February is DERBY time!

Every scouters has made a derby car or 7.

Tonight I got to help make a few. The race is Saturday, so no time to waste!

Hiking and exploring

Every year we have a wilderness survival weekend for the Boy Scouts. 

It's a weekend for them to use their skills in shelter making and backpack cooking.

This year we are thinking about a nite hike along a shoreline to get to our shelter ground. The boys and I did a little exploring to see what the area looks like and it's conditions.

Here's a pretty grove of trees usually on a nice point in the water, but due to winter pool they are all alone.

And the boys, taking a break and trying to eat a snack....... Though we are only a 1/2 mile into the hike. 

Cowboy Cooking

We'll in an effort to cook better cornbread I descided to build a cowboy cooker. 

A nice deep 6" pan will allow us to put sand in the bottom of the cooker. This should help protect the grass of high use parks.

Next I twisted up some handles. I was going to use horse shoes, but had a hard time finding some in town. So I used rail road spikes, which I really do like.

With a rack above the cooker, I hope to hang ovens from the rack on hooks. With different lengths of hooks I can adjust the distance to the fire changing the temperature.

And here we have a finished product in use!

Cornbread, beans, and pork chops and potatoes. All being cooked up.

Happy Eating. I'm sure we can feed a bunch of scouters with this!

Play Time.

Scouts at play! 

Yummy Cornbread and Socks?

When scouters get bored and hungry, they cook!

Here's a nice Mexican cornbread........ The scouts on the other hand are roasting socks.

Winter Camp - ~News Years -2014

For a rainy, cold 3days we managed to survive. Leave it up to scouters to find a nice place to hold up and tell stories.