Staycation, part 2

Thursday arrived far too fast. We started painting - natural straw over steel blue, and then made a quick trip to Brockport to try and be a FTF on a cache at the Seymour Library. No luck, and as it turned out, once again the posted coordinates were way off. While we were there, we checked in the Sherwood Williams Paint store for a border and ended up checking out a book to look further. No luck either there or online, though. For dinner, we ended up going to the Black North Inn, up at Point Breeze (good food!), and then over to Golden Hill State Park where we picked up one more cache - and starting looking for 2 more until we realized that it was too far through the woods to make it back in before dusk, and turned around halfway.


Friday we decided to check locally for a border, and as we were walking out of Cases, we came across 4 packages in the discount bin ($.99 each). They couldn't have been more perfect, if we had sought them out! So we went back to Brockport to return the book, and while we were there, we worked on the Oldies by Goodies challenge, which involved finding the 10 oldest caches in our area. 3 were in Northhampton Park, so we spent a few hours hiking there. Found 2/3, along with several others in the park, but by the time we finished (the day was in the 80s), I had gotten dehydrated and was in a lot of pain (hip), so when we got out of the woods, I just crashed at a picnic table and John was a sweetie and walked the last .25 mile and brought back the car and picked me up. At that point, I didn't care if I ever went geocaching again!

By Saturday, we had finished up the painting (ceiling and walls), and Gail came over to help me hang border. Here is the end result, which I am very happy with:

We rested, picked up the last items we needed in Lockport, along with 2 quick caches and that was our day.

Sunday - last day of staycation - we went to the RocGeo picnic in Durand Eastman Park. John had smoked a pork shoulder the day before, so we brought pulled pork and slider buns. Won a raffle prize of Tilley Hat puzzle solutions, and did a bunch of caches on the way home.

All in all it wasn't a bad staycation at all. Accomplished a major project at home, and did a lot of geocaching!

Staycation

On 8/17, I realized that summer was almost over and I hadn't taken a vacation. And, it turned out that my boss told me I was entitled to 5 days of comp time for my recent trip to Illinois, so I promptly took the next week off. This is what we did:
On Saturday, we went down to Allegany State Park to see Adrienne and family, and geocached the Amish Geotrail on the way down. Went to 10 caches, ended up with 10 buttons and a geocoin. We ended up spending about 45 minutes in Allegany, but that was fine. No one seemed particularly interested in us being there.Biggest caching day ever (23 caches).

Sunday, we started removing wallpaper from the kitchen, so the pink fruit and flowers are no more. We discovered the 24 caches we thought we had done yesterday were actually only 23, with one duplicate, so we got up early enough to get one before the 24 hour time frame was up (I have to get John a geocoin for 24 in 24 now). Other than that, we went over to Batavia, picked up a few there, had dinner at Applebee's and bought paint supplies.
Monday meant washing walls and finishing stripping wallpaper, and in the afternoon we went to look at some cabinets over in Spencerport. Natural oak, 16 cabinets for $1975. We passed on this deal, but left our name and number with the owner (Larry Almeter), who is a carpenter who redoes kitchens and resells the cabinets he removes at a good price. We only found one cache this day, since the just published cache that was nearby turned out not to be nearby (coordinates were wrong). We took the boys with us to Spencerport (A1 and A2), and stopped at a cemetery. Alden kept acting nutso, climbing trees, etc., and John was being grumpy and send "enough", so that was the end of that.
Tuesday, we started priming the kitchen and the boys came over and worked outside removing brush from behind the house, and spent the night after another quick trip to Batavia (where we found an alien cache), so they could get an early start the next morning.
Wednesday we all went to Byron to do a few caches down the old Westshore Railroad bed, and by the Chapel Rd. fishing hole.

Alden got to climb trees this time with impunity, and acquired the geotag of TreeBoy. Aeddon became Cryptomancer. A good time was had by all.