BORING, BLAH, BLAH, BLOG!!

FLOWERS SITTING ON STEP
GETTING A DRINK

CACHE IN A SMALL LOCAL PARK

THE CACHE WEATHER: HOTTER THAN BEFORE.

Dog days of summer blah, work blah, caching blah, and a boring blog blah! That's the way I have been feeling, so I know I have been lax in posting.

I think I have the most boring of boring blogs, in Bloggerville. I think all this work is getting to me this summer, ya know the old saying all work and not play , blah , blah, blah! Every blog I read peeps, are doing things, going places, and all that good stuff. I cant even get to any caches, I go to the flea market to set up every Sunday, but even that is work. lol even the flowers in the pic are blah looking wilted, it rained the other day so I set them on the step to get a good drink. Ok ok enough of the soap box!

After all is said and done, and complained about, we are making progress with the house. Got the basement walls all painted with the DRY LOC and boy did it do a great job. I you have damp or wet basement walls don't hesitate to use this product. I forgot what a good job it does! We put some on the floor were we thought it might be helpful, and it worked there also. Then we painted the floor ( just have a small area left to do) and finally the whole basement looks better than it has in many years. You don't mind going down there and doing what ever. LOL to bad I will be leaving it for someone else to enjoy.

As I said have not even been able to go do any caching. So here is pic's of one I got a couple of months ago. Was kind of easy, and I got to see a little park that I didn't even realize was there.

Well all for now. I'm off to give Maggie a bath, she must know, she is hiding under the chair in the living room. LOL

Happy Caching

G&M

TREE EATING CACHE & MORE "STUFF" GONE!

ANOTHER LOAD GONE!

SIL PACKING IT IN!

TREE EATING CACHE

THE CACHE DON'T WORRY WON'T LET THE TREE EAT YOU!

WEATHER: Temp in low 80's Nice!

Had company this weekend. On Sat my DD & SIL came up from VA, to get "stuff" that I had set aside for her to paint on. She has a lot of shows coming up this fall, and I wanted to get rid of it so now its hers! We had a whole truck load for them to take back as you can see from the pic's. I had every thing from slate from my roof I replaced ,to old tin from the 50's like old canister sets, baking things etc etc. And some old windows. All in all we had a nice day. They had to return to Pittsburgh, where my G-Son was so it was a short visit. Saying prayers for SIL, on Tues he will be having knee replacement surg. The second time for this knee, didn't work out so good first time he had it done two yrs ago.

We sure made a lot of $$$ from the 100 year old slate that was taken off my roof. Some time I will dig around for some pic, of what we use to paint on them, and maybe DD will send me some of what she will be doing now.

The cache of the day is one we found last week. It is in the very old part of a local cemetery. I like this cemetery, very old, when I was a child I remember my maternal grandparents taking me with them on memorial day, to plant flowers. I don't remember where they were, but someday I think I will walk around and see if I can find them. Around were the cache was hid, some of the old trees were growing around the stones. Some stones you could not even read anymore. I took me some time to find this one. You can see Maggie helping lol.

This week son and I will be back working in the basement hope to get the walls done, and the rest of the "stuff" taken out. I might move it to the shed , so it will be easier to put it out for the yard sales I am planning. Will see how it goes. I can't wait till I "retire" for real!!

Thats all for now.

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

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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, FISING, RAINY SUNDAY

NICE VIEW HIDING CACHE

THE CACHE WEATHER:Temp 80 , cloudy and rain on and off.

Maggie the geo-dog, and I went out early this morning to get some caches. First we went to a couple at a swimming beach at the Shenango Damn. It was great no one around except on fisherman around the corner from the beach area. I don't know if it was to early or the clouds that put the Mrs. Carmin - Geea in a "mood" or what, because she didn't know her left from her right. But after some time and geo-sense kicking in we found it. We watched as the fisherman hooked and landed a nice size fish. We found a total of 3 this morning, more about them another time. I have to save some for the times I don't go caching.

Son made good progress on the garage this week, its looking good , he complains because its not perfect, I keep reminding him what he had to work with, and considering that, it looks great! I will have before and after pic's when its done.

We tried a little fishing and had no luck, and lost a lure to boot. Then the rains came and we left for home. Guess that's all for now

Happy Caching

G&M

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