Something new

Wendy and John...... you are not going to believe this. We have been geocaching. We are up to 6 finds so far.... considering there are over a million out there, we have a long way to go.

For those of you who thing I am speaking a foreign language, geocaching is like treasure hunting. You go to a website.... geocaching.com.... look up the caches (treasures hidden) in the area you are in and you obtain the GPS coodinates of the cache and you go look for it. Sometimes the Name of the cache gives you clues to finding it. When and if you find it, you sign a log that is in the cache. Depending on the type of cache it is, you may take a trinket from the cache and replace it with one of yours or you may even find a bug (a numbered item that is tracked), that needs transported somewhere else.

We have found some very simple ones to start but are working our way up to the harder ones. Here are some pictures that I took of Millie finding a "micro" cache. This one was cleaverly hidden in a stick and held there with a magnet. The name of this one was Woodpecker's Move. Millie said the stick she decided to pick up was a different color than the others lying around the bush.... that's what you look for... something that looks like it doesn't belong.

We are having fun with it.

We found one that was called Tar's Reward. Tar was the dog who garded the property. When we arrived at the site there was a mailbox on the fence with TAR on the outside. We thought it was the cache. When we opened it, it was full of dog biscuits for the dog. So we gave him one and he then went to the end of the fence. We followed and there was the cache under some rocks. So you reward the dog and the dog rewards you. Very cleaver and fun for everyone.