Educational; Bonsai Chair Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/16/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:


Located just a few yards from this cache is the Chinese Bonsai Chair.

The Bonsai Chairs are grown in the same well known fashion as the Bonsai Tree.

Originally imported from China to Japan somewhere around 1185 AD by Zen Buddhists, the Bonsai Chair quickly gained popularity. The Bonsai Chair was often used in Chinese and Japanese bath houses as a way to lose weight. In an ancient Japanese scroll written in Japan around the Kamakura period, it is translated to say : "To appreciate and find pleasure in curiously curved potted chairs is to love deformity".

The Bonsai Chair can be identified by it's 'chair like' form with a backrest that can be molded to many shapes. Mature Bonsai Chairs will have a hard rubbery feel. Their leaves are so tightly woven that their feel is quite smooth and rubbery. The Bonsai Chair seldom has more than or fewer than four stalks leading to the ground which will look much like chair legs. The Bonsai Chair is always a dark green in color regardless of the weather or temperature. If the Bonsai Chair is any other color than green then it is either ill or it has been dyed.

While the Bonsai Chair absorbs water and carbon dioxide just like any other plant, it also will absorb human sweat and cellulite. This give it a 'Fountain of Youth' quality. Unfortunately, a person has to set on the Bonsai Chair nude to have the chair absorb the cellulite from their bodies. Setting in the Bonsai Chair clothed will only allow the sweat on the clothing to be absorbed.

The Bonsai Chairs do not need bees or other insects to reproduce. They release spores into the air which settle onto the ground and begin to grow. Only one out of four billion spores will find the right conditions to take root. The growing spore will take the exact genetic form of the parent Bonsai Chair including the way in which' the backrest is molded. If the growing Bonsai Chair is not remolded while still young then its leaves and branches will permanently take the same shape as the parent.

The Bonsai Chair at this location was the first within the city limits of Rawlins. None of the Bonsai Chairs in Rawlins were remolded while young. That is why they all have the same sponsor name on the backrest. It is widely believed that the person who planted the first Bonsai Chair in Rawlins did not read the instructions, therefore they did not remold the backrest the young Bonsai Chairs.

While your here, set back and enjoy the scenery. This is South Rawlins.

Have Fun...

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