A Hat and some pictures

It's funny the small things that become icons. Apparently my wool rancher hat is one of those items. The hat I'm wearing here (minus the feathers) has become an icon to the Scouts in my district. While I was walking around our camporee this Friday without the hat on, several kids and leaders came up and asked why I wasn't wearing my hat. Honestly it was warm out and a wool hat didn't seem necessary. I went to my car and put it on to appease folks and had a leader I know well come up and tell me how it just looked odd that I not be wearing the hat at a camporee. Understand that I really only wear the hat at camping events and that most people see me without a hat on. Funny that the Scouts and Leaders fixated on that right off the bat.

The rest of the weekend went well. We had the "Crash and Burn" emergency services camporee in coordination with a local technical college with a lot of neat hands-on demos for the scouts to participate in. The only downer was the damp weather including some rain, storms and a lot of mist and fog.

On a separate note, I was coerced, once again by Jason who suggested I start this blog, to assemble a Facebook account. Here is the link to a photo album of me working, an album of my greatest hits photos, and of the camporee this weekend (cool mist picture and neat clouds).

I will also be home to MI from late on July 2nd to early on July 7th for my first visit back since Christmas.