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The wind sure has been cold when I’m going to the barn in the mornings and night.
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Yes, there are several apps, some free. Some :ftp:
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I changed picture host sites from GC to flikr so I think that will do the trick, plus I uploaded the originals.
To answer your question about an app for the pictures – I don’t know – but probably. I use a web page.
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It looks like a fun puzzle but it doesn’t appear that the answer is a set of coordinates but rather a point on the map. Is that really a geocache.
Using that point on the map, you can get coordinates. That’s what I did.
What map app. do you use to get such info. Google maps show an easily identifiable spot which I believe I could locate on the ground and may go to if and when I visit Home Depot at some time in the future.
I solved it at 4AM and don’t recall how I did it, although I have the answer stored in my free GPS app.
As far as my two pictures goes, my puzzle solver from Illinois just alerted me to the puzzle information isn’t there because of…well, I don’t want to post anything that will give the puzzle away, although the puzzle isn’t anything special.
Can someone message me about options for picture hosting. Seems GC.com doesn’t work like I thought it would and photobucket is a no go.
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As far as the Facebook thing goes, I haven’t been on there in almost 10 years although my wife is considering making a family page for our Christmas tree sales in order to let local people know we’re selling them next year.
I do miss the people we had here in the past.
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Well, for those of you with some time on your hands due to the weather, have some puzzles to work on. One more was just submitted and that should be it for a while, although I always have at least 20 cache containers in my car, so who knows. There is a guy from Illinois that has all but one solved – and he has that one solved if he can just get the “ah ha” moment with what he has already. He’s not going to find them, but he does what I did in Oregon: solve puzzles when you have spare time.
Happy new year to everyone, not much has changed around here except switching from Marshfield to Mayo for our health issues.
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Went 2 for 7 caching in Wausau today.
That sounds like me when I try to find caches in Rapids.
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and Mimi being a lady and all
I worked with and played volleyball with her. I know better! I wish I could get up to go out with that group some time in the future!
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I see Noonan got an FTF on a puzzle cache in Rapids this morning. It took me forever to figure it out. I had never heard of this system before. GC8GYCD” rel=”nofollow noopener” >GC8GYCD
It looks like a fun puzzle but it doesn’t appear that the answer is a set of coordinates but rather a point on the map. Is that really a geocache.
Using that point on the map, you can get coordinates. That’s what I did.
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I never saw it before either, and I taught geography for years.
Thought that would fill in part of my grid, but I already had 8 5/1.5 finds. We liked hard puzzles out west.
Ok, time for some real misadventures on the homefront.
My son decided he wanted to start a family tradition and burn a Yule log. He said the tradition was that the father and son would look for the largest log on their property and burn it. If it burned for the three days from the solstice until Christmas Eve, that means something good. Well, anything that my 17 year old wants to do with me these days is a YES, but work got in the way of our searching. I knew what the biggest log on the property was – a maple tree that fell over months ago is so big my wife and I could barely reach around it when it was standing, but that thing isn’t close to being ready to be burned. The next thought was another big hunk of maple next to our driveway that fell over years before we moved it. Part of the tree got broken off in a big storm and the logs they left are almost 3′ in diameter and many feet long. I knew he wasn’t going to ask to burn them, so I prepared to go hike through our swampy woods to search for something sizeable to burn.
I was surprised when he said he wanted to burn the fallen maple log. He wanted me to cut off a chunk from the biggest piece and then haul it over with the tractor to our fire pit. Problem #1 – the log is much to wide for our 24″ electric chainsaw. I tried for several days before telling him there wasn’t any way in the world I could get through that log with this saw. He accepted that, but then we turned our eyes to the smaller hunk next to it. I was about to tell him that’s a no go, and he asked about the tractor. Well, the weather then was in the below zero range in the mornings, so that was a no go. He accepted our defeat in stride and said we could plan for next year this summer.
Then the weather warmed up this week.
We brought out our tractor and I thought I had a plan to get the hunk of wood into the bucket. My guesstimate of the length vs the bucket width was almost perfect, the log would fit. I was off on two counts however:
First: the diameter of the log was bigger than the bucket, especially because the bigger side was the base of a Y. I figured I could just push the log against the bigger, heavier log which was adjacent to the original (still standing) tree and force it into the bucket. That worked!
