On Tuesday 17 February, Will put up the first of two Little Free Libraries. His Eagle Project is to plan, source, construct, paint, and install two of these to promote literacy. This one is installed at the chartering organization for Troop 567, the American Legion Post 164 on Kingsland. It is next to a KinderCare, the target of the free books.
Will made this for Culinary.
He was concerned that displaying the Golden Arches would violate a trademark, so he flipped it and made the logo on the fries WcDonald's.
We have new kittens named Dexter and Daphne, we adopted them about a year ago. Dexter is able to open lever doors such that we have had to change some doorknobs to round ones. We finally caught him in the act!
Yesterday, Wilson went to Katy High School's Senior Sunrise 2026 where seniors meet for donuts at sunrise on the football field. At the end of the school year, they meet for the sunset. A neat tradition! This school year, Wilson will be in the Culinary Arts program at the technical campus of our school district for the mornings and regular classes in the afternoons.
Last night, Troop 567 elected Will to be their Senior Patrol Leader for the next 6 months. The SPL is the top youth leader of the unit.
Below, Scoutmaster Wilson is swearing in Will on our new troop flag.
Wilson started school this morning, posing with Colt
This year, Wilson wanted a fox cake for his birthday. Amy spent the day making one:
Wilson continues at Texas Connections Academy of Houston again this year for 9th grade like 8th grade last year. He is glad for the flexibility to work at his own pace and turn around to pet Colt whenever he feels like it!
Wilson has been drawing anthropomorphic animals recently. Every artist at some point draws a self portrait. He combined the two to do this one.
Wilson has had fun visiting lots of the lending libraries in our neighborhood called "Little Free Libraries" organized by this non-profit. We thought we should have one in our own neighborhood as well. We arranged to fund the construction if our neighbor across the street (Hank aka MH) would build it.
We thought the HOA couldn't possibly decline if it was the same paint colors as the clubhouse. That was fortuitous since Hank found the excess paint from the clubhouse under its sink! Even red for the door!
