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huffinpuffin2 wrote:

And Happy Birthday Labrat! Sounds like the big Five-O, eh?

Twenty-one.  He’s legal now.  😉

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bartrod wrote:

… on our way to Costco to top off the rental car’s gas tank…

Been there, done that!  😀  (Mr. S’s sister used to work at that Costco… She’s retired now.)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LABRAT!!!

YES, March 2, 19(mumble, mumble), was the day the singing rat was born and he hasn’t let up since!

(I hear it’s a BIG one this year… 😈 )

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Bartrod, if you have one of those overnight flights back to the mainland that leaves Kona like around 10:00 p.m., you still have time to catch one final sunset in paradise.  This was taken near the Old Airport rec area just west of town when I took a break from watching my SIL and BIL play tennis there before we needed to check in for our flight.  I found the nearby public access to the beach and snapped quite a few photos as the sun went down.  Coords for the access entrance are approximately N 19˚ 38.459′ W 156˚ 00.311′ (parking nearby).  Sunset this evening is 6:29 p.m.  Aloha and safe travels!

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Well, it still looks better in Kona than it does in Wisconsin!  Four inches of new craphas in Sandland, and it’s still coming down.  However, it will be all over by the time you get back, bartrod, and you should be able to enjoy the upcoming “warm” weather that is expected.

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Sending more craphas your way, jar42.  Still coming down here.

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first FTP in March of 2017

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HP2 is right about moving the coral.  Below is a link to our log on that cache in October 0f 2014, complete with photos showing our lame attempt at a graffiti sunflower.

Of course, we don’t know exactly what bartrod did for his graffiti on the lava, although he so far hasn’t been struck down for any of his yellow snow graffiti… 😉

https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=9ec8218a-de3a-48c7-af6b-788050c6931c&IID=ae93ee68-76b3-4ed3-9375-878c5de78fdc

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Had ono fish and chips there with Mr. S’s sister and her husband when we were visiting them.  No Christmas parade, HP2, but it was close to Halloween and there were skeletons and other creepy things hiding in the tropical foliage around their outdoor dining patio.  The Packers decor was creepy enough for Mr. S.

Bartrod, make sure you get that next meal on the house, seeing as you live so close to Green Bay and could probably shed a little Packers green/gold dust around the place to add to the ambience.  They should also be made aware that God’s Country is practically next door to the birthplace of modern civilization.

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Surely you visited Quinn’s when you were nearby, bartrod…  we did.  😉

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Well, look what I found from perusing some cache logs:

https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=9fb87022-ba83-422d-bb52-55bc71b58642

Guess you didn’t need any help from the Thread Stealers like we did to get the find on that cache!

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Does anyone see any yellow sand out there?  😉

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We got to scrape snow and ice off our driveway and sidewalks just a bit ago, and you didn’t, bartrod!  Take that!  😛

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If the BOD feels that this is a topic to discuss at the meeting, the members can throw around the pros and cons of various options to come up with some plan for the future of the current series and possible other ones.  My feelings are that the state parks need a WGA presence in each, especially at this time of uncertain funding for the parks.  Maybe announce that 2017 could see the series winding down with final archival of all caches at the end of 2018.  (I know it took us over four years to do the whole series, and one summer may not be enough if people decided they really needed to get to work on this.)

There are many great properties that are not technically state parks, so having another series to feature those could be set in motion for this year or next.  And by then, there could be a “repeal and replace” series for the state parks waiting in the wings with some different idea to draw new and repeat cachers to the various parks.

We don’t cache much in Minnesota, but some of their ideas sounded interesting.  However, we figured that we would never be able to complete any series there in the two years or so that each was out, so we never got going on anything in Minnesota.  If I remember correctly, though, one of their first series involved completing all of the state parks for a coin and/or all the ones in a certain part of the state for something else each, which is an option that is offered in the WGASPS with the biome completions.

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The fourteen state forests/units and the nine state rec areas together would make a nice grouping.  The forty-three state trails would make another nice grouping.

Before ending the current WGASPS, give enough notice so that those who are working on it have time to make their plans to finish it, if they so desire.  A time overlap of the old and any new series would give cachers who travel around the state the chance to finish one series and start on another during a single visit to an area.

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