Second: the mass of the tractor compared to the mass of the wood. Once I got the wood into the bucket and up into the air, my son started waving at me because the back tires were off the ground. I had it in 4×4 already, so I started moving up the small hill to get onto the driveway and then I just had to get to the pit and dump it. Surprisingly, the tractor didn’t even out as I went uphill, it did the opposite and I was quickly looking down at the log, still in the bucket, sitting on the ground. Well, it was still in the bucket – and then it rolled out. The tractor dropped back down with me still in the seat. I did a quick check to make sure everything was still working and then decided pushing was the way to go.
With enough of a head start, the machine moved the log onto the paved section of the driveway, and then it was just a matter of keeping a head of steam until we got to the fire pit. Getting it into the fire pit was a problem. Long story short, after my wife came out and saw her new fire pit was sideways under a huge log, we decided to take the ring out and simply put the log on the coals that were already there.
Well, the fire lasted until midnight last night. I restarted it this morning after getting the FTF in Rapids. It’s been a struggle to keep the fire going because we don’t have any wood that is really dry and seasoned for burning. I’m thinking that it may take a week to burn through this one log, if we can keep supplying it with smaller logs to surround it to keep it hot.
SO – what did I do on my Christmas vacation? Burn one log!
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No idea what is triggering this.
Really? With what’s been happening of late? I was involved in a couple of active shooter drills….just drills…shortly before retiring and not only were the kids anxious during the drill, I was too.
We don’t watch the news at home. I get what I need on my phone, but I’m aware of what’s going on. I’m not certain that’s really it.
What I am certain about is this :ftp:
Seriously…If this was happening a few weeks ago I’d understand.
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Another night with not much sleep. This time: nightmares. I kept going back into the same one after I was jarred awake and then fell back asleep. I was a teacher, but not in any classroom I taught in before; I was in my 2nd grade classroom in an L shaped building. Active shooter situation. The room is two rooms from the outside door. The alarm goes out, I put my hands in my pockets to lock my door after checking the hall for kids, and I don’t have them. Then I wake up.
No idea what is triggering this.
At least I have an “easy” day today: ASPIRE testing to start and end the day, a work day for AP Stats and then a test for my honors kids.
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Woke up at 3:30 and couldn’t fall back asleep. Decided to shower at 5 because, why not. Got to work at 7 and the guy next to me is here too, nobody else in the entire building. So much for making copies.
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Sometime in 2007, Team Bear Bear posted
OK guys here’s your chance to steal a thread! What should we talk about? hmmmm beer – nope been done, bonfire – when?, rockets – now there’s a topic. I once saw a cache that looked like a rocket. How cool was that! Didn’t fly very high when tossed. Needed more powder. What’s on your mind?
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Wow, this has been a busy thread today!
Dealing with work stuff isn’t easy. We came in today to a half empty gallon of chocolate milk having gone bad, expanded the jug to the point that it leaked out into the fridge (fortunately it was on the bottom) and then leaked out into the rug.
Our maintenance staff is great and he gets things clean quickly. It still smells though. The thing about this is: nobody is claiming the milk belonged to them. Nobody. We’re a pretty tight knit group of ~10 in our wing, some of us hang out together outside of work, the guys in my department have been great at helping fix up our new house. Nobody will admit the milk was theirs.
I also get here first every day. I have a ton of copies to make for my classes, and don’t like hogging the machine when I know others need it. I sat in the copy room with that rotten milk and didn’t place the smell. I thought it was butter from microwave popcorn. I couldn’t figure out who was here before 7 AM making popcorn! Guess my nose is going now too.
As far as the message in the card goes, I live with people with SAD, but they enjoy the holidays much more than I ever will. It’s been Hallmark movies since Halloween, or whenever they started showing them this year. I just go to another room and do my own thing. I think they go gung ho on decorating and movies to help combat their depression. Me, my family just never celebrated like this, for so long, so it’s not my thing. It irritates my wife, but after being together almost 20 years, I think she’s starting to realize I’m not going to join in. I was surprised that she didn’t bite when I offered to put up the outside lights the last warm weekend we had. She said we didn’t really have any anymore and didn’t know where they were at that time either. So, we’re full of inside decorations and completely barren outside.
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