Geocaching Continues to Haunt Me...

Today, after dropping off Dood (see earlier post) for his surgery appointment at Alpine Animal Hospital, Jim Dandy and I went geocaching in the Adair Village area! Long ago, I lived in Adair. My son, who is now 16, was born while we lived there. I have haunted memories of that place. It was while living there that I first decided I wanted a divorce. Then, I was suddenly pregnant, so, being an idiot, thought, "Must be devine intervention." So, I dropped the file. 2 babies needed 2 parents, right?

Needless to say, a few years later, when my son was 2 and daughter was 4, the divorce was inevitable, so I proceeded with the action. It was horrible, to say the least. It was so bad that, had I not had children, I may have offed someone---possibly myself! However, those days are gone and the ex and I have managed to work quite well together for the past 14 years as "shared-parents." We're mature enough to know that conflict gets us nowhere...not to say there hasn't been conflict, but we never, ever let-on to the kids. They have done very well. However, there have been days that I honestly believe it would have been better for them to have just lived with ME full-time. I'm not on an ego-trip, I just know that I'm a really good mom. Dad has a tendency to not pay good attention to the details as a parent, which can easily be traced to many of the biggest troubles our kids have gotten into...

Back to the geocaching side of things...

I hunted and hiked for about 2.5 hours. It was a beautiful morning! Sunny. Cool breeze. Only about 75 degrees. Jim Dandy had a blast chasing rabbits and grasshoppers while I hunted. However, there was so much FPO (remember...poison oak...and what the "f" stands for? See earlier post) I couldn't get to 2 caches! I thought about it, really, really hard, knowing that I have 2 bottles of Tecnu in the car, so I can clean off FPO oils, but I just coudn't bring myself to do it! I haveFPO on my legs right now and I makes me absolutely INSANE! So, rather than be stupid enough to risk it, I decided these caches are better off being found in the Winter, when the FPO is dead.

I did manage to find some good caches, though. Fun, fun, fun...