Sliver of Liver Traditional Geocache
Team KKW: Stopped by today to see if this cache was missing, and it was. The tree has rotted, and the cache has disappeared. The location is no longer good for this type of hide. We won't say how it was hidden because we'll have to hide another one like it to keep this kind of hide alive. Thanks to all who searched for this cache.
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We thank the Fairfax County Park Authority for their express written permission to place this cache at this precise location within Poburn Woods Park.
Once upon a time there was a very angry and confrontational little boy named Harry Romanaclef. He would fight with his schoolmates, call them bad names, and seemed constantly to be in trouble with the principal of his elementary school. His mommy Kate was so frustrated with his behavior! But she was a clever woman and quickly hit upon a novel form of punishment that would teach little Harry to mind his manners and get along with the other children at school.
You see, little Harry simply hated liver. He hated the taste of it, the sight of it, and even the very thought of it. That’s what gave his mommy the idea of disciplining him not by corporal means, but by gastronomic means. She vowed to herself that she would serve him nothing but liver until he learned to behave! And so Kate did.
But little Harry Romanaclef was no idiot; he was, after all, used to plotting and scheming. He quickly devised a way to fool Kate into thinking he was eating his liver while he was, in fact, secreting it away on his person to dispose of later. Every mealtime on each of the days he misbehaved, he would carefully slice the liver on his plate into little slivers, small enough to hide easily in the pockets of his knickerbockers. Kate would see him slicing the liver with his knife and naturally assumed that her little boy was, at last, learning to obey authority.
Now, what did little Harry do with all those little slivers of liver? Why, he hid them in the park! But it was a little more complicated than that. Before his first hide, Harry recalled hearing on the television after watching baseball games that certain things could not be done without the express written consent of the Commissioner of Baseball. Although Harry was just a child, he surmised that some similar restriction might apply to caching slivers of liver in the park, so he dutifully sought and received express written consent from the Fairfax County Park Authority, consent to cache his slivers of liver in the park. Each day, then, after little Harry finished his meal, with his pockets stuffed full, he went to the park and hid the slivers of liver in ways his mommy or other visitors to the park surely never would find!
Interestingly, little Harry never realized that his mommy’s strategy was working. By seeking approval from the FCPA, little Harry was demonstrating that he was maturing and accepting responsibility for his actions. Today, little Harry is fully grown up and a respected member of his community. Little does he realize that he owes it all to his mommy and his surreptitious liver caching.
Please enjoy this cache. See if you can find where Harry hid at least this one Sliver of Liver.
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