Life is just a chair of bowlies...
Jul. 11th, 2009 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrWednesday Chrissy dropped off the new tube for my bike.
Proof that it pays to check the details before ordering from the net. The place the tube shipped from was less than 2 miles from here.
I got the tube installed (after performing an inch by inch inspection of the inner surface of the tire to find any thorns I'd missed.
Fay and had the usual fun watching videos and IMing links at each other. We're down to the last two episodes of Galactica. I think I'll load Ultraviolet and Connections.
Thursday, I went to make a trip to the airport PO. And to check out a couple of caches, one of which I *knew* had been damaged but which was now repaired.
So I'm tooling along on the bike, getting near the caches and Bang! The new tube blows out.
Since I'm close to the caches, I walk the bike to them, figuring I'll call Chrissy after I look for them. No sense wasting the trip.
GC157PK Hangin At The Slough
was exactly where I expected. Not a surprising since I'd found the remains of the original cache. Got a few shots of the bunnies I'd been squueing about a week or three back on the way to it.
Next was a quarter mile walk to one I've looked for many times.
GC1Q8AQ ooo a Slough (Revisited)
A few log entries by folks who'd found it told me it had to be there. And considering that it'd been left by Shelrik, I had my suspicions that it was one of his infamous Ge-o-spots.
I was right. Took me half an hour, but I found it. And had the fun of getting at it while standing on top of a 70 degree slope down to the slough.
My log on geocaching suggests that folks with a fear of heights or who are short bring a friend because they'll need them to get it.
So, I'm heading back to Alderwood Rd. And my attempt to call Chrissy to see if she can give me a lift hasn't panned out. I'm trying her home number instead of her cell when this SUV sort of thingy slows down and this guy leans out the window to ask"You geocaching?"
I allow as I might be and he reveals that he's Shelrik (well, the Rik half of the team. Shel is driving :-) In other words, the guy who has left many of the caches I've found.
Meanwhile my call had gotten thru to be answered by Aidan(sp?) who tells me Chrissy is in a class. So I leave a message and talk some more with Rick.
I made a suggestion on how to make it easier to get the rolled up logs out of microcaches like his (stick the end of the roll into the lop of a bobby pin. Roll it up and insert with the "forked" end of the bobby pin sticking out. That'll not only give folks something to grab onto, it'll also make unrolling the log easier.
Shelly and Rick offered me a lift home, and I took it. (hey, I'd mentioned I lived *really* close to the Son of Earl cache (which is also theirs) so they knew the way. :-)
Rick mentioned in passing that another cache was by their place.
Today, after it started to cool off, I made a try for a cache on foot. It's a mile and a half away, but it's a straight line.
I decided to see if one of my pairs of sandals would work okay for the walk. But I was smart enough to stick a pair I knew I could walk that far in (except for slightly sore feet) in my gear bag just in case.
Chrissy called before I left and she'll be by in a few days to get the dead replacement tube and complain to the company.
GC1AM4Z Bus Stop 2
The walk out was hot, and the bag was heavy. Otherwise not bad. I had to check the info for the site a couple times before I spotted the cache. Definitely have to point Fay at this one. She'll be able to get it even without the GPS.... if she's careful. :-)
I stopped a couple blocks into the trip home and swapped sandals. I had sore spots on both feet. Need some moleskin or something on a couple of spots where the straps are a problem. Maybe some vet-wrap?
There are several other caches in other directions that are "as the crow flies" closer than the one I hit this evening, but if you follow the roads, they are about the same distance. I'll be trying some of them in coming days. I picked the one I did today because I *knew* where the bus stop was, and because there aren't any other caches at all close to it. So since it was going to be a one-shot search anyway, I might as well get it rather than one where I'd have to come back another day to look for others nearby.
Oh yeah, about halfway home I spotted a possible hide for a cache. Have to see about rigging a log book for a microcache.
