WWR Series

Today I teamed up with Miss. LaLa77 and rick o to do Nova Man's WWR series plus one other cache to make for an even 20 caches on the list.

We did a clean sweep - 20 for 20 - and we were back in Hantsport in just over three hours. Now that is what I call a good day of caching. Well, a good half day, anyway!

Chris, all kidding aside, that WWR series is a great series - easy finds not far off a road that is not well travelled so we didn't have to worry about too much traffic! I really enjoyed the time we spent on the Walton Woods Road, thanks for putting all of those caches out so we could go out and play!

We went right in to Walton to check on the church that was supposed to be loaded on the ferry last year. It's still sitting exactly where it was last November. And it looks like it didn't winter well. If it ever does make it to the winery, I wonder if they will be able to rebuild it or if it will become scrap lumber?

sat night

Hi Guys --- hope that you had a good day and wondering if ken found a new Geo Mobile ??? On saturdays Rhonda goes to an hour and half course in wolfville and I usually go and then get groceries or coffee or caches ... today I went for the 1st part of Huey's new cache Valley View and then a quick P&G that ken did yesterday ... so kinda got 1 1/2 today ... got the right answer when I got home so maybe grab it later in the week.Really tired tonight as we were out late last night so off to bed . Oh re my E mail account and caching e mails -- I finally just put a filter on the  e mails that come to " owner" and have those dumped in a file of own without a notification -- works well last night when I checked it i had 60 mails from 3 cachers that did my caches yesterday ... glad I have that worked out ... I got the notifications of new cahes published yesterday so works great .... later guys

Caching in the Snow

I went out after three today and ended up finding two, one in Wolfville and one in Greenwich. I tried for a second in Greenwich but came up empty - although I think I know now what I did wrong.

The one I found in Wolfville (Our Unsung Heroes - http://coord.info/GC2NWHN) has a bit of personal history for me which I mention in my log on gc.com.

As Chris would know, Diane of H4FF and Pam of Fundy and Valley did the Walton loop today as well as a number of caches between there and God knows where! I got a call from Diane at one point to ask about a cache and I later met up with them while they grabbed something to eat. We talked for almost two hours! They were heading out for more when we left Subway at almost 7:00 PM!

I may go out again tomorrow. But I also have to do groceries, visit Kentville Chrysler and Cornwallis motors - time to talk trade - so it will be a busy day!

Today -- wednesday

Hey I just saw that we have 68 posts ---that is neat -- had to go to city today for a quick CI appointment --all is good -- will blog about it in a bit -- I had the GPS and phone but no caches loaded but did know of few that I did and the other 2 I got from phone ---- but it took a while -- look at phone -- add to  car gps  by hand then add to 60 cx by hand but it was neat ---- got 5 in city before had to leave and one in Falmouth now that snow banks down a bit --- cya both tomorrow --looking forward to it ,,, chris

monday

hey really sounds like Vicki has the fever !!!! Lucky you Brian ..... helps a lot I am sure --- well the oother day a new cache was published in Wolfville and we had met the cache owner the other day --Ken, Rick anmd I so on Friday I had to drive my neice to basket ball practice at Acadia so I did a quick grab on way home ... yesterday afternoon my caches got published on Walton Woods Road --- 4 different set of cachers went after them , one group from Truro .... amazing ---- loved reading all there logs but something else to take my time hahhahha --there were over 70 e-mails incl;uding all the ones saying it was published so I am glad I have a filter set up and they do not go into my in box but rather a separate folder --only draw back is that I need to check that folder manually ---- cannot have everything -- have a great day -- Chris

Sat & Sun

Vic and i had a great time at the Curly's event on Sat. I think they said there were over 200 people in attendance and i talked to probably half of them. We did some caching before the event around the Enfield area and after around the airport. A great day overall.
Today a new cache was published around 4:00 PM 2.5 miles from home. I was watching the Nascar race and didn't hear my phone ding when the mail came in. I noticed it around 5:30 and mentioned it to Vickie. She was cooking supper and immeadiately turned off the stove and said what are you waiting for lets go get it. I think she has the bug. When we got there and saw the big footprints on the trail i knew we were too late as Blackrattle probably was there first. He beat us by about 1/2 hour. I called him and he thanked the Nascar gods for making me late and allowing him the FTF. LOL
Vic had a new cache published today and Blackrattle was FTF on that also.

