Bronze Bustle

The Lone Star Girl's Girl Scout troop has been working on earning their Bronze Award. Most of the badges they earned towards it were environmentally oriented, so they decided that their Bronze Award service project would be an environmental project, too. Their project was clearing a space and planting a garden at Camp Greenhill, the nearby Girl Scout Camp, and making and setting up bird feeders throughout the camp.

Usually, the girls meet on Friday nights, but there have been lots of extra meetings lately as they logged in their service hours and prepared. Lone Star Pa has helped ferry the Lone Star Girl around to most of it, while I have kept charge of our Lone Star Baby - we tend to require a divide and conquer strategy when there is work to be done. Some members of our family unit are not very civilized yet.

The girls collected used plastic bottles to make bird feeders out of, and were thrilled to get to use power tools in their construction. They visited our local Science and History Museum and learned about xeriscaping, since there won't be anyone around to water these plants most of the time. They visited two nurseries and chose hardy, water-wise, attractive plants, and bought bird seed and potting soil. Yesterday, they caravaned up to the camp and put in their hours actually making the garden and hanging the bird feeders. We are proud of them.