Vintage Post #3 - More Power to Ya!

Thursday, September 18, 2008 


More Power to Ya!
Current mood:  blessed
Category: Friends

Sunday we lost our electric around 6:30 pm.  It didn't come back on until sometime in the early morning on Tuesday.  Since our well is powered by electric, we also did not have water.  Even though we didn't have electric power, we still had power - the power of friendship.

Our really good friends were also without power, but they had a generator and some freezer space to spare.  They allowed us to take all our food over to their house.  (I pitched quite a bit that should have been pitched ages ago!)
While I was there, I also found out that they could use their water, since they have city water.  They allowed us to get showers there also.

Along with these friends that helped us out tremendously, my sister had offered to let us get showers at her place and a co-worker who lives close and had her power offered the same.  My cousin also checked in to see how we were doing.  I feel blessed to have so many great friends and relatives so close to me!  They give power and meaning to life!

A Change of Pace

Well, since I see that I do have a reader out there, I am inspired to continue. I don't feel very creative. My first blog I ever did was so good. I even impressed myself. Now I guess that if I'm going to write, I will have to settle for mediocrity at the moment.

Today was fun. Today was different. Recently as a family we have been so busy with everything... soccer, get-togethers, going different directions. Today, J, Moo, and I went out and did something as a family... just us. We went up to Dave & Busters and did some geocaching. We just went with the flow. Our travels also took us to a Halloween store, Value City furniture (checking out mattresses), and to the mall. (This mall actually has a Disney Store that didn't go out of business.)

We stayed busy today, but for once we were busy together. That felt good.

Geo... what?!?!?

At the side, in my little about me thing you probably see that I have the word "geocacher." So, what is that? It's my new thing. I love it. I admit, I'm addicted.

Geocaching is the process of using a GPS unit to find containers hidden around the world, signing a log book, maybe trading an item or two, and rehiding the container for the next geocacher to find. After going home, cache finds are logged at www.geocaching.com and stats are kept to show how many the cacher has found. I started geocaching with my family about a year ago. We have now found 384 caches. My caching goals include reaching 1000 finds and finding a cache in each of Ohio's 88 counties.

Our caching experiences may be a source for some of these blogs. Here is an example of one of the logs I wrote for a find this weekend...

By the Brook
10th of 12 caches today. It was nice and dry when we found it, but as I handed our daughter the GPS and told her not to drop it in the brook, the log fell and tumbled in. I fished it out quickly and dried off the wet parts with the car heater. It looked pretty good when I replaced it. Sorry! TFTC!

By the way, TFTC means, "Thanks for the cache!" Thankfully the owner of the cache thought the situation was humorous and wasn't upset about the water damaged log!

So now, if I talk about that geo thing, you'll know what it's all about.