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Once we decide it would be safe for me to host and attend a social event, would people be interested in a Puzzlers Den Event in the Wautoma area? Not sure if I could host one here at our house, although we have room for plenty of people, the TB University may not work with putting another cache here.
I don’t know if they still hold them up around New Richmond/Stillwater, but they did when we first got into caching – although I could never attend. You get together and work with cachers on puzzles you can’t solve, or help people with ones you have solved.
I have multiple puzzle caches in the works, on top of the ones I already have in place, so this is fair warning. Speaking of which, all my caches that involve .exif data are currently not working, despite having used different hosts over the years. Does anyone else have a similar problem, or a solution? One puzzle worked as recently as a few months ago, was found, then *poof* the needed data was gone.
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Great job on the radio today! Listening to the Larry Meiller Show many years ago got us involved in caching, great to hear Rebecca and Carson promoting things today. Unfortunately, I listen to his podcast instead of the radio, so I couldn’t call in., but enjoyed hearing the joy and excitement the game brings you and hope more people have the same reaction we had.
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Wow! What I’ve been missing by not getting up to northern Wisconsin to cache! Cement Park! Wow! Double Arch Stone Bridge! Wow!
What? You didn’t go to Lumberjack Totems?
I wanted to go there, but I was working and only stopping at caches that I was driving past.
The lumberjack totem is awesome…you’ve gotta see that one. Today I saw the world’s 3rd largest loon in Mercer…now to find the two biggest! My wife and I are staying at a cottage we rent every year at Star Lake. Someone dropped off a census on our doorstep the other day…was that you? Or don’t you get this far north?
I didn’t get quite that far north. I got to within 5 miles of Timm’s Hill and then drove up there to get the earthcache, and I think that’s as far north as I got. I knew someone in college from Butternut, so I recognized that when I saw a sign saying I was close to there, but still had a few miles to go. They kept me on the west side of 51 too. At one point, I had a bunch of work around “downtown Athlestane” but when I asked them if they really wanted me to drive 6 hours just to do 2 hours of work, they reassigned me to the area I worked – and had a 5 hour trip instead.
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I think I found my first BigJim cache yesterday, and now my first Hack cache today. Love how my Census job is taking me all over the place.
Just another 200 or so and you’ll have found all of the BigJim & Hack caches. Snap to it!
Sure, and you can work on finding all of my caches too. Let’s see who gets done with that challenge first!
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Wow! What I’ve been missing by not getting up to northern Wisconsin to cache! Cement Park! Wow! Double Arch Stone Bridge! Wow!
What? You didn’t go to Lumberjack Totems?
I wanted to go there, but I was working and only stopping at caches that I was driving past.
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Wow! What I’ve been missing by not getting up to northern Wisconsin to cache!
Cement Park! Wow!
Double Arch Stone Bridge! Wow!
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I think I found my first BigJim cache yesterday, and now my first Hack cache today. Love how my Census job is taking me all over the place. I’m sure I’ve added a few new counties and Delorme pages in the past week. I just missed two counties the other day – no cache close enough to the border when I was out in the middle of nowhere to justify the extra miles.
Speaking of which, electric geomobile just topped 100,000 miles on my way home from work today. I’ve got a puzzle cache all worked out in my mind to celebrate the occasion, just need the time to place the cache and make the numbers work.
The poor Volt has taken a beating that reminds me of the abuse it took in rural Oregon. Blew out a tire yesterday by North Twin Lake. Glad there was a cache right there so I could tell someone where I was. It still took the tow guy 90 minutes to find me, but he was a great guy.
First night of summer school online help sessions: 1 kid showed up even though I was expecting 5 or 6 based upon conversations with parents. I guess that explains why they’re in summer school! The kid that did show up really appreciated the help, and I think I have him set to finish the work he needs to get his credit. Focus on the wins, not the ones that don’t show.
Well, looks like I’ll have at least another 8 hours in the car tomorrow, so I better get to bed soon. Heading to Bachelor Lane tomorrow. Looks like more lake homes with no one living there – my specialty! If I’m smart, I’ll preload the local caches before I leave.
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I kept crossing the Trail during Doughnut Day yesterday. Didn’t get to enjoy either.
This will be my first social outing with someone besides my husband in almost 4 months.
We’ve had a few people over to help fell trees, but nothing social. It gets me quite concerned about the start of school when I drive past restaurants and bars that are packed. So many people at stores going about their business as if everything is normal. I can say the anxiety I’m facing about the start of next school year is similar to what I felt in the days after our school shooting.
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We made it through the storms. I’ve only noticed one of our 1000s of Christmas trees knocked over, and it was one that was too close to another, so I was going to be cutting it down anyway.
