Bits and Pieces

Dody, I knew about that kind of bathtub but not that it's called a garden tub.  Now I've learned a new term. Happy vacation!

Lorraine, a geo cache is a something hidden out of sight in a location which is posted on the Internet by it's geographic co-ordinates.  People who do this hobby, look up the sites on the WEB and feed the co-ordinates into a GPS (global positioning system) then using the GPS, they go find it.  Afterward, they log their find on the Internet.  It's a lot of fun.  We're setting up a geocache at my place.  It's set up but not posted.  Probably soon, we'll get it posted.  Though it's out of sight, it's usually easy to find, under a stone, or branches or in a hollow log or something like that.

Today I went for a walk by myself and didn't get lost.  I went to the "club" area and walked eight times around the pond.  I meant to hustle to get my heart rate up but every time I got started, I saw either something I hadn't noticed before or something that had just made an appearance.  I saw five geese, one sleeping duck, a big woodpecker and a little woodpecker, robins, squirrels, a big carp, a mocking bird, and two very little turtles.  I had my camera and took lots of pictures, but I won't be able to really see my pictures till I get to my own computer and download them. I will post to Flickr when I get them home.

I talked briefly to a woman who was walking a dog named Molly.  She allowed me to take Molly's picture.  She is the one who pointed out the little turtles to me, or I would have missed them. She asked me if I'd seen the carp.  I had seen it but thought it was a koi. She said someone dropped it off in the pond some time last year and they are all so surprised that it's still thriving there.  It's really very big.

It was a pretty good walk.  If I walk tomorrow, I should take my bag with my sketch book and other stuff and park on a bench for a while and do some sketching, writing and/or reading.  Somehow, I missed seeing the benches when I walked yesterday.

Posted by: NJ on 3/30/2006 1:52:35 PM , 2 comments