Holiday Weekend Caching

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Every holiday, we manage to run out and grab at least one cache.  Well, this long weekend, we managed to get a few, including 3 puzzle caches - one of which was out 1,700th find!  The black thing that Aidan is holding is a magnetic keyholder.  One of the most hated, and yet overused cache containers out there.  BUT, urban caching can be limited as to places for hiding an ammo can, so we put up with the key holders.  At least this one required some thought put into solving the puzzle (and thanks to Lj for bringing it all into place!).

Friday, my love and I paddled the yak out to Chicken Key so he could get the cache that's hidden there.  It's only about 3.5 miles roundtrip, but throw in currents and winds across an open Bay and it can seem much further.

The water was too cold for me to swim in.  Couldn't make it in past my crotch!

The water was so clear, but it's not the pretty blue you see in the Keys.  And no sandy beaches, either!

And let's see...the day before that was Thanksgiving and we had dinner with good friends at Texas de Brazil on Miami Beach. Not bad, but not the usual turkey dinner!  Afterwards, we were all pretty stuffed so we walked to go find a cache nearby.  It's pretty strange that Miami Beach doesn't have more caches than it does...odd.

So that was my weekend.  The Christmas stuff is down from the attic, but we've yet to start decorating.  I do NOT do Black Friday and have no shopping done yet.  As much as I swear "Next year, I'll be done by Halloween", it never happens.  I fully plan on scurrying around like a chicken with her head cut off all the way up to Christmas Eve, buying presents.  Unless I do like I've done before and just try to make my presents.

Meh, why worry about it now?  We have, what...25 days before Christmas...plenty of time....yeah...

Wordless Wednesday

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Bear Island

We were supposed to spend two nights out in Big Cypress at the Bear Island campground last weekend, but plans got screwed up (as usual) and it ended up being only one night.  My youngest boy hadn't been camping in a couple years, so he was VERY excited to be going.


General gun season opened that weekend, so spots were hard to find, but we finally got one...tucked way in the back, off the road.  In fact, if I didn't have a 4WD truck, we couldn't have gotten to it at all.  There were two big mud ditches that we had to get through, but my truck did it just fine...whew!  

I really like our spot...a big cypress stand was right behind us...

As we were setting up the tent, two park rangers came through on foot with a radio tracking device.  They were out looking for a female panther in the area.  About an hour or so later, they came out of the woods behind out tent - no panther, she had moved further north.  Still a little exciting to think there was one close to where we were!

We did some caching (of course) and this guy was eyeing us as we tried to locate a cache across the canal from him.

The best part was building  campfire...throwing wood pieces I had brought from work, pine cones and palm fronds...nothing beats a good blaze!

It was alot of doing for just one night, but it was worth it...I was awakened at 1am by a Barred Owl calling and flying big circles in the area...soft country music from our closest neighbors...it was peaceful and just so nice to get away from the city for a bit.


Continuing the writing exercise mentioned in my last post....


Day 02 → Something you love about yourself.


Honestly...I don't love that much about myself.  I guess I'm empathetic, which is good...but I have too many negatives.  Ok, ok...there has to be something...Ok. I llike that I am not hung up on "keeping up with the Joneses".  Totally NOT me!  I do not fall into the latest, greatest things.  I am anti-"i" anything (ie. iPods, iPhones, etc.).  Pandoras?  What a waste of money!  Things are not important to me.  People are.  


Well, not much of a post for that exercise, but all I can think of tonight.