THIS & THAT + CACHE OF THE DAY

ACORN SQUASH

ROCKY GLEN CACHE

THE CACHE WEATHER TODAY: WARMISH WITH RAIN FALL DAY

Post for today is same ol ' same ol' ....packing getting ready to leave, five days and counting , leaving on the 1st of Nov. Truck 3/4 full. What a job, trying to get everything I can in that small truck. I am even putting my clothes in WM bags and squashing them in every nook and cranny!

I will fluff them up in the dryer after I get to FL. I am also giving the house a clean up, nothing worse that coming back to a messy house. And it was a mess stuff everywhere, but after packing up, it wasn't so bad. I am sure I will have an inch of dust when I get back in May. Forced air heat is dusty!

Judy ask me about the live writer program, I did try Judy, to down load it, but it got half way done and a pop up said that it had a corrupt file and would not finish, so I didn't take it any further. I would like to be able to do more with the blog, but this lap top is kinda old , so thinking I might wait till I get a new one.

The cache of the day is one I found this summer in a Cemetery not far from town. I was pretty easy to find, and no excitement while looking, I guess that's a good thing lol.

Roasted some acorn squash also, a dab of butter and brown sugar, MMMMMMMMM good! I freeze it in meal size bags. 1/2 squash per meal.

That's all for day thanks for stopping by.

G&M

PUMPKINS ! & CATCH UP

FARM MARKET WINCHESTER VA PUMPKIN MAZE I am going to type in this space to see where it takes the letters. I would like to be able to type under or above the pic's that I post. So this is just a test to see what happens. VA Farm Market fun place to visit.

FASHIONABLE WHITE PUMPKINS

LOVE ALL THESE COLORS AND TEXTURES

COOL DISPLAY
WEATHER: Temp 45 to 60's Typical fall temps.

This farm market is on in Winchester Va, on 522 south. I love stopping here in the fall, lots of fall deco and apples. I stopped here early in the morning on the way home. Didn't buy anything just walked around took some pic's. I love fall!!

Catch up, Been busy packing truck and trying to figure out what I can take this trip and what will have to wait. 8 days and counting! Most of what I have loaded now, 10 totes, is my craft stuff for my new hobby Altered Art. I plan on making some $$ this winter on the things I make, so need to get this stuff there. Speaking of AA, I was trying to decide what to do about a blog about it, think I will include this in my other blog http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/ it already has some of my art/craft projects on it, I think it will work out pretty good, if it doesn't I will start a new one. I have cant wait to get started on this, hobby I have ssoooooo many ideas ! I hope I can find some like minded peeps in Fl to share with.

Son came in last week and we got part of the truck packed, left to do yet, clean house up, gather up clothes, finish outside put away, and last min things. Does not look like much but believe me it is!.

Last post I told you about the full time RV couple, well looks like their daughter is going to make a book out of her blog, I think that is the greatest thing, Grandkids will love it, and future family members will be able to take a peek at what it was like in the life of their ancestors. I would love to be able to take a look at what my GGGGrandparents looked like and how they lived , even the day to day life I find so very interesting.

No cache today. But plan on doing some caching on my way to Florida. I had fun doing that on the way back from my DD's a couple weeks ago.

Well that's it for now thanks for visiting my blog.

G&M

TRAGEDY IN RV BLOGGING FAMILY

Yesterday morning a tragedy hit the RV blogging world Bruce and Margie were killed by a 19 yr old trying to kill himself with a car. I didn't know these two but followed Margie's blog, when I first went looking for Fulltime RV blogs hers was one of the first to show up, and I have been reading it ever since. I am so saddened by this even tho I did not know them. If you want a good read here is a link to her blog, go take a look. They had a fur baby Anne too. http://www.bruceandmargiesfulltimejourney.blogspot.com/

ROAD TRIP START FRIDAY

LUNCH STOP

DOWN THE PA TURNPIKE

LOT OF THIS ON TURNPIKE

ALLEGHENY MOUNTAIN TUNNEL

JAM UP AT BREEZEWOOD WEATHER : TEMP 60 some what cool but sunny!

This is a 5 part catch up road trip post!!!

Forgot to take pic's to turnpike and getting on, the first one is when we stopped for lunch was so crowded we had to park illegal. I packed lunch so we didn't take to long. Ate in the truck. I takes about 5 hrs or so to get to my daughters house. We made a couple stops so took use about 1/2 hr more. As you can see the foliage is still mostly green on the way down, but if you check the last post of this road trip you will see a big difference only 4 days can make. And of course there was the on going construction on the turnpike, I have been going to VA for 25 years and never had a clear road the whole way. We are about 3/4 of the way when we get to the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel, so I am always glad to see it. Another 30 min and we are in Breezewood a major hub along the turnpike. It is always crowded, as you can see, by the pic. I felt tiny between these two! Then to I-70 to 522 S. on to Winchester VA. Let the fun begin. Been awhile for fun times around here, all the work going on this summer!

