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My First Cache, Now With Added Tree Frog!
Oct. 25th, 2010 12:36 amI placed my first cache today, in Morden Colliery Park, which is just a couple of blocks from where I live. I submitted the listing to the cache coordinator for our area who will review it and hopefully post it within a few days.
It's common to place a "First To Find" (FTF) prize in the cache, which is something of real value for the first person to find the cache. My FTF prize is a $25 gift card to the local Superstore. That's a bit rich by geocaching standards, where FTFs are more in the $5-10 range, but we had a bunch of the gift cards lying around the house and it was my first cache, so what the heck.
Many thanks to the paramour as it was zie who, several months ago, picked up the containers and various goodies to go in them, so that we could create our own caches whenever the urge struck.
I put the cache together last night and gave it to the paramour to look at. I later found the cache back on my desk along with a small plastic tree frog about 2cm long. I smiled, thinking that the paramour had left it as joke. But when I reached out to pick up the frog it jumped off my desk! It wasn't plastic after all. We looked around a bit for it but it seems to have escaped into the dust bunny jungle which flourishes beneath our furniture. I wish it luck but don't give it good odds of survival, what with 4+ bored cats hanging around the house all the time. How it got onto my desk in the first place, I don't know. I imagine it must have come into the house earlier when we had the front door open to let in some fresh air.
I must say, though, that the real frog looked almost as realistic as a plastic one.
It's common to place a "First To Find" (FTF) prize in the cache, which is something of real value for the first person to find the cache. My FTF prize is a $25 gift card to the local Superstore. That's a bit rich by geocaching standards, where FTFs are more in the $5-10 range, but we had a bunch of the gift cards lying around the house and it was my first cache, so what the heck.
Many thanks to the paramour as it was zie who, several months ago, picked up the containers and various goodies to go in them, so that we could create our own caches whenever the urge struck.
I put the cache together last night and gave it to the paramour to look at. I later found the cache back on my desk along with a small plastic tree frog about 2cm long. I smiled, thinking that the paramour had left it as joke. But when I reached out to pick up the frog it jumped off my desk! It wasn't plastic after all. We looked around a bit for it but it seems to have escaped into the dust bunny jungle which flourishes beneath our furniture. I wish it luck but don't give it good odds of survival, what with 4+ bored cats hanging around the house all the time. How it got onto my desk in the first place, I don't know. I imagine it must have come into the house earlier when we had the front door open to let in some fresh air.
I must say, though, that the real frog looked almost as realistic as a plastic one.
