I have tried all week to put my finger on what makes this crowd tick and contrast it with my fraternity of Scouting friends.  While in the river yesterday a teenager spotted my conclave shirt and we got into a talk about how he has just been inducted in Tsoiotsi Tsogalii (Greensboro, NC).  Before long I was hashing out the difference between the red sashes that national issued for the Centennial and the ones made by Eswau Huppeday 560. That was the common bond - with Scouting this kid I never met could talk to me about Camp Cherokee (I've been there) and his lodge and experience in the OA.  We parted with him telling me I need to get those Centennial patches because "they are going to be valuable".

• Uniform Lot Shirt, Shorts, Belt, Patches, Merit, Badges 
• '83 Buck Custom Lockback Folding Hunter Knife 
• Mischa Mokwa Lodge 435 Pocket Flap Patch 
• 1918 War Savings Service Ace Medal 
• Abooikpaagun Pocket Flap Patch 

Another part of my theory on this is that you get to be somebody you are not in real life.  You can kinda pull on a costume if you will and you go by a nickname rather than your given name and you kinda have a reputation (usually for good reasons).  I was an unknown so it was easy to be the outsider looking in.  However, there are a lot of parallels to going to a Scouting event.  All week I enjoyed cooking up really good food on the stove and with the charcoal pit and dutch oven.  The lady next to us never really remembered my name but when I offered her homemade peach cobbler last night she said "yeah that's the guy that can cook".

• Madockawanda 271 25th Anniversary Neal Slide
• 188 Wahissa 75th Anniversary Jacket Patch
• Ne Con Che Moka Lodge 120 Rare S1 Flap
• Lodge 527 Buckongehannon S-14a Flap
• Flap Naguonabe Lodge 31

• 508 Tu-Cubin-Noonie S-3 Flap
• Caddo Lodge 149 Flap Patch Mint
• Tindeuchen S-14 80th Anniversary Flap
• RWS Community Strips Patches Military Base
• Koyasan Troop 13th Jamboree Japan Flag Banners

I will be shipping out orders when I get home today and prepping some auctions to run.  Today is the last day of the month so I need to take advantage of the free auctions that eBay gives me with the store subscription.

• Cascade Area Council 493 Salem or S-2 Yellow Border
• Potawatomi Area Council 651 Waukesha, WI SA-32
• Camp Creek Whitewater Valley Blue Border Patch
• Western Region, 1977 National Jamboree- BSA
• Nayawin Rar S43 Flap 2008 SR-7B Conclave
• Klahican S12b Flap 117x50 mm LGR Leaves
• Atchafalaya S16 Flap; FDL; HOR Water