Grandma's Lemonade Traditional Cache
scheibwife: I love this one, and many visitors appreciate the history, but cache is gone. I don't make enough visits to the area to keep replacing it...so sadly, I have to retire it. Grandma appreciates your patronage to her (I can say this now...) nasty lemonade water!
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Cache involves a short .2 mile walk along hiking/horse trail/dirt road.
Grandma Ruth had this odd taste for lemonade made with mineral water. Several times a year she would have someone drive her from Kelseyville out to Highland Springs to collect a gallon or so of water out of the spring near this cache. Then home would go the water, into a pitcher, and some 5 or 6 lemons would give their all to try to refine the taste. Grandma would add a healthy scoop of sugar, and ... Voila! ICK! I never did develop a taste for her special lemonade, and had a very hard time ever finishing a single glass served to my wee young self. Unfortunately, Grandma Ruth died when I was only four, so I never learned very many of her GOOD recipes. The upside was that I never had to try to pretend I shared her taste in beverages again!
However, it is always a wonderful thing to carry the cherished memories of one's past into the future, so I have hereby shared Grandma's favorite lemonade recipe with you - one of the only recipes I remember of hers. (Okay, that and the cough syrup...) IF you have the gumption, bring a container to the cache with you, take home some mineral spring water, and give it a go...
The once famous Highland Springs Resort had nine mineral springs, and this spring is one of them. The hotel here hosted many visitors who also shared Grandma's taste for mineral water, or who thought the benefits of the minerals would aid their health - some would come for the "whole season". The hotel and resort burned down in 1945, never to be rebuilt. My parents rented one of the few remaining cabins for the first 6 months of their marriage in 1960, and shortly after they moved, the remaining buildings were razed, the dam built, and the reservoir we enjoy today came into being.
Hope you enjoy your visit to another small corner of Highland Springs County Park!
* Please be careful to rehide the cache - muggle potential here, as the Horsemen's Association uses the area frequently. Other alternatives all had poison oak, so "ya go with whatcha got".
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