Geocache maintenance day

[Panache]

It was an absolutely splendid day!

My thanks to Madalyn and Kent for being such wonderful hosts

The F-H.C.A.G. has photos uploaded to Shutterfly so more pictures coming soon!

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

Well, now I have to post them don't I!

On our way up highway 280, we got a good view of the zeppelin. For something close to $400.00, you can fly around the Bay Area on this beauty. It has advertising on the side and I was tickled that it was a big X. Ok, so the colors and the shape aren't quite right to be our Saltire, but it was still pretty fun!






The food and company were excellent. Our Amazing hostess Madalyn had such a wonderful spread laid out, I should have taken pictures of the food. I was too busy eating it though. Madalyn takes a much deserved rest after her labors.






M@A had a cool little gadget hanging off the belt loop of his Utilikilt.




A little snap of the wrist and, Voila! A shot glass.




After some appetizers and a little wine, it was time to go and check out the geocache.

While we labored up the hill...







...the kids stayed home and lounged on the couch (Shouldn't this have been the other way around? After all, they're young and strong and should be the ones out there climbing hills!)





The view at the top was well worth any laboring we had to do.







More to come...

Be well,

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

At the top of the hill, Kent set up his "shooting stick" (actually, it's Madalyn's, but he borrowed it), surveyed the scene and said "Well, the geocache should be right down there somewhere. Start looking around for a plastic shoebox. It may be a little hard to find, but shouldn't be impossible."




I scrambled down the hill (faster than The Clever Little Monkey, I might add. Hey, you snooze, you lose, right?), and I'm afraid it wasn't very hard to find. In fact, I got quite a laugh when about 10 seconds after Kent's command, I said, "You mean like this, right here?"





After replacing the sorry, broken, plastic box and adding our contributions, we all posed on the beautiful cliff top.



Here's a good one of one of our newest members of the Nor Cal Rabble, blackbeard. You can tell he's fairly new to the kilt by how white his legs are!







Walkerk, looking a little smaller than usual with the big world behind him.






The shy and retiring Panache and myself






monkey@arms and the clever little monkey. Cool staff, huh?






When we got back to the house, we discovered that wee Xena had been "bored" while we were gone, so Madalyn had lent her a "Furby". These things are creepy. Also, when wrapped up in her sweater, it looked exactly like Gizmo, the mogwai from the Gremlins movies. I told her to make sure not to feed it after midnight, and to not get it wet. She didn't understand. Sigh. I'm old.




That's all I've got.



Except this cool caterpillar.






It was a good day, and a good time was had by all. We cannot thank you enough, Madalyn and Kent, for your warm hospitality and the marvelous food and drink!

Be well,

Star

[McMurdo]

Great new photos, and yes Furby's are strange, we had three of them, and two them talked to each other. It was weird when you got them going.

[Monkey@Arms]

Here's a few more pics from phone's camera











Best regards,

Jake

[Alan H]

HEY, the 23 and Me blimp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!