Memorial Day weekend.

Kathy will be heading to Indiana to visit family and celebrate 2 graduations. Her nephew from High School and his sister from Drake University with a doctorate in Pharmacology.

We had no one to sit the dogs so I was staying home, but then Lauren moved home and I get to leave for the weekend.
So a geocaching run to New Orleans with Jgooose, Thorny 1 and 1/2 of the Jazzmaster Team.
I'll keep you posted.

 We had a great time and saw a wonderful cache and did complete the power run.
We got 190 caches!
Nothing wrong with the number as we had a blast of a time. We also got a FTF in New Orleans. Replaced 6 caches and many log sheets.Only had the police talk to us once ( in Alabama) drove 1240 miles and spent to nights in a inexpensive hotel. Jgooose got to drive a WWII1943 Willis Jeep! I got #4000 Jgooose got #3000, Thorny1 broke 4200 and Fred got two new state and built his lead in cache numbers.
So Fred summed the trip up:
As products of the 60s and 70’s our influences had acronyms. UNCLE, THRUSH, KAOS, and many military terms that affected our lives. This is the story of a band of brothers that through fate and Geocaching had ironically formed a group of merry men to form C.O.M.B. Many of you are members and agents of this organization and don’t even know it. It’s the highest level, and very “Top Secret”. Anytime you have gotten together with others to do a road trip, or just around your local area, you joined C.O.M.B. It’s being the highest level and most intriguing part of life experiences that will make memories for a lifetime. Watergate – well known term for exposing or bringing to light. C.O.M.B. – Cache On Merry Band. Charter members: Ga Cacher, Jgoose, The Jazzmaster, Thorny1.

Trip to Texas To Visit Family. July 2009

On July 19th I drove to Fate Texas to visit my daughter Heather, daughter Shannon and her Husband Michael and their 2 boys Ben and Will.
Had a nice drive out and a good time visiting everyone.

Well we had a nice trip to GW 7

Over the last six years GeoWoodstock has grown from a small event at a local park to an event that has filled a state park, a fairground and a huge farm. Well for the seventh annual event, we are taking over an entire town. Let me be this first to invite you all to join us as we take over the town of Bell Buckle, Tennessee for a geocaching mega event like no other.



We took the dogs with us they had fun getting out of the house. Drive up was 2.5 hours then stayed there for 4 houes then drove home. We met many new cachers and saw some old friends.

Kathy's Son and Daughter in law, Rob and Jennifer , are having a baby and her name was just chosen...... Lexie Grace Perry !

Here is a link to Jennifer and Rob's Blog

Time to update.

We had a great busy Thanksgiving and Christmas.

In October we drove to Indiana to see Kathy's Mom and celebrate her brother George and my birthday. 

She flew home and I drove up to Canada to see my Sister's family for Thanksgiving, Oct in 

Canada. We stole fresh onions and potatoes from the fields for dinner, kinda a tradition.

I was able to visit my parents grave and put mums on Mum's, she loved mums, and I love and miss them.

 We had Thanksgiving dinner at the house with my son Colin and Kathy's daughter Lauren.

 

We havd Christmas with Kathy's kids and grandaughter.

Then Christmas morning Kathy flew to Indians to spend Christmas with her Mom, sister and 2 brothers in Indiana. I stayed here to keep the dogs and I had to work. Retail is a hard task master.

 We had this picture taken at Kathy's office Christmas party.

I have accepted a Manager position at the JC Penney in Morrow,GA about 45 miles from our house. Hope the gas doesn't go high again. 

Kathy is doing well at her job and has some great news to give .....but it willl have to wait a week or so....stay tuned.

Friday Sep 5, 2008

260 Miles.
Well today we went for a quick trip to Fredericksburg, VA .
On the way we stopped at Montpelier, James Madison's home.
It was at Montpelier where Madison researched past democracies and conceived of the system of government that became our republic. He and Dolly were not home so we moved on. We did get a pic of his temple and the grounds.After stopping we can across the park where John Leland and James Madison had their meeting to hammer out the constitution position on the separation of church and state. Moving along we found a place Tom wanted to see. We could get no closer than .7 th of mile so Kathy stayed with the car and Tom walked in through the corn. So here is the grave of "Stonewall" Jackson's left arm. He was wounded by his own troups and the arm was saw off. The chaplin buired it here at his home. Just away from the Wilderness Battlefield.
Now you know why Gen. Robert E. Lee called Jackson his "righthand man ". (sorry I had to)
Speaking of Gen. Lee we visited the headquartes and battlefield lookout point over Fredericksburg. Here is Kathy at the vantage point. The trees have grown but the town is a mile down the slope. We had a nice 20 minute hike up to the site. If you open this pic you might see the church steeples.

Well all this walking got us hungry.
So I surprised Kathy with a trip to a restaurant I had looked up on the internet. The name is Tim's II and it is on the Potomac River.

Big deal I know, but we are standing in Virginia and the restaurant is in Maryland! The border is the river bank not the middle of the river. So we had Maryland Crab Cakes in Maryland!
This is a warfside dinning and here comes a new customer.

We had crab cake starters and then Kathy had Fish Tacos! I had a crab cake sandwich, terrific!!!
Great lunch and a good time was had by all. The staff was busy as the TS Hanna was bearing down on the area and they were expecting high winds and tides.
We enjoyed our lunch and our historic tour then headed home.
I took many pics on the way of things to waymark.
Back to the resort to a late dinner and get ready to leave in the morning.

Thursday Sep 4 2008

We started the day at a farmers market. We bought fresh corn,tomatoes and some great sticky buns form a Mennonite baker.
We then spent a few hours at Natural Bridge. Click here to see the pics.
We saw Foamhenge : "It is, Mark points out, the only American Stonehenge that really is an exact replica of the time-worn original. "I went to great pains to shape each 'stone' to its original shape," he tells us, fact-checking his designs and measurements with the man who gives tours of Stonehenge in England. Mark has even consulted a local "psychic detective" named Tom who has advised him on how to position Foamhenge so that it is astronomically correct." Too funny!!!

We made it home and did a bbq of steak, shrimp,baked potato and the fresh corn with tomatoes.
Super dinner.