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08/13/2020 at 7:27 am #2066992
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08/13/2020 at 8:47 am #2066993FTP for Thursday. Rumbles of thunder and light rain right now.
Once again, Rapids is getting hit with a red blob and we will probably get nothing out of it. We really need the rain down here.
My four closest unfound caches (and these are so much closer than many of you would reference for your “closest unfound”) are two challenge caches that involve going around the state and I may never qualify for, once that has been referenced and “probably under water” for a year, and then one that is a nice walk through a local public land area. I may have time for the last one today if I don’t get sent to Wild Rose again.
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08/14/2020 at 6:57 am #2066996FTP for Friday. J&L must be sleeping in after a long day of chasing lonlies.
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08/14/2020 at 7:05 am #2066997Heck no! Had to open my eyes and ears to listen to rawevil on WPR at 6 AM!
It was a good listen!
08/14/2020 at 8:40 am #2066998Heck no! Had to open my eyes and ears to listen to rawevil on WPR at 6 AM! It was a good listen!
Yeah, I meant to do that, but didn’t quite make it.
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08/14/2020 at 5:29 pm #2067009Heck no! Had to open my eyes and ears to listen to rawevil on WPR at 6 AM! It was a good listen!
Yeah, I meant to do that, but didn’t quite make it.
Do what I do, listen to the podcast!
Waiting for a phone call from my superintendent that may determine if I’m teaching in Adams this year or not. Not sure what I’ve shared here, but because of my son’s health issues, because the school had decided to open up “full time in-person” I’ve told them that I’d like to be allowed to do virtual teaching. I’ve been working all summer to prepare for the possibility that our entire school would be virtual, but I guess I don’t understand the politics of our school board yet. If they won’t work to accommodate this, I won’t be working there. Legally, I’m in no-man’s land because it isn’t my personal health that is directly at risk. Ethically…
He and I had a very heartfelt conversation on the phone on Monday, but I have no idea what direction this will go. I’ve been waiting all week, and either he forgot to call me back or they haven’t had a decision until now (I’m guessing it’s the former because there is so much up in the air right now). Now, I’ve been waiting three hours and this is just about more than I can take.
If the school is good with this, then I’m set to go. I dearly want to continue working at Adams, with the kids there along with a great staff. We’re finally into a house that we could make into something that’s our own.
If not, we put this house on the market and try to move back into my dad’s house in the COVID hotspot of Marinette. Completely not where my family should go, but its about our only option.
We also had to do a run to Onalaska today to have some moles on our daughter checked out. Growing and turning colors at 19. Best news of the week is that the doctor didn’t feel the need to biopsy, but keep watching them and come back in a year at the latest, sooner if there are changes.
Too hot to go look for caches that involve long walks, and 5 hours of driving means I don’t want to drive to get anything. Maybe it’s time to go fishing again.
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08/14/2020 at 7:09 pm #2067011I found the radio segment on the wpr website in the archives. Very informative and the conversation flowed well. It’s hard to nutshell geocaching in one segment. Heck, I would guess a lot of veteran cachers still discover aspects of geocaching that they didn’t know about or hadn’t taken the time to explore. I like that different entities are keeping geocaching in the news!
08/14/2020 at 8:13 pm #2067012A lot of you get around the state quite a bit…can anyone clear up for me admission to state parks? I believe I looked on a DNR webpage, but it seemed to contradict itself. Can you get a permit on site, if not from a ranger, from one of those self-serve kiosks? In one place, it seemed like day passes were only available online. What about going in person to one of the DNR offices? Thanks.
08/15/2020 at 7:53 am #2067013A lot of you get around the state quite a bit…can anyone clear up for me admission to state parks? I believe I looked on a DNR webpage, but it seemed to contradict itself. Can you get a permit on site, if not from a ranger, from one of those self-serve kiosks? In one place, it seemed like day passes were only available online. What about going in person to one of the DNR offices? Thanks.
My understanding is that you can not purchase either an annual or daily pass in any of the parks. The annual pass is only available online. My daughter and her husband went to Bayfield last weekend, and decided to stop at Copper Falls. They called me to ask what to do, since they saw many cars in the parking lot with tickets on the windshield. They purchased a pass on-line and wrote a note with the confirmation number and left it on the dashboard.
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08/15/2020 at 8:12 am #2067014I don’t understand why the self-serve kiosks aren’t available. Here’s the statement from the DNR’s Parks page:
<h3 class=”dnr-alert-title”>COVID-19 Update:</h3>An annual park sticker or trail pass is required to visit state parks and trails. Buy before you go: annual and daily passes are NOT available for purchase at individual properties.
Office buildings, visitor centers, observation towers, enclosed shelters and playgrounds remain closed. Campgrounds are open with special conditions. For more information, please see:
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08/15/2020 at 8:28 am #2067015I think the risk of COVID spread from contact, like envelope boxes and deposit slots, spurred that decision to NOT have self-pay stations open. If you get a pass online, you need to print out the temporary pass to display on your dashboard until the decal arrives in the snail mail. It took about 2 weeks to get ours.
08/15/2020 at 9:35 am #2067016Thank you Jim and Jim for your replies. The virus has messed up a lot for everyone. While I am grateful the parks eventually opened, the restrictions and the timing in my personal situation will prevent me from visiting. I am sure the DNR has done its best to ensure safety and offer some services.
I wonder how much a ticket is…😒
08/15/2020 at 10:42 am #2067018I posted a message on the cache page about this but the Virtual at the veterans’ home in King needs to be disabled
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08/15/2020 at 12:24 pm #2067019I posted a message on the cache page about this but the Virtual at the veterans’ home in King needs to be disabled
That CO has not been active since 2013. If the cache were to be disabled by a reviewer, the eventual outcome would be archival. Better to just leave it alone
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08/15/2020 at 5:01 pm #2067020Got our souvenir at a nice bird house cache today. Another nice variation on it.
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