WORKING ON MZSAVANA

Well here are a few pic using live writer so not sure where this will end up. What I did the other day was put a skirt around the bed.Got my staple gun out and material I already had.You can see Maggie’s buggy in this one and on the left is a tote with stuff in it that I will be using while camping. And also use it for a table inside. Have a round fold up table for outside.View from the back. There is quite a bit of storage room  under the bed. I sit in there sometimes and study on how or what I should put in there for extended camping and traveling.
This morning we had our breakfast at Ballard Park, saw some dolphin swimming around. Man checking his crab traps, and a bunch of dogs being walked. Few guys putting in boats also.
Think today I will be working on the craft room. I really can’t do much work in there until I get it organized. Then I am going to get together some things to work on while I am traveling or camping. even maybe taking a day trip to a park. Just some things to do while out and about. I am an outside gal. and all this staying in the house is getting to me. I would just like to go to some of the wonderful parks here in Florida and just spend the day. To hot yet. Well that’s about it, thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings
G&M

DIGGIN, FLOATING CLASS C & A CACHE

I had to turn my water off before I left. I was leaving in Sept. so I started the process in July. Because the shut of was cemented the bottom of my drive way and I knew this would be a problem. To make a very long story short the water Co. dropped the ball and the pic you see below was the day before I was to leave. They finally got it done, but my drive way is not finished. They just put gravel in it and will cement it again when I get there next summer. They said they would come up and do it some time this fall or next spring, I said, no you will wait till I get back. After all that went on, I do not trust them to do the job right. I was on my way to the beach the other day and saw this on the river while crossing the causeway. A barge with a class C motor home on it. It was just sitting there pretty close to the causeway. When I came back there was a tug boat trying to move it back to where ever it belongs. I think it got loose and driffed there. I wonder why the Class C was on it in the first place?This was a cache I found on the way down here. Was a real anchor very big. Was a key magnet so was easy, but me, I made it hard. lol. But I did finally find it.
I am still dealing with my feet. I go to the doctor tomorrow will see what he has to say. They are better but I cant do normal things like my walking exercise or even go shopping. Have not been doing much went to the beach a couple times. We had that bad storm last weekend and are suppose to have another one today and tomorrow, but it is not as bad as they thought. Here its just cloudy gray and misting rain. Been working on some art swaps I joined you can check that out on my other blog http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com Dad had some blossoms on his tomato's but I think that wind got them last weekend. Did not break any plants so they should be ok. I want to have a yard sale as soon as I can walk and be on my feet for any length of time. All for now thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings
G&M

ON MY WAY SOUTH !

A cache I found last week. I kept looking in all the wrong places, I should go with what my eyes see first!

This was hid in that geo wood pile.
Sunday ended the show and my daughter did well. Did not do much after that ended at 5 pm.

Monday daughter and I went to a grand opening of the new Hobby Lobby in Winchester. WOW!What great deals they had. Everything I bought was 50% off. I spent more than I should have and not as much as I wanted too. I will take pic's and show the goodies next week on my other blog. Monday evening the took me to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings, late for my birthday. Nice place to eat and play.

Tues. today we left Winchester about 7am drove for about 2hrs and stopped for breakfast. Then went on a ways and stopped again. Spent about an hr. looking around and found a geocache. Then back on the road. Stopped again for lunch. Went in a WM and got enough for lunch and supper cheaper than fast food and better for you. Went on and finally stopped about 4:30 for the night. Ate the rest of our food, found a geocache , went to $ store and now in for the night.

Had rain all morning, of and on rain in afternoon. Just a little while ago the sun came out.
All for now thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings Donna

OFF LINE AND A CACHE

Found a cache in the parking lot at this location. There is one further down in the sanctuary that I found when I first started. This is a new one just out not long ago. This place is really run down no one taking care of it. I never see anyone here. I see several Blue Herons flying over my house thu out the summer. I live between to large lakes. Man made lakes. The cache. I have been off line for a couple weeks due to the fact that I used up my 5,000 Verizon G-bites. Took me awhile but think I figured it out. I have been uploading more pic's than I used to. I have been doing altered art swaps on my other blog http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/ .

