I just finished sewing the den number under the flag on the right sleeve of Mr. B.’s cub scout uniform shirt. It’s not any more crooked than the others Mom did. She rationalizes that he won’t be standing still long enough for anyone to notice. That surprises me, since she was a girl scout, but maybe they didn’t stand in formation for flag ceremonies as much as the cubs did. I think we’ll have to have the dry cleaners take them all off and start over again, but that can wait for the conclusion of today’s adventure. All new cub scouts in the Austin area are exclusively invited to a practice of the Texas Longhorns football team, which defeated Oklahoma last Saturday 28-10. If it doesn’t rain, at 4 p.m. we’ll be in the stands at Darrell K. Royal-Memorial Stadium, which is more or less downtown now that the city has outgrown its longtime boundaries. No entrance fee, except a boy in a new cub scout uniform accompanied by a parent. They’ll probably be able to tell if the uniform is new by how crooked the patches have been sewn on. If it rains, the practice will move indoors and the cubs will have to do something else. So my fingers are crossed that it doesn’t rain– even though meteorologists give it a 30 percent chance of doing so after 1 p.m., rising to 40 percent after dark.
UPDATE Shortly after 11 a.m., UT Athletic Department bowed to the weather forecast and moved the practice indoors. But instead of canceling the cub scout invite, they put it off until next Thursday.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
