Eagle Project!

Finally, after having phone numbers in his possession for many months, Isaac called them. He now has a good Eagle Scout project lined up at Camp Cumorah, up in the foothills east of town. Providing we can get the requisite approvals, the project will be done soon.

What is he doing? He’s going to stain 40 benches at a new amphitheater at the camp. Another Scout is going to sand and peel the benches, so we have to wait until he’s done. And the camp is kinda anxious to have all this done before their family reunion season starts up mid-July. So technically we could be doing this project next week, if the other Scout is on the ball.

Making the call and then driving up to Camp Cumorah this weekend was penance for both of us, since a misunderstanding between Michelle and I led to Isaac not going with his Scout troop on their “scout camp” campout this week. (I don’t know what the big deal is, as the only actual event he was going to participate in was their swimming in Jackson on their first day; the rest of the time he was going to be in camp with Michelle, underfoot and babbling. But it’s not mine to guess.)

We’ll meet with the unit advancement chair on Tuesday, and hopefully with the Camp Cumorah representatives either Tuesday or Wednesday so we can get signatures – then we have to meet with the Grand Teton Council guy who approves projects. Hopefully we can get in to him quickly. Good thing is he lives just up the street from us.

We’re hoping this turns out to be a good project. Logistically, it’s simpler than Liam’s was – he painted house numbers on curbs in part of an Ammon neighborhood for the fire department. We learned quite a bit from that one, namely not to do it again (but if we did, we sure know better how to handle things, and that would include laminating the templates so they didn’t fall apart on us so quickly.)

So far, the worst part of the thing was tracking down the folks at the different camps (there are two up there) who were in the know enough to tell us what they needed and, more importantly, be the ones we’d hit up to sign the paperwork). Here’s to hoping it goes smoothly.