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Jim and I had bananas, vanilla bean ice cream, and chocolate syrup for our 3 o’clock snack today. All that talk of ice cream…I couldn’t resist.
Flecks or sans flecks, it’s all good, isn’t it? Have a good weekend, QM. xxoo
Hmmmm. Sounds great. We had Canadian Bacon Pineapple pizza with extra sauce and extra cheese from Pizza Man for dinner. And did we ever dig in. It was a long day.
Yep, it’s all good. You have a good weekend, too. More fun at the Ravine coming up soon. 8)
I had (No Sugar Added) Vanilla Fudge ice cream, tonight. Y’all are becoming seriously bad for my diet!
Shaggy!!!! I love Shaggy! Was he in a geocache?
Dairy Queen doesn’t tempt me. Not sure why.
Opps, sorry, sam. It sure was good though, wasn’t it?
pmousse, we grabbed Shaggy, a Travel Bug, from a cache called Grumpy Old Troll Travel Bug Hotel. Then we connected parachuting Scooby from a previous cache to Shaggy that day at the Dairy Queen because they seemed like they belonged together.
But now Liz just looked on the Geocaching site and Shaggy the Travel Bug got lost somewhere a few years ago. : – ( Sometimes families pick up the TB’s and the kids like the toys and keep them. Sometimes the caches get raided and the TB’s get stolen. But most days everything goes just fine in the Geocache world!
Oh, sad days for Shaggy and Scooby! But they sure had fun (and were well fed) when we toted them to the DQ in Southern Minnesota! Have you geocached?
QM, I came across a cache locally accidentally last year, which made me go looking on the Internet for more information. I haven’t gotten into it, but I think it’s fascinating, and is on my to-do list.
Not even Dilly Bars, pmousse?! I can eat chocolate mint Dilly Bars by the box.
pmousse, that’s cool that you checked out Geocaching on the web after bumping into a cache. People walk around them all the time and don’t even know they are there.
We haven’t had as much time the last year to Cache. And I miss it. It’s fun and good exercise and fresh air. My brother is still going strong. He’s up well over 1000 caches now and he started not long before we did. He does these really hard puzzle caches and some that are very physically demanding. We’re more into the Easy Does It.
yb, I love the Mudslides from DQ (pictured above). YUM. I haven’t had one in quite a while. I also like the low-fat ice cream bars that DQ has. They are good when I’m watching my P’s & Q’s. But right now, I’m craving the Sli-i-i-i-d-d-e.