astheravenflies

Where do these sociopathic party poopers come from and where can we send them?

Nothing really, which is why I have such a dearth of caches over the last two years. I try, as much as possible, to incorporate caching into my other actvities. I've found many caches while working on projects around town or out of town on business. We've picked up a few as a family while on vacation. I walked to a few around the neighborhood and there's a couple more that are just within walking distance. Its great exercise and you can see so much and meet nice people along the way. I've got a new bicycle and there's a few caches to find while cycling. The Chilly Hilly bicycle ride is coming up and I'd like to be ready. The weather will be getting better so we can go out x-country skiing as a family. For sure we'll try to find some caches along the way. I'm ski racing Friday nights and, at 48, I can still dust a few guys that are 20 years younger (but not many). I've got a fence to build this summer and its going to look nice. Caching is not my first priority but it sure is fun and I'll be doing it for quite some time to come.

IMHO, if you looked for it and didn't find it, its a DNF, regardless of whether its missing or still there. If you find a plundered container, I would consider that a find, but I would probably log it as a note myself.

This is not far from my house (somewhere there in the distance tucked in the trees). I walked to this cache Cache For A Sunny Day from my house. The cache is just a little ways up the trail from this beach. Hunker down in the driftwood shelter. Feel the wind. Hear the waves.

I hope you get over all that crap soon. Take care of yourself and follow doctor's orders. Walk up my street, right down the hill, throught the gate, across the tracks ... A nice little town. Get better soon!

Danger Will Robinson!

I married a sinister woman. Me, right handed - left brained.

Text copied directly from "A Field Guide to the Flora and Fauna of Northeastern United States". But, I guess a well-recognized scientific book used in most major botany classes could be wrong..... I guess they only get three leaves in the northeast. Must be the freezing weather or acid rain.

Here's wishing you and your comrades a safe and speedy return. There's plenty of caches waiting when you get back home.

Definately not Virgina creeper. My neighbor has Virginia creeper growing on their fence. Virginia creeper is a vine and is not typically found growing wild here in the northwest. Also note that poison oak has a three-leaved pinnate pattern as opposed to the five-leaved palmate pattern of Virginia creeper.

I grew up in southern California where poison oak is rampant in the coastal sagebrush scrub vegetation that was my boyhood stomping ground. That's a dead ringer for poison oak, in my opinion. I never had any reaction to poison oak growing up, even though I literally wallowed in it before I could identify it. My boyhood hiking partners, though, bloated out with severe skin reactions. I still avoid it.

"Sorry, Google doesn't know enough about astheravenflies yet." It already knows too much.

Happy birthday kid!

One out of 63 real caches (after subtracting a handful of virtuals). I logged it as a DNF. This taught me the value of logging a DNF. The cache owner was able to confirm that the cache was MIA and archive it.

Been there, done that. Born and raised in SoCal. Great place to grow up in the 60s except during smog alerts. Three times as many people there now. There's still a lot of cool places there and you can't beat the climate. But its like the line in the Eagles song says - "call a place paradise, kiss it goodbye." I did. ed:sp

Oh crud, I realized I had the wrong episode. Same basic plot, more Klingon shenanigans with primitive civilizations. Julie Newmar was the pregnant one. McCoy saves the day.

Episode 32 That's it! Kirk gets bit by the Mugatoo and is cured by Eleen, who looked rather fetching in the tight rag costume. Scott is at the com with the Enterprise trying to hide from the Klingons. Classic Trek. Thanks Hogarth!

Which episode was that? I seem to remember Scotty sitting in the Captain's seat on the bridge while Kirk and a sacrificial landing party were stuck down on some planet. Just ... can't ... remember ... the ... episode ...

Aside from calorie burning, filling your underwear could be considered a form of weight loss. ed:sp

Pocket watch would be my choice for something a little different and unque. I could hang it on something like my pack or jacket. I wear a wrist watch but only a Casio 50m water resistant with the stopwatch etc. Its relatively cheap, comfortable, rugged, and sufficiently water resistant for shower or swimming. When they break, I buy a new one.

Speaking of Pasco and getting a little off topic, but Ice Harbor Brewing Company in Pasco turns out some pretty good brews. Perfect way to end a day of caching in the Tri-Cities area.

There's two ways to look at this. On the one hand, its really neat. Everyone going into the cache knows what to expect. There are few surprises. It could really help someone rule out certain caches based on their individual criteria or abilities. On the other hand it takes away some of the adventure and discovery. Some folks like the unkown, the adventure, and the unexpected.

My wife, the CPA, says no. With two small boys and one bigger boy (me), she's usually the killjoy in the family.

I've always been fascinated by ravens. They're intelligent and social. Watching them you get a sense that they really enjoy flight as they soar and tumble through the air. They frequent the places that I like - deserts and mountains - places I'd like to search for caches. When I was thinking of a geocaching moniker, I wanted something with raven in it. I thought of an old Dan Fogelberg record, "Souvenirs" with the song "As the Raven Flies." Fogelberg is known for some goopy love songs but this song has a harder edge to it and a pretty good guitar jam between Fogelberg and Joe Walsh, who produced the album. The song has nothing to do with ravens, mountains, or deserts, but I liked the way the song title sounded as a name - ravens and flight. So I went with it.