This isn't funny...

It still gave me a giggle.

http://www.900chml.com/Channels/Reg/NewsLocalGeneral/Story.aspx?ID=1003929

http://www.900chml.com/Pics/Channels/1197/Thumbnail/geocache.jpg

Geocaching game gets blame for calling out of bomb squad
Jay McQueen
4/10/2008

Police say a suspicious package found behind Costco and Home Depot thought to be a bomb, was actually part of a game.

A store employee called police yesterday morning after finding a cylindrical device with a wire attached to it hanging from a tree behind the Meadowlands Power Centre.

The Emergency Response Unit and bomb squad were sent to the scene and determined the device was actually part of a worldwide game for GPS users called Geocaching. Players seek out the device using their GPS units and then sign a piece of paper with a pencil, which were contained inside the tube.

Police say there was nothing illegal done but are asking Geocachers to notify property owners if they plan on placing these packages on private property to avoid tying up police resources and causing undue distress.

The package was placed in the tree on January 13th and police say the paper inside had been signed by 38 people.

I went to another card making party on Sunday afternoon with Michelle. The host is a stampin' up rep in the area. This was the third or fourth party now, that I've gone to. I really have fun going.

Anyway we made 4 cards, and I bought some stuff. I bought the earth elements sample pack of 8.5 x 11 paper, a chocolate chip stamp pad, and some watercolor pencils and blender pens.

I took today off, because Wednesday's are Luc's day off, so it's fun to have a day together.

I actually had him out geocaching with me. YEA!

I had a list of nine to look for today, but he had to run into work for a bit, which of course took way longer than it was supposed to. We ended up looking for two.

Up in around Russell Lake in Dartmouth, there is a series of caches called the turtle series, set up by a cacher called durango0072.

They are little green turtles about 10 inches wide, where you screw off the back and there is a treasure inside.

We found this one... Turtle Pond

We looked for this one, but we ran out of time before we had to head home. Turtle Brook

On an un-geocaching note, we fired up the barbecue for the first time tonight. Yummy. We had chicken, potato and greek salad.

Then Luc and I went to Walmart and bought one of these.

And we are going to put it here...

It's kind of hard to see, but there is a gazebo frame on the lower deck. Apparently Luc is going to build a 5 foot wall with a one foot lattice, and a roof around the spa.

I think it will be pretty neat when it's done.

I guess, we'll have to put the friends that ask too many questions, some where else. LOL.

This is a project from Environment Canada involving schools and geocachers. Spreading information about the local watersheds. The objective is to get local high school students to gather information about the local watersheds, and pass that information off to the local geocachers through hiding caches.

http://www.ec.gc.ca/geocache/default.asp?lang=En&n=E923094B-1

Here is a local geocache with regards to this project.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=aec87a82-2dd5-4dd2-987e-3baafd2a2c8e

This geocache was set up by students from Sackville High School.

Here is some information about watersheds.


http://www.ec.gc.ca/geocache/default.asp?lang=En&n=065E5744-1

Off to send an email off to Courtney’s high school. I'd love to see our local high school get involved with this.