Daisy Scouts plant spring flowers for our school

For our Pink Petal, our Troop planted the spring flowers for the front flower beds at our school. The girls will be so proud since everyone at school will get to see their hard work! Mom was really surprised at how hard the girls worked without complaining, and everyone enjoyed getting their hands dirty (except one, who was the master of the rake instead.) I hope these flowers live all summer and are still there to enjoy in the fall. Many thanks to Lydia and Beth for monitoring the watering - it's great to live across the street from the school, but sometimes you get taken advantage of. :)

Evening Camp at Lake Grapevine

We'd been told that we couldn't take our Daisy Troop camping overnight, so Jill (another Daisy leader) and I hatched a plan to have the same fun experiences close to home, minus the sleeping in a tent. We chose a secluded park on the north shore of Lake Grapevine, and we had our girls make fishing poles out of bamboo, play kickball, roast s'mores, go on a scavenger hunt, and we even invited a Junior Troop to come and teach us Girl Scout songs around our campfire.

The funny thing about the bamboo poles is how they were aquired. There is a grove of bamboo over by the Flower Mound Post Office. Bamboo grows and divides like crazy to the point of often being a nuisance...but...would I get in trouble for chopping down bamboo on government property? This is one of those things that's easier to ask forgiveness than permission. I headed over one evening at dusk and parked my car a ways away, walked over, and quickly cut down a dozen poles with my nipper tool. Then I retrieved my car and quickly opened the back hatch and stuffed the bamboo shoots in. I hadn't taken the time to trim the side shoots, so there were branches and leaves everywhere, including sticking out of the back after I closed the door. It probably was a strange sight to see...but, I find that I do all sorts of strange things all for the sake of my kids!