You are looking for an Altoids tin. This is not the safest place
for small children as there is no sidewalk, so be careful. Stay on
the roadside hard surface. If your GPSr indicates anything else,
particularly something unwise or unsafe, severely chastise it
(threaten to replace it) and curtail its visits with HAL (see
Stanley Kubrick's "2001"). Do not go on any private property. Name
and date only. Parking close to the cache. Remember, this is a
residential area, so please behave accordingly, and no night
flashlight sorties.
Oh, those poor spiders!
This is Chicken Ranch Slough. It is now a suburban
drain. At one time it must have been a carefree stream, meandering
about the countryside on its way to the swamp that is now
Sacramento. In the summertime it must have dried up as there was no
rain to sustain it. At some point it must have coursed through
something associated with chickens. Perhaps not. As houses were
built up around it, it was constrained to its current bed. In some
places, like here, it is concreted. It probably starts near
Carmichael Park just east of here and courses down, running roughly
from northeast to southwest where it joins Strong Ranch Slough near
Hurley Way and Ethan Way behind Cal Expo. In strong local rains it
can flood residences down there when it gets too much for the pumps
to push over the levee.