Back to the Boy Scouts

First of all, Dick spent the morning dancing the fandango with his boat battery. It wouldn't work, so he took it out on the town to have it tested, only to find out that there was nothing wrong with it. So he brought it back home, hooked it up, and it worked fine. Go figure.
After Battery Adventures, we went on an outing to town and geo-caching. In town we went to the library to return a book, and wound up checking out a dozen more. We picked up our cell phone from the Sprint Store, where it had spent the night trying to get charged up, and we bought some stamps for Mother (and me). By the way, it turns out that Mother is OK. She was in a lot of pain from her shoulder and her post-shingles pain, and I'm guessing that maybe she took too many Ibuprofen or something. Anyway, today she's fine.

The geo-caching began at Camp Greilick, where Dick had attended camp in his golden youth.
It was an easy find, and so we were off to a good start.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=99587d87-0ca6-4254-af78-b2d4758f385a Scroll down to the log entries until you find Basswood Bend. That's us.

Then off to South Boardman for the world's weirdest cache. This cacher lives in the boonies of S. Boardman in a ramshackle ...well.... shack. On the edge of his property he has chained a plastic trash bin to a tree, and that's the cache. He came over and introduced himself while we were there, and he seemed very pleasant. But wow - it was weird.
Then we went to find a cache called Boardman River View. Well, two out of three isn't bad. And Dick had a chance to really wear himself out climbing up a really really big hill.
When we got home, I got a phone call from Dr. Burke with my test results from Tuesday. Wow! It was a really good report. I haven't had a report that good for a couple of years. The ferritin number is still a little on the low side, but he plans to check it again in 3 weeks. Hooray for me!

After some great home made burgers, we watched more of the Democratic Convention. Last night, our Governor Jennifer Granholm gave a wonderful speech. I especially liked the bit about how men hate to ask for directions. She said we need a new direction in this country, and if the driver won't ask for directions, it's time to get a new driver. In the Kerry speech I liked "Saying there are weapons of mass destruction doesn't make it so. Saying we can wage war on the cheap doesn't make it so. And saying Mission Accomplished definitely doesn't make it so."