Camp Osborn

We had our second camp out with the cub scouts this weekend.  We went to Camp Osborn  The theme for the weekend was pirates.  Pack 210 won for the best camp decorations.  Thanks to the great pirate ship that the leader's made.

 Paige quickly made friends with the moms and grandmas that were there and I was happy to let them do her hair on Saturday morning.  

 French braid to keep the sticks and leaves out!

 Logan got to shoot the bow and arrow.

 There was even time for the siblings to shoot them!

 Logan thought the BB guns were awesome and shot one in the black.

 Rowing was a good time.  Although I think mom would have been a bit worried about her 6 year old alone in a boat with no adults.  There were quite a few lifeguards floating around the pond though.

 Paige found a nice squishy matress to rest on while we were waiting for Logan in line at the rock wall. 

Logan made it about 10ft up the wall before he jumped off.

Pineapple Planting

One of Logan's requirements for Cub Scouts is to plant something.  With as much gardening as we do I thought it would be more interesting to plant something odd.  We decided on a pineapple.  

 We had planted a pineapple a month ago but we had another one to try.

Right now they are sitting on the front porch but are going to be moved into the garage with the citrus trees for the winter.  Supposedly in 2 years we'll have a pineapple to eat..... We'll see if it makes it.

Tent money

After our first camp out with the Cub Scouts it had become quite evident that we needed a bigger tent.  The old 2 man Coleman tent that Danielle and I used when we were in Japan really was too small for Logan Paige and I.  The only problem was I didn't have any money.  Then I remembered that I had a $50 gift card on Amazon from John and Jeanice for birthday and about 6 years worth of crushed cans under the house.  

I took the cans in to the recycling center and got $74 dollars.  This gave us a total of $124 for the new tent fund.  I found a Coleman 8 person Montana tent on Amazon for 121.  After tax it was 129.94 so I had to come up with a grand total of $5.94  

Here's the tent.  It has a door!

Para-Cord Lanyards

I bought a compass for Logan and was trying to figure out how to keep him from losing it and decided to make a lanyard out of para-cord (550 cord).  It was late but I figured it would only take an hour.  What I didn't plan on is Paige and Lillie getting out of bed and seeing me working on it.  It turned into a 3 hour paracording marathon.  Blue for Logan, pink for Paige, and pink/orange for Lillie.  Lillie has since decided she likes purple better, so there's some re-work to do some day.  

 To hang the compass from the lanyard I was trying to find a big key ring to put on the lanyard but found a pull ring from a grenade I had thrown years ago.  When I told Logan it was a ring from a grenade I thought he would be impressed, but he looked at me and said "What's a grenade".  So I told him it was part of a bomb and he was sufficiently impressed.

 We have since added a mini-mag light to the lanyard but I'll have to get a picture later.

Big Fish

And the prize fish for the campout goes to Paige Corray!!!!