09-29-09 - 1 out of 2

#1 on a 1 out of 2 day. This was a previous DNF... Glad to have scratched it off my list! TNLNSL

#2 on a 1 out of 2 day. This was a previous DNF, and dang nabbit - it still is. I am sure I had the right beacon based on the trampled vegetation... Just could not locate in that pile of pins and needles...

09-22-09 - Disabling my cache

Today I decided to disable my cache "Sand Creek at Lions Park - GC1H3EE". It was noted by a couple of people between September 11th and September 20th that the area where the cache is located is "loaded with poison ivy".

On September 22nd, I disabled the cache, and will wait for the cold to kill off the poison ivy.

UPDATE: October 10th
- We have had two days of snow, and a hard freeze. I hope to get into the area of the cache, and get it moved soon.

09-19-2009 - 4 out of 5

It was a great GeoCaching day for the Father of Five!!

Not only did I nab another "Alphabet Challenge" cache (the letter U) - but I made my 100th find!!

I was sitting at 96 finds, and I wanted to hit 100 this afternoon, Having a few hours between activities, I checked for a few caches close to home, and loaded up 5 caches that I felt I could obtain without too much difficulty. (Loading only five, and finding 100% of them would put me at 101 finds. Yet, knowing that in all likelihood I would miss at least one...This was a gamble. I could miss one. No more. The pressure was on!)

I asked my boys if they wanted to join me, and for the first time since I started caching, NEITHER of them wanted to... (this MAY have been due to the boys being given permission for some XBox time this afternoon...)

#1 on a 4 out of 5 day - on my quest for my one-hundredth find!!
Dropped the Travel Ingot Geocoin. TFTC!

#2 on a 4 out of 5 day - on a quest for my one-hundredth find!!
Lots of possibilities - and now having read the clue - I may have walked right on by... Next time!! TFTC!

Up the Creek (Find #98) (Added letter "U" to my Alphabet Challenge!)
#3 on a 4 out of 5 day - on my quest for my one-hundredth find!! Clever!! TFTC!

Burned Black (Find #99)
#4 on a 4 out of 5 day - on my quest for my one-hundredth find!!
Nice find... And let me tell you, that is QUITE THE DROP! TFTC!

A fish called Baily (Find #100!!!!)
** MY 100th FIND **
#5 on a 4 out of 5 day - on my quest for my one-hundredth find!! TFTC!

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Ironically, the public space where A Fish Called Baily just so happens to be located at the same place we accessed Cedar Lake for last winter's Boy Scout Ice Fishing Derby!

As you can see, it was a good thing I loaded up that one extra (A Fish called Baily) - If I had not, I would have not reached the 100th find milestone today, and SOMEONE, may have passed me up!
Someone you say?? Who might that "SOMEONE" be?
Well, after receiving AtHomeDaddy's "smack talk" email - challenging me to see who was first to 100 - I just could not risk missing the 100 mark today!!

Now that I have reached it, I can sit back a bit and see just how long it will take OldManDaddy, oops, I mean AtHomeDaddy to reach his 100th find...

How long is it going to be???

More on the Alphabet Challenge!!

Within the 14 caches I found over the last two days, I have added three more letters to my "Alphabet Challenge"...  V, K, and W.
 
I am still in need of Q, U, Y and Z.

6 out of 6

#1 on a 6 out of 6 morning! TFTC!
 
#2 on a 6 out of 6 day.  Interesting.. I found the old log, but not the cache. I signed the old log, and sort of tucked in in a bit... I guess the next cacher will have to find BOTH the log and the cache!! A "twofer" perhaps?!?!
 
#3 on a 6 out of 6 day!! TFTC!
 
#4 on a 6 out of 6 day! TFTC!!
 
#5 on a 6 out of 6 morning! TFTC!!
#6 on a 6 out of 6 day!! TFTC!!
 

8 out of 10

GC11NJQ - Shakopee Rocks!
#1 on a 8 out of 10 day. This was my first DNF (
and my second try at this cache... I am starting to think I may HATE this cache! )

GC1C594 - For the Ladies

#2 on a 8 out of 10 day.
#3 on a 8 out of 10 day
 
#4 on a 8 out of 10 day. Swapped TB's....
Wylbur Hits a Grand! is where I dropped the UKE 4 Travel Bug, and where I picked up the Travel Ingot Geocoin.
#5 on a 8 out of 10 day. Log is pretty full.
 
#6 on a 8 out of 10 day.
This one was ok... It's grandfather (Shakopee Rocks!) is going to be the death of me yet!!
 
#7 on a 8 out of 10 day.
 
#8 on a 8 out of 10 day. TFTC!
 
#9 on a 8 out of 10 day. TFTC!
 
#10 on a 8 out of 10 day. This was DNF #2...
Watch out for loose rocks!
 

Administrative Announcement

I have found maintaining this blog by posting one blog entry for every cache visited has become - overwhelming... To the point that I do want to make updates.
 
Given all the work I have put into the blog so far, and not wanting to "waste" all that work... I have come up with a compromise... 
 
I will be clumping my caches together on one post...  That way - It wont be quite as much of a chore as it previously was.
 
I have gone on two days of a caching spree - partially inspired by a motivational bet laid down by AtHomeDaddy.  Since we were both within one find of each other (80 vs 81) - he challenged me to a race to 100.... 
 
Maybe I cheated a little bit by not responding to his email challenge, and only informing him AFTER I scored another 8 - putting me into the lead - but all is fair in love, war and geocaching challenges... Right?
 
Frankly, I am quite grateful for his challenge... I hardly been out caching this summer at all, and so his challenge got me out there, caching again!
 
THANKS AtHomeDaddy!

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