Happy st paddy's day

hey Ken .. you are the man today !! A successful event last night and a FTF on a difficult puzzle today -- congrats to you ...........
Man things have been flying around here so little time to sit at computer.. so a quick note --- testerday I did get to do the Walton Woods rd and put out 19 caches --it was a lot of fun and I did enjoy doing it -- I grabbed three caches that I did not have so it was a fun day then home and put all those new caches on was a bit of work --just waiting for them to get posted -- Saturday event will keep a lot away but that is cool the caches will be there a long time . Rhonda came with me to the BP event last night and enjoyed herself a lot , Great ....
Okay I will not see you on saturday but have some fun and lets set a day for next week -- I will e-mail now ---
later Guys  

GC2Q36J - Is it about the Numbers??

A new puzzle was published sometime over night. See GC2Q36J - Is it about the Numbers??

I found it to be a challenging puzzle that actually runs three layers deep before you get the final coordinates. Solved it, headed out in the Jeep and made the FTF at 1040 hrs.

Great way to start the day!

Valley Event

A great event tonight - 32 cachers in attendance representing 20 teams. Our second anniversary for the Valley events!

Monday Morning

Since Chris hasn't mentioned it, I will jot a quick note about our outing yesterday.

Six new ToNS (Tastes of Nova Scotia) series caches were published Saturday night or Sunday. They were all between Greenwich and Grand Pre.

On Monday morning at 7:45 I met Rick and Chris in Greenwich where we grabbed the first one and parked my Jeep. We motored on through the six in the series in record time, Chris took us to another which he had but Rick and I didn't and we then took Rick to another which Chris and I already had.

While we were at it we stopped for coffee in Wolfville and were totally done by very shortly after 10:00 AM! None of them were FTF's, but we were out on a nice morning enjoying each other's company and grabbing caches. Life is good!

The final counts for the short run were:
Chris - 6
Ken - 7
Rick - 8

caches

hey a quick run to Bridgewater today with Rhonda and while she was in the shop I grabbed two quick ones -- I thought I had been to one before but maybe just same idea elsewhere I am going to check further --- tonight I started to get 20 caches ready for the Walton Woods rd run I hope to do early tomorrow morning . I have been almost 3 hours getting them all ready --- what a pile of work ----  just need to print off log sheets for two more then done all done ......... hope you both get to enjoy the nice weather tomorrow -- but I thinlk that Brian is still painting and Ken will be playing with the generator LOL --- later guys

5 yesterday

Hey Guys -- had to go to the city yesterday to have my CI checked and then a few hours before I had to pick up my son at the airport -- weather was not the best -- very wet and cold so needed a few p&G .... while I found 5 of them --- got them all --the Tons Series are very well done -- the fish one took me about 5 minutes to find at GZ --and - #6 --it was my  second try and I kinda just walked up and bingo knew exactly where it was --- so getting closer to the 1500 number -- but I miss not having some one with me to share the find --- next week R is off and right now is in bed with flue for day 3 but I think we turned the corner on it today so hopefully  we will get part of the week in -- not sure about wednesday night at BP or sat yet at Curley's ... but hoping for both -- definitely want a day caching  the week after ,,,,, have a great weekend -- Chris

Spring Caching in Maine

I spent part of the late morning and early afternoon caching today. I ended up with only 6 finds. I bet we travelled to 18 cache locations to find those 6 - everywhere you turn there are four foot high plow ridges and water everywhere. I's just impossible to get to a lot the caches as it stands here now!

GC6D43 - What in the World Cache?

Just grabbed the one cache today, GC6D43 - What in the World Cache?, a virtual at DeLorme HQ. A much nicer day here today! Sunny and +5. We did drive through areas today where we saw lots of evidence that there had been freezing rain Monday night - mile after mile of trees covered with ice, but none on the road! We saw a good AHL game tonight. The Portland Pirates beat the Hersey Bears 3 - 2 in a shootout. Some geocaching tomorrow and some shopping then the Jeff Dunham show in the evening.

