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This just in ...

 

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So near yet so far.

 

How crazy is this? I have twenty Geocache containers prepared

and ready to go for next outing and that's mostly just for gap

filling. Starting to consider another bulk order.

 

It's going to be the mother of all honor-roll challenges.

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This just in ...

 

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West Meadow snowprints, a rareness in San Diego County.

 

Think of the soaring mountain ranges and deep ocean gorges

of Earth's surface. Yet if one could hold a precise, basketball-

sized model of Earth in hand it would feel as though a

completely smooth glass sphere and the oceans too would be

undetectable to the touch even as a dampness.

 

In the words of Charles Dickens -

 

The eternal Universe where Earth's bulk is as a grain,

it's age an infancy.

 

The best estimate for the human population of Earth is that for

everyone person alive today there are thirteen dead in the past.

Do the math ... seven billion now alive times thirteen is a big

number but nothing at all compared to the number of stars in

our own Galaxy.

 

So little time, so much one should do. Ain't it great t' be here?

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This just in ...

 

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Silent sentinels.18, 2012.

 

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View toward west from Arroyo Seco Trail. Name the peaks.

 

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Japacha Peak from Arroyo Seco trail camp, February 18, 2012.

Keep in mind that closed-loop hikes are far the best because,

on average, they are completely level. :laughing:

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We have finally rested from our Yuma adventure and wanted to share some interesting finds. These were out in the desert, so may have been a mirage.

The first was J&J's FJ in it's hometown "Yodaville" although it is hard to read the placemarker, there is actually a cache here

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Yodaville

 

The second amazing occurance was Splashes having thier new Jeep delivered to them at the Yuma event, everyone was very impressed.

 

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Notice the smile on the delivery guys face after Steve tipped him.

 

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That ain't th' way I heard it ...

 

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Saquaroed! (Revolt of the Triffids?)

 

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Bigfoot!

 

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Ol' Hotpants.

 

Note to Self: Somebody needs a growed-up cam'ra.

Funny additions, but not all the locations were cacher-friendly, I think Jodi placed a "Harmon come get it" cache near this location.

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We love our new Jeep!!! Once we put the big tires on it, we went everywhere!! The color was just as we ordered and we thought it looked better than the original. Jeep went above and beyond by having the Jeep delivered right to our current coords, well worth the tip Steve gave the delivery guy. Havin' fun now!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

The Splashes & the new Rubi Red!

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That ain't th' way I heard it ...

 

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Saquaroed! (Revolt of the Triffids?)

 

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Bigfoot!

 

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Ol' Hotpants.

 

Note to Self: Somebody needs a growed-up cam'ra.

Funny additions, but not all the locations were cacher-friendly, I think Jodi placed a "Harmon come get it" cache near this location.

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We love our new Jeep!!! Once we put the big tires on it, we went everywhere!! The color was just as we ordered and we thought it looked better than the original. Jeep went above and beyond by having the Jeep delivered right to our current coords, well worth the tip Steve gave the delivery guy. Havin' fun now!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

The Splashes & the new Rubi Red!

Rubi' Red? ... ain't that puce?

 

As far as Jodi putting a Harmon-hide at the mine,

that's th' pits. Why I oughta ...

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This just in ...

 

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For my next trick ... take a guess.

 

Just for fun I left one gap to fill along the way.

Still have a dozen cache containers on hand

and ready to go.

 

My thanks to BlondHiLites for dropping off a

bagfull of first-class container with logsheets

and swag all ready to go. Ain't she th' sweetest

thang? ... else she wants to see how long an

old man of seven and seventy will hold out at

this rate. Clinical trial sort of thang I suppose.

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Note to Self: Harmon, next time you enable twenty-two hides together do keep in mind that you'll get 110 emails from that CPRG.

Maybe. Maybe not.

Maybe I should have payed more attention to the emails.

Spread the wealth I say. Bless the reviewers ... I for one

appreciate and respect their contribution to Geocaching.

