[Noonan]

Checking in. Mid-90s for a week. No sense to this, but mosquitoes are absolutely horrible. You can be standing in the middle of our mowed, 1-acre yard in full blazing sun, no water around, no shade around and be swarmed by dozens on mosquitoes. It reminds me of walking into the cedars at Wells Park (MI) except there isn’t water, shade or cedar. Just blood suckers. I should’ve taken a picture of Mr SL’s legs, they were black with bugs!

WGA visit #2 at Riding Shotgun Travel Bug University yesterday! Sandlanders stopped in for a chat and a meal (for the mosquitoes). Good meeting them and hearing people that talk like us! HP2 has been out here…who’s going to be next?

Spent the week commuting “over the mountain” for a grad class. Funny how just 60 miles can make such a difference in flora. Had a pile of solved puzzles from that area, and only found two (one was a dump water into a tube puzzle) with a “I think it’s gone DNF” on another one.

Got an email today, a FTF on one of the caches I placed two weeks ago. The finders are in the country for Going Ape next weekend, from Czech Republic. Amazing how someone can come all this way and get a FTF! Too bad they didn’t take a right turn, they could’ve had four more, including one on a multi-cache.

Anyway, the gearing up for the next school year has started. Three days of math meetings starting tomorrow. Sports practices start tomorrow. My boss called me last week and wanted to know if I could help the volleyball coach out because we still don’t have a JV coach (anyone interested?). I told him I won’t be around until Thursday. Then he said I needed to monitor concussion tests this week. Could I test the kids on Tuesday? Um, no, I won’t be around until Thursday. I almost expect a call tomorrow asking if I can come in to help run some drills.

We had a rain storm go through a few days ago. First time we had rain since the last time I mentioned it rained months ago. This was a real lightning storm with heavy rain (at times). Some lightning hit very close to the house, repeatedly. Not long after the storm finished, there was a pickup at the end of our driveway. I went down and it was the forestry department. They had crews on the mountain behind us looking for fire. The teacher that lives at the end of the road had texted me saying they had a fire started on their property (they have 1000s of acres if not 10,000 acres). We could see it from our house, a little orange star on the hill that’s always in my pictures.

I went back down to see if the truck needed us to do anything or needed water, etc. They said, nope, just stay in your house for now. I asked them about the fire at the end of the road, and they had no clue. So, I pointed out the orange star on the hill. That got their attention fast! It took them all night just to find a way to get to it, but thankfully, it was just a ponderosa pine that was hit and the fire never spread.

That’s been the excitement around here.

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[Noonan]

What I did this summer:

Shot 60 squeaks (ground squirrels?). Resident nuisance for miles around.

Shot 15 chipmunks. They got the death penalty when they started eating the plants in our garden and on our porch. It went from having one that would come to get the dropping from the bird feeder, scampering around our feet as we were sitting in chairs to dozens of them all over.

Interesting places visited: 0 – although that should change next week when I go to a geography grad class on the other side of the foothills. One place will be Lava Beds National Monument, not sure where the other locations are.

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[Noonan]

The last time I saw one in the wild was at the BSA cache outside of Hudson over two years ago. Many of the ones listed as being in the cache were AWOL. I haven’t seen any out here in the wild west.

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[Noonan]

We always have F-15s flying overhead along with other support planes. The only training base in the country is just over the mountain.

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Just checking in. 100 degrees for the past few days means staying out of the sun as much as possible. Glad for two things: I don’t need to get a cache to fill a date now until September, and, there are about a dozen cache “down the road” from our house that will do just fine for those purposes (it’s only 20 miles round trip).

Think I mentioned having a bunch of baby quail fall into a window well before. Well, it happened again while I was gone to work (tutoring) and I was informed the mom flew away. We now have over a dozen baby quail in our former chicken tub. The chickens are free ranging around an acre of yard and just starting to produce an egg every other day.

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[Noonan]

Had a long road trip yesterday to get a library book for my daughter and (unplanned until I got a call from my wife) get carpet cleaner.

