SD Rowdies

This just in ... Your are never alone in the forest, tree creepies are watching you.

If they aren't going to write more than "TFTC" in their logs, why should we expect photographs? Perhaps we should count our blessings that they were able to spell "TFTC" correctly... Yeah, that too ... good point pal. Texting and Facebook are Satan's work, more or less. Maybe we should have an annual event where we are permitted to pinch nubs. By the way James, we had a young granddaughter stay over last night and she brought Disney's "Brave" with her for viewing. Highland culture explained in full! I'm still plowing through the collected-works of Sir Walter Scott, might finish by year end. What with our spring-time trip to the Scottish Highlands and reading the Scott stories I've come to know much more about my own attitudes and behaviors. Result is that I'm making a spreadsheet of the people I should but don't intend to offer an apology. Note to Self: It's really hard t' remove blue facial paint.

Or not.

O, so it's time for you to go to a Nexus 7 Tablet, eh?

Question: What's so wrong about Geocaching newbies? Answer: No personal images in their Profile Gallery.

You talkin' t' me little girl? I swear, there's just no pleasing a blond. There, that oughta learn 'er.

This just in ... Do do the Antz hides!

This just in ... Posting yet-another Forum post, the lower Lower Descanso Creek Trail Post. I hereby claim the record for the most posts posted. Note to Self: Say "Most posts posted" three times fast.

Oh, I get it...these are all forum posts... James, I'm so proud of you, you've got a mind like a speeding bullet. You are the only chance I had for that pun to pay off. Think how far I had to walk for those posted post photos. You get the gold star for 2012 even if 2012 ain't over yet. Of course 2012 ain't over 'til it's over. Well done, Sweet ol' Harmon SD Rowdies Note to Self: Hope he doesn't mind my being sweet t'day. Note two Self: Y' can't get this kind of good stuff on Facebook.

Cuz we have been camping in the desert at the 10th annual GeoOcotillo event which had its own moments this year. Just got back after leaving early(0600) Friday morning. Sorry Mr. Harmon. J&J Had its own moments? Sounds like a story you should tell. O, excuse me, no doubt you have told the story on Facebook by now. So it goes ... By the way, I was contacted by email this morning sent from the other Geocacher in San Diego County that doesn't have a Facebook account. We are going to start a protest movement. Just so you know, Sweet ol' Harmon SD Rowdies Mr.Harmon I do not have a facebook account and the "extra" story has not been told there. Other stories about the good time have been though. I am ready to protest with you!! R, your servant, John Three of us! One more and we'll need uniforms.

This just in ... Too late for AllSaints Day?

Cuz we have been camping in the desert at the 10th annual GeoOcotillo event which had its own moments this year. Just got back after leaving early(0600) Friday morning. Sorry Mr. Harmon. J&J Had its own moments? Sounds like a story you should tell. O, excuse me, no doubt you have told the story on Facebook by now. So it goes ... By the way, I was contacted by email this morning sent from the other Geocacher in San Diego County that doesn't have a Facebook account. We are going to start a protest movement. Just so you know, Sweet ol' Harmon SD Rowdies

This just in ... Yes, Virginia, there really is a Lower Descanso Creek Trail and it needs three more Geocache hides if you please to make for a nice trianglular loop. Note to Self: Eradicate unsightly gaps!

This just in ... Wild oats at Upper Descanso Creek Trail and East Mesa Fire Road Upper Descanso Creek Trail at Oakzanita Trail with Cuyamaca Peak and Middle Peak Yep, Oakzanita Trail ... a delightful hike from East Mesa Parking Area of State Highway 79

Hmm, and hardly anybody remarks about my Forum posts. Note to Self: Truly, I'm th-i-i-s close.

