Monday Meanderings 11.29.10

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and it was a fine, family-filled week. We shared the experience of being all together once again, and marveled at how the grandchildren have grown since last we saw them. We enjoyed many good things to eat, and Jana, Luke and Barb ended up chasing down a homeless person on Thanksgiving day in order to share some of our turkey and fixings.

Friday evening we drove out to the house of a young couple from church to see their lights. He decorates and lights houses professionally and had his house and yard covered in lights all rigged to blink in time to the music. It was very, very impressive - as well done as any example I've seen on the Internet.

And we watched UP - a movie I had wanted to see since it came out. I expected to cry - I'd had warnings to that effect. I didn't expect to be blind-sided as to the reason why.

Rob and Luke (and the rest of his family in varying degrees) have been active in the increasingly popular adventure of geo-caching. For those that don't know, geo-caching is a form of treasure hunting that uses clues and navigation to find "treasures" cached, or hidden by others. In it's simplest form, the finder simply adds his name to the list hidden in the cache container. There are many additions and variations from the simple version.

This past week Rob acquainted the rest of us to this activity. We went to a nearby greenbelt and used GPS coordinates to navigate to two cache locations; We (speaking inclusively, here) found one of the two caches. I might have to revisit the location of the one that eluded us. And there is one on a guard rail just a block away that I might have to go check out. Hmmmm.

And for all my friends that went deer hunting this weekend, perhaps this is why you didn't bag one: