New Caches

Like Brian, I saw several new caches published in the last 24 hours, six last night and a seventh this morning. FTF's on the six published last night were scooped up by AllWeatherHeather and Kayakate between 11:00 PM and midnight last night (!), but when we left the house this morning the last one was still available. But by the time we arrived at GZ it had been visited by four other cachers. I did manage to sign four logs, GC2P5QF, GC2P6VZ, GC2P6VW and GC2P6VQ. We were also at GC2P72B but I wasn't able to spot it in the few minutes I had to search before I realized that Jan had an appointment back at the house late in the afternoon, so we scooted for home.

As usual, Jan sat in the Jeep and read while I searched, but I did get a great buy on a pair of Cobra CXR700 GMRS Radios, so we can at least talk to each other!

Thurs FTFs

Checked the mail last night and 12 more caches on Blackrattle's trail just published. Should i stay home and work or go after the caches, i guess you know what happened. Got FTF on all 12 and moved up to #102 in NS only 4 behind # 101. I am trying to join you guys in the top 100 in NS. What a great day for a hike, when i started out the icey spots were frosty so i could get a grip but as the sun came out and the ice got a watery film on top it became very slick. Had to stick to the snow on the way back to the truck.
I see Rick got a few more churches today.
As a bonus today Vic got off early so i met her in town and we had a late lunch at The Golden Pond. gotta love those unexpected afternoon get togethers.
Off to Halifx tomorrow for more supplies for the kitchen reno, to Bridgewater Sunday for a geo event and weather permitting we will be in Kentville Monday for an appointment.

GC2NRJ1 - blue rocks

So late last night, at 11:20 PM, to be exact, I get an e-mailed log on GC2NRJ1 - blue rocks, which I searched for on February 16 without success. The log, written by the CO states "was not in place, however it is their now." I read into that, rightly or wrongly, that he submitted the cache and it was published before he even placed it in the park, maybe?

Anyway, I snagged FTF this morning at 0855. The coordinates are out 31 meters according to my Oregon so I marked a waypoint and added it to my log. To be honest, I'm happier about clearing my DNF than getting the FTF! The cache was EXACTLY where I thought it should be when I DNF'ed. I know I can be blind, but I KNOW it wasn't there last week.

On another note, and I realize I'm not the geocaching police so I won't mention it to the CO, but his note last night wasn't a note log as I would have posted, it was a found log! I don't think we are supposed to log our own hidden caches as finds are we?

Feb 18th

I looked at my profile Thurs evening and realized i hadn't found a cache yet in Feb, well that had to change. I decided to go after Blackrattle's lastest additions( about 2 weeks ago) to their R2T system they are developeing. There were 6 caches along the lgh of Summerville Beach. I had a nice little hike and got all 6 caches. Some of the hike i did along the beach and some along the road parralell to the beach. I felt funny to be walking on frozen sand, it was as hard as pavement. A good start to the day and then back home to do more work on the kitchen.
Looking forward to our run on Tues., will put up a list over the weekend to add to some of the churches Rick has lined up.

grand kids

hey my son in Porters lake is off for 2 weeks so said come on down and we will take the kids out cacheing ... great I said --- I will be there around 10 am ...then yesterday he mails me ...the kids have a play morning planned with a neighbor so why not come at lunch time ..so I said ok and arrived at 11 45 am to find  no one home and then he text me that he is running a bit behind but make my self at home ..so I go grab a cahe 3 km up the road and my son gets back around 12 30 ...then  we make lunch then at 1 pm he says oh I got a guy coming by to cut some tress down so while john is talking with this guy I play with the 2 boys ---at 2 pm john says I need to load a few caches --he has to load by hand --long story on that anyway by 2 45 we set off and we did 3 caches with his boys and they had fun .... I I did grab another in sackville on the way home . I left my place at 10 am and home at 5 30 ..5 caches .. long day but it was fun with the kids ... looking forward to seeing all Tuesday ..

today

I was laying in bed with my phone checking my e mails when I saw all the caches published ..saw one 20 kms from home -- saw another called blue rocks and thought it was done south shore -- dumb me I even open it but did not look at map or distance --- slacker I am ... I knew Rick was helping a friend today so mailed Ken but by 9 30 I got that itch so I took off and sure enough a quick FTF ... back home and check my mails ( which I should have done before I headed home ) anyway got home to find out that ken had mailed me and he just got in from blood work and was headed out to get Blue rocks which was just down road from him ... I was almost there earlier ahhahahha hopefully we both grab a FTF today --- nice sunny morning for a drive --- talk later  Chris

satisfying the itch .............

