The weather turned nice this week. It was cold but sunny and not windy. I’ll take that anytime. I took advantage of the weather to do some noon time geocaching. It is a great way to get a little sunshine in. The first day I went out to Sand Springs. The first cache was on the grounds of the local Walmart.

The second cache was pretty cool. It is an earthcache named The Sandy Spring. It is what gave Sand Springs its name. An earth cache typically doesn’t have a container to find. You usually have to measure something or do some research. The Sandy Spring’s web page talks about the history of the spring and how the Arkansas was too salty to drink. To log the cache one must guestimate the water flow from the cache and get a picture of themself to post.

I didn’t have anybody with me to take my picture and none of the women walking their dogs on the path nearby acted even the list bit friendly (I can tell you that unaccompanied males in office clothes in parks and trails at lunch time are social pariah’s) so I took my own picture with the timer on the camera. The result is below. Sweetie hasn’t seen it but if she did she would say “You are doing that thing with your mouth, again”

Another day this week, I checked out another cache, Brady View, on a knoll just north of downtown at the site of a demolished house. Here is a picture of downtown from the site.

Want a little hint, don’t tell anybody ok? Its behind the little rocks to the right of the wooden post.

Not too far away I went to check on one of my own caches, Country Club, it had been reported missing and sure enough it had been “muggled.” If you read Harry Potter you know what muggles are. To geocachers muggles are those who are not in the know and take caches, not knowing what the are. Below is a picture of an abandoned house being renovated nearby. This used to be a fashionable area of Tulsa way back when but now it is blighted. I could tell you why but I would be getting off topic. Oh, you had a topic? you ask.

There was a restored mansion nearby that tried to make a go of it as B&B but it burned up in a fire. The rumor was that the fire was due to friction. Friction? Yep, that is what happens when you rub a big mortgage against an insurance policy.

I’m kidding about the fire by the way.

I found a few other caches this week. My total is now up to 736 caches found. My what a lot of time and gasoline wasted you ask. I plead guilty your honor, on the basis of long term temporary insanity and acute OCD.