As I sat on my friend’s front porch yesterday while sipping a drink and relaxing under the redwoods, I saw the newsflash on my phone about the Highland Park shooting – and I kept it to myself. We were on vacation, and my friend is not one for social media, and I knew she would find out soon enough anyway. So, I quietly prayed for the victims and went about my day.
Today’s News
What can we say that hasn’t already been said? Not everyone should be able to buy guns. Would this kid have found a gun illegally eventually? Maybe. But let’s not make it easy for them.
Also yesterday on my phone, I saw a new “geocache series” show up in my inbox. It’s a “7-part mystery puzzle cache” located in the Oakland hills. What this really means is I have to find all 7 caches that have a code on them and then figure out the coordinates from the codes for the final cache location and I know I sound like such a geek, but….
FOUND 2 SO FAR!
And that one on the left was my 400th find since I started geocaching last year.
The one on the right was located off of one of my favorite trails ever.
Redwood Peak Trail
So relaxing – it makes me want to become a park ranger. But not really, because then I would have to deal with “search and rescues” and “insect damage control” (according to the State Park Ranger job description).
Okay, back to Downton….
Tuesday, July 5, 2022:
Theresa Donahoe 