No cache today.

Thanks for stopping by !

G&M

ROAD TRIP SAT COLOR FEST

COLOR FEST

TO THE PARK

AIR CACHE

THE CACHE OPEN

FOUND THE CACHE
WEATHER: SAT WAS IN THE 80'S AND HOT HOT!

On Sat. we went to Thurmont MD ,takes about 2 1/2 hrs from my DD house. This is a HUGE festival to say the least. The first pic, when we first got there. By the time we got to the park the next pic, that was the crowed of peeps walking to get in the park, it was like that all over the park there were 350 craft booths in there and it was like that all day. It was so bad that I could not get any pic of booths anywhere in town. The park is the main show, and there are vendors along main st, and all side streets and some parking lots, and many cubbie holes. Then there are a couple other areas, like the American Legion (this is were we always set up) and they have about another 350 booths. and across from that is the carnival grounds and another 250 booths, with booths along the streets and in more cubbie holes. In all I would estimate about 1, 500 vendors, that would include food booths. That might be a low est. Then all over and around town, tons of yard sales set up for the weekend. You could not see everything in one day. We did get to a couple yard sales, we were walking along waiting for SIL to get the car. He picked us up on the way out of town! I think we were there about 6 hrs or so and sat down once to eat lunch, at the fire dept booth, hot roast beef sandwich, ff, and cole slaw. Mmmmmmmmmmm good. We headed home to get the fur babies , that were not happy campers, being left so long.

The cache of the day is another one I found on the way home. The hint was ( get some air) so it was not hard to find. Now when I first started geocaching I would never have found this one. Only thru research and reading logs, and blogs did I found out about this type of cache. It is a fake electric cover, as you can see take it off it has 4 round magnets to hold it on with the cache log in a taped baggie. I think that's one of the fun things about caching all the different containers used.

Click on pic to make larger.

All for now thanks for stopping by.

G&M

ROAD TRIP SUNDAY

FALL FEST

FUN THINGS

PICK YOUR OWN

GUARDING THE CACHE

THE CACHE
WEATHER ON SUNDAY 80'S AND SUNNY!

All weekend we had great weather, just like summer hot! But I was loving it cause it was cold and rainy most of the week before I left. On Sunday we went to a local farm market, to pick apples and when we got there we found out they were having a Fall Fest. Lot of things going on for kids of all ages. It was so crowded in the store part we could not move. So we just got our bag and went out and picked our apples. Red Delicious what my DD wanted there were soooo many apples on the ground under the trees, I dont know if they were fallen or knocked down by the pickers. Any way it was fun, did not take long to pick them. Did not do much else on Sun.

The cache of the day I found on the way home just outside of Winchester VA. It was in a mini park along side the road way. The hint was (look for the natural guard) well soon as I pulled in the trees were looking like a natural guard to me. And I was right , did not take long, I had the cache in hand and signed. I left a travel bug that I found in a cache near Reynolds PA.

All for now thanks for visiting my blog.

G&M

ROAD TRIP MONDAY

UNIQUE CACHE

LUNCH ON MON

ONE OF THE WHOLESALE STORES
WEATHER: TEMP HIGH 70'S AND HOT!

On Monday we got up early and went to Lancaster area in PA to a couple of wholesale ware house. My daughter need to get some things for her business. I use to go to these when I had my store and when I still did craft shows, to get stuff to paint on. I enjoyed walking around and looking at everything, new things and still seen some older things that were still selling.

After that we went out to lunch at the place you see pic above. It was call the Delli I think and had great salads and sandwich's. We went on home after that as my DD was not feeling well she had a bad cold all weekend.

When we got home SIL had to go to Lowe's so I went along, heh heh, had ulterior motive, there was a new cache placed out behind Lowe's since I was last there. I wangled my SIL into finding it with me, but he is still not interested, same as all my family :(. Oh well I have fun and Maggie loves to ride in the truck so she has fun with me. lol.

The cache was very unique, someone cut the top of a pop bottle off, just the part you screw the cap on, then glued a cap on the bottom, put a log in it, then screwed another cap on so you could get the log out. Kinda neet. It was a typical parking lot find on the way home.

G&M

ROAD TRIP HOME TUES

PRETTY LEAVES

CACHE HIDE OUT

MICRO CACHE WEATHER ON TUES: TEMP 70'S Mostly sunny !

On the way home the Pa turnpike, the leaves had changed alot more in the 4 days since I last traveled this road. In a lot of places along the way you could look out at the mountains and it looked like a bowl of trix cereal. Color was great. Took me a while to get home as I stopped and got a few caches, and went to a couple thrift shops along the way. That was before and after I was on the turnpike.

