ah shucks....a remembered joy

hubster was doing a bit of a mid-winter spruce up today

clearing the bookshelf

making room for the bundles of pages

we seem to collect throughout the year

and

when tackling the top shelf

he came across

this

do you know what geo-caching is?

it is a lot of fun

go check it out here

 when my husband and I first started dating

we found this activity

and really enjoyed it

especially

since we lived in different cities

it became a great way

to explore the towns we loved

one day

on a family vacation in santa barbara

we went geocaching

to this beautiful and sacred spot

in the hills of montecito

a benadictine monastery

and while i was distracted

which i easily am

he planted that green box

for me to find

sweet right?

except it gets better

because I found the box

tucked away behind a rock

and when I opened it

this is what I found

do you know....

it took me a few minutes to even realize what it said

and then i looked up

and he was on bended knee

and i cried

and then i laughed

and then i cried again

and then i realized that there was a ring

tucked in there

and then i cried some more

i remember it like it was yesterday

and i wish that beautiful place still stood

 (sadly it was destroyed in the wildfire of 2008)

so i could revisit

and remember the joy

but i can't

so

the box has become the

treasure and the treasured memory

all in one

my hubster is pretty special

don't you think?

sorry there is not a recipe attached to this post
have some champagne
that's what we did