ugh ESD I don't blame you one bit. That's why I moved off of the the East Side. I grew up on Burr and Cook, just off of Payne, and watched the neigborhood go from good, to bad, to ghetto. When the house across the street got shot up, that was enough for me to say I'm outta here. I've been in WBL for 4 yrs now and U couldn't pay me to move back to the cities. It was a great place to grow up when I was a kid, but now it's just not safe any more.
I picked up a roseville rosefest button today. In fact, I bought the last one the guy had, he said he thought it might be the last one available, as he talked to the guy running the other booth at their other location and he was sold out.
And yep, it's all registered, filled the form out and the guy was taking them back to city hall. So if any of the crew manages to find the roseville medallion, let me know!
Dawg and I got down to Owatona at 10am this morning we looked at 15 houses and put a bid on this wounderfull old victorian with hard wood floors bult in 1880
The Magellan GPSgame that I asked the crew if they wanted to help out with "noodling" some of the clues.
When I first saw the clues I seriously thought it was for hidden falls. Well After reading them over and over and over I finally went with my gut and thought they must be for St. Anthony Falls.
This really helped as I was in the right park when the final "oords" came out today. This basically turned into a race to the micro cache in St. Anthony falls. When I got to the cache in St. Anthony falls I needed to do some fast conversions to figure out where the next stage of the cache is at.
With all this being said...I was the first one to find the final stage. Which I got a "golden ticket".
so....here's where it gets cool!
(I'm going to need to split the prize somehow with JT another cacher from MN) but...
I now have a 10% chance to win a $1500 geocaching trip.
If I don't win the trip I will win a new gps.
so thanks crew for the help on noodling. Even if not that many people participated in this hunt. I had fun doing it. I honestly think all the mock hunts, city hunts, etc. are really starting to pay off.
Cool Kitch! Hope ya win the trip, although I have no idea how you'd split that 3 ways, hehe, just be glad there weren't more people in the group looking.
Okay so Kitch got the FTF on the magellan deal, now who gets the roseville medallion?
So we had a really big scare last night. I spent another night in the ER AGAIN. After spending Tuesday, my wedding anniversary there too :frown: I've been bleeding throughout my whole pregnancy. It was light, but still there so they didn't worry about it. Well last night we were at my brother in law's suprise birthday party down in Stillwater when Mark noticed I was bleeding. I was like, yeah right. He's like no, it's bad, it's going right through your pants. So we rushed home, I go to the bathroom, my pants are ruined I bled so much.... it was aweful. :chagrin: So I rushed to the ER, after being on an IV for 4 hrs, multiple ultrasounds, the baby's ok, thank God. The kicker is they still can't figure out why I'm bleeding, and/or why I bled so much. So they're treating it at a threatened miscarriage. I have to stay off of my feet, and I'm supposed to be on bedrest for 2 days, but I can't miss any work, luckily I have a sit down job where I can put my feet up.
I just wanted to keep you all posted. I'm 17 wks along now, so I have at least another month before I'm totally out of the clear. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping and praying that the bleeding will stop now and that the rest of my pregnancy will be smooth sailing.
Arrghh Kitch, I spent 3 hours this afternoon on the magellan cache, ended up being 300 feet off on the calculations. Crappy UTM system....
Good thing I wasn't in the race for the FTF, I'da come in dead last... Anyways, I got the correct coordinates now that I was able to use my computer, guess I'll swing by after work tomorrow, finish that business off.
Hear about the kids that someone tried to kidnap near Duluth Case Park?! YIKES!
Another reason we are going to move, they accepted our offer yhaaa, now the fun part I have to get this house in shape in one week and pack up all our clutter we have saved up in the past 8 years and move it to a storage unit :chagrin:
1685 people participated in the 60 mile walk and we raised over 4.5 million dollars for Breast cancer research!
Was good to get home to a hot bath and flush toilets! Got a few stiff muscles and minor blisters but all and all this old body held up well.
Emotionally that's another story. Three days of meeting people and hearing their storys as to why they are walking....mothers, daughter, husbands, brother and sisters....so many have lost a loved one. And then you meet the survivors, those that have beat this disease and are walking to find a cure....wow what a weekend!!
Funny thing about that magellan cache, I forgot to mention it. On my way up the stairs from the 1st stage, I ran into a family taking their bikes down the stairs, and when I finally got to the right area for the 2nd stage, I saw the same family biking down the trail nearby.
