Since 1998, Aal-Pa-Tah Lodge 237 has served their fellow Scouts at the Gulf Stream Council, literally, by running a booth that  sells meals to the attendees.   Patches have been made each year for the barbeque pork  and fried turkey since that first year, with additional pieces for the staff of the event.   This year continues the baseball theme that began in 2006, but this was the first year with  a different patch for the pork and turkey*.

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The theme for the activity patches for Aal-Pa-Tah Lodge 237 in 2008 is the ArrowCorps5 program, as previously mentioned in an earlier blog entry.   What had been pictured was the first “year theme patch” design for 2008, the large version of the pentagon AC5 fundraiser, with more to come.

Well, more has come, in the form of a second year theme patch, and this is sure to set  a record.   The patch has 30 sides.   I have also been told that there are 32 different colors, but I have not confirmed this.   With this configuration (also measuring 11 inches tall, 11 1/2 inches wide), it is also unlikely to be sewn onto a jacket. Continue Reading »

Observant users of this site will notice the ShoppingAds advertisements disappeared from the site yesterday.   Very observant users may have noticed a previous post that was on the bottom portion of this page promoting this same service had disappeared before that.

I have been experiencing some problems with ShoppingAds since late April.     I believed their accounting of website traffic was inaccurate.   Various reports on their site about my traffic contradicted each other.     Income had been below normal most of the year but really started dropping in April.   May’s total was less than half the running average.   So far, May is running at about 15% of what I would normally have expected.   Neither site traffic nor ad impressions have seen a similar drop.

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