Day 1208: Snow, really?

Flakes flying, not settling here yet, but they did in the hills.   It's just plain depressing and explains why I spent an hour shopping for vacations in the Dominican Republic and Panama.  During our walk, we stopped at the firehall and visited with one of the firemen who just visited Panama.  It's high on our list because my great grandfather worked on the canal and we are fascinated by the both the engineering marvel and the region.

Each day there are more bugs to fix for Quest.  Today, we discovered that a boy has been attending classes even though he is on the ineligibility list and has not done his blue card.  Who knows what the principal will do.  Sometimes they let it slide and sometimes they enforce the rules stringently.  Each issue has a domino effect ... on his tent partner, cook and hike groups.  We also found out for certain that we've lost our DEC officer/naturalist for the year.  That's a huge loss, because Kevin has had a huge impact on many students, especially ones interested in making their careers in law enforcement and forestry.  I just always feel safer having him with us.

Green= adults, pink=student leaders, yellow=student groups, blue=hike group leaders, orange=tallies

Finally, all the groups have been constituted and I was able to clean up the dining room table in time to sort the t-shirts for Saturday.