Announcing Trail Life USA

The promo for the upgrade from the BSA. I'm joining!

 

Creation Sings the Fathers Song

I found this song by Keith and Kristyn Getty. I really enjoy it and wanted to share it with you.

 

It's Official

As of 9:04 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time on August 28, 2013, Matthew Jacob Dustin of Boy Scouts of America Troop 0777 of Barrington, NH, Abnaki District, Daniel Webster Council, is officially an  Eagle Scout! 

Also, Congrats to my buddy Ryan G. for getting his Eagle tonight as well.

I am Eagle Scout number 10 and Ryan is 11 from our troop.

Your next, Dave.

Eagle Project, Summer Camp, Scouts, Work-Out, Play Practice, Etc.

Sorry I have not updated in a long time. However, I have several good reasons.

Two weeks ago yesterday, our troop left for summer camp. We canoed 61.7 miles down the Connecticut river in four days. It was awesome. The views, the wildlife, the crazy adult leaders that were attempting to construct sails for their boats out of poca-dot umbrellas, every bit of it was awesome! we only had bad weather on the last day, which was really nice.

When I got back, I had auditions for the play my sister is directing. I'm not sure how much information I'm allowed to leak, so I won't push my limit on pain of getting my ears boxed. However, I can tell you that it is going to be good.

This past weekend, I was able to complete my Eagle project. Yes, the mammoth of a service project that I have been working on for over two years is done. Done! DONE!!!!! I'm still working on comprehending it. I will post pictures as soon as my internet is working. I have my Eagle Application filled out and am in the process of writing my Life Purpose Statement. All that is left is my Final Write Up and my Board of Review with the date set for September 25. It is great because one of my best friends, Ryan, and I will both be going for our Eagle Boards on the same night! How cool is that? I will be posting when I go for my Board of Review, trust me!

I have retired from my position as Senior Patrol Leader and have taken the roll as instructor. Ryan has taken over with one of the guys who joined three years ago being his assistant.

I have also started a work out plan. Once I get my Eagle, I'm planning on joining the Police Explorers. For that, I need more upper body strength than I have right now, because right now I pretty much have none. Look out world, in a couple of weeks I probably won't be able to touch my shoulders. : P

I thought this was funny!

Thanks Holly for sending this to me. Don't worry Alex, I haven't forgotten!!

 

The Death of the Birthday Party (for lack of a better title...)

Ok, so for my birthday, my mom and dad decided that they wanted to get me some a TON of throwing knives. Now all I need to do is name them. Any suggestions?

Top left and bottom right are the SOG Fixed Blade Tactical Throwing knives. I got six of these puppies! they'll leave a mark... if I hit you!

Top right is the Cold Steel High Performance True Flight Throwing Knife! I Love this knife! works good at a regular fixed blade too.

Bottom left is the Perfect Point Phantom three knife set and they are far from a perfect point. I actually got these a couple of months ago, not for my birthday. They don't fly as nice as I had hoped they would, but they still look cool!

Lastly, the center is the Hibben Knives GH2013 Generation 2 Pro Throwing Axe. I would not want to meet the working end of this baby! It's nasty! You drop it on your foot only once because you probably won't have a foot to drop it on a second time.  

Hey Folks, that's right, little ol' me is officially 16 as of 8:25 this morning! Now, how I understand it, to find what your IQ is, you divide your age by four, which means I have an IQ of four. Yippy!
 

Canoeing

Had a great time canoeing with David and Ryan yesterday. Went to our local lake and did 5 miles.
We flipped the canoe and recovered it without leaving the water and then got out on a rock in the middle of the lake to get some pictures. I will post them when I get them. We also had a lot of fog so we could hardly see where we were going. That was probably the best part.

Anyways, we had a great time. Sorry you had to miss it, Paul!

Biking

Oops! I haven't been good about updating my biking blog log. Since the last post, I have biked 43.28 miles putting me at a total of 80.58 miles, a far cry from the 1,500 I intended to do, but it's still better than nothing!

Eagle Scouts

Last Wednesday one of our scouts, Jeremy, went for his Eagle Board of Review. We had another scout, David, also go to get his project approved. Thankfully, both passed. Jeremy became Troop777's ninth Eagle Scout. His project was building a trail in his neighborhood.

David's project is to fill backpacks with supplies and send them to a Christian orphanage in Zambia.

Thanks to Ryan for the pictures.

The three board members that did the BoR, Jeremy and my dad.

David



Mr. F, David, Mr. and Mrs. B and Paul



Congrats J and Dave!