Wednesday 08-02-2017 – Celebrate Boy Scout Day!

My grand nephew is a Boy Scout. I’m very proud of him, too!

Oh no KJ, I hate to hear of you losing your bracelet! Even if it’s not expensive, that’s not the point…it’s the significance of the piece you lost that makes it such a bummer. I hope someone turns it in for you.

Went to see surgeon yesterday, and he was very pleased with my progress. I got to ditch my compression hose since I am now more mobile with the use of a cane!! I was going to have a hose burning party, but just settled on wrestling them off of myself and tossing them with force into the trash! Well, they did their job, but good grief I’m glad to be rid of them… 😆 My PT is pleased with my progress also, and I also have to remember to rest as it’s also part of my rehab. I may do another week with the in home PT then graduate to the PT center for the next few weeks. I don’t mind the in home stuff, but it keeps you home bound, as those are the rules. That’s the part that is beginning to get under my skin, as each day it seems that everything get a little better and I would like to venture a little further than my home and soon.

We are supposed to get a couple of inches of snow, but with the way the weather forecasters are acting, you would think there’s a blizzard on it’s way. The ground here has been so warm, that most of it won’t stick anyway. Temps aren’t too bad–in the 30’s, so we will probably wake up with a skiff of white on the ground in the morning. One day it’s in the 60’s, a couple of days later wind chills are in the single digits…weird and very hard on our animals!

Good afternoon all. We have the sun back after getting less than a teaspoon of rain yesterday. 3ml in all ! ! That is not going to do anything for relief from the drought. 🙁 The overnight temp dropped quite a bit and I was pleased a certain dappled darling came and snuggled up into my back. I think we were keeping each other warm.
KJ, I hope that someone found your bracelet and has handed it in.
KZ, Yay on being free of the compression hose. 😀 It sounds like you are doing very well with the physio and I hope you can get out of the house and off the property soon for physio at the centre. Sounds like you have ‘cabin fever’.
JJ, as soon as I saw the theme for today I thought of you and your ultimate Boy Scout Dad. 😀 I love how Comet and Mac are earning scouting badges. When will Dewey join the Scouting movement?
Here in NZ girls can join the Boy Scouts or the Girl Guides. I hope the weather isn’t as harsh as they are talking about and the power stays on.

Yes KJ, girls can be Boy Scouts or join the Scouting Movement. I believe it came about because so many Scouting families live in the country and coming in to town twice a week for Scouts and Guides for their daughters was expensive and difficult so the decision was made to allow girls to join Scouts. Great for the girls that they still get to experience Baden-Powell’s dreams for boys.
Here is a rather delightful and hilarious excerpt on the Girl Guide/Scout movements beginnings.
“In 1909 there was a Boy Scout rally at Crystal Palace in London. In those days, for girls to camp and hike was not common, as this excerpt from The Boy Scouts Headquarters Gazette of 1909 shows: “If a girl is not allowed to run, or even hurry, to swim, ride a bike, or raise her arms above her head, how can she become a Scout?”[8] Among the thousands of Boy Scouts at the rally was a group of girls from Pinkneys Green. They asked Baden-Powell to let girls be Scouts but he decided that separate single-gender organisations were a better solution. In 1910 Baden-Powell formed The Girl Guides in the United Kingdom.[9] Many, though by no means all, Girl Guide and Girl Scout groups across the globe trace their roots to this point.

Baden-Powell chose the name “Guides” from a regiment in the British Indian Army, the Corps of Guides, which served on the Northwest Frontier and was noted for its skills in tracking and survival.[10] In some countries, the girls preferred to remain or call themselves ‘Girl Scouts’.[11]

The first Guide Company was 1st Pinkneys Green Guides (Miss Baden-Powell’s Own), who still exist in Pinkneys Green, Maidenhead, Berkshire.[12]

Agnes Baden-Powell, Baden-Powell’s sister, was in charge of the Girl Guides in UK in its early years.[13] Others influential in the movement were Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA, Olga Drahonowska-Ma?kowska in Poland and Antoinette Butte in France.”
I can’t help laughing about the things a girl was not able to do. Thank goodness times changed. I was a Girl Guide for many years, learned knots and camped and did all the things boys did as did our girls.
As for Dorry I am sure he can get his Yarn Chasers badge without even trying hard and also his Human Companion badge too. 😉 😉