SIGNS OF FALL, CACHE OF THE DAY , & WM CAMPGROUND

GUARD RAIL FUN CACHE THE CACHE CAMO PILL BOTTLE

EXTREME FALL DECORATING !

WALLY WORLD CAMPGROUND
WEATHER: Nice over the weekend, today 51 with high of 64 rain and cloudy.

What have I been doing? Well after all the purging & packing, I have to many totes packed to take with me. So I have started to look thru them and repack! UGH!! I what to take my scrap booking things, vintage ephemera, items I call THRIFTY TIMELESS TREASURES , to sell on Esty. I want to sell things for peeps altered art and embellishing projects and things for collecting.

All my pictures, clothes, and other necessary items used for daily living. I want to take lot of things from my kitchen, I like to cook with my stuff. I have a small Toyota Tacoma truck and limited on each trip load. And of course Maggie and all her stuff. Yes she has STUFF, balls and toys thing that a doggie can't do with out. LOL That will be my focus now, getting ready to leave on Nov. 1 I am ready to go south!!

Posted a few pic's on things I seen in my travels this week. I like to decorate for fall but those huge pumpkins are way beyond my decorating! What would you do with them after? If you click on the pic you can see how much they weigh, the have it on a sign in front of each one. lol Lots of pies there! I know they are not pie pumpkins. :)

One other thing I saw was that RV parked in our Wal Mart with levels down, sides out, toad with motor cycle. It was parked there for 5 days. I seen a man coming out of it one day. No clue what was going on, I have seen lot of over nighters, but not long term like that. Our WM is less than a mile away and I go there alot:) So I see these things.

The cache of the day is one of the new GRF (like the one I lost, he replaced it by the way) This one was hard to see coming down the road, I stopped where the GPS said, it was a few feet away from hidden GR and all I seen was a small path into the woods. I went a few feet in looking for the GR , came back out when I didn't see it , walked behind the truck and seen the GR. Found it easily after that. That is what a "camo pill bottle" looks like. Pill bottle covered with camo duct tape. Bet you didn't know there was such a thing as camo duct tape!

Well since it is rain and gloom today, I will work inside on the tote thing. And what ever suits my fancy. I still have so much to do , I feel guilty when not working on something. I will be glad when this is done! Then I hope to find out what is really like to be retired and do what ever I want with out all the guilt. Dont know why I let that stuff bother me, at this time in my life but I do.

All for now thanks for stopping by

G&M

CACHE, GIANT ZUCCHINI, MAGGIE'S TRAMA

RIGHT CACHE

THE CACHE IS HERE

WRONG CACHE

GIANT ZUCCHINI

POOR MAGGIE ! :( WEATHER: Temp 77 maybe got to 80 and hot today! Mostly sunny with a few showers.

Son came in today and finished up the Dry Loc on the basement walls, and check out a bump on the hallway wall. Turns out its 100 yr old plaster pulled away from lath. Very fixable.

The cache of the day is a new one we found the other evening, it is located by our WM. The hint was under something metal and over something rubber. Can you figure it out? I though I knew but was not there,but I finally found it. The pic if the cache is not the one at the site, but another one and I have yet to figure out how to delete pic's, so its still there. PS: I added a pic of the cache.

We have a couple GIANT zucchini's left in the garden, soooo what to do with the GIANTS,? make zucchini bread!! Mmmmmmm good made that yesterday. I still have some left. Might slice it down and grill it.

Well here's the news on Maggie, we were out for our walk and ran into a neighbor, she has a rescue black Lab about 1yr old maybe a little older. We have been friendly with the lab since we came back from FL. I think she got the dog last fall or winter, not sure. At first she didn't like Maggie but she didn't like any dogs , so we were real careful around them. Even now I would always try to pet the Lab before the neighbor would get down to pet Maggie, now Maggie love's neighbor and was always pulling on leash to get to her. Yesterday I didn't get to lab soon enough and she went for Maggie. It was horrible!!! Growling , teeth, and Maggie screaming like banshee, the lab had her by the throat, and I can't even tell you how bad it was. I was sooo scared, and Maggie was hysterical, when she gets scared like that she starts screaming, not barking , but screaming and she sounds just like a human baby, its unreal, we finally got her away from the lab and she was still screaming, I had to sit down on the grass with her to calm her, and check her over.

