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That was a neat one, wasn’t it? Only when we did it, a fishing person dumped piles of fish guts right on top of it and had left a nasty note about losers looking for junk. In a way, I can’t argue with that assessment, but like Thumper’s mother said…”If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nuthin’ at all”
We’d hoped to have our 200th hide out for our “geoversary” next week, but it’s not looking good right now. I need to build and install something, and so far, I have gathered some pieces of wood and that’s about as far as it’s got! I might make a couple cuts later today, but I still need to come up with more wood.
There’s a recent photo showing them. I think when this was originally set up, there was only one. Now there are a bunch. Not sure why the note.
That’s too bad, cause that’s a really neat one. We were able to acquire three virtuals from Lil’ Otter when they still allowed that. We weren’t about to try and acquire anymore with that new promotion. They can be, ahem, a problem at times. Don’t need any more problems in our life.
Happy Anniversary a day early! In case I don’t get on here tomorrow, which could very easily happen.
In other news….we will no longer have mismatched shutters on the house! Trekkin’s hanging out the window in the next room painting, then we’ll both be out working the ladder. The window for the last set is on the second story and all the wires come into the house there. It would have maybe been smart to have them dropped, but he didn’t want to bother with that.
Replacing a cache for an inactive player will just result in a missing cache again down the road. IMO
We took an actual trip geocaching last week. We haven’t done that sort of thing in nearly seven months. We just went overnight, but we went up the Minnesota River Valley and over into Big Stone Lake Refuge. Man! The flooding! It’s going to come our way eventually and we aren’t going down real fast here. It’s almost eerie to look out at the river on the weekend when it’s nice and see….two fishing boats at most. Most fields over that way weren’t even plowed yet, and here, we’ve seen no barges, except one the weekend before stuck down by Prairie. Food is going to be more expensive in the coming months.
If anyone is into craft breweries, we spent Thursday evening at Talking Waters in Montevideo MN. Really nice atmosphere and everything we tried was very good. Really friendly beertender, too.
Enjoy your summer, Jim. Ours is endless now, although with grandkid daycare, it ties us down a bit more these days.
I think I’m up to about 10 ticks, some tiny, that I’ve pulled off me. None had dug in, so that’s good. They must be immune to tick repellent.
We’ve been hiking. And hiking. And today we combined hiking and fat biking in the Kickapoo Reserve. There is no such thing as a flat trail in these parts and I’m feeling it. Today’s mileage was between 9-10 miles.
I should slim down a bit, even if it means dispatching multiple ticks.
My wife and I went to Memphis this weekend and St. Louis for our anniversary. We both enjoyed the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and would highly recommend going if you are ever swinging by. Plus had to like the cache hidden in plain site around the corner from the museum.
We’ll be in Memphis this fall and had planned to visit the museum, so thanks for the recommendation…also the mention of the nearby cache. The trip isn’t a caching trip, but there will be caches found. 😉
I actually got a bit of that a couple weeks ago after being out birding for the good part of a sunny day. Now I remember to use that gooey stuff.
We ended up with more of the souvenirs than we expected. I think we have 326 points and no plans today, so that will have to do it. We didn’t get the event one, either. Jim, we’re with you….the souvenirs aren’t “the thing” they once were for us. Yesterday we almost doubled the number of our cache finds for the entire year. A bird sighting got us to Rochester for some the other day. Travel to Stoughton for a concert and an overnight got us most of the rest of them yesterday. Seems the only caching we do anymore is if we’re going somewhere anyway and see some things we’d like to find. I’d planned another trip for the end of this month that was caching/birding related, but looks like we won’t be able to do that one now due to other obligations that are more important. Ah well!
The dog and us were up most of the night because of the wildest thunderstorm in memory, accompanied by…sleet. Trekkin’ is finishing prep work to paint a room, and I’m finishing up with my most recent wrecked jeans project, a bbq-type apron. The wind out there is wild, hope it settles a bit by the time of my yoga workshop tonight.
Explain to me this……two rusty in their skills cachers actually go caching yesterday and find all 10 caches we sought pretty much right away. Today, these same two cachers made a D5 search of basement storage trying to find a light fixture we bought a couple years ago and almost couldn’t?
One of the most satisfying CITOs we’ve done was one in a SWA in Iowa that had been thoroughly trashed. I usually pick up bits and pieces of stuff when I’m wandering, whether I’m caching or lately…birding. It bugs me in a way that we clean up after folks who aren’t environmentally conscious, but if no one does. the problem gets worse.
I kind of wish the whole CITO souvenir phenomenon would go away, though. Yes, the time period is longer for those now, but shouldn’t people want to do this, souvenir or not? (I’m exercising my right as a cranky old lady here! 😉
While it would be great to arrange something like this, we aren’t up to that task at the moment. But I think it’s a great thought. Also, when the floodwaters recede, any of the parks along our swollen rivers will likely be ripe for cleaning, and most of that won’t be because people didn’t clean up after themselves.
This is a link to the event we attended. A key aspect of one like that was arranging to waive the “dump fee” in exchange for cleaning it up and hauling it out, which the cache owners managed to do. More than one trailer was needed, too.
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC45RCP_twin-elms-needs-some-geo-tlc
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