Alex and I are back from a Webelos campout. One of the boy scout troops in Columbia City hosts the campout annually for area Webelos. We and three other boys/dads from 3767 went to it. Alex, however, didn't really want to go and didn't really try to disguise that fact. Anyway, in his defense they were pretty light on activities for us to be there the whole day. We arrived in the morning and set up, and I guess we were early enough that there wasn't anything to do until lunchtime. People kept arriving for long after we were set up. And the bugs were bad, and they always attack Alex. But we had lunch and they started with activities to earn the Readyman badge, which means first aid and safety. We all made tinfoil dinners (which came out perfectly, and I noted exactly how to do it) and afterwards they had a flag retirement ceremony, then a bonfire (including burning a hollow log with TROOP 83 carved into it) at which they made kettle corn, which was yummy. The kids all ran around with flashlights for a while after that until bedtime, then in the morning we packed up and headed home. This was also the weekend for Help a Neighbor Day at church, and we were for the most part working on cleanup/stump removal/pergola installation at Miller's. Why does Miller's need free labor on landscaping, I don't know. Why we weren't helping the elderly members with their home upkeep, I don't know. But that's where we were. Alex and I met up with everyone else there after the campout, but we didn't stay long because we weren't needed. There were dozens of people there and work for few of them, so a lot were just standing around, and the chiefs were too busy being Indians to be chiefs so most people, self included, didn't know what to do. There was no direction. So, after a while we just left.