Category: Scouts

Order Popcorn, help send me to camp

Remember yesterday I said that you could order popcorn on line?  And that I would post an order form?  Here is it.   Be careful not to make mistakes because once you  submit it, you can’t change it

If you would like to order popcorn on line, go to OrderPopcorn.com.  On the right side of the page there are two banners, one red and one blue.  Type in TEPG7JS on the red “enter order key”.   When you press go, you will see that it says “Thank you for supporting Mark M”.

You can order popcorn from OrderPopcorn.com and I get credit for it.  You will have to pay shipping though.  The popcorn will go straight to your house!

If you are local, you can order it directly from me and save money from shipping!  You can call me or add a comment below.

Please order some popcorn so that I can hopefully get to camp this year free!  Thank you!

poppoppop Popcorn!

Popcorn!I am selling popcorn for Scouts.   We use the money for lots of different things like  camping and badges.

My pack wants me to sell a certain amount for the pack’s needs.  After I sell that amount, I  get a personal account where I get a small amount for camps.   If I sell a lot of popcorn, I may not have to pay for camp all year!  If I sell a LLLLOOOOOOTTTT of popcorn, I get a college fund set up for me.

There are lots of different kinds of popcorn.  My favorite kind is the chocolate one.  They also have microwave ones in butter, butter light, also kettle corn (microwave), and three kinds of Carmel corn.   There is also pop corn kernels (that you have to order on line).

Some of the popcorn we brought home.

I like the 5 Way chocolate tin.  I also like the Cheese corn.  Andrea says she likes the chocolate popcorn and chocolate pretzels and the cheese corn.  Audrey likes the chocolate pretzels and all the microwave ones.   Adrian likes the sweet microwave one and all of them.  Momma likes the caramel corn with almonds, pecans, and cashews.  Daddy wants to try the trail mix.

If you want to order some you can e-mail me, or I hope to post an order form soon.  We brought all the different popcorns home and if you want some, we have all of them right now.

Did you know that trans -fat is not in Trail’s End Scout popcorn?

Did you know that the popcorn in many stores are seconds?  Trail’s End popcorn isn’t and it is the BEST!  Not only does it taste good, it helps Scouts do fun things!

Did you know that Trail’s End Microwave popcorn is only $1 for a pack of yummy microwave popcorn?  Except for the Kettle Corn, it costs a little more.

I’m hoping to get to a high enough level to get a gift card to get a camera that I want.   I have been saving up for one for a long time!

 

 

Pinewood Derby

I worked hard on my Pinewood Derby car. I had to make my car and Daddy helped me. I cut out the car design. I put weights in it and sanded it. I painted it with tape on it. When I took the tape off, there was a place where there is not paint. I put the numbers on (13, because “M” is the 13th letter) and then made it shine by spraying more paint on it. It was fun. Don’t you think it looks nice?

My winning car

I raced on Saturday. The first thing I had to do was the weigh in. They weighed and measured and tested the wheels. The car has to be under 7 inches and weigh 5 ounces or less. Mine was 4.9 ounces! It was perfect with a dime, but adding the tape would, oops!, make it go over.Balance

Measuring

Weighing in

Part of my cheering committee

The people who came to watch my race was Oma, Opa, Grandma, Grandpa, Momma, Daddy, Esther, Andrea, Audrey, Georgie and Adrian. Georgie likes race cars so he “when can I watch the race?!” He gets to watch his daddy race cars, but these were different.First place!

I raced my first race very well. The back on my car jiggled and bounced off the track. Then it slowed me down. My second race I lost by a little bit. The third one I lost by a lot. The other guy’s car was better than mine because the wheels on mine gone angled and the wheels hadSecond place contact with the head of the axle 100% of the time. It slowed me down!

Next year, I am going to put some more friction on it. I have to research how. We think it was too finely tuned and the track was not fine enough. When it bumped, my car jiggled, jiggled, jiggling down the track.

Boy and carI feel proud of my car. I worked so hard on it. I feel mixed emotions about if I am sad or if I am glad that I did not win. They have to confiscate your car if you win, because there’s another race they go to. It would have been fun to race in the second race. So they did not have to confiscate my car and I can play with it.

I know what color I am going to do next year. If I had won, it would have been green next year. But, since I did not win, I am keeping my blues. I am not giving up on blues until I win. The only difference next year, is the stripe will be different and a different car design.

Stay tuned next year, for next year’s race!

I earned my Bear Badge!

Special DeliveryOn Monday my Scout group got a special delivery. It was a toy dump truck that was remote controlled. The den leader’s “Famous” quote of the night; “are you going to dump it all over the floor?” It dumped a package with everything in it on the floor.

🙂 8) 😉 😮

Receiving Bear Badge awardThe dump truck brought some Weblos craftsmen pins and my Bear badge! I did different things to earn it. We went to the zoo in Chicago, baked pancakes, discussed “junk foods”, and baked cookies. We did a law enforcement achievement. I took fingerprints and other things. I had to do twelve achievements out of 24.

 

Badge

Now I am working on arrow points. They are electives. So far I have earned one gold; but I don’t have it yet. I am working on the silvers now.

I am trying to earn the Cub Scout World Conservation Award. I have been working on it a long time! I have to finish this school year or start all over again with harder stuff! It gets harder each year! I wish I had known about it when I was a Tiger.

I am also working on belt loops. They are extra electives. I already have map and compass (and I want the pin for map and compass). I am working on the Geology pin. Maryam is helping me with the Heritage one and Language and culture pins. Daddy is helping me on the computer one.

Bye Bye!