Squat rocks and such

This post may seem random because I'm playing catch-up again. I'm the queen of procrastination. But I really don't think that's a good thing to be queen of. Here goes . . .

We finally have eggs! Yay!!! After waiting and waiting and more waiting, our ducks and chickens have finally started producing eggs, which is our whole reason for having them. It sure isn't because I like having poop all over my yard.

Look at these beauties! The large white ones are duck eggs, the brown ones are our standard chicken eggs, and the little white ones are bantam eggs. We usually get at least one duck egg, 2-3 brown eggs, and one bantam egg per day. Not too shabby.

Ian was mowing the grass a couple of weeks ago and I heard Lauren start to cry (of course she has to be outside with dad) so I went to check on her. I opened the back door and this is what I found. Apparently she stumbled across an ant bed and went to dad for help. I was impressed. :o)


Scout stuff:

Our cub scout pack went to visit a local museum this past week. I had no idea this little gem was practically in our back yard (seriously, it's right across the cotton field from my house).

It was put together by one of our scouts' grandma and she has done a wonderful job with it. The museum is actually a combination of three old houses put together and is the home of quite a collection of antiques and memorabilia.

Here's our motley crew on the front steps of the museum before they were given the grand tour.

A few of the antique telephones on display.

I'm sure glad my iron is the plug-in kind. :o)

I think Grandma Gregson had one like this.

And old butter churn and some aprons. We were also shown some butter presses. I wish I had taken a picture of those. They were really neat.

More scout stuff:

Here are my 3 little Tiger Cubs showing off the leaves they collected for our leaf rub project. These guys are 3 peas in a pod.

Here are the Tigers and Webelos donating teddy bears to the police dept. We did this service project last year and it was a hit.

The Tigers and Webelos meet the mayor. This was the same day as the bear donation. Right after this picture was taken, Zack said to the mayor, "Hey, you got any gum?". I don't think he was quite prepared for that one.

That's about it for this catch-up session. I still need to post some football pictures, but that will have to wait till another day. Ciao!

Cub Scout Day Camp

This past week we had the opportunity to go to day camp with our pack. This is the first time any of us---scouts and adults---had ever been to day camp. The theme this year was CSI: Cub Scout Investigations.

Here is the whole group minus those of us who were behind the cameras. We had a few Boy Scouts helping out. They did a great job teaching the cubs scouts songs and games.

Huddling up after playing tag football.

Learning to shoot BB guns.

Leather working.

Webelos learning CPR for their Readyman badge.

More tag football. (Same day. I'm just being lazy and didn't put the pictures in order.)

Todd and Zack learning a new song. I think this one was Baby Shark.

Zack planting his tomato seeds. He's not a cub scout yet, but he was able to go with us and do activities with the Wolves. They went to a local nursery on this day.

Here is Todd getting ready to drive the obstacle course wearing special goggles that impair your vision to simulate what things might look like if you're drunk.

Here's my pack on the last day of camp.

I didn't post all of the pictures because there are just too many. They had so many great activities---the drug dogs did a demonstration one day, a 911 operator came and talked to the boys, finger-printing and dusting for prints another day, and the Sheriff came one day. Ian and Todd camped out with the Webelos one night. I didn't get to go every day so I missed some of it, like archery, and I wish I had taken pictures of the drug dogs, but my camera was dying. I know they all had a great time and can't wait til next year.