In the end she was ok and not hurt. The poor neighbor was beside her self. I felt sorry for her. I sat there with her for about 10 min then I took home and we sat in the back yard for awhile and I checked her over again. This is the second time she has been attack, once a shelty from down the street not on a leash came charging after her I scooped her up but not in time she had one leg dangling and he nipped it. She was screaming then too. From now on we are avoiding any big dogs! She does have a few doggie friends in the neighborhood but they are all small. Whew what a day. So the pic you see of her was resting in her bed.

That's all for now thanks for looking in.

G&M

FLEA MARKET, BUTTERFLY MAN, & A JUG HANDLE

LAST FLEA MARKET

TYE DYE ?

BUTTERFLY MAN

JUG HANDLE CACHE

THE CAMO PILL BOTTLE CACHE WEATHER: Temp 65 and sunny nice fall like day.

Today was so nice out that we went for a ride to get Maggie some dog food. I have to go out of town to a pet store to get it. Went to Lowe's to get some more Dry Loc. We also picked up a cache along the way. The cache was along a four lane highway. The DOT put in these "jug handles" to help make crossing the highway safer. The jury is still out on this. When viewed from above, these do look like jug handles. This is where the cache was hid. Easy find. I like these kind of finds I call them " old lady hides.

Came home did some more packing and cleaning up, put some stuff away in the spare bedrooms to take care of next spring. Did some outside work also, put lawn furniture in the shed and stuff like that. Still have more to do, did not get the stuff on the porch. I think we still have some sitting time out there before it gets to cold.

The first pic is the last flea marked I did. It will be the last one of the season. I had everything for $1.00 or less and still didn't make very much. Not alot of peeps there. If you click on the pic it gets bigger and you can see Maggie looking out the truck window. Sweet little thing!

The second pic is of peeps set up on my left, they had tye dye shirts, hats, baby things, anything you could think of to dye. And man were the busy. I guess the tye dye is coming back, they sold a lot of it.

The third pic is of guy beside me, I was talking to him and a butterfly came and landed on his hat. He told me that this has been happening to him all summer, no matter where he is. It stayed on the had for about an hr. Cool.

All for now thanks for stopping by.

G&M

CACHE & GUN RAFFLE, BBQ CHICKEN

GUN RAFFLE

PICKING THE #'S
BROTHER DIPPING CORN

HAULING CORN TO TABLE

BBQ'N THE CHICKEN

BBQ CHICKEN COOK'IN

CHICKEN DINNER

CACHE

CACHE IN A TREE
WEATHER : Great pre fall day. Temp 70 and sunny but fall is in the air.

Today I went to a gun raffle with my brother, it was a fund raiser for the Jamestown Fire Dept.

It is held every Sept at the Jamestown fair ground, in Jamestown Pa. This is the third yr I have attended with my brother. He told me something today I didn't know. This gun raffle was started years ago by our dad. He is a gun smith and owned and operated a gun shop. He made custom guns, repair work and sold new ones. The first one , they raffled 10 guns and sold about 100 tickets. This year they raffled around 75 guns and sold 2,000 tickets. Good fund raiser for them. With the ticket you get all the corn on the cob you can eat, drinks, and a BBQ chicken dinner. And of course the chance to win a gun. Pa is a great hunting state so they are all hunting guns. Had a nice outing with my brother.

