There is BURIED treasure to be found....

in my Enchanted Forest.  I know, because I found ONE!  I went hiking with a friend, one late November day.  I introduce as many people as possible to this magical place, and she had never been.  We had had a bad wind and snowstorm earlier in the week. There at the end of the trail where the gazebo looks out on Peter's River, we came upon a huge fallen tree... TWO fallen trees actually.  The kind owner of this beautiful acreage that he shares with the general public, had put up an orange cone, by way of warning.

As we hiked on by we looked back, and both noticed a green, disk shaped object in the stump of the smaller tree that had also fallen, and lay almost perpendicular to the larger, fallen one. We both remarked upon it, and immediately leaned in to take a closer look.  My hiking companion mused as to whether it was a "geocache", as we opened the container.  Lo and behold, it was!!!

The old Kraft peanut butter jar held all kinds of goodies, i.e. pens, little toys, stickers, just various small objects.  There were even peanuts. Well, we weren't about to eat THEM!  There was also a piece of paper with the information on "geocaching" and the rules, so to speak. One of the rules is that if you take something, you replace it with something else. We decided to add what we had that wasn't perishable, which were Ricolo losanges that my friend had. We didn't take anything out. 

However, what was MOST interesting, and THE real find, was the list of people who had found this geocache.  Believe it or not, the last ones had added their names and date, in July of 2015...almost four and a half years ago!!  We added our names and date, but I have blued them out to protect my friend's privacy. 

I am NOT savvy enough to figure anything out about geocaching. I don't even know how a GPS works, and I can b*a*r*e*l*y navigate Google Maps.  However, this little adventure left me wondering where this jar had been hidden before the tree fell.  Had it been put in a hole in the base of the tree, covered by moss and dirt, and NOT been visible to the human eye, before the tree fell?

Just another one of those unanswered questions in my life.  Like who left those BBQ lighters in my mailbox last fall!  Unless of course, you are a geocacher, and can elucidate me? Do you know any geocachers in the Chaleur area? Share this blog with them. Maybe their name is on the sheet? There is a conundrum in a peanut butter jar, deep in the Enchanted Forest... 

By the way, my Fallopian Tubes Christmas lights are still twinkling merrily and making we smile every morning and evening!