WHAT'S GOING ON

Friday and Sat. we  went here for our breakfast picnic. This is a really nice park here in Melbourne. 300 + acres. Also has a campgrounds.

 

 We parked here under this live oak tree. I was sitting reading Maggie was lying on the bed when a acorn dropped on the roof right above Maggie. lol she jumped straight up and went crazy trying to find out where the acorn went, she was sure it was in the van somewhere.

There is a ton of stuff to do in this park. Here is one of the many, many trails you can hike on. There is also many events that are held in the park.

This was Maggie's first trip here and she could not keep her nose of the ground. To many new smells and dogie smells, tons of dogs are walked here and they do have a dog park. Right now I will not be taking her there, as she does not like large dogs. And it is an off leash dog park. They make me nervous also since we have been attacked 3 times by large dogs.
Went to yard sales and found nothing, waste of gas. Spent all Sat. afternoon cooking, so I don't have to cook all week. Put in freezer, my version of fast food. Cheaper and healthier. I have been reading a RV forum for some time. So felt it was time to join in on it. They are having a get together in Florida the end of Jan. Well since chatting with these very nice ladies I decided to join in on the fun. So reserved a spot for a couple days.http://www.womenrv.com/forum/ The GTG will be at Hillsborough River State Park here in FL. It is just north of Tampa. Almost straight across the state from me. To tell you the truth, living here is pretty lonely, not knowing anyone, so its about time I get out and about. There are several Florida peeps going. And a lot of snowbirds will be there. I am pretty excited about it, wish it was not 4 months away. I have been getting MzSavana ready and will show you what I have got done so far next post.
As soon as it cools down here I am going to take a couple over night camping trips to get the kinks worked and to know what I will need to take with me.
Well that's it for now thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings
G&M

HAPPENINGS

We continue on with our picnic breakfast here in Florida. This is at our local park. Ballard Park. This was our view this morning. If you click on the pic you can see the larger view, and behind the house on the left (yellow in color) dad's house is right behind it. Dad use to have that view before they built about 6 houses along that strip of land.

Though I would throw this pic of Maggie Girl in today. While I was home in PA I was looking on my old desk top puter trying to figure out how to get the pic's I  have on there on to my new laptop. LOL look at those ears she was only 8 weeks on in this pic, I had just got back from meeting my dd to pick her up. They got her for me and had to keep her a couple weeks before we could get together. What a sweetie she was (and is). She had finally grew into her ears. !!! Don't mind the pic as I took it while looking on the old puter. I had her on the bed... had to keep pillows around her she was bouncing all over the place. Look at that paw up begging ....what a sweet little girl.

I am working on getting things organized. Also yesterday I scrubbed all the out side lawn chairs, they had mold and mildew all over yuck...what a mess. Used that Clorox spray and wow new chairs. Trying to get my art/craft room fixed up. That will take several days,,,maybe weeks. Maggie and I took a day trip to Vero Beach the other day.No pic's this time, did go to a couple stores and had lunch in parking lot. I don't have my mojo back yet, but will sometime soon I am sure. Will take time is all.

Tried to see the shuttle Endeavor fly by this morning, but was to cloudy I heard the big jet carrying it but could not see it. So will watch it on the news at noon.

 

Maggie grew in to her ears! And turned out to be a beautiful show dog that she was born to be.

But her pink nose kept her out of the ring! She still has some pink above her nose that turns blood red when she gets excited.

I need to post more often or start writing things down because I have forgot alot that I have been doing (lol guess it must have been exciting) Oh well I will try and do better.

All for now thanks for looking and come back soon.

blessings

G&M

YARD SALE CAMPING FINDS & A HORSE

Wow could not believe my luck today at yard sales! Since I got my van I now have been looking and watching in ernest for any camping needs. And today was the day!. I got this Coleman powerchill cooler on my first stop. You can use it on 12 volt cigarette lighter while driving then plug in to electric when getting to camp ground. I have priced these at about 130 to 150,00 I paid 35.00 for it. The reviews are all excellent and think I got a great deal. It is just like new. lady told me they only used it 3 times and then no longer went camping. Any way I am a happy camper lol.

Look how clean and new it is. Even the box is new looking and undamaged.

