Well, we did our "Christmas Cards for the Troops" event...I planned and organized the whole thing and it went perfectly.
We had it at a friend of mine's church...her husband is the pastor and we had it in her fellowship hall. Everyone brought snacks and drinks.
The Marine that I had come in and speak (a homeschooling dad) was wonderful...he's why we had to do the Christmas cards now...he deploys in a week or so. He spoke on just the right levels, to little kids and young people alike.
The kids asked some great questions...Matthew asked how much an M-16 cost. Some other kid asked if his sword was sharp. He said it wasn't and Joshua asked "How do you kill people with a dull sword?"
Then we all went to work on our cards...my table is covered with drying cards!
I thought I'd need a unit to send them to, Rick, but it looks like the Marine unit this guy belongs to is the one I'll be sending them to. They are a Marine reserve unit here in Broken Arrow.
When it was all over, the adults and the young people cleaned everything up in no time. It really went off without a hitch.
I'm so proud I got to finally do it again...you know they wouldn't let me after I messed it up so bad that time...told me I couldn't do it any more and it was just dropped. Such an important thing, imo...it shouldn't have been dropped especially during this time. They should have let me have another chance.
It took the group splitting and us ridding ourselves of those arrogant leaders for me to finally get to organize it again.
How many Hobbit Hole pocket knives do they need?
Note to entire Hobbit Hole:
I just got on another 25 Camillus BK2s, and did some counting. 75 are promised, to date. Aside from the small problem of paying for them, we seem to have more requests coming in than knives going out.
Part of that problem is the engraving. It takes almost two weeks for me to unpack the knives, take the handles off, take the blades in, bring them back, and put everything back together. THEN individual knives are packed, and mailed out.
While I hate doing it, leaving the Camillus BK2s unengraved until the backlog is gone will cut off about two weeks on turnaround time. Requests for a BK2 are taking over a month, and this will cut things down considerably.
Comments? Suggestions?
I can't imagine you having messed up anything involving the military guys. When did that happen?