Caught me off guard while singing in the shower:

(for Lara)


Red River Valley
Traditional

From this valley they say you are going
We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile
For they say you are taking the sunshine
That has brightened our path for a while.

Come and sit by my side if you love me
Do not hasten to bid me adieu
But remember the Red River Valley
And the cowboy(s) who loved you so true.

Won't you think of the valley you're leaving
Oh how lonely, how sad it will be?
Oh think of the fond heart you're breaking
And the grief you are causing to me.

As you go to your home by the ocean
May you never forget those sweet hours
That we spent in the Red River Valley
And the love we exchanged 'mid the flowers.

3 for 3!

I had a wonderful afternoon. The return of Team Nerdy Grrls (me and hopemcg) to geocaching was a great success! I had been wanting to tackle one particular geocache in the Dublin area, so we decided to shoot for three caches up there in richy rich suburbia.

The one I had been jonesing about, of course, was Eratosthenes's Maize Maze. This was a heavenly combination of mathematics, logic, and geocache action. It was in that field of concrete corn in Dublin that cracks me up. It took us a little while to find it, but we had a great time trying to figure out the clues. And it involved one of my favorite things ever, prime numbers. Simply lovely. Hope took a little squishy skeleton out of this microcache, and I left a Hello Kitty hair clip that just barely fit. Yay!

From there, we took a wrong turn so decided to hit Belly Button High. This was in a little place called Avery Park on Avery Road. The cache was hidden a 30 second walk from the parking area, but we couldn't find it. We looked everywhere, sticking our hands in holes all over the place. Eventually we found it and laughed for several minutes. It was the funniest hiding place ever! The cache was waterlogged, so we cleaned it out and stuck it back in. Hope took a little clear blue rock, and I left some Canadian pennies and 2 bat rings.

We then went to the Conifer of Steel cache in another park I've never been to, Scioto Park. (I love geocaching because I learn more places to go!) We got to see a giant cell phone service tower that is shaped like a giant tree. (Only in Dublin...) The tree cover made the GPSes jumpy but Hope eventually found it. I took a magnet that says "chick magnet" and Hope took a little Shamrock man and a waterproof container from Magic Mountain. We left a bottle of perfume, a candle, and some stickers. We couldn't fit it all in, so I ended up taking the Party Pony travel bug which had been left about 20 minutes before. (Hey, awl, if I mail it to you, will you put it in a cache in Atlanta? Party Pony wants to travel! You'd have to put it somewhere soonish though, if that's okay. Let me know!) I kissed the Chief Leatherlips statue on the way out.

I dropped Hope off and came home, but got caught in traffic from that Hot Rod show or whatever near the Fairgrounds. Still, I'm so excited that I finally got to do Eratosthenes's Maize Maze! YAAAAY!

Update: I am now showered, and very much looking like the dapper young man I feel like right about now. Very cute. See?