And I have been looking for a camp chair that will fold  pretty flat and be sturdy at the same time. Low and behold on my second stop today I found this great like new folding canvas camp chair. Canvas is in great shape not torn or rotted. Just what I have been looking for. Then on my next stop I found a memory form matrice queen size. I know the people and it is nice and clean. (or I would not have bought it) I did not take a pic yet but will when I get ready to install my bed in The Savana. Things are looking up for the rv/camping travels.

And this is not a sight you see every day in town. At least not on my street, at wal mart and such places around here you do, in fact they have a horse barn at wall mart for parking horse and buggy. This was at 7am guess he is going to beat the rush at wal mart, I only live a mile away. He must be taking a short cut.
Working on house: got the blue bedroom done! Scrubbed, cleaned new curtains and painted woodwork. Looks good and makes me feel good that I got it done. Started on the small bedroom. I will post some pic's soon. All for now thanks for looking and come back soon.
blessings
G&M

"CACHING" UP :)

Me and Maggie took a day trip last week. Went looking for Florida State Parks. Well found the Sebastien State park, but also what I found out you have to pay just to ride around these parks. Something I am not use to, in PA we have free state parks, only have to pay if you want to go into the camp grounds. I didn't want to pay $4 just to spend a couple hrs looking so we did not go in the park. On down the road we went across the inter coastal water way back to the main land and found this little park at the end of the cause way. Most cause ways here have these little parks. Did not see any manatees here.

There is a geo cache down this way, but just as we started to look for it a muggle fisherman pulled in and that was that.

We pulled down to the other end of the park and had our lunch under these palm trees. Watched all the interesting things on and around the water. Nice! I am in Florida what can I say :):):) If you click on the pic to enlarge it , I think you can see little Maggies cute little head in the window. Oops she is hiding, but I found out you have to right click on the pic and then click open and it will make it bigger.

Next up on another day we went geocaching. This is on the grounds of a local hospital. Nice to come out here and eat your lunch while working here. Or just on a break.

Here is the cache...see it? Has a magnet on it and stuck to the side of this box. My health issues are much on the mend and I am feeling really good. I think I have been feeling bad since last summer and didn't really know what it was. I know one thing I will be eating a much better diet from now on. I really feel like doing things again! We have found more geocaches but I will save them for other posts so its not so long between posts! I will be leaving here the first week in June to see my peeps in PA and go to my grandsons wedding in Pittsburgh that should be fun!! I plan on doing a lot more sight seeing and traveling here in Florida and more. I will be buying Maggie a stroller this month so she can go places and give me more freedom. Having Maggie is like having a 2 year old child to care for. But what would I do with out her!!!!!!???? Anyone out there know where to get one at a good price? Today I am going to be working on a paper bag mini album for my granddaughter to be. It is for her bridal shower. If you want to know more about it go here and check it out. My other blog. http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/ Well 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

TRIP UP DATE

MAYBERRY CAMPGROUND

MAGGIE CHECKING CAMP SITE FRIDAY

CACHE CAMO FOUND IN MAYBERRY

THE CACHE LOG IN HERE

WEATHER: The weather has been great this whole trip. I won't go into detail, but shorts and T shirts.

The campground we stopped at on Friday night was in MT Airy NC, home of the Andy Griffth show. Hence the name. A nice campground by the looks of everything we were there only over night. We were at a spot next to the office, bathroom with shower right there at office. We were put there because we were only staying the night. We drove about the some as the day before, so we had plenty of time to explore down town after we checked in. Very interesting place lots of thing to see, if you are a lover of the show you will enjoy this a lot. You need a couple days to see everything. We also looked for a few caches, only finding two. The one pictured above is a fake hen's & chicken plant with a tube for the log to hide. I knew right away what it was. Easy park&grab. The other was also a P&G light pole.

I like traveling like this no rush to get someplace, stopping to take a look at things, doing a little caching, etc. I just wish I at least had a van, hard on old lady climbing around in that truck.

Sleeping: Well, the first night Maggie kept trying to get on the lounge cushion with me. There is no room for this lol. I made a little area for her using a crochet Afghan, but i guess that was not cushy enough for her. So on Sat night she gave up and stayed put.

Got to my daughters on Sat and will leave here on Monday.

All for now thanks for looking and come back soon.

Blessings

G&M

GEOCACHING WITH GEO-BUDDIES

Two girls draped over the geo-mobile! You remember the bathing beauties in the 40-50's ? lol Geo-Beauties. lol lol

Cindy found it! And didn't have to climb a tree to get it!

Mike & Cindy checking a log. Mike in the bush again! While Cindy signs the log.