Any way now I have to play catch up. I had a yard sale today with the rest of the neighbors and did pretty good. I have found several cache in the last couple weeks that I will post about. Still want to take a road trip to Lake Erie before the end of the month. Well that's it for now thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

G&M

HOME IN PA & A CACHE

WHERE IS THE CACHE

THE CACHE
WEATHER IN GREENVILLE PA Temp 70 with rain on and off all day, mostly cloudy, not what this old lady is use to!

We spent the weekend in Va with my daughter and family, then came on up to Pa on Monday. Not hard driving at all. I have been sick since I got here. Think I got a cold from my SIL, the first one I have had in five years. I go out of my way to try and stay away from colds, and other such nasties. So do to that I have not got much done around here. My son has to come and finish up the bath room. He has been working a lot at his new job at Home Depot, so it is slow going.

I will start working on some things on Monday and work on some art projects. You can keep up with that on my other blog Red Apple Junction. The link is on the side bar here.

The cache is one we found in Fl before we left. It is in an area where there are lot of rocks and stones, large ones too as you can see by the pic. It was not to hard to find the GPS was right on. The second pic is of the cache itself. Looks like a stone but the bottom opens up and the log is in there. Pretty neat.

That's all for now thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

Donna

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

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

BALLFIELD CACHE, YRD SALE, FLEA MARKET

CACHE BEHIND THE FENCE

THE CACHE

YARD SALE AT SON'S

FLEA MARKET SET UP

BROOKIE AT FLEA MARKET WEATHER: HOT HOT AND HOTTER! Temp today was 92. Thats all I have to say about that!

What's been going on around here, well , a lot! Son and I have been working in the basement, cleaning sand stone walls that had dry-loc put on about 25 yrs ago, and was chipping. Then we painted new dry-loc on the walls. We got about 3/4 of it done. Then we started working on a yard sale we wanted to have at his home last Friday. Did that then next day Sat. we set up at a flea market, seems he has been bitten by the flea bug!! Anyway that's a lot of packing and unpacking and again and again. The one pic has my G-Daughter in it she did a great job of helping at both yrd sale and flea marked and even sold some stuff she has out grown, now that she will be a "teenager" in Aug. The other flea market pic is of our set up, the white car and truck is our spaces, we got side by side so we could share the tables.

I have not had time to do any caching, but there is a pic of one I did not long ago. It is a new listing but I was not the FTF. It is at a local ball field, behind that fence you see. Also behind the fence was mosquito city, and other biting bugs. WoW, I got a line of bites on my ankle that dove me nuts all week after I visited there.

This week I have been working inside most of the day because of the heat. I did some land scape early in the mornings. I am gathering up and sorting again, never ending job at this point.

My daughter and son in law are coming on sat to get some things that I had for decorative painting she is going to use the stuff. It will be nice to see them. I think we will be going out to my brothers to have a weeny roast in the afternoon. Nothing formal just who ever shows up.

Then on sunday we will be setting up at the flea marked again.

All for now.

Happy Caching

G&M

Dont forget to check out my other blog.

http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/

AROUND THE YARD & A CACHE

VIEW FROM CACHE

THE CACHE

KOREAN DOGWOOD

FIRST BUTTERFLY

SECOND BUTTERFLY

LANDSCAPE DONE

FOR BIRD WATCH' IN
TEMP IN 80'S Hot and muggie with storms everyday almost

The first pic is of a Korean Dogwood tree I planted about 8 years ago. It was only about 4 foot high when I planted it. I think it is slow growing, but seems to have grown alot. In the spring and early summer it gets those white blossoms . Then in the fall it gets what I call red bead type berries on it. It really blooms 3 seasons. I think I like it more than the reg dogwood that only blooms once and for a short time. The white blooms are on the tree about 6 weeks.

Next two pic's are of the first butterflies I seen on my butterfly bushes this season. I was hanging up clothes and looked over and seen them, ran in to get camera to show you all. The bushes just started to bloom day before yesterday, they sure popped out ! The blooms on the bushes smell like honey to me, no wonder they like them, and also they attract humming birds.

