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hack1of2 9 years, 8 months ago.
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Here’s one along our bike trail…LaCrosse River Bike Trail.
Finally finished the TL puzzle … YIKES!
I just finished the new puzzle that Birdin’ shared the link to, and it reminded me of another one of her puzzles that I was going to talk about here but forgot. It would be this puzzle:
@Trekkin and Birdin wrote:
http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=04234a4b215a
This is an old Irish church along the River Road in Iowa. When there’s a burial in the churchyard, the graves are still dug the old way…by hand. It’s a community gathering with food prepared indoors to feed those working outside.
Wexford Church
What I wanted to talk about is the story behind one of my photos/puzzles/avatars… the Kansas sunflower pic. Last August we followed Trekkin’ and Birdin’ out to Colorado on our separate trips in our separate ways. We ran across the T&B signature in a couple of logs that we also signed, but we weren’t really on a caching trip, just a visit to Rocky Mountain NP with our two great-nephews by way of a couple of NFL stadiums. Having the boys along necessitated some changes in our usual travel habits, and many of our planned caches and stops got bypassed along the way.
I had remembered reading one of Birdin’s logs before we left about finding a virtual at a little church off the highway in Kansas, so I was planning to go for this cache that was close to I-70 somewhere between “The Atomic Cannon” and “Mingo”. Our time was running short by the time we got near, however, and it would be a long slow dusty drive on the unpaved road between exits, so the virtual was out. Birdin’ had mentioned in her log for this cache that they found sunflowers lining this road all along the way, and that’s what I really wanted to see.
We got off at the first exit, then drove a short way to the sunflower road, and right away we were treated to huge roadside bouquets of those wonderful flowers. We spent a few minutes there taking in the sights and taking photos, and then we made the short drive back to the 75 mph interstate to get to where we would be spending the night.
Out-of-the-way country churches and showy flowers… two great reasons to get off the main roads and explore a little. :sl:
For Chatauqua and others… by this link only:
LOL Thanks for the puzzle Pat! Phil’s birthday is soon also.
@chatauqua560 wrote:
LOL Thanks for the puzzle Pat! Phil’s birthday is soon also.
You’re on your own as far has making sure that Phil has a good birthday, CTQ! :LOL: Besides… he’s in your puzzle.
Did you notice the Twisted Limbs cake in the puzzle? 😈@hack1of2 wrote:
@sandlanders wrote:
For Chatauqua and others… by this link only:
Wow! Nice puzzle!
I’ll make one for any driveling jigsaw puzzler. Just let me know your special day. (If I remember right, Hack, yours will be quite a while from now..)
I’ve been ordered to the couch for the weekend so I guess that means plenty of time for puzzles.
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
Here’s a few to get you all excited about the campout in 2 months:
Grill: http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=15498dd57f35
Spring forest: http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=3d6ef55f39aa
Mirror lake: http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=1651925dcdff
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
“Classic BBG”: The original.
http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=2fcb2bf05b16
This is the first photo I have from this perspective. A winner.
And the rest is history…
Very nice, BBG. The first one of these that I remember is the one in the Tunnel of Terror. I thought Mrs. Pirate had taken the shot of the three of you, but you informed me that you had set it up yourself… and that it was one of many that were taken to get it just right. :LOL:
But it’s a classic BBG pic pose now. Nice to have your own trademark shot.
Thanks to beccaday, I now have an even worse case of spring fever. 😕
I remember going to MOGA in central Illinois the first weekend of April last year and rejoicing in the fact that we could cache in the woods without wearing boots or wondering if we would have to dig to find the containers.
Does anyone remember what that is like anymore? Anyone? 🙄
Thanks for the touch of spring and whetting our appetites for the campout, Becca!
I think the tunnel would have been one of the first I put out in public. The others were before FB and they were locked on 44 photo cd’s that are now on my hard drive. I just need to back up a 100 or so folders from my dinosaur computer and I will have this project done.
Kitchen painted, splash guards on disposal changed, polished the stainless sink, I’m done for the day. Honeydew list complete.
Paint fumes must have got to me. Posted in wrong section.
Following the signals from space.
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