Water On Mars

My Aunt Vicki sent me this in an email. I really needed a laugh this morning so I thought I'd pass it along!

Snow

It's snowing.




On October 28th.





And I have to go to Ship & Copy to deliver a UPS package.




Yuck!

Blastoff Network!

Guess what! Blastoff is FINALLY live. That means I can send out invitations to join this network. I've been a member as part of the pre-launch since early September. It's FANTASTIC.

It's been fun. (Cool games)

It's easy.

And, it makes me money!

So, I had to get some new domain names from GoDaddy.com. They are one of the 400+ online retailers that are a part of Blastoff. So, I went THROUGH the Blastoff Mall to GoDaddy.com and purchased my new domains.

I got a CASH BACK on that purchase! Plus, when somebody made a purchase who's in my network (I don't even know who) I got a cash back on THAT too!

It's really cool. But, I don't want anybody to have to WAIT. I mean, if you wait, you'll miss it. You can only be part of ONE Blastoff network so if you don't get in you can't invite your friends.

Do it! Join Now!







(Look at all the links I put in!)

Wipe Out!

I decided to try my hand at placing micro caches. I saw one like this:

Little baggie with a log inside
STRONG magnet
Duct tape

Stick to something metal



So, I decided to place on on a guard rail near my home. Here's your clue: I had to reach through THESE


To place the cache.

I called it Wipe Out! since heavy rains can literally wipe out the bridge!

Date Night Geocaching

Alvin has been WAY into geocaching lately and he's hit a ton of the geocaches here in Prescott. Tonight, for our date night, he took me to some of his favorites.


Alvin really likes micro caches. This was MY favorite for the evening.

Do you see the cache in this photo? I found it to be REALLY hard to spot at first! In fact, I needed a clue.

Soft Opening: Wyoming

Wyoming is having it's soft opening today so I can beta test it. For some reason, beta testing just works better LIVE than local. I'm just flat-out excited to have another state up!



And our VERY pretty default graphic for Wyoming that has been in "storage" for far too long. The state isn't 100% done yet, meaning that I still have attractions to research and put up, but it is better than nothing.

And, this is the first state that I've ever up to, start-to-finish, without any help from Les. It was a good feeling, but far more difficult than I expected.

5 Is Prime

Alvin & I placed a geocache in my neighborhood this evening. I had it all ready for him so it was a surprise outing. I told him to put his shoes on, grabbed the paper bag and off we went.

I called it '5 is Prime'

Williams, AZ Geocaching

Ahh! Geocaching. Since our trackable coins were FINALLY in and we were all together, the four of us (and the dog!) headed out to "get some coins in play" as Dad says.


Out first stop was Jake's Claw TB Hotel where we put in our first geocoin. It's actually harder than I thought, releasing a coin. You know you'll never actually SEE it again; never hold it again. Wow! Big steps!


From there it was on to Ghost Town Puntenney ...


Where I made Alvin crawl into a tree! There were no ghosts, no town, but there was a graveyard. Very cool. The only headstone that we could read was in Spanish -- a 9 month old baby boy.


Are we there Yeti? had some interesting stuff in the cache. I especially like the "big foot."


My group shot posed some unique problems. Alvin's head is cut off since the tree branch MOVED after I fastened the camera to it. We were hot and hungry by this time and I didn't want to get everyone to hold still for another photo.


The next cache had great coords. And we got to test our rock climbing skills at the side of a pull-off. This was where we realized we'd been following another Prescott-area cacher all day.


Vista Point- North Perkinsville Road Series

After that, it was to White Horse Lake for LUNCH. In our planning in the morning, we realized that there were NO caches actually AT the lake. So even though it was last minute, Alvin and I quickly spray-painted a cache container to put out.


Since it was a small container, Mom & I named it "White Pony" You see my geocoin on top. This was the coin I'd carried around in my purse for a week. I gave it the mission of visiting places with strong memories. Complex, I know. But that's why I put it at White Horse Lake -- I caught my first fish there!


The rock we hid it under.


And my FAVORITE group shot of the day. Even Lily got in on the caching action!


By the time we got to Overland Trail- North Perkinsville Rd. series Dad had pretty much had it with all the photos. In fact, this is the ONLY photo I got of the cache. After this, we went to visit Alvin's parents, Al Sr. and Sandy, since they were camping nearby. They'd been waiting for us so we all drove into Williams for dinner.

For not being hungry, our gang ate a LOT.

After dinner, there was time for one last cache and to put out Alvin's geocoin.

We put this at the Kaibab Lake cache. It was getting dark, everyone was tired, and there were muggles where we needed to hike UP the mountain. So we took a very round-about way to get there. Just Alvin and I went; Dad, Mom & Lily stayed in the truck.

At every cache we went to, we also put in geotokens for a free geocoin!

Chino Valley Geocaching

I'm still really excited about our new geotokens, so even though it wasn't "date night" I took Alvin out geocaching. We hit 4 Chino Valley area caches.

We started out with on that my friend Kris put out called What the quail? We found a geocoin there.


Then, we were on to cacti with a view. This one, was, yep IN some prickly pear cactus. But that wasn't the issue. The issue was it was also on an ant highway! Yuck. (I'm not activating the link because the guy archived it and it's no longer an active cache.)

Oh yeah, I got my hair cut!

From there we went to Yuma Flood Zone and had to re-bury the cache. Floods and all!

We finished up with another cache of Kris' called Got Mail? Then, we went to my folk's house to get Lily.

At each of these caches we put in some of the EatStayPlay.com geotokens. These geotokens are good for a free geocoin. A free TRACKABLE geocoin no less! Well, I shouldn't say they are good for a free coin -- there's some work involved.

Geocaching Date

I was just chomping at the bit to get some of our new EatStayPlay.com geotokens out and into caches so for our Wednesday night date, Alvin and I decided to go geocaching! As you can see from the clouds, we knew we'd be limited on how many caches we could get to.

This is Walking Trail near my house and the first stop for the evening. Alvin always makes sure to take LOTS of photos of our progress. We found a "2" off a telephone pole in the cache. That was really neat since telephones have special meaning to Alvin and I have a thing for prime numbers!


From there we went to Jerome Junction.

Alvin opening the cache box.


The log sheet.


Do you see how the sky is getting DARKER?

The last cache of the evening SAID that it was a small (i.e. we could put in geotokens) but I think it was really a micro since all it had was a log sheet.

Time for a Drink was the name but it really meant that it was time for a hint. Yeah, we had to call for help on this one!

We tried to get to one more but we just got rained out. Oh well, next time!

Profiles on Geocaching.com for EatStayPlay and AlvinE