Sunday, August 28, 2011

Caches, Climbing, and Karaoke

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A beautiful and most enjoyable day. Given the ongoing turmoil in the wake of Hurricane Irene, which passed us by with barely a big wind, it ...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

ET Power!

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If you're a geocacher, you know about the ET highway caches out yonder in the high desert. Over a thousand caches, roughly every tenth o...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

That Ol' Dan River

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Left work a few minutes early and booked up to Danville to meet up with cachers Homestyle, Homekid, and HD JP for a canoe trip up the Dan Ri...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Caches, Quakes, and Dead Cows

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I suppose that, years from now, folks from all over the east coast may be able to look back and remember exactly where they were and what th...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Saved by Funnel Fries?

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Sometimes, a combination of unforeseen circumstances and marginally good decision-making provides fodder for a little cautionary tale. Las...
Friday, August 19, 2011

I Has a Krud

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Home from work today due to krud. Ugly summer krud. Not pleased. On that subject, Geocaching.com , the premier website of my favorite avoca...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Seal Adventure

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Given the horrible tragedy this week of losing a number of Navy SEALs in Afghanistan, it's oddly appropriate that the primary geocache...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

Damned Rodan's Thai Basil Chicken

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Thai food is about my favorite thing in the world, so I often try my hand at various Thai recipes. My most successful is probably Thai Bas...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Danger!

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I remember watching Patrick McGoohan in Secret Agent (a.k.a. Danger Man )when I was a wee young 'un, though, of course, its finer point...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Beavers' Playgrounds, Whale Rocks, and Others

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Night-Ranger, MarkCase, Keegrepus, Damned Old Flying Reptile Dude, and Ranger Fox at Beavers' Playground. Caching excursions frequently ...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Feral Kittens Are Much Cuter

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Spider is clearly expecting young 'uns. Either that or it ate the feral kittens that have been periodically coming around the backyard....
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Another Not-Quite-a-G-Fest Day

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Every few months, it is necessary to get together with my old friend Bill Mann and watch Godzilla movies, particularly when one or both of ...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Bad Kharma

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Four close calls with paper wasp and yellowjacket nests this past week (see " Friends, Fortune, and Flying Critters " for a couple...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

From Buckhorn to the Dick & Willie

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Open the door, get on the floor, everybody ride the dinosaur. A very active and very pleasant weekend so far—and a long one for me, as I too...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Friends, Fortune, and Flying Critters

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A couple of mighty fortunate, if freaky experiences with flying critters this week. Thursday morning, I went out to take the big can of recy...
Sunday, July 3, 2011

Geocaches, Gimghouls, and Other Goings-On

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Ms. B. and I spent a very fine, scalding hot day yesterday in Chapel Hill, dining, hiking, shopping, and otherwise doing our part to stimula...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Personal Heroes

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I thought I might go on a bit about some particularly exceptional people in my life. I had thought about doing so a couple of months back, w...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

We All Scream

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Spillway on the Dan River, viewed from the Riverwalk Trail. It was up and out early, bound for Danville, for a bunch of new caches and a gat...
Friday, June 24, 2011

No Dead Baby Jokes, Please

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I found it just off the Palmetto Trail, near Lake Brandt, in north Greensboro. An old geocache had been archived, thus opening that area up ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

THE GAKI Gets the Treatment

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New review at FlamesRising.com . Nice.
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Father's Day 2011

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Dad died just over ten years ago—April 11, 2001. A great man he was. Seen here with a strange little dude, sometime in 1959.
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Caches, Cemeteries, and Catses

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Ms. B. at Old Union Cemetery, near Stokesdale, NC Off with Ms. B. to Stonefield Cellars Winery in Stokesdale this afternoon, where both the ...
Friday, June 17, 2011

The Wacky Tobacco Trail

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The American Tobacco Trail is a 22-mile rails-to-trails project over in the Triangle area, a portion of which passes through the extensive C...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

June Madness

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It's a big month for adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft's short novel, At the Mountains of Madness . Italian filmmaker Michele Boticelli...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Bigfoot's Library

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Despite the heat and unruly hordes of bloodsucking critters, it was necessary to hide a new trail cache. Thus, there is a new one, which h...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Scarecrows

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I recall seeing the box art for the 1988 horror flick, Scarecrows , back in the dark ages when I used to go down to the video store and ren...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Great Blue Heron Nursery

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It was up and out fairly early today to hunt up some new trail caches not far from here. They're in an area of woods I've only enter...