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Click on today’s Google doodle to see who is moonlighting over there now…
We always look for those birds out west. Saw them for the first time in 1976 in Colorado. Seeing them in MN would be cool!
FTP for Tuesday
Jim must be sleeping in
And Labrat must be at work. 😉
We finished our four-pack today… four games at Miller Park during the season. The Brewers won three of the four we attended, and the other game they lost to the Cubs. Don’t think we’ll do that next year, but it was fun to do once… mini-season ticket holders. If we lived closer… maybe. Today was the only day game of the four.
Sure hate to see the baseball season ending in a couple of weeks.
We used to have a lot of cats roaming the neighborhood–not feral, just outside cats. There is only one now, and we don’t know who it belongs to, but our neighbor saw it take out one of the baby bunnies earlier this year. There was also a wandering dog, but it was mean, and eventually it and its owners left the neighborhood. (It’s been a lot quieter this summer.) We saw a Cooper’s hawk munching on a mourning dove in our driveway in late winter. We could use more of those during baby bunny season.
We are not getting a puppy. (The Cooper’s hawk would probably swoop down and get that anyway.)
Yesterday Mr. S noticed something furry run through the wooden lattice that surrounds the bottom of our front deck. He said it was either a squirrel or a rabbit. We then noticed a juvenile terrorist next door to go along with our two now-grown terrorists. There are several spots in the lattice that have been gnawed on. We have had squirrels forever and that lattice work for twenty years. Never any gnaw marks. We have had terrorists for a year and a half. Now we have gnaw marks. We do not hold out much hope for our bushes this winter, seeing as they were gnawed on last winter… again, the first time ever.
The terrorists ignore the live trap we put out. We need a reliable death trap to use instead. Jar42 needs more of a challenge than those East Sandland moles.
Check-in is at 8:30, BBG. You can sleep another half hour. 😉
Actually, there is no need to get there right at the start, even if you want to go out caching with someone, There will be chances to join caching groups at 9:00, 10:00, and 11:00, so take your time. Or just sign in whenever you get there, then start socializing and/or caching.
And that pirate emoji hasn’t worked since the new website… but we can visualize it.
It’s been a while since we have seen the dancing bacon.
The dancing bacon link got left on the old website… so I just read about mindfulness. 😉
So we can look forward to more odd-hours drivel posts form the Rat this weekend. 😉 And I hope this means you will have next weekend off to go picnicking and waterfalling.
As for us, work around the house and then go to the Brewers game on Sunday. We’re hoping to be part of that record-breaking crowd there on a nice Packers Sunday near the end of a rotten season ( 🙄 ) BUT against the team that is below the Crew in the standings AND on Scooter Gennett gnome bobblehead day.
Thanks go out to all who helped get this WGA activity up and running again. Many WGA members and friends take part in the LCG to help keep high the quality of geocaching in Wisconsin, and there are quite a few behind-the-scenes folks who handle the organizational and administrative duties of the LCG. Again… thanks, all!
No, amita17, that’s just us talking in drivel codespeak. It’s OK to say Facebook, Starbucks, and Culvers, but that wouldn’t be any fun, just like it’s no fun to call that frozen white stuff that will be here soon “snow”. Cool people use all the correct lingo, you know. 😉
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Say, jar42, if you need more mole pelts, you can run your trapline at our place. The last time I was out hand watering the terrorist plot (aka the garden), I blasted the hose stream into a few of the subway tunnels, and they collapsed. Of course, that’s not the same as setting lethal traps, but it felt good to destroy some of their handiwork. We still won’t be able to ride any horses in the side yard, though.
I would venture to say that anyone interested in geocaching for the “seeing great places” aspect of it looks at geocaching these days and decides it is not for them. With social media, smart phones, and the way GC is promoting the activity now, those who enjoy nice hikes in great spots will gravitate to those special places without needing coordinates taking them there.
As for us, we answered a question quite a while ago that we are outdoors people who got into geocaching, not techie people who got into geocaching. Would we still start geocaching if we just heard about it now? Not sure. We live in a rural area that has some great hides and hikes, and that’s why we stuck with it when we started almost eight years ago. We still don’t have a smart phone, and we have passed up more traditional micros on signposts than we can count, especially when traveling to locations that may have nice hikes and/or solid puzzles to solve, so if that was the majority of what we saw when we started, we might have lost interest early on. But we still go out on a regular basis, and our numbers still increase, although the only competition we look at is ourselves. And that is just us, not anyone else, veteran or newbie.
As for our own hides, we can say unequivocally that our short and quick hides get hit on much more than our harder hides, even if there is no puzzle solving involved. 😉 And where a cache is pretty much in a location by itself, it may sit there for a loooong time before anyone goes for it. A “wow” caching location used to mean scenery, for the most part. Now it means lots of caches to find, or at least gadget hides, or maybe something requiring group activity to make it “fun”.
People like the numbers, pure and simple.
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