The Blog of Scot Newbury

“A knife is a tool, not a toy.”

That quote is the first rule that my sons had to learn tonight as their Cub Scout Den started to work on their Whittling Chip which will allow them to carry a knife to approved events. The entire den did a good job of paying attention during the safety lesson and all got a chance to take a crack at sharpening a knife.

A couple of weeks from now we’ll be finishing the lessons with some basic knife skills, we’ll be whittling a bar of soap into a bear, or at least that’s what we’re hoping for.

Little did I know I was starting a weekend tradition when I did this a week ago.

Last weekend when the topic of lunch came up the kids asked for pizza. As we are trying to cut down on expenses I told them I wasn’t going to order any so they asked for english muffin pizzas but unfortunately we didn’t have any english muffins in the house.

So I called an audible (that’s my tie in for football today) and substituted wheat bread – toasted, and the kids loved it. We’ve had it two weekends in a row, starting to look like it’s going to be a regular menu item.

Four charged remotes – no lines, no waiting.

So today as I took A out to get new sneakers (I almost used a picture of those) and while we were at the store I picked up the four station charger for Wii remotes put out by Nyko as it was on sale.

So after minimal effort all four Wii remotes have a nice new home right beside the base station and will be fully charged by morning so the gaming can continue.