The News From Basswood Bend

Sunday, March 02, 2014

Invasive Species

Dick, Laurie and Dylan spent a large portion of the day back over in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Dylan was working with a group removing invasive species from the park, while Dick and Laurie were catching up on some leftover caches from cacheapalooza. Some leftover caches - like maybe 14,000! Maybe not.

Dylan's hard working group

Go Dylan! Show that species who's boss.

Basswood Bend avoiding the rare, wicked and treacherous prickly pear!

A little relaxation after all of that work!

As mentioned before, Dick was able to find approximately 14,000 caches.
Well, OK, only 15! Quite an active day!

03/02/2014	basswoodbend will attend Making Madness in Tradition Square!	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found Obsolete Technology 2: Film Cameras	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found Jonathan Dickinson's Wild Kingdom VII	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend took Elfi2Travel Bug to On the road to CP 8 – India	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend posted a note for On the road to CP 8 – India	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend retrieved Elfi2Travel Bug from Oxygen	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found On the road to CP 8 – Where is Butterdish now?	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found On the road to CP 8 – Hotel	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found The Beatles - "Eight Days A Week"	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found On the road to CP 8 – Foxtrot	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found On the road to CP 8 – Echo	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found On the road to CP 8 – Delta	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found Wile E. Coyote's nemesis	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found Oxygen	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found On the road to CP 8 – Charlie	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found On the road to CP 8 – Bravo	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found On the road to CP 8 – Alpha	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found Obsolete Technology 1: Turntables	Florida	Visit Log
03/02/2014	basswoodbend found Jonathan Dickinson Shipwreck Offset

Saturday, March 01, 2014

Super Saturday

Dick, Laurie and I intended to have lunch at Sailor's Return. A wait of an hour turned us away, and off we went to Mulligan's - a superior fall-back option in anybody's book :)

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Dylan paired with Taylor on this perfectly beautiful day!

SOUTH FORK HIGH SCHOOL

TENNIS TOURNAMENT

at The Legacy Golf and Tennis Club

9000 Country Club Drive

Port St. Lucie 34986

Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 11:00 am

Doubles Divisions

Men’s A and Men’s B

Ladies’ A and Ladies’ B

All proceeds to benefit the South Fork tennis team!

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Lunch was followed by some caching in this splendiferous area - a great day for a drive-about. We needed a cache for March 1, and we got 4 ! (With Laurie's help!

Twin Rivers Park was the big hit of the day - a marvelous park on an absolutely perfect day :) The breeze was heavenly, we saw an eagle, we saw a massive kite, and many, many boats out on the bright blue water.

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Our caches for today:

03/01/2014 You found  Twin River 2 Visit Log

Today was a beautiful day in this park which we haven't visited since before there was Geocaching. It was 74 degrees with a light breeze and not a cloud in the sky. What we did see in the sky was an eagle soaring high overhead until he spotted a fish. Then he swooped down and grabbed the first course of his dinner. We were teamed up with Mrs Sharkie today and after reading the past logs, we decided to go for #2 and leave #1 until after the log is replaced. Made the find, signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for adding to our fun today.

03/01/2014 You found  I'm Not Obsessed !! #8 Visit Log

We had a DNF on this guy a year ago. Today we were out with Sharkie Crew exploring old haunts while spending our first day of March in our new winter home in Florida. Back up north it is overcast and 10, here it was 74 and not a cloud to be seen. As we drove up I decided to give it another shot and, using my iPad mini, walked right up to it. That seems a little weird to me because last year I was using my Garmin 62st which everyone knows has a better antenna but it had me off by at least 50 feet. Oh well, I love the mini. Mrs Bend signed the log for both teams and I replaced the cache where I found it. Thanks for adding to our enjoyment of this fantastic day.