had the itch to get out sooooo bad ..... only day that would work was today and Laura was off so she came along with rick and ken .... and ken almost missed out cuz we did not use his g mail last night but at 6 am I was smart enough to think about forwarding all our mails to the g mail so off we all go at  10 am .... but wait I have been up since 5 30 am cuz I could not sleep cuz of that dam itch hahhahahh ... I will sleep well tonight .... I got the most for the day at 10 .... Ken is 8 i think and R&L at 6 .... great day but  man was it cold ... good thing most were defiantly  P&G ............... looking forward to a run soon to the south shore ... missed u Seeker --- later

Lower Sackville Event

Rick, Linda, Laura and I made the trek into the monthly event in Lower Sackville last night. Rick even celebrated his birthday a day early by taking advantage of a "free dinner on your birthday" promotion that he got by e-mail! The event was actually initially scheduled for last week but was postponed until this week due to the weather.

A good time, well attended, good food and great company!

Ken

GC2MZ31ToNS #7

Well Ken tells me about this cache being published Thursday night and for some reason I did not get notification or I just missed it ?? Anyway he tells me he tried on his way into city Thursday night  but lots of snow there ,,, no luck so since I am headed into city that morning I decide to stop ---I  have dress boots on so not going in  snow banks but I had a good look and went to Halifax , thought about it all way in and figured it had to be on light pole so back again on way home . Even took my hammer from trunk to looses some pegs on the pole . No luck .... I mail Ken and he says he is going back on saturday and talking with him later I find out he had no luck . 
This morning I called Rick and said u wanna  go look for this cache after 2 pm when not busy in restaurant, He said Ok so when I picked him up he said cache is in the tree out front !! I said how do u know --he said I just know . Anyway off we go and we look for over 1/2 an hour then Rick is gone somewhere comes back and says he talked to owner who knows it is hidden but no idea where but he sayd we could go on his property ....5 minutes later as I am hanging off the light pole  Rick yells --YAHOO !!! he snagged it --- on the dam tree in front that the sign is build around ----- FTF !!!!!! another great cache story for sure .................. 
Enjoy The Super Bowl tonight should be Great Football ... later 

My 2 cents worth

hey Guys , not on computer last night so just getting caught up now . I slept like a baby after our great day outside yesterday . It was a super hike in on the snow shoes and Yes Brian we did say that you would have loved it. As i said on my log this cache is team work and Ken was a great team partner and I could not have done it without him. . I have a few great caching memories and this will be one of them . Ok , I have to go get ready for this storm so talk later .....

Site Updates

Some interesting additions and fixes in the site update today. See all the details and the ongoing discussions here:

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=268051

Huey's driver training - GC2KK91

Well, Chris and I each had a part in solving the puzzle (although he was SO CLOSE to the solution when he handed it off to me), so it was only fitting that we should go together to find the cache once we had the solution.

We had some trouble finding the correct way in (okay, there's no WE who had trouble - I was WRONG!) but we were eventually in the right spot and put on our snowshoes. It was an amazing way to get to the cache - I'm not sure we would have made it without the snowshoes, in fact. We had a tricky decent down into a little ravine with a frozen brook at the bottom, then we started to search. We looked in several places without luck and I think Chris was about ready to call it when he tried just one more spot. He turned and said, "I've got it right here." So we both yelled out Chris' normal YAHOO, he tossed the cache container out to me, I opened it up, found the log and signed it off.

The climb back out of the ravine on snowshoes was a great deal easier than I expected it to be and in a few minutes we were back at the car having spent approximately 45 minutes on the trail.

Huey's driver training was actually our second find today. Last night a new cache placed by roxy1rose called Treasure in the Trees EH? (GC2N419) was published. We actually went to it first hoping for an FTF but when we arrived there was another car parked at the parking coordinates. It turned out to be Kevin of 4CeasonS, but he hadn't snagged the FTF either. That honour belonged to r_sheppard who had beaten all of us by an hour or more.

I had started the day with an one hour walk at the indoor soccer facility in west-end Kentville, so I sure got my exercise today! I won't need much rocking to get to sleep tonight!

All in all, it was an awesome day! Now, if we could only sidestep the storm forecast for tomorrow....

Ken