Theme of the Week 3 – What is an accomplishment you are particularly proud of?

Everybody has something they have done in their life that they are proud of – I could probably come up with a few (not least of which have to do with my children and family) but to be honest the first thing that popped in my head when I asked myself this was being an Eagle Scout.

I made Eagle when I was fifteen, which was fairly young. My Eagle project was rebuilding a set of trails in a local park, putting down wood chips to walk on and building three bridges to go over swampy parts. It was a pretty big project, and I still remember how nice it was to see people using those trails the next year when we would go by.

Back then, required merit badges for Eagle included First Aid, Camping, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in the World, Lifesaving, Cooking, and a few others. I got twenty-four merit badges total, with twenty-one being required. There are still times forty years later that I tell people I am an Eagle Scout and they are impressed – which is nice.

Camping was a favorite merit badge, as was Canoeing – part of doing Canoeing then was completing a 50-mile trek, which was quite a lot of paddling 🙂

Other business:

1. There are a bunch of new Circles (like Television, Film, Music, LGBTQ, several more) – they all came from member suggestions so please check them out!
2. We have been working on help pages, they are now online and connected to the main menu – there are many more to come, but you can get some help and see what we are working on there.
3. As I said in the last entry, our Engineers have created a tool that lets us set all of your old entries to Private (or Friends Only) – so if you want us to run this on your diary before the public launch that is coming shortly, let us know through the Support link at the bottom of the page.

Hope everybody is having a pleasant holiday season!