03/01/2014 You found  Waiting To Turn 10 Series #5 Visit Log

We had already filled in today's blank on our caching calender but the day was so nice that we decided to just continue to ride and explore. Thank goodness we were with Mrs Sharkie because once again she spotted something that I had overlooked. The micro-maven, Mrs Bend signed the log for both teams and Mrs Sharkie replaced as found. Mr Bend was just the chauffeur on this one.

03/01/2014 You found  Waiting To Turn 10 Series #1 Visit Log

Wow! Another beautiful day! The temp was 74 with a light and very pleasant breeze. We teamed up with Sharkie Crew while Zoran was in a tennis tournament. We had hoped to have lunch at The Sailors Return in Stuart and look at the Nina and the Pinta docked in the marina. We found the wait time to be about an hour so we passed on ship watching for another day and went after caches instead. Because of the weather in Michigan, although we have been at this activity for over 10 years, we had never found a cache on March 1st.
This series is on our list because our grandson (Zoroan) turned 16 in December and we met the cache owners and had a nice chat at this years Cachapalooza. Waited out a muggle, made the find, signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the fun and for adding to the joyous start of our first March in Florida.

To top off this terrific day, U of M played well and won their basketball game this evening...

March 1, 2014

• Box Score | Notes | Photo Gallery | Highlights | Locker Room

Site: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Crisler Center)
Score: #16 Michigan 66, Minnesota 56
Records: U-M (21-7, 13-3 Big Ten), Minnesota (18-12, 7-10 Big Ten)
Next U-M Event: Tuesday, Mar. 4 -- at Illinois (Champaign, Ill.), 7 p.m. (TV: ESPN)

• Postgame Feature: Spike Albrecht a Model of Michigan's Tenacity

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Nik Stauskas (Mississauga, Ontario/St. Mark's School [Mass.]) scored 21 points and shot 5-of-8 from beyond the arc, helping the University of Michigan men's basketball team (No. 16 AP, No. 16 ESPN/USA Today) defeat Minnesota by a score of 66-56 on Saturday night (March 1) inside Crisler Center. The victory clinches a share of the Big Ten title with two games remaining in the regular season.

And Chris and Drew were there!!

Hooray! Go Blue :)

Friday, February 28, 2014

Palm City Day

Doctor's Lab - 8:45

Martin Memorial Fitness Center 9:45

Home 11:00

Lunch

Rest

Read books

Watch Pride and Prejudice

Go for a ride around cottage we rented a few years ago

Find a cache (Floater)

02/28/2014 You found Floater Visit Log

FAN DAMN TASTIC!!!
A great adventure! We were just out for a drive enjoying the warmth and sunshine. Although the temp was only 74, it was still 101 degrees warmer that it was this morning at the home of one of our Michigan caching friends. We pulled in to the park and this cache popped up on our Nuvi. Scanned the description and hint on the mini iPad, pulled over and parked and walked over to GZ. After looking around behind three other pines, I spotted the cache and tried to extract it with out success. I figured I needed some tools so I walked back to the cachemobile and surveyed what ones I had. Took some back to the cache and tried to extract the container again. FAIL!!
OK so I obviously didn't have what I needed, I decided we should drive off, log the DNF, and return another day with something thin and flexible. Back in the car, I started up and began to drive away when Mrs Bend, who actually reads very carefully both the descriptions, the hints, and past logs of the caches, said "What if you - - - -, that's what it sounds like you are supposed to do" I hit the brakes, slapped myself up side the head, and went over and retrieved the cache. Signed the log and replaced as found.
This is one of our all time favorites. I'd love to copy it up north but it wouldn't be very winter friendly. Worth more than one favorite to us but that's all they'll let us do. Thanks for the fun and making our day!

Drive along river

Laurie and Dylan attend funeral of Stella Boland, a teacher from South Fork H.S.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Diruetic Day

Ascites has returned despite low sodium diet. I took the prescribed pill to see if it would help - don't think it did much.

Laurie, Chip and Dick dropped our car off at the Toyota dealer for recall service, and then they went out to lunch at Chili's. I was at home doing laundry and diuretic-ing. Dick was home by three.

