Sunday's photo: My spiffy new Geocache!
Apr. 14th, 2014 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenchurchSo, unlike last week, I'm actually getting around to posting Sunday's photo today... and not waiting another week!
When we first bought this house, when the deal was done and we were still a few weeks away from taking possession and moving in, I drove out here one day and did some coordinates averaging out in front of the house at a spot I thought would be a good one for a Geocache and started building a page for it out on the site. To some extent, I was trying to make sure no one would put in a new cache too nearby during the weeks before we moved in (since caches have to be a minimum of 1/10th of a mile apart and there's a wild area next to our lot that some people might think is public property (we actually co-own it with two other families).
Since then, we've been trying to put everything together to build the cache we really want. Something that will be obvious to Geocachers (so they won't tear apart the yard or even feel the need to go into the yard), but still not stand out too much for non-cachers so hopefully no one who shouldn't be finding it will disturb it. Well, yesterday was finally the day. The cache was done, the cache page was done and I hit publish on that sucker.
I name all of my Geocaches after books and usually will put a copy of the book in the cache (or give an Amazon gift certificate, if the cache is too small) so the first to find (FTF) can buy their own copy. Since this one is out in front of the house, I chose to name it after my favorite book... The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. Instead of the book, I put one of the limited edition Free Luna Geocoins in it (rackham designed and made the coins for my birthday a few years ago, including a run of 20 exclusive "artist edition" ones that are a different type of metal and have some different colors, and that's what the FTF got this time).
We got the notification that the cache was published... and then we waited. And waited. And waited. About two hours later(!!!), someone finally pulled up out front! We waved at them out the window and headed down to chat... since it was someone we'd met before (at FTF runs we'd gone on and at a few Geocaching events), only to see another car pull up behind them... with another cacher we knew. The first cachers had already made the find by that point, and yet another car pulled up, followed quickly by a fourth! So funny! Nobody for two hours and then in the space of five minutes, four Geocachers at once! And all people we'd met before.
Anyway, on to Sunday's photo... it's a Geocache! I'm thinking of making a post about the making of the cache, too, since I took photos of the process along the way. We went with a nice thematic approach on this one, to match the cache name.
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
When we first bought this house, when the deal was done and we were still a few weeks away from taking possession and moving in, I drove out here one day and did some coordinates averaging out in front of the house at a spot I thought would be a good one for a Geocache and started building a page for it out on the site. To some extent, I was trying to make sure no one would put in a new cache too nearby during the weeks before we moved in (since caches have to be a minimum of 1/10th of a mile apart and there's a wild area next to our lot that some people might think is public property (we actually co-own it with two other families).
Since then, we've been trying to put everything together to build the cache we really want. Something that will be obvious to Geocachers (so they won't tear apart the yard or even feel the need to go into the yard), but still not stand out too much for non-cachers so hopefully no one who shouldn't be finding it will disturb it. Well, yesterday was finally the day. The cache was done, the cache page was done and I hit publish on that sucker.
I name all of my Geocaches after books and usually will put a copy of the book in the cache (or give an Amazon gift certificate, if the cache is too small) so the first to find (FTF) can buy their own copy. Since this one is out in front of the house, I chose to name it after my favorite book... The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. Instead of the book, I put one of the limited edition Free Luna Geocoins in it (
rackham designed and made the coins for my birthday a few years ago, including a run of 20 exclusive "artist edition" ones that are a different type of metal and have some different colors, and that's what the FTF got this time).We got the notification that the cache was published... and then we waited. And waited. And waited. About two hours later(!!!), someone finally pulled up out front! We waved at them out the window and headed down to chat... since it was someone we'd met before (at FTF runs we'd gone on and at a few Geocaching events), only to see another car pull up behind them... with another cacher we knew. The first cachers had already made the find by that point, and yet another car pulled up, followed quickly by a fourth! So funny! Nobody for two hours and then in the space of five minutes, four Geocachers at once! And all people we'd met before.
Anyway, on to Sunday's photo... it's a Geocache! I'm thinking of making a post about the making of the cache, too, since I took photos of the process along the way. We went with a nice thematic approach on this one, to match the cache name.
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