Could it be in there?? I hope not!

Or maybe in there.

Cindy had to climb a tree to get this one! Not me that's for sure! The past two Sat. we went to the " Compound " looking for the 30 Geo-opoly caches that are hid there. I think I told you about the "Compound on the last post. Well we have found 26 out of 30.

The 4 we have not found are ones we have looked for but have been DNF so far. But we will go back to find them so we can have the whole series. This has been a fun and challenging series.

There are others hid there also so we will look for those after this.

It is sooooo much more fun when you have friends to cache with! I will miss them when I head north in a few weeks. I hope they don't find all the caches around here while I'm gone!

It is getting hot here in Melbourne. In the 90 last few days, and wall to wall sun. Cant do much out side in this weather.

Maggie has another hot spot. She got one soon as the last one got better. I sure wish I could figure out what is causing them. I feel so bad for her, she doesn't know what to do. She knows she should not bite at them , so she runs around like a banshee, skiting around like a scarred rabbit. Its sad to see. She does a lot hiding under the bed. My poor baby :( Anyone have any ideas about these hot spots please leave a comment.

When I head north I have been thinking about staying in a camp ground and not a motel. I will have an almost empty truck and we can camp in it. It will be the middle of may and warm enough I think. I am only driving 8 or so hrs a day this time, taking my time. Its not good for my old body cramped up in the cab of the small Toyota. We'll see, but I think that's what will be going down .

All for now thanks for looking stop back soon

Blessings

G&M

A DAY OF GEOCACHING- GEO-OPOLY

MR HECKER-WINEY'S FINDING A CACHE: This was along the way but not part of the Geo-opoly series.

THE H-W GEO-MOBILE: Very cool geo-mobile! It is a Travel Bug also. You can see it just about the tail lite, that is above the plate.

MY FIRST TO FIND! Yeah!!! Me holding my FTF (First To Find) empty log waiting for us to sign. Mrs H-W got a phone message while we were lunching at Burger King. Said a new cache just went on line, and we were close, so the rest is history. We got it! There is Mr. H-W behind the bush....sorry Mike!

FIST TO FIND FOR H-W'S ALSO: Mrs. H-W holding the empty log.....yeah we are the FTF (First To Find) There is Mr. H-W behind the bush again! This would be their 3rd FTF.
WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FLORIDA : In high 80's all weekend with wall to wall sun shine!
To be 90 SunDAY. Spring is here!

Hope my peeps up north are having some spring type weather too.

I had a great day of Geocaching with my caching buddies the Hecker-Winey's (geo name) aka Cindy & Mike. Started out that Cindy and I were going to go , but then Mike got a day off work and so he came along too. It was a good thing as where we had picked to go , was not a place to go alone or maybe two geo-girls not to go alone. At least these two Chic-en's lol. It is a desolate wasteland that at one time was to be a housing development. A few years back, this entire area was cleared, leveled, and roads were paved. But, due to corruption and economic woes, the area tanked and is now a desolate wasteland. So it is now the Geo-opoly Series.....a series styled in the fashion of a VERY popular board game that has been around since 1935!! The caches are the game board streets and railroads, place all over this area. What a fun time we had , we only found 7 of the caches this first day out. But we will be back, only ,with Mike in tow.:)

It is so much more fun when you have geo-buddies to cache with!!

Today Sat. went to a few yard sales dad bought this oven thingy he thinks he needs! Not! he got some kind a oven RonCo thingy last time we went, has yet to be used, is in the closet. I got some old pic's around 1902 some a little earlier, for my altered art projects.

You can see what I have been doing with the altered vintage post cards on my other blog ...go check it out and sign up for my first give away. Just click on the link below.

http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/

Well thats all for now thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

G&M

SUN RISE, CACHING AND A FROG

SUNRISE AT THE PARK : Got this great pic the other morning in the park. We got there before sunrise and I also remembered to take my camera. Not sure what the bird is (maybe Judy knows) but even with Mr. cheapo I think I got a pretty good shot. Seen 6 squirrels hanging on a palm tree trunk teasing Maggie, I tried but could not get a shot of them. It was so funny seeing them up side down look and chattering at her. Maggie is trying to make a few doggie friends but she is still nervous about it. CACHING BUDDIES: My new caching buddies looking over a cache we had just found. We went out on sat morning and spent the day caching and had a lunch picnic. I wont tell you were we went as I don't want to give anything away. I really don't think you could figure out anything with these pic's anyway. I had a great time, poor Maggie had to stay home. Just too hot for her. I found 8 or 9 and they found a few more than I did because I had already found them.