Better late than never, but what fun! Met my friends at the Stone Arch Bridge and biked over to the initial location. Neat microcache! Then biked downstream to the second location. We goofed up on the east/west calculation but found the cache eventually as we slowly followed the latitude line westward away from the edge of the river. Of course, the youngster spotted the cache first. Thanks for a great time Magellan!! GyPSum and the GyPSy Moles.
well I spent the day in near st. anthoney falls...in the ruins park (way cool...mps is saying it WILL BE their crown jewel)
They are going to give me a start date after I pass the physical, drug test and background check.
Congratulations!!!!!!
Don't need one Kitch I'm clean :cool:
Here is a link to my new company
http://www.atk.com/
and this is where I will be working
http://www.federalpremium.com/default.asp?br=1
thanks scribe!
For those of you who think you are having a bad day...think again and count your blessings.
The following was written by my friend Janet Eldred, who just returned from a year of service in Iraq:
Imagine this
That car bomb that just exploded in Hilla? The ruins of Babylon are
located within about a mile from there.
I live in a city called St. Paul, which is spread along the
Mississippi River. On the other side of the river is Minneapolis.
Together the two cities and close suburbs contain about two million
people.
I live in East St. Paul. There are bad areas here, but there are lots
of places where people are fixing up their houses, planning their
gardens. A lady in my neighborhood likes to set out cat food for the
stray cats. I've started to do the same thing.
I have a big huge porch with a sleigh bed futon on it, and blond
wicker furniture. It's huge---three windows deep, and seven windows
across the front, plus a door. I have a little teeny front yard with
an oak tree on the boulevard that spreads acorns and leaves over the
sidewalk. In the back yard, surrounded by a dormant little shade
garden, is a perfectly symmetrical maple with bird feeders hanging off
it.
You can look down the street and see a variety of house types. There's
huge old Victorians with crumbling porches, and five-year-old ramblers
with siding and shallow roofs. There's some bungalows like mine, with
porches and the original wooden window frames. Trees arch over the
road, some so thickly set in the boulevards and front yards that in
summer the sky cannot be seen from the street.
You can leave your house in St. Paul, and go downtown. To do so you
have to get on a bus that goes down the hill, and passes by a
delapidated street of old houses, some being repaired and painted in
jewel tones, others waiting their turn---till you get to the bridge
that leads to the downtown. For a moment, you've got a university on
one side of you, and you have St. Paul in the mist before you.
On the roads, you pass an accident and notice that there are police
with lights flashing next to the wreck, with the cop on the radio
calling for medical assistance. You can hear sirens, and you know that
help is on the way. Cars pull aside to make room for the fire engine.
You pass shops and shoppers, bookstores and clothing stores. You can
go to several malls or you can shop at the little shops that still
perch on street corners.
Once in downtown, you transfer to whichever bus you need, and go
wherever you need to go. You do your errands, come home, and unlock
your house.
Here's what it would be like if St. Paul were suddenly magically
transferred to Iraq. It's a big city, and let's say it's up north,
near Baghdad. Here's what I want you to imagine. SAy you want to go
out for the day.
Your house would have a loud generator in the back yard that would
have to be watched so it doesn't get stolen. You keep a store of
diesel jugs locked up in your house to run it, and that means that
your house smells of fuel and smoke. The generator roars all the time,
as do those of the neighbors lucky enough to have them. Without them,
you have power only part of the day.
You also have AK-47s in your house, maybe under the beds, maybe in every room.
First, someone has to stay with the house, with the women. Women must
wear black abbayas when they go out, because the insurgents and their
sympathizers are trying to yank women's rights back to the Stone Age.
An abbaya marks a person as a woman, which leaves you vulnerable to
being kidnapped or raped. How she gets treated by her family is an
interesting question, because Iraqis tend to be moderate. But two
years of increasing violence has an effect on people. Some women who
get kidnapped or raped might have brothers like mine, brothers who
know everything about women even while they know no women. If so,
those women are in danger.
If you're a woman, you don't leave the house alone.
There's a corner store near my house. In Iraq, it would be shuttered
early and often, and there would be either an AK-47 under the counter,
or a private security guard outside.
