Tennis Season...

Here is an article about the tennis team:

http://miamivalleysports.com/?p=1085

We open the season Tuesday.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! We had an egg hunt, a fine lunch, and took the grandparents geocaching. The picture is of a spot we had gone before but couldn't find the cahce in the snow. This time, SUCCESS! It was a beautiful Easter spent hiking around Caesar's Creek and Collett Woods in Clinton County.

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geocaching

The Reed family has taken up Geocaching and we love it! We were thrilled to find out that we can use our Garmin c330 to get fairly close to the coordinates so that we didn't have to buy anything new.

Geocaching is basically a hobby where people hide a container somehwere and then you go find it using a gps. When you find the geocache you log your visit and then generally you leave and take a trinket. Some of the trinkets are trackable so you can go online and see where it has been. Some cahces are easy to find once you get to the general area and some are much harder.

The best part is how fun this has been for the kids. Caleb looks at every one as a treasure hunt and is so determined to find them.

It was actually a snow day when we decided to go out hunting for the first time. I loaded the locations on the gramin and we were off. Our first ever cache was at Engle Mill Bridge. We had trouble finding it until we realized that the container had fallen down to the river bank below. The bridge was beautiful and without geocaching I doubt we would ever have visited this site.

After this one we tried to find one at an old pioneer cemetary at Caesar's Creek. There is an old stone wall that encircles the cemetary and we searched and searched but could not find this one. We will go back and try again another day when there is not snow on the ground. We had a good time looking anyway - other than when I got peed on by Caleb.

These two pictures are from the last find of the day. Caleb and I went out on some land off Pyle Road that coincidentally is adjacent to a property that Papaw is interested in buying. It was a beautiful winter hike but we almost gave up when we saw the log bridge above. When we finally found the cache it was worth the trip. There was a trackable geo-bug in this one that had originated in California. So we took it and plan to take it to Maine this summer so it can make it coast-to-coast.



Grant snapped this photo of me when I took him on his first find. This one is in an odd place... just feet from St Rt 134 in a patch of woods between the National Weather Service and Southern State Community College.