Meet Flat Katherine: Flat Katherine is a variant on “Flat Stanley (wikipedia link)”, which I first encountered as an idea during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The Flat Stanley Project is a literacy endeavour based on the books about Stanley Lambchop, a flattened child who can go virtually anywhere because of his two-dimensionality. During the Olympics,…
Category: geocaching
Chugging along
Life is proceeding pretty much apace here. Thanks to some help from Mom & Dad over the Thanksgiving Weekend, the shed now has rafters and some sheathing: I finished off a hat and sweater set for my sister’s baby: And Rowan and I got out for a wee hike yesterday, during which we found an…
An indoor day
I checked my stats on geocaching.com and discovered that we seem to do most of our caching in October. This sort of fits, since in October, it’s *usually* not snowing, the rain *sometimes* isn’t horrendous and there are no bugs. Plus the Christmas mayhem hasn’t hit yet and the foliage is spectacular. October is just…
Dancing with the fairies in Harbour Grace
On Sunday, John, Katherine, Rowan and I went to Harbour Grace – Carbonear – Freshwater for a geocaching adventure. There were two events on (one in the morning and the other at suppertime), with 50 squeaky new caches released. We found 31 of them (which is a record for us in one day) and none…
Froggy summer fun
One of the things we do quite a bit of in the summer is geocaching. We’ve found hundreds of caches of all sorts, all over the place and have hidden dozens ourselves. It’s a great excuse for a walk and a marvellous way to find places that you hadn’t even dreamed existed. It’s also a…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 