my Monday story

hey Guys --my sister Patsy is 67 and uses a cane but she loves everytime we go looking for a cache --- mostly in the city but yesterday she had to go to Kentville to get her car serviced so I met her and we grabbed 4 caches --- she found them all --I gave her the GPS to carry -- she was in snow up to her knees and loved it ---- I am sure she is sore today ... at one point we were looking  for a cache called Tree Top and after a bit I looked for hint and it said 10 ft up .. so after a few minutes I hear something and patsy iis about 10 feet away and has spotted the cache and is yelling at me that she found it --then she is yelling at me that I heard her --- I laughed so hard at her -- then she said how do we reach that high cache --it was 10 ft in the air --- so I just picked up the tall Birch limb that it was on and showed her that it was only a broken tall limb and we could move it and get the cache -- she thought that was all pretty neat ..... okay I gotta jet -- disappointed that we will not get out for a few weeks but Life is busy ..................
Have a great day guys .... talk soon ...................

Monday in Maine

Well, we were away from home by 7:30 AM today. The day started out well, but the weather soon went downhill. It was 9° when we left home and in Salisbury NB it was 0°. And as hard as it may be to believe, between Salisbury and Sussex it went up to 10°! The mirrors and windows fogged up as we drove along the highway! We drove through rain showers and outright downpours until we arrived in Bangor around 3:30.

I had run a PQ for Caches Along a Route, Route 9, the "Airline Route" - Calais to Bangor - but there were so many high snow banks, side roads covered in glare ice and guard rails buried in snow that I didn't even get out of the Jeep! We did, however, stop at several stores once we were in Bangor....

We went to Olive Garden across the street from our hotel for an early dinner and by the time we came out an hour later it was snowing - and it's as cold as Greenland here.

We will go on to South Portland, where our hockey game and concert are on Tuesday & Wednesday nights, as soon as the roads clear in the morning. We will be stopping at the Delorme World HQ in Yarmouth, Maine, tomorrow so I can grab a virtual cache located there. I was within 3 meters of it when we were here last October but I didn't know about the virtual at that time. :-((

Ken

Friday Afternoon

I spent a good part of the afternoon caching with roxy1rose, the first time we have cached together, although we have exchanged e-mails over the past year or so and she has attended some of my events.

We had no problem this afternoon with Easy-Treesy (GC2P9YJ) once we found a decent access point to the dykeland. It was a nice snowshoe walk in from Kieren Pathway. Even saw some pheasants who really didn't want us there! I've never seen pheasants fly so far!

We then went to try Planter Dyke (GC27BEQ). CO Hugh and I had exchanged e-mails about it and he was concerned that I might have trouble getting around some large ice cakes that had washed ashore. Rose led the way and we had no problem at all. Well, I went into a wet sinkhole with my left foot up to my ankle, but no problem except a wet foot. My boot will be dry within a day or two!

Had a blast with Rose. We talked a blue streak, had a few laughs and spent the afternoon in the beautiful sunshine! Life is good!

GC2c9f2

Had to goto Bridgewater today so i had another crack at Ascension of the Watchers cache that we DNFed the last time we were out. Following the hint from Gary it still took 15 min to locate the cache. It will be nice not to have to visit this church everytime i goto Bridgewater. LOL
This cache also moved me into 101st place in Nova Scotia, i'll soon be joining you guys in the top 100.

Tuesday

hey B , Sunday sounds awesome time .... glad u had a good time .... well I got Rhonda  work room all ready for first coat of paint BUT Huey had a new puzzle cache - Easy Treesy .... so I had to put the room on hold for an hour or two I mean how long can one cache take --- read my log to Huey ... FTF for Rick 0 and I --- back home at 10 30am and now onto the room .... cya later Guys

Convent Event

Vickie & I attended the Convent's event in Bridgewater on Sunday. It was held at Tim Hortons and we overran the place with the number of cachers who showed up. Some cachers just stumbled on to the event by accident by just stopping in to get coffee. It was a good event with a chance to talk to cachers that i don't get to see very often. They had a neat idea for the door prises, they drew names and you got to choose a piece of paper that gave co-rds to a cache hidden for the event only, you were the only one with the location of that particular cache. You got to keep the cache and there was a prize in each one that you got to keep also. I got a Special Edition Coin for Canada's first geocache with ER's picture at the plaque on it.
After the event Vic, me & Melinda(half of Blackrattle) went to the Convent's house for a couple of hours. Leaona & Kevin showed up after a bit also. All in all a fun afternoon. I adopted 5 more of their caches also. They move to the US on Mar 17th. All of their caches have now been adopted and can remain in place.