 

Dang, another mystery to unravel or am I last to know?

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Note to Self: Harmon, next time you enable twenty-two hides together do keep in mind that you'll get 110 emails from that CPRG.

Maybe. Maybe not.

Maybe I should have payed more attention to the emails.

Spread the wealth I say. Bless the reviewers ... I for one

appreciate and respect their contribution to Geocaching.

 

Dang, another mystery to unravel or am I last to know?

Doubtful. Being the last to know something is one of my super powers.

 

As to the new guy (gal?), heck, I'm still trying to figure out who Kosh is.

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Note to Self: Harmon, next time you enable twenty-two hides together do keep in mind that you'll get 110 emails from that CPRG.

Maybe. Maybe not.

Maybe I should have payed more attention to the emails.

Spread the wealth I say. Bless the reviewers ... I for one

appreciate and respect their contribution to Geocaching.

 

Dang, another mystery to unravel or am I last to know?

Doubtful. Being the last to know something is one of my super powers.

 

As to the new guy (gal?), heck, I'm still trying to figure out who Kosh is.

Imagine my Geocaching life it it turned out to be Jodi. Yikes!

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Note to Self: Harmon, next time you enable twenty-two hides together do keep in mind that you'll get 110 emails from that CPRG.

Maybe. Maybe not.

Maybe I should have payed more attention to the emails.

Spread the wealth I say. Bless the reviewers ... I for one

appreciate and respect their contribution to Geocaching.

 

Dang, another mystery to unravel or am I last to know?

Doubtful. Being the last to know something is one of my super powers.

 

As to the new guy (gal?), heck, I'm still trying to figure out who Kosh is.

Imagine my Geocaching life it it turned out to be Jodi. Yikes!

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

 

I was just thinking the same thing... They say that what goes around, comes around. :ph34r:

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Note to Self: Harmon, next time you enable twenty-two hides together do keep in mind that you'll get 110 emails from that CPRG.

Maybe. Maybe not.

Maybe I should have payed more attention to the emails.

Spread the wealth I say. Bless the reviewers ... I for one

appreciate and respect their contribution to Geocaching.

 

Dang, another mystery to unravel or am I last to know?

Doubtful. Being the last to know something is one of my super powers.

 

As to the new guy (gal?), heck, I'm still trying to figure out who Kosh is.

Imagine my Geocaching life it it turned out to be Jodi. Yikes!

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

 

I was just thinking the same thing... They say that what goes around, comes around. :ph34r:

Hmm, if it turns out to be Jodi then maybe I should just stay out

on the trail. In that case I'd have t' carve containers out of fallen

trees and branches.

 

This made me think ... I checked and found that two more hides

will put me at two-hundred.

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Out hiking yesterday and was startled twice by buzztails right next to caches near sweetwater lake. Seems kinda early in the season for these to be out, but serves as a reminder to all. Both of these were near caches named after Harmon, I am not sure there is a connection, but a cautious cacher might be extra careful around anything named "Harmon", this caution probably extends to forum posts as well.

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(Note to self: The old guy will probably complain about my phone-camera again)

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Out hiking yesterday and was startled twice by buzztails right next to caches near sweetwater lake. Seems kinda early in the season for these to be out, but serves as a reminder to all. Both of these were near caches named after Harmon, I am not sure there is a connection, but a cautious cacher might be extra careful around anything named "Harmon", this caution probably extends to forum posts as well.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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(Note to self: The old guy will probably complain about my phone-camera again)

Hey, that's a fine snake-photo you got there with that funky

little cell-camera. For sure it seems a bit early but with

the warm days that keep popping up the flowers and trees are

confused as well. Sort of a false-spring thingey.

 

Actually cell-cameras are improving and due to the cell phone

rage they are now the most popular type of camera in the world.

Going to hit the point-and-shoot digital cameras hard sales-wise.

Best thing is that people are now shooting a lot more photos and

videos.