Made our favorite breakfast casserole for dinner - it is so good :)

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Errands

02/26/2014	You found Decker Bypass		Visit Log
We were out running errands, car wash, library, gas fill up, etc. Had no intention to hunt caches. We wound up back here just exploring the neighborhood when this popped up on the Nuvi. Pulled over, read the description on the phone and made the find. Thanks for adding to our fun today. The hint was "a bolt to nowhere".

03/01/2014	You found Twin River 2	Visit Log
Today was a beautiful day in this park which we haven't visited since before there was Geocaching. It was 74 degrees with a light breeze and not a cloud in the sky. What we did see in the sky was an eagle soaring high overhead until he spotted a fish. Then he swooped down and grabbed the first course of his dinner. We were teamed up with Mrs Sharkie today and after reading the past logs, we decided to go for #2 and leave #1 until after the log is replaced. Made the find, signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for adding to our fun today.
03/01/2014	You found I'm Not Obsessed !! #8	Visit Log
We had a DNF on this guy a year ago. Today we were out with Sharkie Crew exploring old haunts while spending our first day of March in our new winter home in Florida. Back up north it is overcast and 10, here it was 74 and not a cloud to be seen. As we drove up I decided to give it another shot and, using my iPad mini, walked right up to it. That seems a little weird to me because last year I was using my Garmin 62st which everyone knows has a better antenna but it had me off by at least 50 feet. Oh well, I love the mini. Mrs Bend signed the log for both teams and I replaced the cache where I found it. Thanks for adding to our enjoyment of this fantastic day.
03/01/2014	You found Waiting To Turn 10 Series #5	Visit Log
We had already filled in today's blank on our caching calender but the day was so nice that we decided to just continue to ride and explore. Thank goodness we were with Mrs Sharkie because once again she spotted something that I had overlooked. The micro-maven, Mrs Bend signed the log for both teams and Mrs Sharkie replaced as found. Mr Bend was just the chauffeur on this one.
03/01/2014	You found Waiting To Turn 10 Series #1	Visit Log
Wow! Another beautiful day! The temp was 74 with a light and very pleasant breeze. We teamed up with Sharkie Crew while Zoran was in a tennis tournament. We had hoped to have lunch at The Sailors Return in Stuart and look at the Nina and the Pinta docked in the marina. We found the wait time to be about an hour so we passed on ship watching for another day and went after caches instead. Because of the weather in Michigan, although we have been at this activity for over 10 years, we had never found a cache on March 1st. This series is on our list because our grandson (Zoroan) turned 16 in December and we met the cache owners and had a nice chat at this years Cachapalooza. Waited out a muggle, made the find, signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the fun and for adding to the joyous start of our first March in Florida.

02/28/2014	You found Floater		Visit Log
FAN DAMN TASTIC!!! A great adventure! We were just out for a drive enjoying the warmth and sunshine. Although the temp was only 74, it was still 101 degrees warmer that it was this morning at the home of one of our Michigan caching friends. We pulled in to the park and this cache popped up on our Nuvi. Scanned the description and hint on the mini iPad, pulled over and parked and walked over to GZ. After looking around behind three other pines, I spotted the cache and tried to extract it with out success. I figured I needed some tools so I walked back to the cachemobile and surveyed what ones I had. Took some back to the cache and tried to extract the container again. FAIL!! OK so I obviously didn't have what I needed, I decided we should drive off, log the DNF, and return another day with something thin and flexible. Back in the car, I started up and began to drive away when Mrs Bend, who actually reads very carefully both the descriptions, the hints, and past logs of the caches, said "What if you - - - -, that's what it sounds like you are supposed to do" I hit the brakes, slapped myself up side the head, and went over and retrieved the cache. Signed the log and replaced as found. This is one of our all time favorites. I'd love to copy it up north but it wouldn't be very winter friendly. Worth more than one favorite to us but that's all they'll let us do. Thanks for the fun and making our day!