Also this AM Maggie and I went out for a couple caches. The first one was a new one in the GRF seires Well, all started fine, it was easy to get to and an easy find. It was naturally on a guard rail, by Shenango Lake. It was a little hard to get into my hands and I had two of my finger tips on it and went to pull it out and it flipped into a black hole!!! It seems that it is a new guard rail and they have these black box type things cover or what ever, attatched to the post and the rail and the are hollow and in it went. Try as I might , I could not get it out. :( So I emailed the cache owner and told him what happened and offered to replace it. I have not heard back yet.

So on to the next cache that I have posted a pic of and it was an easy find and uneventful. Thank

goodness!

Thanks for stopping by talk at ya later

G&M

SKETTTY SAUCE & A CACHE...& PROGREES?

GUARD RAIL CACHE

THE CACHE

FROM THIS........

TO THIS ! WEATHER TODAY: TEMP 61 COOL AND RAINING...FALL IS COMING!

Thought I would show you the finished product. We got 35 pts out of two batches. Brother is going to pick more tomatoes tonite and we will make sauce again on Sunday. I don't mind canning or cooking for that matter, I kind of enjoy it as long as I'm not rushed. When I was married about a 100 ys ago we did tons of canning. One year we had sooooo...many tomatoes we even made ketchup!

Yesterday I worked on packing and purging. I got alot done, with all the paper, computer desk, and other desk area. Computer desk is now clean and empty. The other desk is clean and mostly empty, the only things left in drawers are paper work I need to take with me. My truck will hold 10 large totes, stacked two high and that is about all. I all ready have that many and a few more packed, that does not include my clothes and such. I have a few pieces of furniture I want to take and have no idea how i will get it to Fl.

I think I am pretty much done for this year. As I look back on all the things we got accomplished this past year, starting last fall to this fall, we did a lot. Most of it was done this summer as I spent the winter in Fl as you know :)

WHAT WE DID

1. Scraped, primed and painted the whole outside of house.

2. Rehabed the garage. New roof also. This was a lot of work took more time and money than first thought.

3. Cleaned out basement, this was major undertaking there was only a path to the washer and that was it!!

4. Scraped and put dryloc on the walls and floor in basement. Painted the floor also. I only have about 1/2 hr. of work left in basement.

5. Cleaned out shed, yard sale alot of it and took to flea market to sell

6. Painted trim & vanity in bathroom and took up the rug. Needs flooring now.

7. Power washed the porch and stained it.

8. Had 3 yard sales. I did not get to do the tag sale thing this year, but it will be done next spring/summer. Having a yard sale is not easy by any means!

I am sure there was more, like the packing and purging, guess we got alot done when you

list it all. And a BIG thanks to my Son for all the help and work he did, I could not have done it

alone, THANKS SON!! :) (not that he reads my blog )

The cache of the day we found the other day, It is a new series of GRF ( Guard Rail Fun) caches that someone is doing. Just right for grammynmaggie, as I am not to sure how safe it is for old lady and a dog to be traipsing around in the woods alone. LOL

All for now, thanks for stopping by

G&M

EAGLE NEST, CACHE & A NICE LUNCH

GOING CASHING....WHAT'S THIS?

EAGLE NEST ON POWER POLE!

AROUND THE CORNER A CACHE

CASHE A CAMO PILL BOTTLE

LUNCH IN A BOX

LUNCH VIEW

MORE LUNCH VIEW WEATHER : 72 Sunshine beautiful!!

I had to go out of town today to get Maggie some food and treats. On the way we looked for a new cache that listed last week. It was located down by the Shenango Dam. Last month when I took Dad down that way, I saw an eagle's nest on a power pole, just before where the cache is located. At that time it had a young eagle in it, now I wish I had taken the time to return and get a pic of it, because now its gone. But the nest is still there, I have seen a couple nest on poles that the ACOE put out in the lake for nesting eagles , but never on a live wire and never with a baby in it ! This was on a causeway crossing the lake. Way too cool I think!

Just at the end of the causeway around the corner was the new cache. Not very hard, a guardrail cache and not a pretty view to boot. Oh well got my neat view just before.