 

Truth is that good shots result from post processing; you know,

unless there's excessive blur due to focus or camera motion

issues.

 

Rule No. 1: Pay attention to lighting.

Rule No. 2: Never shoot during a snake strike, too blurred to fix.

 

Snake-wise ... watch where your feet and hands are going to go.

No running on trails during snake season ... doesn't give a

snake a chance to warm you. Finally ... don't kill snakes for

crying out loud, just keep your feet, hands, and dogs off of

them.

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Issue number two about putting out tenty-two hides in one day ...

tonight I checked me email and received a flood of ninety-four

more email messages from Geocachers that scored the finds today.

 

Partly that resulted from the fact that the Gmail account that

is associated with my Google+ page is linked by way of my Cox

SD Rowdies account.

 

Nice to see some Geocachers put some miles on their hiking boots.

Having a grand time in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park ... closing in

on my goal but there's still some untidy trails that need to be

spruced up and some that are to be pushed onward.

 

Old man's work is never done,

Sweet ol' Harmon

 

Note to Self: How come nobody ever likes my photos?

 

O yeah, no stupid "Like" button.

 

NOTE: Here I am again, next morning clearing another ninety email

messages. Good gravy, no good deed goes unpunished. One thing for

sure I'm going to unlink that danged Gmail account from my Cox

server accounts. Only use it with My Google+ account that pertains

to the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Of course

I confess there's joy in seeing what so many Geocaching pals went

through to find that outburst of new hides I placed last week.

 

As for my next few wilderness adventures I recommend the title of

an old tyme country song by Roy Acuff, "Will the circle be unbroken?"

I depend on the fact that a link to that old song will surely be posted

here by the KWVERS! team.

 

Leave no loop unclosed ... that's the message!

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This just in ...

 

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For those poor creatures that have hiked miles through the wilderness of Cuyamaca

Rancho State Park to find the multitude of new hides placed there, just for you, the

photo above is a little puzzle for you to solve with regard to near future outings.

 

Picture Puzzle: See if you can find where the pattern of map pins shown in the image

above fits, exactly, on Google Earth.

 

This exercise will give you a clue as to how I preplanned the general location of the

many hides that I have placed along those wonderful wilderness trails. A day of placing

twenty-two hides and keeping track of the details is a challenge that can't be left to the

faded memory of an old man of seven and seventy.

 

How did I do it? Well, the Google Earth Ruler Tool, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Photoshop

CS5 Extended, and manual-entry of the preplanned general locations into my old Garmin

60CSx. Once out on the trails I merely marched from one preplanned location to the

next where I then looked about for a suitable hidey-hole.

 

Why do I do it? Two reasons ... (1) for my hearteries and (2) for a few laughs at what

my Geocaching pals endure along those wilderness trails.

 

Life is good,

Sweet ol' Harmon

 

Note to Self: Best part is the photos of my pals up to their crotch in Sweetwater Creek. Hee-hee-hee snark!

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This just in ...

 

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I have this great place to watch the rain come down on a stormy night.

Street lamp just above the entrance to our carport provides the lighting.

 

Looks a bit like a collision within CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Look

very carefully ... you might be the first to confirm the existence of

the Higgs Boson particle.

 

What next, Boson-tube cache containers? Now that would be a macro.

 

Ain't it great t' be here?

 

Sweet ol' Harmon

 

(Hey Martha, come here and read this ... what th' hail is he talkin' about?)

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Hoo-tah! my ship has finally come in ...

 

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Begging door to door in a senior manufactured-home park

is starting to pay off. I've got a batch of med' bottles

all wrapped up and ready to go for my next CRSP outing.

 

How funny, med' bottles are showing up in my curb-side

newspaper box. Maybe I should apply for a Federal-aid

grant for cleaning up plastics from the environment.

 

No wait, that ain't right ... when the mother of all

tsunamis hits the California coastline there's going to be

a mojo-horde of cammo-taped med' bottles washed out to

sea. Wonder how that will work out for Panama when they

start seeing leopard-spotted med' bottles floating in on

the evening tide? There'll be a scramble for th' $FTF.

