the sherwood merrywalkers presents the great easter egg hunt  -  sherwood,  Saturday 3/31

Today we were introduced to a new walker, Dave and his many stories.  To give you an idea of what Dave is like, he had a pet pack rat.  Being from Chicago, I never knew there really was a pack rat.  After pointing out the scat and what to look for and looking at Alice and Ralph, I learned all about the pack rat.  When he was a kid and at camp in Molalla, they had pack rats that would invade their tents.  He said they love people and they love to take shiny things, even the shiny gum wrappers, but they always leave something in its place, like a stick. (Doesn't that geocaching?)  In the morning, they would look for their nests just to see what they had accumulated.  One time they found a little toy truck.  They learned to make sure they wore their watches and not let them lay around, in case the next day they would find a stick or a stone in place of the watch!  What a fun person to have along on the snails walk.