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Jim, how about bringing in an LP record tomorrow and see if they can guess what it is.
Or a slide projector
Or a film projector
You could probably raid the schools AV department (Do they still have those?) and keep them entertained for weeks…
Mrs. Northwoods crashed about an hour ago. She was pretty exhausted from playing Glinda the Good Witch this year. I was the Cowardly Lion, my sister in law was Dorothy and my wife’s co-worker was the Wicked Witch. Our Scarecrow wimped out. The theme this year was the Emerald City with the house lit up with green laser lights.
Everyone must be exhausted from passing out candy. We had 82 this year, not a record but the best we’ve had in several years. Pretty good count considering it rained all night and our K-12 enrollment is less than that at present. Quite a few off Island kids up for the weekend.
Our best year was 124 kids and two dogs… We do pass out dog biscuits for the pups.
Now that you give those clues it’s obvious!
NOT… Instead we should be counting the days until we see Codejunkie’s solved but not found yet bookmark.
Back home for a chunk of time and decided to catch up on what I’ve missed…. At least it’s nice to have internet in the house. Maybe I need to rethink the idea of not having any internet or even telephone or cell phone connection up north at the cottage. NAH.
T and B’s trek up to the Keweenaw intrigued me. I also have checked out a passel of those earthcaches and you’re correct about them being a continuing education class project. I especially enjoyed “Bent Trees” and got back a really nice note from the individual who created it after I logged my find, but I think you’re correct that most of the individuals who create them may not follow them since.
I like the rubber ducks. That would have been a great one for the flowage trip.
That’s interesting Noonan. You can tell that you have recently moved and it sounds like you have eliminated a lot of the clutter we accumulate in all those drawers in our home. I actually tend to place more in my own caches only because I find a lot of caches tend to be smaller rather than larger. My current stash bag has firearm safety locks, mosquito/tick repellent wipes, hand sanitizers and other items I have acquired in my work or from people I work with (EMS and police don’t always have a lot of fun freebies). I also have those little trinkets that we all acquire and at least I toss in the proverbial “junk” drawer. These include the small toys, pins and the likes. As I said earlier, the tendency for so many cache containers to be smaller (How often do we see the phrase “Container is a pill bottle”) has really put a crimp on putting items in caches, I often leave the stash bag behind. The most unusual item I keep stocked in one of my local caches is a sealed selection of prints of drawings I created years ago of historic buildings.
Gripe for the day….. Whatever happened to Mom’s manners lesson….say “thanks?”
My “unscientific” observation. I think it’s still taught but not hammered in like our mom’s use to do it. My reason for this is I often would have volunteers come in and at the end of a session all I would have to say is “What do you say?” And they would use those magic words, “Thank You”. They often forget the phrase without the reminder but it appears to be something that’s right there and only needs a cue. It’s as though people assume you know that it’s appreciated. I think the job of “hammering” has fallen on the grandparent age generation.
I like fried spam with a little catsup.
Spam from sturat9093.
It’s not known to “rapidly” harm most mammals and birds (except for it toxicity to cats).
Beside, aren’t those little deer mice cute with those big eyes? Maybe they might grow three… Imagine how much more endearing they would be…
Here’s one for those who have a place up north or in any other tick area. Read about a study at UW Madison a while back about how they were filling PVC tubes with cotton treated with permethrin. Mice gather the cotton for nesting material and the permethrin kills the ticks that attach to the mice on contact when they return to the nest. I thought at the time what a great idea! I hear now that these tubes are available commercially.
So for those of you who do your own plumbing and have scrap PVC or toss the cardboard tubes and cotton packing in bottles, save it and start creating your own cottage zone killing traps. Word of caution to Astro D Team and other cat owners, permethrin is toxic to cats.
Time to catch up on all the important knowledge…. Eye Doctor appointment Friday and I had no time for caches but did find beef for a decent price at Festival. Spent today on a scaffold starting to put up a mural the middles school created. Noonan, sometimes you just have to max out the word count on a great cache and continue on a second post. It’s fun to let the owner know how special their cache was. Big Jim, that is so cool. Being a teacher also I know how you feel. Hope everyone is having fun at the campout. I have yet to find anything I like about the new message feature on GC.com. Not a fan. Thanks Team Northwoods for visiting. I love your blog.
I’m looking for recommendations in the Green Bay area for a cache to hit the milestone on. -The Happy Hodag!
Just up the road in Brussels is “A Hole in One” by Brussels2. 71% favorite points.
I put out my hummingbird and oriole feeders yesterday…hoping the warm weather brings them north soon.
I’m always amazed at how they find the feeders. At the cottage up north in the National Forest, no flowers, pines, sand and rocks. I put the feeders out when I go up and before long I have anywhere from a couple to 8 at a time.
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