The cache of the day was entering W VA from VA. It was a mirco hidden on the sign , not to hard to find even if was so small. Was a pretty uneventful trip home and we were tired out. Had a great weekend!

ROAD TRIP, STUFF TO DO, & A CACHE

HAD TO GO HERE THIS AM

GIANT DRYERS !!

WAL-MART HORSE BARN

TRAIL HEAD CACHE

THE CACHE WEATHER ALL WEEK RAIN, TODAY GREAT SUNNY 65

What have I been doing? Well not much, this has a week of and rain and cold all during the week. Today is the first sun we have had. I guess I'm a sun shine kinda girl.....

Had to go to the laundromat this AM to dry a load of clothes. My 42 yr old dryer bit the dust this spring and I'm not buying a new one. Been a long time since I went to a laundromat, this is a new one just opened a few weeks ago, and my how things have changed. The cost, wow, 5o cents for 6 min. I remember when it was 25 cents for 20 min, needless to say not going to be going there very often!

After that took Maggie home and went to Wal-Mart. Thought I might show you what the marts in our area do in the parking lot. They make a horse barn for the Amish, we have a pretty large Amish community in north west PA. Several different types of buggies parked here today. Just something interesting I seen today.

Now for the fun ......... we are taking a road trip this weekend. Going to VA to my daughter's. We plan on going to Thurmont MD on sat to a large town wide fall festival, Color Fest. We will take the fur babies, my daughter has a doggie stroller, and they both will fit. I sure wish I could find one at a yard sale, they cost new $50 big ones. Sun. we ( I think) will go to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch the Steeler & Browns play. Can't wait for that game either, love football, esp, the STEELERS. Everyone in my family is a Steeler fan but my dad, and he is a true Cleveland fan, Indians, and the Browns, has been all his 86 yrs. lol have to laugh he is funny about his Browns and my granson, his greatgrandson loves to tease him about them.

And he hardly ever gets to watch them in FL, I think we will look for a sports bar when I get there and see if we cant get to watch some games this fall/winter. Any way I am looking forward to this road Trip, oh, and on Mon, we well go to Lancaster Pa to a few wholesale businesses my daughter needs some painting supplies. And its always fun to go there. And home on Tues.

The cache of the day is one I found a few weeks ago, it is a new one, at the head of a bike/ hiking trail, that they just paved. I is really nice for walking, and there are a few other caches on this trail, I don't think we will be able to find them this year, as I am running out of time. Maybe next spring.

All for now thanks for stopping by.

G&M

NEW BLOG?? A BOX & A LOST CACHE

LOST CACHE AREA

REPLACED LOST CACHE

GLUE THE BOX

GLUE PAPER TO BOX

LESSON I

PAINT BOX WEATHER Temp 46 was to be at least 55 but never made it. Some rain , and cold. nasty day!

New blog. I am thinking on making another blog, like two is not enough. If any of you have read my other blog you will know that I have been a decorative painter since the mid 80's and did it for a living over 15 years. Well its time to change my direction, and think I have found my new hobby I say hobby cause now I'm retired, lol. Altered art is the name, but it comes in many forms, the one I want to do right now to start is collage. Early this summer as I was purging I ran across a couple of cork bulletin boards. And thought they would make great inspiration board that I had been reading about on a few blogs on altered art. So I put them aside and finally this week got around to playing with them. I will show you what I got done so far on my next post.

But for this post I want to show you what I did today. I have several old cigar boxes, don't ask me why, cause I don't know why, so I thought might like to start on one of these. This one is a paper covered wood box. I left the paper on as it would be to hard to remove, and just covered it over with some sheet music I got at a yard sale. Music is from a book late 1800's . I used mod podge for the glue. glued all sides with the sheet music inside. Named this box Lesson l . You can see it in the third pic, it came from the first lesson in the sheet music book. Then on the outside I mixed it up with a few different colors of paint.

This is all I got done so far, but I loved doing it and I will keep you posted on the progress, but I really think it will be on a totally new art blog.

We were going to do some caching today but nasty weather put a hold on that. So here is that cache I lost a couple weeks ago, he replaced it and we went back to claim it. It was really way to easy.

Another thing I did this weekend of playing around is some sketching. I was reading this one altered art blog about how she took an on line class on drawing faces. This on line class thing sound pretty cool to me and I checked a couple pic's she posted of her work. Well I have never ever before drew a face (maybe tried a santa face) and I never sketched before, only doodles.

Sooo while looking at her sketch from the class I tried it and low and behold I did it! And it look like a human face, on the prim side as I don't know alot about shading and a lot of other things.

So I have been sketching up a storm all weekend. I know one thing when I get a new puter I am going to take some online classes. I can't wait!!

All for today folks, thanks for visiting.

G&M