Friday, August 21, 2009

Weekend Patrol Box #18


The Patrol Boxes have been a bit sporadic this summer, but hopefully you will find plenty of good stuff to look at here.

Fresh coat of paint, replace a couple of wobbly screws, scrub off the ketchup spots, and...voila! Good as new!

As always, there is so much to learn and only so many minutes to get it all done.

Start here:
  1. Cub Scout Roundtable Commissioner and Staff Basic Training Manual--the whole manual is here for you to digest how Roundtable ought to work.
  2. Check out the pictures of Living Root Bridges--nature's own Swiss Family Robinson.
  3. The Trainer's Corner brings us a great plan for Webelos Scouts to earn the Outdoorsman activity badge.
  4. His "Campfire Ash" is a terrific idea, too.
  5. BSA's National Jamboree Leader's Guide--almost 80 pages of details (fun even if you aren't going!).
  6. Backpacker.com brings us ice caves 20 feet thick year-round--in New Mexico.
  7. Video 1:24) How to cook fish on a rock--also from Backpacker.com. (This is a magazine I always recommend to my older Scouts...and Scouters.)
  8. Popsticks--the manufacturer sent me one to try out (watch for review post soon) and my Scouts loved it. Trees never felt safer around a marshmallow.
  9. Scoutstuff.org has the new Year of Celebration emblem!
  10. ...and finally another Centennial item from Scoutstuff.org: the Ring Emblem to go around your World Crest (that's the purple thing on your uniform). Very backordered, so get in line.
Which topic did you like best? What would you like to see more depth on? Please comment below and share your thoughts and experiences.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

July's Top Tweets

1. http://ow.ly/h05lScoutSigns: New BSA Rank Requirements Coming
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87 Clicks
2. http://ow.ly/15GxdZHomeschooling and Scouting http://ow.ly/15GxdZ69 Clicks
3. http://ow.ly/djkDBSA Immunization Exemption Request form http://ow.ly/djkD
New form and great solution to a common problem.
63 Clicks
4. http://ow.ly/b4f4Um, tasty and funny! Anyone else going camping this weekend?
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31 Clicks
5. http://ow.ly/15HJtjChainsaw...laptop...camping...perfect http://ow.ly/15HJtj25 Clicks
6. http://ow.ly/h04RScoutSigns: Homeschooling and Scouting--Part 2 http://ow.ly/h04R24 Clicks
7. http://ow.ly/15GI07June Tweets http://ow.ly/15GI0715 Clicks
8. http://ow.ly/f4glGood enough to transport the Royal Marines, good enough for Scout
camping...
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15 Clicks
9. http://ow.ly/gfVT$3.99 t-shirt sale! http://ow.ly/gfVT13 Clicks
10. http://ow.ly/9KqNWeekend Patrol Box #17 http://ow.ly/9KqN13 Clicks