Bugs n Boxes

I don't, normally, have to worry about bugs in my house. The cats take care of the job. Natural born hunters they are, providing they get to "play" with their prey first. Such was the case tonight...

I sat down, to actually type something out, and this incessant vibrating keeps going off. Teddy (the giant kitty)...playing with a bug of enormous proportions. "What in the world?" I think... I spent the next hour trying to get the bug outside. I didn't want to smash it. (Yeah I am one of those, unless it is a spider or skeeter. I figure if it can't harm me then why should I harm it. Spiders will bite just cause they want to, as will mosquitos, Little buggers) Anyway, The big ugly satellite dish antennae wearing bug lands on my sofa table. I think..hmmmm...get him in a cup and scootch him outside. Yeah! So I empty a paper cup from dinner, grab a paper towel to hold over it once he is inside, and walk him calmly to the door. Sounds perfect...However, when I get to the door, the bug isn't in the cup. Dag nab it! Where'd he go? All I have to do is listen cause the thing is bouncing off the walls as if they were electrified. Right, one more time, I am now competing with the cats to get the bug that I have now affectionately named George. After the moving of some furniture and some hot coal like hopping, I get him. But not until after I snap some pictures of the freaky little thing.

The Bug


I went Geo-Caching tonight. I have known about it for a long time and once took an interest to actually do it. I lacked, however, the resources and someone that would actually want to do it. Well, tonight I got asked to go on one. WooHooo! Although, it was an easy one, it was still fun to find it. And to say we found it. I hope I get to do more. Geo-Caching is a treasure hunt of sorts. You find the coordinates on the site, follow the clues whether they be riddles or an out-n-out give away (the clues and riddles are much more fun) and drive, hike, walk, bike to the location. Providing you can find it. What lays there is a box or "cache" holding goodies left by other seekers. You take a trinket in trade for your own and log yourself in the book. My friend even took me by one that he had already found and I was spotted by a "Muggle" (those who don't know what the heck you are doing looking under rocks or for something buried in the bushes. The guy on the bike actually circled around to see what I was doing and stared me down like I was some sort of thief or something. Sheesh can't a girl have a little fun?) It is all supposed to be very covert. So cool...