CHECKING A CACHE

NOW HOW CUTE IS THAT! This cache was just so sweet, game me a few ideas on hiding a cache. I would love to hide a few, but will have to wait until fall when I come back to Fl. WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FLORIDA: Temps in the 80's and lows in 50's. Mostly sunny today another wonderful day.

Most of the day spent with house work, getting company tomorrow, for a day of art projects. You can read about it on my other blog on wed.

Planted a bush this am. will take pic later and show you.

Congrats to son having birthday on Sat. and he got a job at Home Depot. Way to go!

Seen the super moon the other night, Mr cheapo couldn't get the job done so no good pic. I think I must have seen the super moon back in the 90's (but didn't know what it was ) cause I remember one night coming home and looking up the street and thru the houses and seen this HUGE orange ball of a moon. I was fascinated by it, looked as if I could reach right out and touche it, that's how big it was. It was a sight that I will never forget. This one did not look that big, at least not where I was looking.

Spring is here hope you folks up north are having better weather. My neighbor is on face book and she sent me a message how awful the winter has been. Neighbor would be Lexi and Milo's mama (Maggie's friends).

All for now thanks for looking stop back soon

Blessings

G&M

PARK INCOUNTERS & CACHE OF THE DAY

SQUIRREL TEASING MAGGIE:The squirrels are so use to the dogs in the park they love to tease them by just staying out of reach. And staring them down. LOL

SUN RISE AT THE PARK

MORE SUN RISE

POWER POLE CACHE

BISON TUBE CACHE
WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. Temp 80 today, sun with some clouds, beautiful day!

Yesterday we were up early for our walk to the park and was there for the sun rise. This time change has disrupted our morning routine LOL, when the sun starts coming up earlier it will go back to normal. Any way Seen the beautiful sun rise, and birds galore. They seem to be more wild life there earlier in the morning. Along with early fishermen. Got a great shot of a bird on a piling. Not sure what kind,usually see all kinds of interesting things when I walk there, but keep forgetting my camera. Like the other day the water was still no wind and there was a dolphin going along close to the shore, I could have got a great shot because he was going very slow and I would have had time to snap a few while he was out of the water.

I will be posting on my other blog later http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/ what else was going on yesterday because it has to do with altered art. So be sure and check it out.

The cache of the day was located along US-1 on a power pole. You know some times they have a piece of conduit run up the side of the pole. Well this cache was attached to a fishing line to the cache so you can pull it out. That's the easy part. Getting it back in is the problem. I have a hook that is about 2ft. long and I got it back in with that. My trusty tool. Sometimes it's a thinking game trying to figure out how to do something and what you have to do it with. Fun!

Well that's it for now thanks for looking come back soon! Maggie says boof!

Blessings

G&M

HERB GARDEN & CACHING WITH NEW CACHE BUDDIES

HERB GARDEN....I forgot to take a before pic so I got one after I put down the landscape cloth and had just started to put the mulch down. Basil is on the left and on right thyme and rosemary.
I am looking for a few other things to put in now that the frost is over. I really want some chives and cant find any. They have onion chives here but no regular chives.

MULCH DONE..........Needing more herbs here. I want to hang some hooks on that old orange tree stump...and put more bird houses on them . Just to decorate not for use.

FOUND A CACHE...............Went caching with some new caching buddies I met a few weeks ago. We went to a large local park and cached all day and had a picnic . Maggie went along this time...and was a good girl....they are going to bring their little dog next time.

FOUND ANOTHER CACHE.......Here is her DH holding up a very unique girly cache! I guess the girl that hid it is 16 ...she had it all decked out with jewels.....was very cool.. lol

AND ANOTHER..........this was another unique cache we found that day.

GRAMMYNMAGGIE WITH NEW CACHE BUDDIE WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL.......A great day about 72 and sunshine all day.

I am back at this blog site....it just was not working out only doing the one blog. So this will be the what we are doing blog and caching....the other will be art/vintage blog. The last few days dad and I have been doing some yard work / landscaping. Pulling up weeds, putting down landscape cloth and the pine bark nuggets. We put down 48 bags! Now that part is done I would like to do some planting. I will post pic soon of our work.

If you want to check out my altered art go to my other blog

http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/

Thats all for now thanks for stopping by and come again

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