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Night Stella, hope you sleep well.

Have a good night Stella.

Rena, how was your day?

Today was good. Friday is Brownie/Sparks day. It was nice enough this afternoon to go out to play some games with the girls.

Sounds like fun. Are the uniforms still brown and tan?

Not here anymore. Brownies have an orange with blue sleeves t-shirt or orange long sleeved shirt. Uniform pants or skort is optional. Sparks are younger and have pink shirts.

I was in the Garden MizT, prunning back the Azaleas

I'm glad they have changed the colors. Sounds more bright and cheery. The old uniforms were drab.
Our next door neighbor is a Scout leader. The first time we saw him in his uniform was close to Halloween. We thought he was dressing up for a party. He was in his late 40's at the time.

Hi Rola
MizT has left the page.
Hope you didn't trim the azaleas too much.

no, not trimmed too much Rena.. looks nice and neat again. the flowers have finished - well good as..

speaking of birds, have one flittering about amongst the plants in the fernery outside my window here.

Hi Rolanda. Has the first one shown up or did it get stuck in the ether?

When I was a Beaver leader, I wore my uniform to a Halloween party.

Is a Beaver the same as a Girl Scout?

hello Becky and Rena .. forgot my manners !!

Beavers is the youngest Scouts. My oldest son went and they needed leaders, so I volunteered.

Rolanda, that's ok. We forgive you.

Have you gotten your pants finished?

short and sweet I know, but I need to go

Ok, that sounds like the Cub Scouts here. Was thinking that it was a girl's club.

No Rola, don't go, we'll miss you.

Bye Rolanda, have a good day.

Beavers are younger than Cubs.

What did you do today, Becky?

My nephews joined the scouts when they were 6 and 7. I thought that was the youngest group. There might not have been enough boys to make a troop.

Made tomato sauce and cleaned the deep freeze. Would rather have been playing.

Sounds like my day was more fun.
I don't know if they have Beavers in the States. My son started when he was 5.

I think there's a group younger than the Cubs, but I don't know the name. The town my sister lived in had a population of less than 500 and the nearest town is about 10 miles away. I seem to remember they lumped all ages together, but did age appropriate activities.

Just looked it up, no Beavers in the States. Cubs starts at first grade.
Our town is very small, that's why we decided to do Brownies(7-8) and Sparks(5-6) together. All our Brownies last year moved up to Guides. Sparks come for 1 hour, Brownies come for 2 hours. The programs have the same aims so we can work on stuff together.

When I was in the Brownies, the only things I can remember doing is crafts and singing Christmas Carols at the County Home.

In Canada, the Brownies work on Key badges at the meetings. Each Key also has interest badges that they can earn on their own or sometimes we will work on them at meetings. That way they all have some badges. No one feels left out. The Sparks have Keepers(same as Keys) but no interest badges.

It sounds like a good way to do it. I don't know how the Brownies are now. It's been so many years since I was that little.

I was a Brownie leader for a while before I had my kids and it has really changed since then. Even our promise is different.

I don't remember the pledge. Hubby saw my pin one time and asked me why I had a pin of a freaky little fairy. At first I didn't know what he was talking about.

ROFL I've never heard it called that before.

Hi, Everyone! Just a quick Hello, then goodnight! Rena, I enjoyed your youtube! Becky, have fun at your party this weekend. In the US, it's Daisy Brownies (Kindergarten), then Brownies. I think there's also a Kindergarten level before Cub Scouts, but I can't remember what they're called. Hope to see you tomorrow!

It looks like it's doing a jig with a weird smile.

Hi, bye Julie. Come back and chat when you can stay awhile. Thanks for the info. I'll ask my neighbor about the Cub Scouts.

Hi and Bye Julie, hope you can stay for a chat soon.

Rena, what do you have planned for tomorrow?

Putting away the pool and finishing Amber's driving range. Do you have any exciting plans?

Not really. Going to the grocery to drop off bages for recycling. Since hubby is working from home tomorrow, might putter around the house. Other than that, will take the day off from housework.