This poor little scout sliced his thumb with his knife the very first day! Bro. Merrill carved him a wooden thumb as a rememberance! If you look close that's not HIS thumb, it's the wooden one!

When the scouts loose something and it gets turned in, they have to come up and sing "Tea Pot" to get it back!

This is what happens when an elk decides to cross the road right in front of you! Stanley was on his way home after dropping me off for a week long camping trip with friends (the plan was he would work during the week and would come back up Thursday night and spend the rest of the time with us and we'd come home Saturday.) and about a mile past the casino a female elk walked across the highway and changed her mind and decided to turn around and walked (do elk walk?) right in front of Stanley! So grateful for the Lord's tender mercies - it was a female, she went to the side instead of up and into the cab, it's a heavy truck and Stanley is still alive! Sure is scary though! And thank heaven our son JT has a heavy enough truck to pull our trailer so I could come home (although it was a day early). I don't think I would have minded TOO much if I got to stay longer, but I only had a week before girls camp to finish getting ready! It was so nice up in the mountains and we had a good time. We were hoping to get the truck back in time for girls camp - they said 10 days and here it is 23 days and still no truck! It's really hard to work when your truck is in the shop!

I know he can figure it out!