Venture Scouts Playing Ball

John teeing off. Probably on Sterling.

Is that a dodgeball Brian?

Ploghoft about to smear some scouts.

Shawn shows promise for districts.

Nice follow through Bronson.

Sterling just before getting blasted. Keep smiling.

Heemeyer in battle mode

Thanks to Brian Ploghoft for gettin us some time @ Lewis & Clark Grade School to play ball last month. We were feelin pretty studly so we sported a Dodgeball attitude. Actually a excellent workout for young & old dudes. No one got hurt [maybe next time] and we all seemed to have fun. It did seem like organized mayhem.

So far this year we started with a planning meeting and schedule drafting. Last week we went with Doughty to Ocean Crest Chevrolet to check out how cars get fixed. Sorry no pics. Everyone seemed to like it. Grab a schedule & get on board. We are having fun!!!

Aleutian Ballad Halloween & Cape D

Sportin views from Cape D

Slummin at the D

Dude wheres my pumpkin?

Is there supposed to be water in there?

This is a really cool boat. As Bronson found out when they say the boat leaves at 7:00 they mean it. Sorry Bronson but you looked funny runnin down the dock.

The only warm spot on the boat.

No hawkin loogies on the dude!
Seriously they had an awesome presentation.

Happy New Year Crew 628. Its been awhile since anyone has updated this blog but only cause we kind of forgot it was here. To summarize from mid last year to present we did a whole bunch of stuff. Most was pretty cool like the trip to the Tillamook Air museum and Cheese Factory and the camp out at Cape D that was cool but uncool because USCG bailed on our boat ride, then bailed on the make up ride. But the Lethins took us on an adventure on the Aleutian Ballad out on the Columbia which more than made up for the Coastie bailout program. Most of the weekly meetings were alright but it's hard to accomplish much with just and hour but we manage. There are lots of cool things coming up in the near future so stay tuned and stay active. We need all of our crew to be at the meetings and events so we can have maximum fun and learn the most possible. Thanks to our awesome leaders who make it happen as well as the support from parents and our Bishopric. If you have questions, concerns, comments, complaints, or need a schedule call Bro. Doughty @ 503 861 1219 or email me @ doughty1960@gmail.com Enjoy every day. Jeff

Crew 628 Dutch Oven Beach Party

So OK, it only turned out to be a mile or two from the beach. We meant to have it down there with a bonfire, but the weather didn't cooperate. May, in Oregon . . . go figure. JJ was our chili chef. Apparently he cut the recipe to 1/4th, but still put in the full amount of jalapenos. It was some zippy, but very manly, chili. I finished my bowl.


Even the chips were spicy. Scott and Bronson are feeling pretty tough here.


Crew Chief Jeff, Sterling, and Mitchell chowin' down!


Enjoying the chaos of Super Smash Bros Brawl.

Airbrush Fest 2008

Mike Burgess showed us how to airbrush and we got to try our hand at it. As you can tell, we've got skills (both in airbrushing AND in Spanish!)


Once we'd gotten educated on airbrushing and seen some of Mike's cool work, the group turned to Madden '08 on the PS3. Sweeeeet . . . Had it not been raining, we would've airbrushed a unicorn on the hood of my GTI. Oh well, maybe next time.

Trip to the Evergreen Aviation Museum

I'm pretty sure I've heard of Evergreen before, but I didn't know much. Turns out, they've got a lot more than this great museum. It's a huge corporation that does a lot of cool things with helicopters and jets.


Scattered throughout the museum they have these older 1st class seats where you can watch various videos about nearby aircraft. The guys are excited to get some for home use. Here's we're sitting near the Spruce Goose working on the scavenger hunt.



We arrived at the museum about 40 minutes early (we left around 6:15 AM and it took us a little over 2 hours to get there). This gave us plenty of time to stomp the squishy grounds and see cool planes like this!


They've got a little bit of everything at the Evergreen Aviation Museum. And, in a matter of months, they're planning to open a new space museum, too!

Evergreen Air Museum

Settling in for the IMAX movie "Fighter Pilot" It was loud, and there was lots of flying and explosions. In other words, it was GREAT!


Mr. Dowty (not related to our Doughty) told us a lot of cool things about some of their World War II planes. And yep, we actually did have a little sunshine (a tiny little bit).


.002 seconds later my head comes squirting out the other end . . .


Sean, Scott, and JJ keeping entertained while tour arrangements were made.