Recently, an acquaintance of mine lamented to me about how his two dogs had been diagnosed with Lyme disease. To add to his troubles, his wife and daughter also tested positive. Fortunately for all concerned, the disease was caught early. How did they get Lyme disease? They were running the dogs in the local doggy [...]

Despite the rain over the weekend, we decided to head out for some geocaching. We picked a park that we had visited before, with the rather curious name of Purgatory Park. Supposedly the name comes from early settlers, remarking on the mosquitoes that they encountered on this swampy trail. “It’s not hell, it’s purgatory.” So [...]

We love to camp. We look forward to our annual trips. Now that we have my family hooked on geocaching, it’s easy to get in some finds while we’re vacationing. So while gardeners will browse seed catalogs in anticipation of spring, I browse camping sites for camping tools in anticipation of the camping season. We [...]