Hi, everyone!
Great weekend. I'll start off with the Eagle Project. It's finished! We got together quite a few people to help, and almost didn't have enough paintbrushes and rollers. The front of the stage is black and the cabinets in the back of the auditorium are blue (I'll see if I can get some pictures in later). We completed the project using only $170 of store donations and some donations from friends.
Mom said that it made a real difference, having black and blue areas in a 50 year-old auditorium. I'm glad I was able to improve the school's auditorium.
Floaters. . . . . . Huh? What kind of floaters? you ask. There are inner tubes that are attached to a boat by a 15-20 foot rope. 1-2 people will ride on one inner tube. The boat driver tries to knock the people on the inner tubes off by dragging them in and out of the wake and by spinning them in circles. We had 1-2 people on each floater, so it was a race to see who got thrown off first. Dillan Deffense, one of our ward members, was the best at it. He survived the longest and managed the best tricks (it's hard to stand up at 30 knots!).
This was the main attraction on the lake, but we had a quick 1/2 hour break at 2:00 to grill hot dogs on the boat. After that, we had to get a bunch of kelp out of the anchor.
Quote of the Day:
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
David
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
School's Out!!!
David Here:
Happy Father's Day, all you fathers out there!
Yes! School's finally out! I can now...work on my Eagle Project, go to swim lessons, practice more piano, clean the house more often, and move. Wonderful.
Well, I'll start off with my Eagle Project. I will paint the front of the stage and the cabinets in the back of the auditorium at Sequoia Middle School. This includes paint preparation, paint, and clean-up. It will take place over the next two weeks.
In swimming lessons, I'm a Shark. There are ranks of levels of swimming, from otter (?) to Shark. I'm at the top. The annoying bit is that this conflicts with my Eagle project, so I had to reschedule the times for after swimming lessons. At least it could be arranged. :)
Quote of the Day:
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill (1871-1965)
David Whitesell
Happy Father's Day, all you fathers out there!
Yes! School's finally out! I can now...work on my Eagle Project, go to swim lessons, practice more piano, clean the house more often, and move. Wonderful.
Well, I'll start off with my Eagle Project. I will paint the front of the stage and the cabinets in the back of the auditorium at Sequoia Middle School. This includes paint preparation, paint, and clean-up. It will take place over the next two weeks.
In swimming lessons, I'm a Shark. There are ranks of levels of swimming, from otter (?) to Shark. I'm at the top. The annoying bit is that this conflicts with my Eagle project, so I had to reschedule the times for after swimming lessons. At least it could be arranged. :)
Quote of the Day:
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill (1871-1965)
David Whitesell
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