Spent yesterday morning on the rooftop of the pavilion at the Arboretum. Temperature: 45 degrees. Wind: 20mph. Weight of pebble bags: 50lbs. No hot tin roof here! Brrr! The rooftop offered up these amazing views of the Arboretum which is leaping into spring no holds barred. Click for a larger version: As you can see [...]
We’ve been keeping the bird feeders full in hopes that someone would move into the birdhouse we have out there. 2 weeks ago we noticed a pair of Eastern Bluebirds hanging around – going in and out of the box. Hummm. Indeed they were busy building this nest: Bonnie and Clyde – our new neighbors! [...]
Well, you know my week wouldn’t be complete without some crazy animal to rescue. As mentioned in the previous article, we’ve had lots of rain lately…and what do I see at the bottom of the steps one evening: Yes, a very grumpy snapping turtle! He wasn’t that big but boy was he agressive. I thought [...]
The weekend of my birthday and it’s Tulip Time in Pella, IA. An uber-dutch flower festival celebrating the town’s dutch heritage and marking the beginning of spring — all in a quaint town in Eastern Iowa. Isn’t that Vvvveird! And of course a road trip across the state wouldn’t be complete without Geocaching! We loaded [...]
Jenny had just finished cooking up some yummy pancakes when I’m walking near the back door and hear some yelping. Hum. That’s weird. It sounded weird, ya know, different. So I open the door and what do I see but a baby fox! He’s yelping up a storm – apparently wanting some of Jenny’s delish [...]
In honor of my friend Jenny’s 100th Cache Find, I custom built a cache and stashed it at the Racoon River park. Very pretty views — the sound of the birds singing and water ebbing. Such a nice serene place only 15 minutes from home and 15 minutes from downtown Des Moines. This was the [...]
Jen and I out for a quick lunchtime cache. This one located right in the heart of downtown Des Moines – yup right next to the state capital building. I had found this one a few days ago, which reminds me, sure enough just as I’m putting this cache back in it’s spot, I see [...]
Thanks to Jen for the fantastic title of this cache adventure! Love ya – B out! Well, this is the last one I had to find to get all the clues for the Shape Shifters Mystery geocache series. I must have driven by this cache 6 times and 6 different days and times and never [...]
Such a nice day today, had to get out this afternoon, so I looked up a difficulty level 2 and a terrain level 2. I just bought some really sweet New Balance hiking shoes and wanted to put them to the test. Let’s go! Well, the path started from a park trail, hum, seems relatively [...]
Second cache on our lunchtime treasure hunting adventure, called Fortress of Solitude. *insert spooky music here* The GPS is right on pointing to this one’s location, so we bound out of the truck down to the spot. Jenny starts searching aroud the base of the structure and I sit down. It’s a nice little quasi-bench. [...]