This just in ... A odd thing happened near GC3FT7C, Buggy #13, but it happened on my way back down from Oakzanita Peak. It surprised me to see a very long column of hikers approaching along the trail. More and more they came until there were twenty-five of them marching along in a sort of tailgating, lockstep fashion. I stepped aside to let them pass and while doing so made what I supposed might be humorous, friendly remarks to a few of the passing individuals. They passed on as a unit without pause or conversation as if a squadron of misanthropes. Once they passed I looked carefully at the trail and noted that their synchronized lockstep left but one set of footprints in the dust of the trail; that set being the twenty-fifth person at the rear of the column. How odd, a sight I have seen never before. Thinking back on the unusual experience I might consider some doubt as to whether or not it really happened. Luckily I passed on down the trail into the meadow and encountered there a twenty- sixth member of the silent squadron with his lunch spread trailside while he sat in the weeds to enjoy his repast. I stopped in hopes of exchanging pleasantries and, I freely admit, held out hope of rounding out my impressions about so unusual an encounter. In the end I simply vocalized a speculation, asking of the seated feaster "Sierra Club walk-a-bout perhaps?" He shook his head in affirmative directions while munching upon his fare. What that left me to do was to march on while wondering what there might be about my appearance or behavior that had rendered me as a persona non grata with so many hikers? Damfino, Poor ol' Harmon SD Rowdies

This just in ... Skin deep within dead Live Oak

This just in ... Upper Descanso Creek Trail at Oakzanita Peak Trail with Cuyamaca Peak and Middle Peak

This just in ... East Mesa Grassland, Cuyamaca Rancho State Park

This just in ... A. Honk if you know where this is. B. Name five peaks along the horizon line. C. Find the beast in the image. D. Write something nice to Jim & Denice of KWVERS!.

Are you saying if poor ol' Harmon wants to keep playing with us, he is going to have to go over to the dark side (FB)? I think so but the odds aren't good..... Jodi is on facebook, but I'm not so what does that tell you?? John, That means that Jodi is done with both of us. Maybe we should put ourselves up for adoption. I'm sure we have strong points ... sort of. Unlikely as it seems there may be a Geocaching newbie that doesn't know about our rough edges and so will look after us. On the other hand I'm pretty sure that there isn't a woman living that isn't on Facebook. Why women want to be on Facebook is a mystery to me what with those tiny little cell-camera photos to squint at. So it goes, Poor ol' Harmon SD Rowdies

Gotcha! Interesting what can be found in a reflection.

For the record, Harmon said the same thing when the Kodak Brownie came out... Why I oughta ... but on the other hand there's some truth in what you say James. Back when I was a boy we had t' make our own cameras out of cigar boxes and make our own photographic film by cuttin' out pichers from old National Geographic Magazines to put inside th' camera to serve as prints. That's where th' term "box camera" came from. My first mistake was to aim my cigar-box camera at my dear old momma, snap my fangers (begetting the term "snapshot") and reach into the camera to select and present her portrait image ... which image turned out to be a photo of a wallowing African Rhinoceros from the December 1934 issue of National Geographic Magazine. The result was an ambitious round of whuppin' from my dear ol' momma and a lasting impression that photographic post-processing calls for a great deal more care when the photographic subject is of the female gender. Cigar-box cameras worked perty good with the right amount of imagination but it really upset me when my step-dad whupped me for messin' up his cigars. Of course I knew not t' show my emotions around my step-dad ... that's where th' photographic term "composure" came into being. So it goes, Poor ol' Harmon SD Rowdies Note to Self: Right here is where my Geocaching pals could show a little heart-felt tenderness.

Better watch out ... Better not cry ... Better not pout ... I'm tellin' you why ... Santa Claus is comin' to town! Note to Self: I have a punch-line but I dare not use it. Note two Self: Intelligence is knowing what to not say.

This just in ... O.K., I've got it ... this is the sort of thang that y'all can do without. On the other hand you will hike five miles uphill during hot weather to spend thirty minutes lookin' for a Bison tube in a huge bush even with bad GPS coordinates and an uncalibrated compass. Note to Self: Go figure.