In Iraq, the buses are privately run. You stand on the street corner,
and wait. When they come, you pay a few dinars, and get on board. The
houses that go by before your window all have stone or brick walls
around them. Some of them have bullet holes in their windows. Several
have boarded-up windows, where the owner got tired of replacing the
glass. As you board the bus, you hear a "THUMP!" from somewhere, and
the stutter of gunfire. The sound of helicopters is another constant.
There are little shops lining the streets, and soldiers in jeeps
everywhere. The police are dressed as if for a perpetual riot, in flak
vests and carrying Ak-47s or RPGs. They look at rooftops and corners,
looking for snipers.
On the way to downtown, you pass an 'accident.' Next to the police
station are concrete blocks to keep vehicles at a distance, but
someone avoided those by taking the plates out of a flak vest and
filling the compartment with C4. You see blood and chunks of flesh
scattered across the street. There are pools of blood spread out from
the point of explosion. In suicide bombings the head is often left
intact, and someone has propped the bomber's head on the hood of a
police car. The police here are scanning the rooftops urgently. A
crowd clumps on the other side of the street, some people wailing and
others angrily gesturing at the police. More jeeps with masked
soldiers arrive. Helicopters zoom overhead, and as you pull past the
scene, you see more of them over the city. There is the sound of more
gunfire, which makes you shut your window.
You pause at the top of the hill to look at the city. Smoke rises from
a bomb somewhere, and more helicopters circle over its probable
location. Military convoys force the bus to one side of the road so it
can pass. Convoys keep all other vehicles at bay with their turret
guns because of the risk of VBIEDs. Once the convoy is a hundred yards
ahead, the bus driver pulls out yet again. You hear more gunfire from
the east.
In downtown, many shops are boarded up, but little kiosks line the
sidewalks. Posters are everywhere, as are bullet pock marks in the
stone. Everyone has a cellphone, especially the IED makers---they're
cheap now, and they make good detonators.
Some buildings have been demolished to provide a secure perimeter for
the government buildings. There are Hesco barriers and T-walls
surrounding them, plus watch towers and patrols. Armored vehicles sit
at all the gates.
There are only a few real stores open, and you do your shopping very
fast. They sell dusty home cleaning products, dusty clothes, some
fresh fruit grown in their gardens, and electronics that are probably
stolen or 'fell off an American truck.' You shop, pay fast, and leave.
The last man who ran the store was killed by the insurgents. He was
found dead in his own store by a customer, and the police came and
took him away. No one would talk about it. You hear more gunfire in
the distance.
Someone was arrested for the murder of the shopkeeper. Then the police
started turning up dead in various parts of the city. The man was
subsequently released.
As you wait for another bus, you see lots of taxis going by, and a
flood of bicycles. Though gas is expensive, turning one's car into a
cab is often the only job there is. You wave down a cab and discover
that the man is a neighbor.
You hear more gunfire.
You talk about the wewather, the insurgents, the heat. He looks at you
in the mirror. "You shouldn't talk about them."
"Who? Them?"
"Yes. You don't know who they could be, for example."
"Oh."
The rest of the cab ride is silent. You pay him, and stagger through
your gate with your few groceries. Your nephew sits in your front
garden with his tea, taking his turn guarding the house. You hear
gunfire in the distance.
The next day the cab driver is found dead in a pool of blood in his
front yard, three blocks from your house. Neighbors heard gunfire. The
police were engaged in a firefight at the police station down the
street--the one hit by the suicide bomber----and could not
investigate. The family poured jugs of water over the blood, then took
the body to the hospital themselves in the back of a truck, wrapped in
a sheet. There was too much gunfire for the ambulance to get through.
The day after that, you find a threatening note on your door. You have
been working for the wrong people, it says.
You hold it in your hands as you stand on your front porch, looking up
and down the street where you live. Who is watching you from behind
closed curtains right now as you hold their note in your hand. What do
you do?
You listen for gunfire.
thanks THX!!
Dawg and I are going house shopping today she is sick of this area.
I got an FTF!!!!
Maybe next year I'll actually try on it, I cetainly hope you guys founs St. Anthony Heritage Trail.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=de315380-207b-4244-b229-c60677a1ed54
right down by stage 1.
And yep, it's all registered, filled the form out and the guy was taking them back to city hall. So if any of the crew manages to find the roseville medallion, let me know!
PLANETS ALIGN: Step outside tonight at sunset and look west toward the
glow of the setting sun. As soon as the sky gets dark, you'll see
three planets--Venus, Mercury and Saturn--gathered close together not far
above the western horizon It's a beautiful alignment. You have three
chances to see them: June 25th, June 26th and June 27th. A clear view of
the western horizon is key.