Proof that it pays to check the details before ordering from the net. The place the tube shipped from was less than 2 miles from here.
I got the tube installed (after performing an inch by inch inspection of the inner surface of the tire to find any thorns I'd missed.
Fay and had the usual fun watching videos and IMing links at each other. We're down to the last two episodes of Galactica. I think I'll load Ultraviolet and Connections.
Thursday, I went to make a trip to the airport PO. And to check out a couple of caches, one of which I *knew* had been damaged but which was now repaired.
So I'm tooling along on the bike, getting near the caches and Bang! The new tube blows out.
Since I'm close to the caches, I walk the bike to them, figuring I'll call Chrissy after I look for them. No sense wasting the trip.
GC157PK Hangin At The Slough
was exactly where I expected. Not a surprising since I'd found the remains of the original cache. Got a few shots of the bunnies I'd been squueing about a week or three back on the way to it.
Next was a quarter mile walk to one I've looked for many times.
GC1Q8AQ ooo a Slough (Revisited)
A few log entries by folks who'd found it told me it had to be there. And considering that it'd been left by Shelrik, I had my suspicions that it was one of his infamous Ge-o-spots.
I was right. Took me half an hour, but I found it. And had the fun of getting at it while standing on top of a 70 degree slope down to the slough.
My log on geocaching suggests that folks with a fear of heights or who are short bring a friend because they'll need them to get it.
So, I'm heading back to Alderwood Rd. And my attempt to call Chrissy to see if she can give me a lift hasn't panned out. I'm trying her home number instead of her cell when this SUV sort of thingy slows down and this guy leans out the window to ask"You geocaching?"
I allow as I might be and he reveals that he's Shelrik (well, the Rik half of the team. Shel is driving :-) In other words, the guy who has left many of the caches I've found.
Meanwhile my call had gotten thru to be answered by Aidan(sp?) who tells me Chrissy is in a class. So I leave a message and talk some more with Rick.
I made a suggestion on how to make it easier to get the rolled up logs out of microcaches like his (stick the end of the roll into the lop of a bobby pin. Roll it up and insert with the "forked" end of the bobby pin sticking out. That'll not only give folks something to grab onto, it'll also make unrolling the log easier.
Shelly and Rick offered me a lift home, and I took it. (hey, I'd mentioned I lived *really* close to the Son of Earl cache (which is also theirs) so they knew the way. :-)
Rick mentioned in passing that another cache was by their place.
Today, after it started to cool off, I made a try for a cache on foot. It's a mile and a half away, but it's a straight line.
I decided to see if one of my pairs of sandals would work okay for the walk. But I was smart enough to stick a pair I knew I could walk that far in (except for slightly sore feet) in my gear bag just in case.
Chrissy called before I left and she'll be by in a few days to get the dead replacement tube and complain to the company.
GC1AM4Z Bus Stop 2
The walk out was hot, and the bag was heavy. Otherwise not bad. I had to check the info for the site a couple times before I spotted the cache. Definitely have to point Fay at this one. She'll be able to get it even without the GPS.... if she's careful. :-)
I stopped a couple blocks into the trip home and swapped sandals. I had sore spots on both feet. Need some moleskin or something on a couple of spots where the straps are a problem. Maybe some vet-wrap?
There are several other caches in other directions that are "as the crow flies" closer than the one I hit this evening, but if you follow the roads, they are about the same distance. I'll be trying some of them in coming days. I picked the one I did today because I *knew* where the bus stop was, and because there aren't any other caches at all close to it. So since it was going to be a one-shot search anyway, I might as well get it rather than one where I'd have to come back another day to look for others nearby.
Oh yeah, about halfway home I spotted a possible hide for a cache. Have to see about rigging a log book for a microcache.
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Date: 2009-07-11 07:44 am (UTC)Wow. When it rains, it pours...
In other news, a guy answered my freecycle ad and has a tube for me.
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Date: 2009-07-11 08:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-12 06:28 am (UTC)