Guest Blog: Camp Tracy With Nephews by the Dog Walker

 It's been a very long time since I got to go to any Scout camp in particular. Bossy had given me a chance to spend some time on one of my days off work to go to a day camp with cub scouts Skittles and Queso. Burrito was also put in charge of keeping an eye of Skittles and Queso and to make sure they were participating in the fun activities and having a good time. There was also their Cub Scout troop leader who also showed up with a couple more scouts in her troop.

The day camp was up in Tracy Canyon, just several car minutes away from the Hogal Zoo. It was designed in a dinosaur theme, so the kids would go to several fun activities with different games and obstacles. We were divided into a seven big groups of colored teams to enjoy all the activities that each lasted for half an hour, so were there pretty much the rest of the afternoon until evening. There was rock climbing, dinosaur tail tag, ga-ga-ga ball, boat rowing, archery, scavenger hunts, environmental trash-picking and bb gun shooting. I think Skittles and Queso's favorite activity was rowing a boat on the lake. After the activities and the closing ceremony, Skittles' and Queso's troop leader gave them a patch to take home with them.

Being at a Cub Scout camp for a day and seeing a whole lot of kids joining in all the fun, had reminded me of being an assistant cub master with Dad. I sure miss those times, and being able to help Queso and Skittles have some fun and be good sports with Burrito. I'm sure Dad would be proud of me for choosing to go to a fun day camp activity and remembering all the things from Cub Scouts. And also spending some time with some of my nephews. Here are some fun pictures that I took of the day camp.

Curly's Graduation Party

I seem to have missed blogging about a few things, like Curly's graduation party. We held it the Saturday night right before graduation. We couldn't do it the weekend after since Baby Doll had a tournament.

We planned a nacho bar for food and made the whole thing pretty casual.

Sorry, some are a bit blurry. Various people sent me pics since I didn't take a single one.

By the end of the evening, we had entertained at least 50 people. It was a great tribute to my amazing son.

New Milestone

I hit a new milestone today. This is about what I weighed 42 years ago when I got married. I hadn't planned to ever be under 200 lbs again...oh, who is kidding who? I just wanted to hit 250.

During Covid, my weight climbed to 333, my highest (and lowest) point of my life. Something had to be done and since I didn't want surgery, it was the once a week injections. I started with Ozempic. It had done amazing things for my sweetie.

Slowly, it began it's work on me. My weight slid to 270 and stayed there for a while. We upped my dose, tweaked a few other meds and I hit 250.

My sweetie and I were both trying very hard when the new year rolled around. We were hoping for great things in 2025.

It was the end of March and I had switched to Mounjaro. Things were finally rolling again and my weight crept steadily down. My sweetie bought me new clothes and life seemed pretty perfect.

Then he got sick.

I guess that helped me lose more weight, but by then I didn't care much. It's not like I was losing weight for him, but I guess I was a little. He had always told me I was beautiful, but I didn’t always believe him.

I was this big when I lost him 10 months ago.

This is me now.

In the Bingham shirt. My oldest sister is in the purple shirt. She has lost about 100 lbs as well. This isn't a commercial for taking injections, but they have worked for me. My body is more healthy and moves more quickly, but I am still tired and I feel every one of my 61 years. Being a widow will always make me feel old, I think, but I'm pretty sure my sweetie would be proud of me. If I listen really hard, I can still hear his beloved voice telling me I'm beautiful.

And it makes me smile.

Wordless Wednesday - Dog Walker's Quilt - Mid Repair

(More about this when I can talk since it's Wordless Wednesday.)