Monday, March 03, 2014

Monday, Monday


Monday Monday, can't trust that day,
Monday Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way.


Computer

Watch golfers - many many golfers today

Gym

Laundry

Rest

Library (it's closed on Mondays!)

Groceries

Put away groceries

Put away laundry

Read (The Rope by Nevada Barr ) - Not for the faint of heart!

Dick grills pork chops


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!



Will Attend03/02/2014basswoodbend will attend Making Madness in Tradition Square!FloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found Obsolete Technology 2: Film CamerasFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found Jonathan Dickinson's Wild Kingdom VIIFloridaVisit Log
Visited03/02/2014basswoodbend took Elfi2Travel Bug to On the road to CP 8 – IndiaFloridaVisit Log
Write note03/02/2014basswoodbend posted a note for On the road to CP 8 – IndiaFloridaVisit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache03/02/2014basswoodbend retrieved Elfi2Travel Bug from OxygenFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  On the road to CP 8 – Where is Butterdish now?FloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  On the road to CP 8 – HotelFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  The Beatles - "Eight Days A Week"FloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  On the road to CP 8 – FoxtrotFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  On the road to CP 8 – EchoFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  On the road to CP 8 – DeltaFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  Wile E. Coyote's nemesisFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  OxygenFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  On the road to CP 8 – CharlieFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  On the road to CP 8 – BravoFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found  On the road to CP 8 – AlphaFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found Obsolete Technology 1: TurntablesFloridaVisit Log
Found it03/02/2014basswoodbend found Jonathan Dickinson Shipwreck Offset

Saturday, March 01, 2014

Super Saturday


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         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:

Found it 03/01/2014You found  Twin River 2Visit 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. 
Found it 03/01/2014You found  I'm Not Obsessed !! #8Visit 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. 
Found it 03/01/2014You found  Waiting To Turn 10 Series #5Visit 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. 
Found it 03/01/2014You found  Waiting To Turn 10 Series #1Visit 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
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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)
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 :)