We have been working for the last 2 weeks and got the garage done. I have some clean up to do in front before I post pic's, will do before and after. The before are really bad, I don't want to show them!

I have a lot more landscaping to do, but got that one little section done. I hung up the bird feeder so I could sit on my newly refinished porch and watch the birds. After reading Judy&Emma's blog http://travels-with-emma.blogspot.com/ and seen all her great pic's of birds, got me interesting in bird watching, so far I have seen just a few verities. Sparrow, blue jay, cardinal, and the robins but they don't use the feeder. Its fun to watch them, they must have a "pecking" order, they chase each other away from the feeder. Some of the sparrows get in there and bird seeds go flying everywhere, its a riot, then others go in and eat daintily no seeds flying at all.

The cache for today, I wanted the pic's to be in the middle of this post, after the text telling about the above. If any one can tell me how to do that, I would be grateful, or maybe with this template you can't do that. Well anyway this cache Maggie - the geo - hot dog and I found this one a few days ago. It is in the Shenango Dam area, and is just a short walk from parking lot. It was not to hard to find, it is sitting in the pic beside its hiding place. It's the same area where I saw the man hook a big cat fish, at least that's what it looked like from my view.

Well thats all for now

Happy Caching

G&M

PS click on the pic to make them bigger

CACHE OF THE DAY, WORK UP DATE, THE PORCH & DUCKS

DUCK'S WAITING IN LINE AT MC'D'S

PORCH ALMOST DONE BIG DIFFERENCE!CACHE IN THERE!

THAT'S IT ! WEATHER: Temp 70's This morning we had tornado warnings. Over now but rain all day.

Been busy this week, working on the porch again. After power washing it I went to Lowe's and got some stain sealer and that is what I have been doing. The railing and all those rungs seemed to take forever! I had to stop working on it because of the rain. Son will be coming back this week to start making the new doors for the garage. I should take before and after pic, but the before will be pretty bad. While working on the porch I hurt my back so I am glad for a few days off, but not the storms and rain.

The cache of the day is one I found a few weeks ago, at a local cemetery. Most all cemetery hides are on the edge. Found this one pretty easy. I wish my geocaching was more exciting so I would have some fun things to blog about!

I wanted that duck pic to be last after the text part of this post but it ended up first. Anyway it was cute pic of duck waiting in line at McDonald's. I seen them one day while caching. We were not far from the river, guess thats were they came from.

Happy Caching

G&M

CACHE, YARD SALE, BUSY WEEKEND

YARD SALE READY

BIG SALE

CACHE HIDING PLACE

MICRO CACHE WEATHER: Rainy and storms last two days. Sat and Sun were great, but hot 87.

Well I was all ready by 7am on Sat morning. Expecting the crush like the last two yrs. But it never happened. I think it was because there were sooooo many yard sales for this weekend. On a busy weekend there would be normally 10 - 12 sales advertised in the local paper. This weekend there were 50 advertised! On Sun afternoon I was talking to a customer and telling her about this and she said, hey that was only half of them, there were so many not advertised she said they were all over the place. I did not make 1/10 th of what I should have. That means I have to work extra hard and do more sales and flea markets. I did sell a lot but they wanted it for practically nothing so the dollars did not add up fast. It was a lot of work, for very little $$ this time. Enough complaining on to the caching.

I did not do any caching this week or weekend, so here is one we found last weekend. It a micro on a stop sign. In the pic you can see how small it is beside my red ink pen. It was pretty obvious where it was as there was noting around but the stop sign. Found it really easy.

I got the stain/sealer for the front porch but with all the rain can not get it on. And it is suppose to rain most of the week, so I will be working on the inside of house. I think I will gather up and pack in totes everything that I think I want to take with me, get that out of the way and start tagging everything else for the tag sale. I still have all the bedrooms to paint, and finish up the bath tub repair, and flooring. Maybe Maggie and I will take a day off and do some caching this week, even if it's in the rain. We need a break!

Don't forget you can click on the pic's to enlarge them.

Happy Caching

G&M