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Trekkin’ and Mr. Timberline Echo’s hometown of Hurley does not lack for snow…but I know what you mean. I tried xc skiing once so far…kind of sucks, even with the little bit more snow we just got
We got some of that here too overnight. Trekkin’ was not pleased. Neither am I. It’s never enough for xc skiing, just enough to be a nuisance.
We have been there with a couple of similar in tone responses. It is annoying, but all you can really do is maintain your integrity. We can never control anyone else. It is indeed sad.
I swear that squirrel is looking at you and saying…na na na nah boo boo!
We went from pretty much no snow to everything fluffy and covered today. It’s already melting a bit, but still more than the “1 or so inches” predicted last night!
I wanted to ask, but figured maybe she didn’t want to say yet…glad you had no such compunctions, BJ!
That will be great. Those little kids are so fun….and tiring! When I retired, that was a big part of my caseload, too. Enjoy the new job!
Congratulations, Becca.
Change of topic…..ha ha! I know the cool people were at the Janboree yesterday, but since we’re heading that direction next Saturday, we stayed close to home yesterday. A guy in town I know through storytelling started a program series two or three years back, called “The Old School Variety Show.” For one reason or another, we’ve never been able to get to one of these until last night. He’s got a great thing going….the venue was a small one in LaCrosse I’d never visited (and I thought I’d seen them all), and he creates his shows with all local talent. We heard some stories from the Dark LaCrosse Radio Tour and heard three great music acts. One was a guy who “knew my face,” but couldn’t place me. We worked together on a Chataqua program at the middle school….he did the music, I directed the storytelling (“boy, that was awhile back!”)….and he’s also been at many of the storytelling festivals. Nice to seem him onstage again.
Also, a fairly new group to the area knocked everyone’s socks back and we look forward to hearing them play again soon. Enjoying the show reminded me how much I enjoy performing and maybe I should do something about getting back into that scene. Or not.
I would love to see the picnic return to RAC. We were unable to go to that one due to a family event.
Glad to hear things are going well with the BBG parents. Dad of BBG will just have to accept a slower recovery, which of course is hard.
I am shocked to hear this. He was a nice guy and one of the first of the more “old guard” cachers we had the pleasure of meeting….not even in Wisconsin, but at one of the Midwest Geobashes we attended. Thanks for letting us all know. So sad.
I’m exhausted! We went to Kinnickinnic today to get all the new Spike caches and a few others we missed last summer. Just a word of advice for anyone who might head there….one cache, “Hidden Trail to the Mixing Bowl” has an additional waypoint to a point of interest. Go see it. You won’t be sorry.
Becca, I agree….sometimes you just have to do what you can and save the favorites for when you have the time. Though we’ve sort of entered a “second parenthood” with the taking on of childcare for one of our grandkids, we are at a different point (until they get a little older) of having some free time, though surely not as much as we thought we would in retirement. Any visions of traveling all over are just not in our immediate future for now, but we’ve adjusted and found new ways to entertain ourselves close to home, not necessarily related to finding boxes in the woods.
We do notice over the almost nine years we’ve been doing this how the general direction of what people want and find has changed a lot. I know people use the favorites to help find the stuff they want to find, but I like looking at photos and reading logs, too, although those are less helpful than they once were with the advent of mass logging. But that’s a whole different subject!
I have to laugh at the “attraction” method of choosing caches. We’ve kind of done that quite often the past year, the attraction usually being a winery we want to visit, or less often, somewhere there have been cool birds sighted. Honestly, that can be really the most fun, because you aren’t so driven to make the find, knowing you have other reasons for making that trip.
We ended up saving Becca’s two new caches for a different day. We realized we could get to a couple north and east of BRF and save ourselves a bit of time, which is of the element today with the event we’re hosting. There isn’t a whole lot left within 50 miles of home for us to find. About half of what’s left is either disabled, “owned” by us, challenges we’ll never pursue or likely not there.
Some interesting discussion, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I’ll have to check on CrowTRobot’s hides whenever we’re in their neighborhood.
Also, I found the observation by Ostermi about the signpost hides cutting out the possibility of hiding in those little pockets of nature. We have a stock of ammo cans, too, but having had two of them go missing, we are more cautious about where we place them. None of the ones in Bice Forest have gone missing, though a small lock and lock letterbox was plagued over the years, leading us to just give that one up. Critters, no doubt.
I think all of us find those quick p/gs from time to time. We’re heading out later today to get a couple like that….they’re on our map, ha ha! They surely have their place to help break up a drive, allow some caching in poor weather conditions or allow those with some physical limitations to play. We’ve seen a huge shift in our area from the hikes to cool spots to what Trekkin’ calls “pavement caches.” As the game has changed, his theory is that new people see those and that’s what they hide.
Finally! I can turn this thing off….I got the Audubon newsletter finished and off to mailing. It should be much easier, but I don’t have real publishing software, just stupid Word.
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