Beautiful skies this afternoon brought us outside for a couple of hours.
In spite of the unusual heat--almost 90 d, we cruised up and down several east Texas country roads in search of some geocaches.
Geocaches are found using a handheld GPS unit and information downloaded from a geochaching website. Using GPS coordinates cachers hide various sizes of boxes, canisters, and tubes to hide small items in creative places. The idea is to get people out into areas they normally wouldn't go. We sign the log (piece of paper) with our caching name, the date, and anything we took or left. It took some doing, but we finally found the right one of 6 available culvert pipes and the hidden treasure.
The next one we found in the far tree in a cemetery.
The hider put the log in this Haunted Brew tin which originally held "scary orange hot chocolate".
We searched for two other caches, but had to admit to a DNF--did not find--in each case. By this time we were hot, tired, out of water, and ready to go home. To cheer us on the way home, we found our second wonderful patch of blue--masses of Texas Bluebonnets.
Partly sunny, hot, and afternoon thunderstorms tomorrow.
Louise and Duane
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