) knew only the basic knots required.

Without a doubt, your son will have fond memories in years to come from his involvement in Cub Scouts.

 

[RobertN]

I was a Cub Scout for a year, but don't remember learning any knots. In fact, until I went through our volunteer FF class, I didn't know any useful knots. Now I know the standard knots for our department.

When we did our over-the-bank rescue exercises, it felt good to have learnt the knots and make practicle use of them.