1st Recruitment Night

Dead Girl Derby's first recruitment night for the 2014 season happened last night.  Lots of interested women and men!  Dead Girl Derby is offering so much this year.  I am so excited to be a part of it.

If you ever though of joining derby and live in the Kansas City area, we have one more recruitment night on August 21st.  On my previous post, there is a flyer with the time and location. 

Dead Girl Derby is offering the four House Teams (Shotgun Sheilas, Royal Pains, Lovely Lethals and the Deadly Sirens), a Travel Team, a Zombie League (Black Plague and Gang Green) and a Co-ed Team.

Next season, I will be playing on my House Team -- Shotgun Sheilas and one of the Co-ed Teams!

Girl Scout Junior Badge - Flowers

Alli and another girl from her Girl Scout Troop visited the Kansas City Community Garden this past Saturday to work on their Flowers Badge.  The Flowers badge is part of the Legacy Badges.  This one covers the Naturalist section.

(picture of a Cicada Killer)



Needless to say, they had a great time and learned a lot of new and helpful information.   It was a wonderful learning experience had by all.  I even took in some new information.

The program started out with the girls identifying parts of the flower.  This is one of the requirements to complete the badge.  The girls were having a tough time with it.  I was having a tough time with it.  Who knew flowering plants were so difficult?

 

Do you know how to tell the back end of a caterpillar from its front end?  Touch it.  Press down on it and it will rear it’s front side and put its antenna out and try to be scary.  It wasn’t too scary.  In fact, it was quite cute.

In the fruit garden, we got to sample some fresh, organic fruit.  At the garden, they do not spray any of their fruits or vegetables, so you can eat them right off the plant.

We sampled some super sweet strawberries.  The blackberries were a bit tart but still good.  All the children enjoyed them.

 

Can you find Alli?  She was hiding in the Gourd House.  The entire structure is hidden with the vines and gourds.  We got one of the gourds to take home and cook on up. 

Flower Badge Requirements

Naturalist: Flowers

Purpose: When I've earned this badge, I'll know all that's wonderful about flowers.

1. Uncover the science of a flower:

            * Go on a flower hunt to find your favorite flower and five other kinds in your town. Record     or sketch             what you see.

            * Plant a seed or bulb of your favorite flower and grow it until it blooms.

            * Interview a botanist, ask why they became a flower specialist.

2. Look under the petals:

            * Dye a flower by putting the cut stem into water with food coloring. Keep track of the changes.

            * Find out about why flowers smell. Watch a fragrant flower and record who or what visits it.

            * Find out about different flower families. What are some other flowers in your favorite's family?

3. Find out how flowers help people:

            * Find a flower that turns into a fruit and make a snack using that fruit or an edible flower.

            * Find out about three different medicinal flowers or herbs and how they help people.

            * Try a recipe for bath beads or another product that uses flower scents to help people relax. Does it             work?

4. Have fun with flowers;

            * Make a flower necklace.

            * Make a work of art with dried or pressed flowers.

            * Make your own flowers out of craft materials.

5. Send a message in flower code:

            * Make a bouquet of flowers.

            * Make a corsage (broach or bracelet) of flowers.

            * Make a flower arrangement in a vase or other container.

Warrior Dash Tips

A friend from MOMS Club sent this out this morning. I just wanted to pass it on to my fellow Warrior Dashers. Mike Brandt (guy who has run tons of marathons), and lo and behold, Mike has run a few Warrior Dashes too. He had some advice for those of us who are running the Warrior Dash here in KC. Here is the advice:

1.) Wear shoes you will not want to wear again. In fact they will get so muddy and there is a "donation pile" where many people leave their muddy post-race sneaks to go to Warrior Dash heaven.

2.) You will be started in a wave with hundreds of other people. When you get to an obstacle, you must commit to getting over/through it or risk being shoved aside or run over. If you need to catch your breath or strategize or watch how someone else gets over an obstacle.... stand back from the base of the obstacle. Once you are at the obstacle, commit and go!

3.) Many people (especially ladies or those with fancy costumes) hesitate and the first mud/water crossing and try to tiptoe, keep clean, and be somewhat prissy.... Mike says that by the end of the race everyone is covered with mud so you might as well dive right into the first one so you don't get shoved for slowing down the others behind you and besides, you will get a better time.

4.) If you know you will be going fairly slow, try to start late in your wave so you don't have so many people shoving past you.

5.) Advice from Pam: watch Warrior Dash videos on You Tube. You will see how people get bottlenecked at the obstacles. From Me: They are also fun to watch how people traverse the obstacles.

6.) From yours truly: Enjoy the Beer and festivities afterwards! It's gonna be a blast.