Saturnalia

The Saturn got clocked by a tree limb a few weeks ago and has been in the shop. In this digital age we can actually see the car being repaired at Woburn Foreign Auto.

I am not sure how long the link will work, so I am posting some copies of the pictures. The first one is from the day we dropped the car off. It is a close-up of the dents in the roof and passenger door.

For some reason, they took the headlights and front bumper off. There was no visible damage there.

Another view with no front bumper, no windshield, and no sunroof. This was taken August 5th.

This was taken yesterday, August 7th. You can see the note to repair the door, and the roof is new. The rear sunroof is in place, but the front one and windshield are still out.

Latest Finds

Did a couple geocaches in the last week. On Sunday, in between thunder storms, Henry and I did one at the Reading Town Forest called "Dead Marshes". It is named after a passage in the J.R.R. Tolkien books where Frodo and Sam are walking through the marsh with the dead below the surface of the waters.

This one was a bit more cheery than that, but it was definitely marshy. Check out the photos on Flickr in the August set.

Henry picked out a necklace with a gnome figurine on it, holding a milky stone.

After work on Monday I went to Cat Rock Hill in Weston. It is on the way home and I have passed by the area many time but never knew that there was a conservation area here. No signs, no hints. Even the road leading in looks just like any other residential side street.

There are 4 geocaches at Cat Rock. Three of them are named in honor of dogs; the fourth is a multi-part cache that takes you past the other 3.

I was able to get through 2 out of the 3 dog caches and the 1st stage of the multi-part cache. It included a hike to the top of Cat Rock, of course. I hope to come back soon to finish it and get some more photos.

These photos were taken with my new Vivitar mini digital camera, a $10 purchase at Walgreens. You are seeing the "high" resolution photos - no reducing required to resize them to fit on a web page.