Winter Awareness

My dear husband has been wonderfully gung-ho about taking on Boy Scout volunteer work. I think he's enjoying the adventure while helping our son discover scouting. Smart man that he is, he's avoided the main leadership roles because his work and travel schedule wont allow that level of participation, but he's an assistant for everything.

For weeks he's been studying snow camping skills and this past weekend he ventured out with some other brave dads to build a snow cave and camp out in it. His reward for all the hard work involved? In scouting reward = patches, so this is what he has to show for shoveling out over a ton of snow:

It made us all giggle a little bit. The Arctic Wolf is definitely cool, but "Winter Awareness?" I guess it's good to have someone in the family aware of these things. Winter can sometimes be a bit vague in California.

Now that he's certifiably "aware," he'll be back up in the mountains next weekend, and Jungle Boy will be with him, learning from his papa wolf how to make a snow cave. Maybe Jungle Boy will achieve seasonal enlightenment as well.

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