Pirates of the Back Yard, Part I

Here is airshipjones teaching fairieboy, prince_vincent, and a neighbor girl the finer points of fencing yesterday, as purplerabbit and I looked on in amusement from an upper story window:



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Geocaching with my big sis...

Patty is a dear old friend who I've known since I was 16. I call her my 'big sis' because (a) she was my dorm counselor when I was at the RPI high school summer program in '87, and (b) our lives tend to run in parallel, with a 3-year lag.

She's one of my many converts w/r/t this geocaching obsession, and since her insane travel schedule has fortuitously cycled her back into the Bay Area this month, we've been taking advantage of the time to pursue our favorite sport. (Well, ok, her favorite sport is probably ice hockey.)

I like this one of her in a tree - yup, the cache was up there. (waves to buckyd, who hid it):



As well as this one of me, before we headed out:



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