 

Hee-hee-hee ... snark!

 

Anyway my need is met until my second bulk order arrives.

 

Say, any of y'all got a supply of them little golf-pencil

thingies? I swear I'm sick of cuttin' and sharpenin' No. 2

Dixons into three pieces.

 

Happy trails t' y'all,

Sweet ol' Harmon

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Begging door to door in a senior manufactured-home park

is starting to pay off. I've got a batch of med' bottles

all wrapped up and ready to go for my next CRSP outing.

You know, I'm rather surprised at this. I figured that all those pill bottles were from your own meds...

The general concensus is that he has been off his meds for quite some time :laughing::anitongue::laughing:

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Begging door to door in a senior manufactured-home park

is starting to pay off. I've got a batch of med' bottles

all wrapped up and ready to go for my next CRSP outing.

You know, I'm rather surprised at this. I figured that all those pill bottles were from your own meds...

The general concensus is that he has been off his meds for quite some time :laughing::anitongue::laughing:

Why I oughta ... y'all are pickin' on me.

 

Four prescriptions every hundred days so that's an average rate

of 14.6 containers per year not counting aspirin and fish oil

containers. One trail hike and I'd be done for the year at that

rate.

 

Any clear-thinking person can surely see that I had to turn to

more productive sources after I was forced to hide

Geocache containers along all of the trails and fire roads of

Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.

 

The result is that email messages (boffuvum) have poured into

Rowdy Central asking for contact information with regard to

ordering bulk container shipments. Ain't it nice to know that an

old man of seven and seventy years can be a trend-setter? ...

shall we say "An outlier?"

 

So it goes,

Sweet ol' Harmon

 

Note to Self: That oughta learn 'em.

 

An Afterthought:

 

No need for y'all t' worry about container sanitation 'cause I

boil the old-folk containers in used engine oil before cammo-

taping them. So y' see it ain't like havin' t' kiss great gramma

who's in her nineties so that the effect of the kiss lingers

unnaturally in your mind for a day or two. Go back in time and

you'll discover that having t' kiss really old people, alive or

dead, is why alchohol was invented.

 

For every person alive today there's thirteen dead and gone.

 

When old people died back when I was a boy they laid 'em out

in th' parlor for a day or two and made th' children kiss 'em

so's th' grownups didn't have to. P-tui! that was child abuse,

nowadays child abuse comes in th' form of little-league sports.

 

Kiss-kiss,

Sweet ol' Harmon

 

Note to Self: I don't get kissed much and when I do it's sure t' be an air-kiss.

Note Two Self: Back in th' seventies it was easy t' get kissed and, you know, other stuff.

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Begging door to door in a senior manufactured-home park

is starting to pay off. I've got a batch of med' bottles

all wrapped up and ready to go for my next CRSP outing.

You know, I'm rather surprised at this. I figured that all those pill bottles were from your own meds...

The general concensus is that he has been off his meds for quite some time :laughing::anitongue::laughing:

Why I oughta ... y'all are pickin' on me.

 

Four prescriptions every hundred days so that's an average rate

of 14.6 containers per year not counting aspirin and fish oil

containers. One trail hike and I'd be done for the year at that

rate.

 

Any clear-thinking person can surely see that I had to turn to

more productive sources after I was forced to hide

Geocache containers along all of the trails and fire roads of

Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.

 

The result is that email messages (boffuvum) have poured into

Rowdy Central asking for contact information with regard to

ordering bulk container shipments. Ain't it nice to know that an

old man of seven and seventy years can be a trend-setter? ...

shall we say "An outlier?"

 

So it goes,

Sweet ol' Harmon

 

Note to Self: That oughta learn 'em.

