Memories, Opinions, Alien Biscuits, Strongly Worded Letters, OFFICIAL Scarves, and Some Other Stuff
About four or five years ago, I hiked up Big Boy at Camp WaBak for the first time. If you’re not familiar with the top of Big Boy, the view is magnificent, but there’s this sheer rock cliff that kind of…
Over the weekend, we traveled on a magical journey to the land of aMUSE where we discovered, connected, and took action! Well, not really…. FWIW, if you came across this post looking for a guide to do the aMUSE journey…
If you’d ever like to see what the weather is like as close to Camp WaBak as possible, visit this personal weather station. It is located just on the other side of Big Boy Mountain. Our Juniors and I are…
Enough of the serious stuff like white papers and GSUSA! I’ll get back to them later. Let’s have some fun in the meantime. Tonight I was cleaning up some of my old documents and came across one that had a…
Recently, a white paper written by the CEO of the Farthest North GS Council has been making the rounds on Facebook and volunteer discussion groups and is causing quite a stir among volunteers and apparently GSUSA alike. One particular FB…
I first attended Mountain Magic, our council’s leader weekend, back in October of 2011. Since then, there’s only been one other Mountain Magic. It’s either been skipped or canceled or flooded out. Contrary to my cynical guess, MM 2015 has…
Here’s a pet peeve of mine (I got a million of ’em!) that’s kind of bothered me for a while. I didn’t really think of it as an issue for anyone other than me until a leader friend of mine…
By a stroke of serendipity, I found my Trip Out West™ diary while looking for something else. In fact, I found a bunch of my GS stuff while looking for something else. Funny how that works out. Instead of unpacking…
This past weekend our GS troop visited Cosby, TN and the llamas (and one alpaca!) of Smoky Mountain Llama Trek. We had a great time. The gloomy clouds and drizzle broke apart once we got past Asheville, NC, and we…
Eeyores: This is another pity party post. Every once in a while I have to get these out of my system. As I whined in another post, this has been a hard year Girl Scouts-wise for me. I won’t go…