Cache Owner Blink12oz has placed a baby cache only five months old. We will find it for Magdalana.
The rains heralding snow connect us to celestial movements and graces.
During our final visit to Mill Creek Park, we circle through Lanterman’s Mill. Built in 1845, the combination of millstones, water, waterwheel, gears, and grain powered food for a hungry continent, and drove the economy throughout the Ohio valley.
Migrating to Ohio from crowded Pennsylvania and New Jersey, German Lanterman’s parents ran a coal mining operation, which gave the kids enough capital to buy land and establish businesses. German bought the land around the falls, along with the existing logging mill. Soon he employed 80 workers in his flourishing enterprise.
Children of electric-powered bread still come to take Christmas pictures, annual reaffirmation of the deep ties of generations to this land, and even deeper ties to the faith that has sustained through the years.
The elegant bridge, the roar of autumn rains, the creek at high tide, pull forth all cameras and, occasionally, an unshuttered, unfiltered, unsocial-media-ed eyeball. As pandemic options shrank to zero, the outdoors called. Two years later, our alfresco obsession shows no sign of subsiding.
My native country, thee, land of the noble free, thy name I love.
I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills; my heart with rapture fills like that above.
Tugging us away from the creek, our geotrail weaves an orange-brown worthy of Cleveland football. Arching branches pirouette, leafless, on the winter stage.
Cache logs tell us that a transmission went out on a traveler on I-80. Dad came from Michigan to get the car to the mechanic, and 27 caches were logged that day. There’s never a bad day in Cache Country.
In an already busy cache log for a months-old baby, an early finder reported the coordinates were a tad bit off. The CO obligingly changed the coords by 36 feet. Later loggers politely recorded that they liked the old coords and used those.
We record that this cache is absolutely perfect. A generous and creative Cache Owner heart serves up a splendid smile.
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