Delaney's Ready for School
Delaney started kindergarten today and was proud to wear her new school uniform of navy and white. Getting up an hour earlier than last year didn't seem to phase her nearly as much as it did mom and dad.
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Posted by Chris on 8/28/2006 10:29:00 PM :: Permalink
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Posted by Chris on 8/16/2006 05:42:00 PM :: Permalink
Geocaching the Extremes
My first geocaching trip back in November was in the rain and in the upper 40s. A few weeks later we geocached in the sleet. When we saw the temp was going to hit 100 today, we knew just what we had to do.
I ran a query for close caches that were on easy terrain (much too hot to go bushwhacking today!), fairly low difficulty, and had been found recently. We picked the closest two.
The first was
Which one holds the key and we approached from the wrong side and our GPS led us down a gravel road where lots of people were proud to post Keep Out and Private and No Tresspassing and Beware of Dog signs. It looked a bit like the kind of place where the greetings might involve a shotgun. We even passed a
warning sign for Deaf Child, which I'd never seen before.
After coming to a dead end and still being a tenth of a mile away, we backtracked and found another route. Once there, this one was an easy park and grab.
Next we were off to
Under New Iron Pipe, which refers to one of those
cell phone towers disguised as a tall ugly pine tree. A rather
troubled automobile sat nearby.
Feeling lucky, we decided to grab a third before heading back, so we just did a quick check to see what was close (ignoring our initial carefully crafted list of caches) and ventured over to
Hill House View. The spanish style mansion on the hill was nice and we had an excellent view of it, but we were here for the cache. A walk through the park, which was more than we wanted to do when the heat index was 110, and we came up about 50 feet short of the cache. It was in the woods.
Now, we said we weren't going in the woods. And these woods had something special. Ivy. Lots of it. The English kind. And the Poison kind.
Oh, what the heck, we came this far, right? We ventured in and poked around a bit, mostly mumbling about how hot it was and wondering what the ratio of poison to English ivy was. After a few minutes of half-hearted attempt, we gave up. I had to go find a bottle of
Tecnu after that. I've never been affected by Poison Ivy before, but no sense in taking a chance.
When will we learn to stick to our gameplan? Geocaching isn't a sport or a hobby. It's an addiction.
Now we'll have to wait a while before geocaching in the snow.
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Posted by Chris on 8/03/2006 10:54:00 AM :: Permalink
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I tried really hard to write a blog about this child for the last couple of days, but mostly it just becomes an incoherent weepy mess about growing up and how isn't she just the most beautiful and brilliant and sparkly and abrillious* and creative and well, just the best five year old ever. We are blessed to be her parents and love her more than one would think possible.
*just to show how creative she is, abrillious is her word that means super silly and it fits her to perfection some days
We are so proud of Delaney; she looks so beautiful. Please tell her that we are so proud of her, and we can't wait to hear about her week at school. We miss her and love her so much.