No meetings

Remember, we don't have meetings the next two Monday's. Have a merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. We'll see you again on Jan. 5.

Caroling

We went Christmas caroling last night. Each year we visit a senior living home and serenade them with our bad singing. The funny thing about this evening is that every year the boys complain and say they don't want to go, and then they have a good time. The residents enjoy seeing the boys as well.

Last night the star of the show was the littlest member of one the families that joined us. She was crawling around and drawing all of the attention away from us!! Wait, maybe that's a good thing.

After wearing out our singing voices (or their ear drums, not sure which) we went out for pizza. Mountain Mikes in Antelope allowed us to have a fundraiser at their restaurant. Unfortunately, it didn't look like many others than ourselves came by to support us this time. It was our first time trying this type of fundraiser, so we'll see if we can't do a better job next time.

Dec. 8 meeting

Tonight was our last Court of Honor for 2008. We passed out the last few merit badges that the boys earned and awarded those boys that advanced to the next level in rank.

I was also the evening that the 2 boys that sold the most popcorn got their award of smearing me with a pie. D did a real good job. A lot was left on my face. G however, got a little cocky about his 'skills'. I was able to duck out of the way and watch the majority of what was on his plate slide to the floor. After a few seconds of chasing each other, I let him put the remainder in my face (after I got some in his hair, ha ha ha).

After that we ate cookies and laughed.

It was a good evening.

Dec. 1 meeting

We had our monthly committee meeting last night. The boys helped out in deciding on some activities for an upcoming Roundup. We also held our bi-annual elections. We have new leadership in place. A surprise to me was that R was elected SPL. I didn't know that he had been nominated. He chose D to be his ASPL. G is the new PL for the Dragonslayers, while J is the new PL for the Rabid Monkey Men. Other positions were filled, some grudingly, while a couple others were left vacant. For now. Lets hope those boys will learn the lessons that this responsibility has to offer.

Christmas Wreath Fundraiser

We have started the annual fundraiser of selling Christmas wreaths. If you haven't received your flyer, you can visit the link below-right to see what is offered and print out an order form. The proceeds from this help out the purchase or replace gear, among other things.

Nov. 17 meeting

One of the fathers from our Troop (who is an Eagle Scout by the way) gave those boys in our unit that needed it, a talk on the Citizenship portion of their First Class trail. After that, they joined the rest of us in our discussion of the Emergency Preparedness requirements. I had asked the boys to begin working on these partial merit badges back in October, and they had been reluctant for some reason to get it done. So... I took charge of it and we dove into it. They won't be able to get by the time the December Court of Honor rolls around (unless they put some effort into on their own at home), but we will get it completed.

Remember... No Troop meeting next Monday, the 24th. We will see you all again on Monday, December 1. Have a great Thanksgiving!!

Rock Climbing

8 boys (7 of ours and 1 from another Troop) joined us at Sacramento Pipeworks for a couple of hours of climbing. A couple of the boys were a little scared/nervous about it, but we were able to get everybody on a wall. Hopefully next time, we can get those boys to climb a little higher.