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[Trekkin and Birdin]

While I’ve been seeing and hearing them elsewhere for about a week, it’s official….the Juncos have returned to our yard!

[amita17]

A later-than-usual FTP for the day!

[hack1of2]

Braid Beards Gang wrote:

The only drawback so far is that I have to do the entire process myself, meaning I pick my own orders, load my truck, drive a 28 foot straight reefer truck, deliver, sell, and merchandise. I am tired after 61 hours this week.

  BBG I didn’t think you were the reefer type.  😉

Congrats on the new job.  Hey can I borrow the truck?

[koolma_k]

Ah, there’s another familiar name… 2nd hip replacement?? ouch!! hope everything goes well and you feel like a 20yr old again when it is done 😉 (i have a few of my own health issues that have kept me away, so trying to ease back into things 🙂 )

Thank you for the welcome back W.A., i was pretty gungho in the beginning when i had my tree climber extraordinaire (son) who liked to cache with me and a couple of old work friends, but the kid and friends got busy and it is just not as fun doing it all by yourself (although it is easier to make a FTF if you don’t have to wait for someone else to get ready! lol) My significant others kid (well, kinda kid, she is 21 now) seems to be pretty interested in caching so i may be getting out and doing more as her schedule allows and I’m working on getting my other half a little more interested in it also (like BBG i kinda screwed up taking my honey out to a couple of rough ones the first few times – he must have lost at least a pint or 2 of blood doing the peter pan series around memorial day and probably 10#s in sweat from the heat and hiking through tall grass, and picked up a couple of friendly ticks that were big enough to be momentarily mistaken as spiders!! – he’s never been the same since – doesn’t like ticks or spiders 😀 ) Fortunately the kid doesn’t seem to scare as easy. We ended up having time for only a couple of caches, we did Hot Dog, Outhouse, and Sharknado ate… the first two were pretty easy and fun, but Sharkando put us through our paces. True to form i tried to find the easiest route to the cache which inevitably ends up being way harder than necessary (normally realize that on the way out) had a nice path, saw pavement, went through thorny bushes to get to the pavement to only find out it was someones very long driveway… oops… then back through the thorny bushes, across a field, down a wooded ravine to only crawl back out of it, then through another field, back into the woods… did i mention thorny bushes every time we entered or exited woods and field?? Got WP1 and forgot how to put coord.s into my gps (we were using our phones because the #@%^$# GPS still wouldn’t download caches) finally figured out how to put coords into google maps (lol) got to WP2 50′ away looking at all the wrong stuff only to look up and see the big shark (felt so stupid…lol) went to retrieve the cache and had to ask the kid it the thing by the can was a long worm or a little snake, well, it wasn’t a worm!! it was all fun and games until we actually uncovered him (after unsuccessfully trying to shoo him away) then he got a little angry and struck a pose for us while he darkened up his markings. Fortunately i was able to grab the cache while the kid kept an eye on the guardian of the cache since i knew he was no garder snake. She took his picture while i signed the log, then i kept an eye on him while she signed, we covered everything back up as good as he would let us and went on our happy way.. mission completed – fortunately we didn’t go to deep into the woods because i forgot to mark where we parked to find our way back 😀 So, now that she has told some of her other family about that cache i know there will be a few who will be guaranteed to never go caching…lol Oh, and we came out tick free 🙂 (since i went into so much detail, i will probably cut and past some of this for the log i haven’t done yet 🙂 ) 2 pictures of the guardian (a hognose maybe??) and one picture of me trying to convince him to move along and let us get the cache!)

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[koolma_k]

got a chance to look the little bugger up… looks like he is maybe a DeKay’s brownsnake?

[bartrod]

Have a great view from my hospital bed. I can see Lambeau Field from here. Feeling good. Everything went well. Thanks for sharing your adventure koolma. I’m living vicariously now. Keep them coming 🙂

Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)

[koolma_k]

great to hear it all went well bartrod… are you going to have the room long enough to see a game? lol i will do my best to report on “the misadventures of koolma_k and the gang geocaching” – i could probably write a book! (at least i haven’t needed medical attention for anything yet!!)

Oh, and BBG, i got my avatar up, you can see the “little guy” who went for a swim standing next to his very happy Mom… he is up at the Duluth CG station and has become a avid back packer and is loving the superior trail.

[bartrod]

Ahhh! The spinal tap wore off 🙁

Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)

[koolma_k]

oh, yeah… there it is… (spinal blocks are a god send, then you feel the fires of hell!!!)

[JimandLinda]

FTP for Hump Day the 19th.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

I’m guessing that’s a hognose snake.  They try to look scary, but that’s about all they can do.  Still, even a garter snake can startle those of us who aren’t snake-phobic when they appear out of nowhere.  Makes for a way better cache log story!

Glad to hear you’re doing okay, bartrod.  Getting older is not for the faint of heart!

[JimandLinda]

FTP for Packer Thursday.

[bartrod]

Getting dismissed at noon:)

Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)

[Walkingadventure]

Good for you, Rod. Rest up.

Following the signals from space.

[JimandLinda]

So this FTP sat for 10 hours?

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