Day 127 Bubba's Monster Inc. (GC2MZT6)

   Today was as good as yesterday was terrible. That said this is my last daily cache. I am traveling further and further away from the house. Which means I am taking more and more time hunting down the cache. Which means I have less and less time to work on the house. I have really enjoyed this project. The price of this project is getting too high. Gas is not cheap. Electricity is not cheap. Time is not cheap. If I have accomplished nothing else, I have accomplished changing geocaching from an interest into a hobby.
    Bubba's Monsters INC. Cache by, bubbabeernut,  was a .3 mile walk. Both of the children were in a great, and talkative mood. KC enjoyed himself. He had a good run. Probably the last one for a little while. We met up with 3-iorfida and his dog on our way back to the van. KC checked them out first. I was very pleased KC finally decided he should come back to me when I called. I hitched KC up.
   The children loved 3-iorfida's dog. They were fascinated by the dogs orange vest. 3-iorfida let us know it was coyote hunting season. I felt kinda of awkward and irresponsible as none of us had our hunter orange gear. I also realized that I got to pay attention to which hunting season is going on when. I would hate to have KC shot by coyote hunters. I was grateful to have received the information.

Day 126 Scoobie-Doo ! (GC2MWR1)

  A good cache on one of the worst days ever... I fell into the rabbit hole. A very bad place to be. I almost gave it all up... I didn't though and the cache brought much needed sanity to me. Thank You bubbabeernut.

Day 125 Got Reptiles & Anphibians? (GC2MXKH)

 GOT REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS? by bubbabeernut, a good cache. Nice little hike. Not such a hard cache to find. This though is a good thing, as caches can be hard to find in this winter wonderland. Novalee and KC got into character. KC enjoyed the run. Novalee enjoyed playing out side in the snow. I enjoyed signing the log book, and the drive out to the cache.

Day 124 Sarah's Toybox (GC1NC6Q)

   This Sarah's Toy Box by witchiepoo_61 and ghostfinder was exactly what we needed today. 3rd cache was the charm today. I had some business in Mt. Jewitt so I loaded the GPS with caches that were sort of in the area. It was fun to discover some new roads. It was frutrating that I did not locate two caches that seemed as they should real easy.
   I found this cache quickly. The kids made their trades I signed the log and we hoofed it out of there.

Day 123 101 Dalmations #77 (GC286AA)

    Another day another cache. This one was a good find. First and last cache atempted of the day. Well that is not entirely true. It was really the second but the first I could not park the car near so I moved on. I hunted for the cache while Novalee played in the snow and KC gnawed on some unwholesome treat he found frozen in the snow. I circled the cache location a few times before locating the cache. It was a good hide but it should not have been as hard as I made it. I happily signed the log book and headed home...

Day 122 Haney's Jack O'Lantern Cache (GC2J261)

   Haney's Jack O' Lantern Cache by  bubbabeernut was a nice cache. This is definitely one for the kids. Unfortunately I was doing this cache solo +1. We can't forget KC can we. This would have been an easy cache and go sort of day if this had been my first cache attempt. As it was this was my third. The snow is pretty thick in this area? The caches are well hidden? My geo sense is off?
   My first cache attempt was half harted at best. The location to be searched was on a side road just off Glenn Hazel road called Kilgore road. The cache was called Old Rocky Top Cache, by PAWINGERS . Once I arrived within 300 feet of the cache and saw that the cache was out across a river, I decided to read some of the other cacher's logs. It seemed as though the other geo cacher's lucky enough to have located this cache had had to wade through the river to get to the cache. I scouted around for a bridge of some sort while trying to ignore KC's constant whine. I was not about to unleash him here. There was a near by house with some very vocal dogs. We got back into van after our little scouting mission failed to produce a bridge.
   The second cache attempt was further along Glen Hazel road. The cache location on the St Mary's Jones Town line near some state game lands. I searched for Jones TWP Welcomes You, by j&bs with out KC. I got very close to the cache and dug through the snow. I uncovered logs and stumps. I felt like an impatient archaeologist. Eventually though I conceded defeat once again.
   Third times the charm. I like Haney hill.  There are very nice views on the crest of the hill.  This cache was before the crest though. The cache description indicated a Halloween theme. The coordinates lead me to a well done mock up of a grave sight. On the way to this sight my feet slipped over and along some strange terrain. Upon looking down I noted I uncovered a pumpkin or two. Very kewl. I did not damage the pumpkins but decided to be a little more careful.
   Once I paid my respects at the Grave and admired the wickedly kewl painted tree knot that over looked it. I started looking for the cache proper. I found it quickly. had my children been with me they would have been excited by the swag. I however was enthralled by the haunted drama that surrounded every bit of this cache. In the log book there was even a news paper clipping and a caption explaining that a lot of pumpkins showed up in this area every Halloween for the last 10 years. I love traditions and I look forward to me and my family becoming part of this one.... I signed the log book. Looked around one more time. I needed this cache. It reminded me why I loved this geo caching interest enough o make it a hobby.

Day 121 First PA Game Land (GCQJRH)

    Just KC and me today. We decided to tackle First PA Game Land by GeneP, a fine little cache and dash. This was a good area for dog walking. The cache itself left me following in another's foot steps. The cache had been found recently by another.  I did not mind though as the temp was hovering around -12 degrees. I signed the log quickly and we headed home.