Found a lonely cache yesterday while out Census working. I think I need to put my caching bag back in my car. Too many DNFs on P&G along the highways that would be easy to do a quick replacement if I had my stuff with me. Someone takes out a sign post and the cache goes with it.
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The fun keeps piling up. Got the mower fixed and hooked up onto the tractor. Got half the lawn cut, then started cutting around the house area and promptly ran over a welcome mat that was buried in grass. Completely jammed up the mower. 3 hours of cutting later and it’s still jammed up.
Had a friend from work stop to help cut down some trees. He has no sense of social distancing. I told him my wife & daughter would not be here, he brought his wife and young daughter with him anyway. My family decided they didn’t feel well enough to go up north, so they got stuck socializing and babysitting (I told them just to stay in the house, but my daughter had to do work in the barn…so the girl followed her, and the mom followed her, so my wife came out to help bail out my daughter).
Got a ton of trees down, but my saw quit working. After I got frustrated with the rug, I decided to clean the saw and realized the battery (it’s electric) wasn’t attached. I have no idea where it is.
Can’t mow. Can’t work on trimming and cutting logs.
Three hours until our last help session for my classes. Tomorrow is homework turn in day, then after a week of quarantine at school, we can pick it up and grade it. Then?
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Still doing tilling and planting. Took me several days, but I got the belt replaced on the deck mower. This quarantine may make a handyman out of me yet!
Getting a little bit of action at the TB University. Someone said they came and swapped out all the bugs I had for bugs they had. I haven’t had a chance to get down there to log the new ones yet.
Thinking about going over towards Winnecone to get some P&G that were just reactivated. Farming stuff comes first though.
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I’d love to mow my lawn, but after the first time I did it this year, the belt broke. Got a replacement, but haven’t tried to put it on until yesterday. It’s the first time I’ve tried to replace. After some thinking and consulting the internet and the book, I figured out what I need to do. Then, I broke a wrench taking one bolt off. Switched to the ratchet set and got the other three off. Went to put the belt on and it was waaaaaayyyy too long. Look at the book again and saw my error. Replaced the bracket that had the 4 bolts and tried to take off the bracket on the other side. Two bolts were easy, the other two are surrounded by mower deck and bracket parts. Too tight for the socket the way it is now. I need an extender, and I don’t have one. I guess the grass isn’t growing too much these days.
We’re trekking up to Marinette/Menominee to pick up some supplies and drop off plants with my in-laws. We still have ~300 unsold plants in our bedroom staying warm. Maybe I can talk my dad into giving me one of his spare ratchet sets so I can finish up the mower.
Still tons of brush/tree cutting to do, and the brush already cut needs to be piled. Tilling is all done – until my wife decides she wants the corn area tilled “one more time”.
Then it is putting up fencing for our birds. Hoping to have the ducks and geese in two separate areas with some sort of water area for each.
Besides that and the lumber work, next big goal is clearing and organizing the barn and workshop. Between the junk they left behind and the junk we brought with, we could have a very nice workshop along with a ton of junk.
All of this is complicated by money. We thought we had a done deal to “sell” our old house through a land contract, which would give us an immediate cash injection and take away half of our overall mortgage payments. Then, my wife finally got in touch with someone that knows something at our lender. She said they normally can’t authorize a land contract to terminate a loan like ours (through the VA). I can’t see how they would object, so it has to be federal regulations. She said she’d work on it to see what she can do. Just more stress in an area that was becoming less stressful.
Did anyone see the science fiction themed P&G caches outside Winneconne are up for adoption? ~80 of them. I’d take them over but I haven’t been that far east in may caching yet.
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Our barn swallows are back. I spotted a scout bird a couple days ago, but the pair that nested in our barn last year are making themselves at home again. Spotted an oriole the same day as the spotter swallow and then a giant dragonfly. A few of the early starter butterflies have made an appearance too. We even spot a cacher checking the grounds of the university once in a while.
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Can’t let Jim have all the fun to himself! Happy Cinco de Mayo!
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Quiet day. We have our first buyer for our first hatch of chicks! Our daughter. She decided to spend her own money to buy some of the chicks she hatched, because they come from some of her favorite hens.
We have water overflowing the banks of our trout stream on the north side of our property. Luckily, and purely by accident, I had placed several loads of sod in some low spots next to the old cement crossing point, so instead of washing out the trail it flooded all the low land upstream.
I’ve been watching a lot of wood turning videos on YouTube. My grandpa had a lathe when I was growing up, and he let me use it when I was old enough – with him helping. I don’t think I ever made anything from start to finish on my own, but I do know I helped turn a lot of table legs. Now that I have a shop on our property, I’m thinking I may need to get one of my own. Looking at prices, I wonder how much something like my grandpa had would cost now. I know he had a planer and other things I see in the videos. I’m sure I could make some cache containers too.
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