Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Geocaching
I took my sweetie geocaching for an hour on a recent Sunday.
We found three caches (GC197R7/Straight from Idaho, GCGCYJ/FEATHERS & WEDGES, and GC197QY/Birchwold Repose) in Birchwold Farm, a public "passive recreation" space in Massachuseets, plus a fourth at Joe's Rock across the highway (GC5D10/Joe's Rock Treasure).
Here she finds a cache:
And here she re-hides the last cache of the day befreo we went back to the top of the rock to enjoy the view briefly:
We thought we'd run into two other cachers, but they turned out to be hikers picking wild blueberries. They corrected us and said that there were plenty for all of us, but I told them we would leave our share for the black bear that was in the area a few weeks ago. :7)
Earlier that morning I took the three oldest kids caching along the Blackstone Valley Bike Path and we found two out of three (GCWJDH/Troll's 8 The Slide and GCVPCX/Troll 2 The House but not GCVQT5/Troll's 5 The Troll on a Stroll).
We found three caches (GC197R7/Straight from Idaho, GCGCYJ/FEATHERS & WEDGES, and GC197QY/Birchwold Repose) in Birchwold Farm, a public "passive recreation" space in Massachuseets, plus a fourth at Joe's Rock across the highway (GC5D10/Joe's Rock Treasure).
Here she finds a cache:
And here she re-hides the last cache of the day befreo we went back to the top of the rock to enjoy the view briefly:
We thought we'd run into two other cachers, but they turned out to be hikers picking wild blueberries. They corrected us and said that there were plenty for all of us, but I told them we would leave our share for the black bear that was in the area a few weeks ago. :7)
Earlier that morning I took the three oldest kids caching along the Blackstone Valley Bike Path and we found two out of three (GCWJDH/Troll's 8 The Slide and GCVPCX/Troll 2 The House but not GCVQT5/Troll's 5 The Troll on a Stroll).
More from the garden
The daily rain in Rhodey has been good to our first-ever vegetable garden.
We planted zucchini, yellow squash, eggplant, basil, some carrots, and tomatoes. Some tomatoes are in pots and some are in the garden. And we have both green basil and purple (see below). We didn't plant too many carrots, and not all of them came up, but they're an experiment.
We already realized that we crowded way too many things into too little space: next year it will be twice as large with not too many more plants.
The eggplant are the slowest things: they have only started showing pale purple flowers in the past week. We have already eaten plenty of squash and zucchini, steamed or raw, while much of the zucchini is shredded and frozen for cocholate-chip zucchini bread this winter.
A view among the zucchini & squash that looks like a jungle:
A gorgeous squash flower, bedecked with rain:
Our purple basil (which looks striking and tastes just like the ordinary, boring green stuff):
We planted zucchini, yellow squash, eggplant, basil, some carrots, and tomatoes. Some tomatoes are in pots and some are in the garden. And we have both green basil and purple (see below). We didn't plant too many carrots, and not all of them came up, but they're an experiment.
We already realized that we crowded way too many things into too little space: next year it will be twice as large with not too many more plants.
The eggplant are the slowest things: they have only started showing pale purple flowers in the past week. We have already eaten plenty of squash and zucchini, steamed or raw, while much of the zucchini is shredded and frozen for cocholate-chip zucchini bread this winter.
A view among the zucchini & squash that looks like a jungle:
A gorgeous squash flower, bedecked with rain:
Our purple basil (which looks striking and tastes just like the ordinary, boring green stuff):
