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.