Busy Busy!

Three weekends ago, I practiced my "mad" safety officer skills at a practice Search and Rescue exercise at the Lake of the Ozarks. The safety part was going well, and so I volunteered to be a missing person about a mile away from camp. I had a beacon, so it shouldn't have taken long, right?

I was sitting on a poncho on the edge of a small clearing. Now, I'm a city girl but I've played in the woods my fair share. As a cadet, I played in the woods with AF special forces guys at a special camp. I like the woods. I have never, ever, ever seen as many spiders and ticks as I did that day. I was finding ticks days later.

Anyway, they couldn't find me after two hours and I was growing annoyed with the number of things gnawing on me. And then I heard a sound I've never heard before, but knew immediately what it was - rattling. I looked over, and sure enough about 10 feet away there was a snake. No, I did not ID the thing. As of yet, only boys have indicated that's what I should have done. Women are smarter, apparently. I got my stuff and "located" my car. They eventually found me there, though.

Memorial Day weekend we did staff selection and training for the encampment at the end of July. I've got a great Cadet Commander planning the whole thing, and he's picked his staff and they look great. I'm really looking forward to it.

This past weekend was the 5th Cadet Leadership School. We run one course for the new cadets and another course for the slightly more advanced cadets. My cadet commander did a superb job and I spent most of the weekend bored because at 14 he's almost as capable at project management as most college grads. The BIG news there is they gave me a shiny certificate, which I have since framed and put up at work (in place of a BZ award). It reads "Best Activity Director Ever." They even had everybody sign it! I was so happy.

Did you know gallons of milk will explode if dropped? Keep it in mind.

Anyway, on to the link. Not many this time because my internet bookmarks are having issues.

First up and last up, a plan to reach out and touch the Sun.