Went and got Maggie's stuff, and found a few other cache's. Will post them another time when I haven't any to post about. We found 4 out of 5 today.

In between we got a lunch in a box from KFC. I like to eat their chicken once in awhile. We took it down my the Shenango and found a picnic table with a view and ate. Chicken strips, cole slaw , biscuit and a Dr Pepper. I brought an apple from home. We had a good day away from all the work we have been doing all summer. I think I am winding down on that for this year.

I continue to read my RV blogs on those that are blessed and able to go full timing in an RV! I guess I am living my RV life at this time thru them. I have several that I read everyday. Some people read novels, I read blogs. Alot of them the peeps go geocaching as they travel, in fact that is where I first heard of geocaching.

I think I am going to try and do a few fun things now before leaving for FL. Take few day trips and caching around here. I know I'm going to VA the second weekend in Oct to my daughters and we are going to Color Fest in Thurmont MD. For years we set up and sold at this show, now it will be fun just to go and enjoy. It is huge, very had to see everything in one day. I will take pic's and post about it when I go.

Well guess that's all for today

Happy Caching

G&M

RED PEPPERS & A CACHE

RED PEPPERS

BLACK RED PEPPERS

ROASTED RED PEPPERS

CACHE IN A TREE

SEE IT?

THE CACHE

WEATHER: Temp 89 still hot here!

Here are a few peppers I got at the flea market on Sun. Thought I might roast them. I roasted them on the grill, and it worked great, did not heat up the house this way! They got black real quick, and I was thinking that maybe they were ruined. But I cooled them in a bag and started to peal them and it was ok, just skin blackened like it was suppose to be. Now for some great sammy's! As RR would say.

I was going to be making some raspberry freezer jam yesterday, but my "brand new" refrigerator that I bought in April is not working. Granted it was a cheap one, but one would think that it would last longer than a few months. I hope I can take it back. So I did the peppers instead.

The cache of the day was a cemetery cache we found a few weeks ago. It is another typical cemetery cache, if they are not at the edge of the cemetery they are in a tree. Like this one. Really easy to find.

I am still working on getting rid of stuff. It is really getting old. I think this week at the flea market I will put up a big sign " EVERYTHING IS $ 1.00" hope that will help sales. At this point I am ready to give it away. Not everything but most of it!

Well...guess I will go pick through a few things and pack up more. I hope to mow the yard this evening if it cools down, as it is suppose to rain the next couple days. Maybe Maggie and I will do some caching in the rain. For some reason I like caching in the rain, not storms just rain. I don't think Maggie cares as long as she gets to ride in the truck with her Mamma.lol

All for now

Thanks for stopping by.

G&M

TOMATOS , TOMATOS, & A SQUEEZO

THE SET UP

A SINK FULL

SQUEEZING

ALL DONE

COOKING THE SAUCE
WEATHER : TEMP 91 Fall is not here!

Yesterday I went out to my brothers and set up the squeezo and made tomato puree to make spaghetti sauce. I use to make home made sauce years ago. And just resurrected it a couple yrs ago when my brother planted a garden and had about a zillion tomato's. I don't know how many of you know about this little jewel, the squeezo, but if you don't and you make any kind of tomato juice or sauce, you must get one! You put the tomato's in the top , do not peal them, press them down the funnel with the plunger and out the side of the sieve comes the juice and out the end comes the seeds, skin, and stems. It is a wonder of the cooking world! I have been doing them as the ripen and freezing the juice till I get enough to do a batch. That would be about 16 pts. that is how many my pressure caner holds. Yesterday I did three sink full of tomato's and cooked it down a little, then on Sat morning we are going to make a batch. I don't mind cooking and enjoy it most of the time, and caning is a part I have always liked to do.

I don't have a geocache today, but will post one next time. I had a yard sale last Sat again I forgot to take pic. I did take some at the flea market I set up at on Sun. will post them next. Today I am making raspberry jelly. More late about that.

Till next time

G&M