Planetary alignment eh? Sounds like better luck for the roseville hunt then. lol!
Posts: 69
Here is a link
http://www.mlsfinder.com/mn_rmls/mlsonline/index.cfm?action=listing_detail&property_id=3050949&searchkey=611BED16-27C2-4E4C-B2D29B0265BB2A57&npp=12&sr=1
wow...where's the new gig at??
The Magellan GPSgame that I asked the crew if they wanted to help out with "noodling" some of the clues.
When I first saw the clues I seriously thought it was for hidden falls. Well After reading them over and over and over I finally went with my gut and thought they must be for St. Anthony Falls.
This really helped as I was in the right park when the final "oords" came out today. This basically turned into a race to the micro cache in St. Anthony falls. When I got to the cache in St. Anthony falls I needed to do some fast conversions to figure out where the next stage of the cache is at.
With all this being said...I was the first one to find the final stage. Which I got a "golden ticket".
so....here's where it gets cool!
(I'm going to need to split the prize somehow with JT another cacher from MN) but...
I now have a 10% chance to win a $1500 geocaching trip.
If I don't win the trip I will win a new gps.
so thanks crew for the help on noodling. Even if not that many people participated in this hunt. I had fun doing it. I honestly think all the mock hunts, city hunts, etc. are really starting to pay off.
ESD - The house looks very nice. Hope your offer is accepted!
We had a great day. Got some yard work done up north here, had a nap, went to dinner with some friends and then a nice campfire.
The sky is clear and there must be a gazillion stars shining. Gorgeous evening.
It's good to see your efforts paying with something you enjoy so much!
Okay so Kitch got the FTF on the magellan deal, now who gets the roseville medallion?
I just wanted to keep you all posted. I'm 17 wks along now, so I have at least another month before I'm totally out of the clear. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping and praying that the bleeding will stop now and that the rest of my pregnancy will be smooth sailing.
w00t!!! Nice!
Thinking about you MM
Good thing I wasn't in the race for the FTF, I'da come in dead last... Anyways, I got the correct coordinates now that I was able to use my computer, guess I'll swing by after work tomorrow, finish that business off.
Thinking of you, MM.. and hubby and baby :worried:
I found it kinda funny that Santa Dave was gonna do a 'driveby' at the ammunition plant!
Kitch ~ Congratulations!
Planets align~ thank you, I am definately gonna try to see them
Hear about the kids that someone tried to kidnap near Duluth Case Park?! YIKES! :frown:
day! (Several times!)
Another reason we are going to move, they accepted our offer yhaaa, now the fun part I have to get this house in shape in one week and pack up all our clutter we have saved up in the past 8 years and move it to a storage unit :chagrin:
Another Cooler moving out of the cities :frown:
Wishing you good thoughts too MM!
Thank you all for you good wishes!
Congrats ESD!!!!!
sending good thoughts your way MM!!
Kitch WooooHooo!!! good job on the FTF!!
1685 people participated in the 60 mile walk and we raised over 4.5 million dollars for Breast cancer research!
Was good to get home to a hot bath and flush toilets! Got a few stiff muscles and minor blisters but all and all this old body held up well.
Emotionally that's another story. Three days of meeting people and hearing their storys as to why they are walking....mothers, daughter, husbands, brother and sisters....so many have lost a loved one. And then you meet the survivors, those that have beat this disease and are walking to find a cure....wow what a weekend!!
worst part is there is steps involved...
before I forget...prize looks like its small...I'm keeping the sucker if I find this one....looks like only $50.
by my calculations 60 miles = 120,000 steps
(i'd drive between the 2 but heck 4 miles is easy for you)
2nd stage is about .5 mile round trip.
I almost forgot. Thank you me2, ares, TC and the girls for coming out to the Capitol to welcome me home. It was so nice to see you smiling faces.
An no, they weren't caching.
Better late than never, but what fun! Met my friends at the Stone Arch Bridge and biked over to the initial location. Neat microcache! Then biked downstream to the second location. We goofed up on the east/west calculation but found the cache eventually as we slowly followed the latitude line westward away from the edge of the river. Of course, the youngster spotted the cache first. Thanks for a great time Magellan!! GyPSum and the GyPSy Moles.
are u sure???