Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Scout o Rama!

Sandy (mother in law)
Caleb and Ryan, it was cold and windy

gila monster, so gross


Great horned owl

burrowing owl

Caleb and his dad Ron

Caleb is the assistant cub master in our ward, and my brother Will is the cubmaster...I know, you gotta watch both of them...

A couple of weekends ago we had the scout o rama. Caleb was working when they had the meeting so he didn't know what was going on but like 3 days before the event he learned that our ward didn't have a booth (some people just do the very minimum, you know what I mean?) Anyway, so Caleb called his mom who works for Arizona Game and Fish Department. She runs the Adobe Mountian Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (http://www.earthodysseyonline.com/ good article just done on her). At his facility they take in wildlife that have been injured and they either get them healthy enough to survive back in the wild and release them into their natural habitat. but there are some animals that do not get to go back, she has a couple of eagles that have injured wings or animals that people have cought and imprinted and she uses these animals to educate the public. It is really fun. I have got to see some crazy animals up close that I would never have seen otherwise.

Anyway, so we convinced her to come set up a booth for the Scout o Rama. It was soooooo freezing cold and the wind was HORRIBLE! But they were troopers and stuck it out and it was a Huge success! So thank you SOOOO much Sandy!

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