Time to dust off the planning hat.

Ok  is everyone up on their Chairman duties  for this time of year.  You should have recharter done or wrapping up.  You should have moved on to planning the summer.  We want to wrap this up  soon. You should have the summer shcedule ready for the April Pack meeting. 

We had to wait until this last round table to get the information on one of our normal  summer events  a tented sleep over on the local texas league  ball field.   I have a hard time getting behind the local team.   I grew up  in the radio broadcast area of both the Omaha Royals and the Kansas City Royals. I was able to go see the guys in Omaha  and then listen and often watch  them when they moved up to the big leagues in Kansas City. Our local team as I mentioned is Texas league which is a third string farm team for the Padres.  Who are the Padres?   Within 6 hours driving time we have  the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers. Why is our team farmed by the Padres. Any way  it's a great family time. I took my son to both events last year and had a blast though we didn't camp on the field. 

Last year we had a summer fun night at a local soccer field.  we had waterballoon games and  learned how to play Ultimate Frisbee bee bee . The committee decide we want to stretch this out this year and instead of  just 2 hours we're going to try  a whole day.   then we are also going to  do another two hour session later in the summer.  

Last but not least  our raingutter pool party.  What better place than a pool to have a raingutter regatta? We use this to cap off our summer. 

This is all to try and get our summertime pack award.  Now is also the time  to start planning the next years program.  Group campsites in stateparks fill up fast, You may already be too late for a fall campout.  Why do you need to start  all this planning so soon?   Districts are looking for Popcorn Kernals. Trails-end  will be visit you areas soon.  You need to have a plan to create a budget.  You need a budget to set popcorn goals, and boy do we have a steep goal this year! we had a record year last year. Now we have to try and beat that.

Get out there and plan so you can take a summer break too.