Yang passes away

Sadly, today we buried Yang, one of our three hamsters. We don't know why she died so suddenly. When I was leaving to go camping early last Saturday morning, she was up and running around and begging for treats. By that evening she was gone. Due to the amount of rain and muddiness in our garden we weren't able to bury her until today. We painted a little cardboard box gold and stamped it with the chinese character for love and buried her under a blue garden stone beside a rose bush. Up in hamster heaven, I'm sure my old hamsters Slimy and Grimy are showing her around. Good bye Yang.

Gray Owl Spring Camporee

This past weekend my Troop, Troop 57 out of Garland Texas attended the spring Camporee. The theme this time was cooking and the main competition was the Iron Chef contest. We had a great time hanging out with other local troops. The scouts built a rather elaborate tree structure to practice their knot tying skills. As a troop, we had good fortune in the cooking contests, taking third place in the cobbler contest with an apple-rhubarb cobbler. We also won the Iron Chef Award. the secret ingredient was Spam and we entered four dishes: Spam Tamales, Spam on Bowtie Pasta, Asian Spam Lettuce Wraps and Philly Spamsteak Sandwiches. The goal was to create a sort of world tour with Spam. I've posted the recipes under the Camping Recipes tab at the top of the site.