 

An Afterthought:

 

No need for y'all t' worry about container sanitation 'cause I

boil the old-folk containers in used engine oil before cammo-

taping them. So y' see it ain't like havin' t' kiss great gramma

who's in her nineties so that the effect of the kiss lingers

unnaturally in your mind for a day or two. Go back in time and

you'll discover that having t' kiss really old people, alive or

dead, is why alchohol was invented.

 

For every person alive today there's thirteen dead and gone.

 

When old people died back when I was a boy they laid 'em out

in th' parlor for a day or two and made th' children kiss 'em

so's th' grownups didn't have to. P-tui! that was child abuse,

nowadays child abuse comes in th' form of little-league sports.

 

Kiss-kiss,

Sweet ol' Harmon

 

Note to Self: I don't get kissed much and when I do it's sure t' be an air-kiss.

Note Two Self: Back in th' seventies it was easy t' get kissed and, you know, other stuff.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012: Just experienced the first

drive-by container dropoff. Now have nineteen ready-to-go

cache containers for my next outing.

 

Thursday, March 1, 2012: Three more showed up this morning.

I know how to start this sort of thing but how do you stop

it? ... not that I'm any hurry to do so what with all the

trails and fire roads of CRSP.

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This just in ...

 

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Fern Flat Fire Road with Cuyamaca Peak on the horizon.

Look at that image ... makes y' think you could step

right into it and go hiking, huh?

 

Note to Self: Honestly, would it kill 'em to pretend they like it?

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This just in ...

 

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"The Long Lost Teatime of the Soul," Douglas Adams.

 

Actually just a Photoshop experiment for background

abstraction using motion blur and layer masking.

 

Thank you Jodi,

Sweet ol' Harmon

 

Note to Self: Y' gotta know how to handle that ol' gal.

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This just in ...

 

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Hey everybody, help me out here.

 

When I look at the photo I see Manzanita in bloom

and sunlight streaming through the foliage.

 

When I look at Janie and Nancy in the photo I see

that they are bundled up as if strolling the streets

of Nome, Alaska while awaiting the finish of the

Iditarod Sled-Dog Race.

 

What's the deal? Does anybody know if Splashette

and Lulu499 are out of town and actually in Alaska?

 

At any rate I've added that photo to the Geocachers

section of the

SD Rowdies website until this mystery is cleared up.

 

Worse yet I heard that they've been hiking in our

local mountains with that nefarious Geocacher

formerly know as DeuschBag.

 

Say it isn't so,

Sweet ol' Harmon

 

Note to Self: Janie and Nancy ... ain't they th' sweetest thangs?

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This just in ...

 

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Hey everybody, help me out here.

 

When I look at the photo I see Manzanita in bloom

and sunlight streaming through the foliage.

 

When I look at Janie and Nancy in the photo I see

that they are bundled up as if strolling the streets

of Nome, Alaska while awaiting the finish of the

Iditarod Sled-Dog Race.

 

What's the deal? Does anybody know if Splashette

and Lulu499 are out of town and actually in Alaska?

 

At any rate I've added that photo to the Geocachers

section of the

SD Rowdies website until this mystery is cleared up.

 

Worse yet I heard that they've been hiking in our

local mountains with that nefarious Geocacher

formerly know as DeuschBag.

 

Say it isn't so,

Sweet ol' Harmon

 

Note to Self: Janie and Nancy ... ain't they th' sweetest thangs?

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This just in ...

 

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I knew it, an Internet search found them

as faces in the Iditarod crowd.

Interesting photo but not half so much as what I discovered when I took a close look at the background (upper right)...I guess the Internet Search didn't pick that out due to the low resolution. Harmon, methinks you have some 'splainin' to do.

Uh-oh, got t' stay away from that sort of establishment.

Bear naked in Nome, Alaska is a new honor for me. My

"resolution" is personal eyesight problem that y' very

much.

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This just in ...

 

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For those few of you following my campaign within Cuyamaca Rancho

State Park, here's an up close and personal look at the summit of

Japacha Peak. Once there I better understood why there's no trail to

the high point of that bushwhacking-proof barrier.

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