It's for the boys, not the beads!

Scotty,

Sorry about the car troubles. We had a great Eagle Court of Honor for Devin. I was also awarded my beads and my "rose-colored" scarf with the tartan. Very cool to be done with my ticket and to inducted into the Wood Badge fraternity. My patrol guide also gave me very nice carved buffalo head. Wish you could have been here to share in the ceremonies, but remember, you still have two other nephews that have yet to start on the trail to eagle! Too Hip, gotta go....J.T.

Back to Gilwell?...I need to get there a first time.

I am having a great time working on my tickets, it just so happened that I went to woodbadge the same summer as my sister, 2006. I guess we are both taking after our scouting father, and will need to get our siblings to see the light as well. Of course I did not get to take a weekend trip to Gilwell field between the two weekend Woodbadge courses as my sister did. I probably will not make it there until next year.

Time is moving quickly by me. It is now almost 3 full months into the “Work my Ticket if I can” phase of my Wood Badge course.

I am currently working on 3 different ticket items and have the date set to complete the 4^th ticket item which is a “Fulfilling our Duty to God” achievement day to be held in April of the coming year.

With a bit of help I will be wrapping the last item up about that time also.

More info to follow.

I’ll be sending out more invites for the blog to get this going beyond my own contributions.

The first Wood Badge class at Gilwell.

Scouting for Boys

“Also, from experience of the Boys' Brigade, I realised that men could be got voluntarily to sacrifice time and energy to training boys. Then my idea that Scouting could be educative was strengthened also, through the following incident. General Lord Allenby was riding to his house after a field day when his little son shouted to him, "Father, I have shot you, you are not half a Scout. A Scout looks upward as well as around him - you never saw me." There was the boy, sitting up in a tree overhead; but far above him, near the top of the tree, was his new governess. " What on earth are you doing up there?" cried the General. "Oh, I am teaching him Scouting," she said. She had been trained at Miss Charlotte Mason's Collage for Teachers, and they had been using my book, Aids to Scouting, written for soldiers, as a textbook in the art of educating children.”
Robert Baden-Powell on how he came to write “Scouting for Boys”

The Opening Shot

Well this is the opening salvo into what I hope will become a forum for former and future Wood Badgers.
I've set this blog site up to be a place were the Wood Badge experience can be shared with others with the desire that with the sharing of experiences, Tickets will be completed, Beads awarded and a fire lit within those who have not yet attended to make it a priority in their scouting lives.

Contributors and comments are openly solicited.
Anyone can comment.
To become a contributor please contact me.

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