Bronze Award

Violet is working on her Girl Scout Bronze Award this year. She's completed her initial badge work and other requirements. She is now down to the final homestretch.

She is working with a greyhound adoption agency in the area to help them with their Memorial Day grounds cleanup and memorial service. Since spending 10 or more hours doing nothing but yard work would kill Violet (or so she'd have us all believe), we offered to have her make homemade snack goodies for the volunteers (as well as pulling a few weeds herself). When we offered food, my contact there (a co-worker from our day jobs) said YOU BET! WE LOVE FOOD! ESPECIALLY CHOCOLATE! Okay, she didn't really shout (we were visiting her in our office), but she loved the idea. Actually she might have shouted the chocolate part, it was tax season and she works in the tax department.

Violet has finalized her snack menu:

1. cucumber dip with crackers and raw veggies
2. applesauce brownies
3. sugar cookies (shaped like dogs, cats, and flowers)
4. peanut butter blossom cookies (the peanut butter ones with the Hershey's kiss in them)
5. trail mix

Violet has made her shopping list, and we've figured out how to transport the items and what kinds of disposable trays, bowls, etc. we'll need to take. (Before you earth crunchy mamas out there come after me...we fully intend to bring back the "disposable" serving items and reuse or at the very least recycle them. But you know how it goes when you take food somewhere, some helpful Hannah grabs anything empty and before you can say "landfill" has tossed it in the garbage and hauls it out. I don't want that happening to anything I own and intend to keep. I don't want to lose my "good" dishes. So we are buying a few trays and such that can disappear without worry.)

Violet's next step is to grocery shop. She is also making ingredient lists to post in case anyone has any dietary concerns. Full disclosure. Eat at your own risk.

Finally, she'll need to cook it all. I think she can do the sugar cookie dough early and freeze it. Then roll it out later. We usually do that at Christmas time. We'll need to figure out what else we can do early to keep the last day a little less hectic.

I think she's come up with a nice project. It will help out a good group of people doing good work. And it is something she is comfortable with. Of course, she's going to want to hide in a kennel with some doggies if anyone tries to complement her while we're there. She'd really rather just talk with the dogs than with humans. I think for the most part she likes them better.