Jan 24th 2020

Today millions of young boys and girls are members of scouting organizations.  

It all began with the publication of the book, Scouting for Boys, by Lord Robert Baden-Powell, on January 24, 1908. Baden-Powell was born in London on February 22, 1857. He spent much of his early life playing in the woods around his home, learning about nature and what was then called wood-craft—how to make-do with the materials that nature provided and how to sustain life away from industrialized society. He wrote that “… in my spare time as a schoolboy I did a good lot of scouting in the woods in the way of snaring rabbits and cooking them, observing birds and tracking animals, and so on.” Scouting for Boys translated Baden-Powell’s knowledge into lessons designed to give boys a taste of adventure and lots of advice for living honorable and satisfying lives. He wrote: “I knew that every true red-blooded boy is keen for adventure and open-air life, and so I wrote this book to show you how it could be done even in a civilized country like England.” The book was an instant success. It taught boys how to interact with nature. As Robert Baden-Powell said, “Life without adventure would be deadly dull.”

Today started with an alarm clock

At 7 ugly o'clock in the morning.

I had a Dr. appointment in London,

And had to be up early

Just in case we had winter weather issues.

I forgot my car has not moved 

In almost 2 weeks,

So glad I had extra time

To get the residual snow-ice off her.

Not a bad drive in and into the office

Pretty quickly too.

Tests results show my kidney function

Has greatly improved (tg)

And everything looked fine.

Off to the grocery store

For crop supplies

And then home... for a nap.

At 1pm I got up,

Prepped 95% of the food

And we loaded the vehicles

And went to the hall for set up.

To find no tables set up.....

Ugh.

We unloaded the vehicles

And started the process of 

Putting accessible power

To everyone's table.

Thankfully 2 hubby's to the rescue

And the rest of the tables

And chairs flew into place.

By 4pm we were all done

And the hall completely set up!

Like just turn on the coffee set up!!!

Home again,

John was making pasta, stuffed peppers

And garlic buns with Caesar salad.

We spent the evening

Watching tv, grabbing and packing

Last minute items I had forgot,

And packing me a project.

By 9pm,

John was napping,

The house was clean (ish,

I was in pjs with a cider

And everything was ready for tomorrow.

Yes that's no typo!!! 9pm.

I spent an hour

Watching some Disney+

And when John left for work,

I popped into bed.

Setting the alarm for tomorrow again

At 7 ugly o'clock in the morning

But at least it's at the end of my street

Not in a different city!!!

Good night from John Street