After long and untold hours of planning, organizing, purchasing supplies, returning supplies, building, destroying, and rebuilding, my Eagle Scout service project is finally complete!

My project was to build a produce stand for The Shepherd’s Garden, a local Community garden that was created by my church, Trinity Episcopal. It took four weekends of work to complete the project, and it was amazing to see it all come together.

Now all I have to do is finish paperwork and have another couple of meetings with merit badge counselors and I’ll have my Eagle Scout sure enough. Finishing this project was both rewarding and relieving, that’s for sure!

Friday:
I started the day with no homework done from feeling terrible the night before. I woke up at 5:30 and managed to pull everything together. I still felt sick but not nearly as much as I did the two days before. Got criticized because I said I might not play in the football scrimmage that night. I ended up playing my heart out and beat the snot out of some kids from Greenfield. We lost the scrimmage 18-7, but I felt good making my enemies feel like jerks.

Saturday:
Began work on my Eagle Scout project, which is building a produce stand for our local community garden. It’s a big project and will take several weeks. I have to finish all my work before my 18th birthday, so I’m on a tight schedule. We finished work at 12:30, and got a lot done. Stephanie came over at 4 and we watched movies all evening. She also helped me sort through all sorts of stuff I’m getting rid of to make space in my room. I was horrified and enraged to discover that someone destroyed ALL of the work we had done in the garden that morning. I wasn’t sure who did it, but they were gonna get it if I ever found out. It was a great day otherwise.

Sunday (today):
I found out at church that one of the congregation that also happens to own the land thought that the city was doing unauthorized work on his land, and that was why he dismantled it. He graciously helped us redo all the work we lost, and I am sitting on go for the next stage of construction. I also practiced some driving, folded all of my tshirts in a space-saving manner for limited drawer space, and I made some dough from eBay sales. In another stroke of good fortune, I finally got my graphics card to work, completing my summer project and my new monster of a PC.

Jack called for rolls and no one else at the table knew it. All of a sudden, rolls slammed into the table, knocking everything over. It was almost like a scene in a war movie, with mortars or rockets or mines or grenades exploding all over the place. I happened to see a roll coming straight for the back of Stephanie’s head, and being a good date I told her to duck. The roll flew over her and landed right in my crotch. OWWWWWWWWWW. I don’t have to say anymore.

Today was pretty bluh though. I got to sit in on a bunch of court cases to finish up another merit badge, one of the last standing in my way to become an Eagle Scout. After lunch I didn’t get a chance to see Stephanie, and then football was a bust. A big thunderstorm came in town and wreaked havoc.

I guess this was so long because I was too tired to write yesterday. I am really liking my blog nowadays!

Tomorrow is going to be a good day – I can feel it!