I arrived an hour too early for the library, so CACHE TIME! Placed a few and had a strange experience. The only civilian deaths during WWII occurred east of here, due to a Japanese Balloon Bomb. There is a memorial and I figured that would be a great place for a solve on site puzzle. Got out there, looked around and took pictures, then spotted a great place for a cache. As I went to place my container, I found one. There was already a cache there! But I didn’t recall seeing one on the app. Well, I’ve found plenty of archived caches that were never removed, so I picked it up, placed my new one in a more secure location and headed back to the library.

Along the way, there was another location that just needed a cache, and I had a backpack full of containers… Well, the first one I put in place slide down the wooded planks. I peered down the structure and spotted another cache already there. The CO must’ve archived a bunch of caches out here! I picked that one up, put a new container in place and headed on down the gravel road. Then the big “OK” that was painted on the side of the structure rang a bell. I called up the caching app and realized I had picked up not one, but two, active caches and drove off with them! Ooops. I had them mentally west of my location and never really connected them with this area. Well, time to do a little maintenance on the containers and replace them.

Back to the library, with a few more stops to hide some.

Get to the library, and the lady working there is a mom of one of my students and it’s her first day of work. We look around the place for the requested book and finally find it, misplaced in the shelves. As I’m getting into the car to come home, my wife calls and said she needs more carpet cleaner. The choices are driving 50 miles to KF or 40 miles to Lakeview. She says go to Lakeview – hey, I have one more cache to find there!

Found the one and only jug of carpet cleaner in Lakeview and back to home. Time to type up the caches I placed and…what’s with the red circles next to a couple of my hides? Fire up the app again and I realize I drove past a bunch of caches and didn’t look for them. Once again, I had them west of where I was driving. Guess that gives me a reason to go back there and place more!

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[Noonan]

not a milestone, but :ftp:

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[Noonan]

and also

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Also, as I’m 3 away from find 1600, I can guarantee that will be a double milestone find.

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A string of 35 caches has been placed at the end of our road – where I had hidden a ton before we moved out here. They are being published piecemeal, which means I could have about a week’s worth of FTFs and they are “only” a 20 mile round trip! Not bad for a dead end road!

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[Noonan]

BTW: don’t mention Pokeomon Go in a cache description, they won’t publish it.

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I have to travel at least 4 miles to get a Pokemon. 10 miles to get to a Pokestop. However, where I work and Klamath Falls are very good spots. I gained over one level today just walking the length of Main St. in KF. One thing that I like about this game is how you can keep going to the same spots and find different things.

 

Caching is rough when you’re out of caches that can be found in the time allowed for a run to town, and all the rest are very much in all the wrong directions – or up a mountain.

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[Noonan]

Appeal denied. Hard wrapping my head around it, but GC doesn’t want to keep a cache around from ’01.

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Those robins must be teaching my dog what to do. She’s decided this summer to get up with the first hint of light outside.

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lostcheq wrote:

Once archieved I believe, unless there is a “miracle” worked by a reviewer, they are not to be “resurrected”. OLD, caches from 2000, 2001 have a better chance to be re-activate, but not recent ones. You might be able to reinvent them, and call them a “redux”? at the same coordinates, same write-up, etc. Maybe someone else can respond too if I am inaccurate on what I have heard. Nice idea!

The caches we were discussing are 2001 caches, some of the oldest in the state. It really pains me that they won’t reactivate a perfectly good old cache that is in amazing condition, has someone that will adopt it and (finally) a CO that is willing to turn it over. The CO simply got bored with the game and archived caches that were running for 12 years and never bothered to retrieve them. That wasn’t enough to sway the reviewer. What you said was pretty close to what the reviewer stated:

It is not common practice or policy to un-archive a cache to allow it to be adopted.  This is the global norm.

 

They will have to remain archived.  You are more than welcome to submit new caches in these same spots.  Assuming they meet current guidelines, they will be listed.

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