September 7, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
I’ve not cached lately – between being broken (I see surgery in my future), things to do with the kids, and incredibly hot weather, I just haven’t been able to get out there.
Today however, I hooked up with The King, and JaJaSt and we placed not one, not two, but three caches today. I cannot comment on caches belonging to others – that would be wrong, but I hope people will find mine fun. It’s called Tarot Quest – The Adventure Begins.
Anybody can find and log the cache, but in the cache is a deck of tarot cards. If you wish to take the challenge, you reach into the bag, pull out a card – the first card you grab is the card you get – and use it to hide a cache. In your cache you need to include the card – of course, Call it Tarot Quest – and the name of your card, and in your cache description, include the meaning of the card.
On Tarot Quest – The Adventure Begins, I included a history of tarot cards. I hope people have fun with this, and enjoy the story that Momma Queen and I came up with to start this adventure.
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July 26, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
Impromptu caching on Saturday and it was fun – except for the part where I some how have hurt my back. I swear, I had a birthday last week and now i’m offically old and decrepit. ANYHOW…one of the ninjas came along as did one of the young queens and Sasha – who shall now and forever be known as the beastie from hell – more on that later.
We (St of Jajast, The King of 4 queens and a king, and myself) headed out toward Lake Massabesic, grabbing a couple of caches on our way. Okay one of them is one I’d searched for 3 other times…For some strange reason, my GPS brought me over to the WRONG side of the trail each and every time. I’m all for expanding my search, but not to the other side of the trail, lol. Anyhow, cache was found and off we went.
It was a nice albeit buggy day, and we had fun – ST and the King went after a couple of caches I already had so I kept my Ninja daughter and the young Queen and Sasha the hell beasie with me while they went after the caches. Unfortunately at one point on the trail, we met a nice person walking on the trail with his own hell beasties. After a lot of barking, snarling and baring of teeth, we got Sasha away and continued on down the trail. Abbie the Ninja and Queen C. decided to walk down to the lake whilst I hung out with Sasha. Well the hell beastie didn’t like the girls going the 30 feet down the trail without her, and she went ballistic and knocked the Ninja’s mom on her @$$. Yes, that’s right, I landed right on my tushie. Normally, I would have laughed hysterically, but since my back was already broken, I was not pleased. However, now Ms. Sasha and I understand each other and she will NOT be doing that again.
A few more caches and we decided to tackle the Auburn Stairs. I crapped out almos to GZ and had to stop – my sweet Ninja girl hung with me, while Queen C tackled the trip with her dad the King and ST. Shortly, Queen C decided to bring Sasha with her and come back and sit with us. Sasha the hell beastie felt that Queen C wasn’t going fast enough and felt that she needed to pull the poor mite down the trail. After ensuring that Queen C wasn’t injured except for her dignity, I proceeded to have another chat with Sasha the hell beastie, and I think we understand each other now.
Back down the trail, we bumped into hydragyrum and mrs. hydragyrum. While they all chatted, Ninja Abbie, Queen C and I retired lakeside so that Ninja Abbie could take some pictures. I’ll post some as soon as we get them developed. One final cache and it was time to head home to rest the ouchie back and cook dinner for the hungry Ninja and her Ninja brother who stayed home to practice his playstation skills.
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July 19, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
Our caching adventure begins last night around 9:00 p.m. when The King sent me a text saying that caching would commence at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday – yes – that’s six in the MORNING folks. A time when the Ninja’s mom is either sleeping or sitting on the sofa clutching a cup of tea and muttering to herself. It seems as though ST of jajast had a conflict and in order for us to cache together it was going to have to be at the god-aweful unholy hour early in the morning. Mind you – it’s my birthday folks and the last thing I want to do on the only day of the week I get to sleep late is NOT sleep late, but i’m nothing if not a team player, so i was there! Sadly, so were the mosquitos
We started out doing The Captain’s Triangle which is a mystery cache – my least favorite type of cache. Amazingly, it went very well, and I scared amazed The King and and St with my ability to find the graves in question. However, I couldn’t find the cache – okay I walked past it twice – hey, there were bugs there – and a slug- eww.
From there we did Old Oak Letter Box hybrid and that was cool – of course my caching companions had NO sense of whimsy and were quick to identify the foundation of an old silo and didn’t appreciate my saying it COULD have been a fire pit for a giant – party poopers.
Then it was down to Windham to cache and that’s when the adventures began. After three VERY nice happy friendly SAFE caches it was onto cachapooloza lol. There were bridges to cross – there were snakes, there was a forest that had recently experienced a fire, and then thee was THE CLIFF – they said it was only about 60 ft above the surface of the water, but I’m telling you, that sucker was higher than Mt. Everest. STeve found the cache and earned the title King of caching in my mind then we bushwhacked to the next cache because “We don’t need no stinking trails!” From there it was an okay walk back Spike the minivan….and then we drove and drove and drove to find the gas saver cache. However, we persevered and found it and headed home.
From there, I hooked up with Mrs. Britpitt and we headed down to Massachusetts to find a mystery cache that – are you ready for this – I solved. Go Ninja’s Mom woot woot. First we found another cache then journyed on our way to the mystery cache and woo hoo – go me, i got it right!!!!!! Mark this down Team Kenpo – I solved a mystery. From there we headed home but grabbed a quick park and grab on our way.
All in all it was a fantastic way to celebrate my birthday – hanging with good friends doing something that I really enjoy.
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July 12, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
But I can’t blog about it yet because part of that cachiness involves a surprise that won’t made public until tomorrow.
Okay it’s way later than tomorrow…it’s a week later lol – but here goes. Congrats to Britpitts for reaching 1000 caches. Jajast, 4 queens and a king and myself put out a cache to honor this awesome achievement.
We did caching clean up for the King today – found a couple but couldn’t find Salme Dreams. If anybody has foudn this – please drop me a line…I could use a hint.
We also found:
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July 6, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
and it was good. Today, Mrs. Britpitt and ST of jajast and I went out on our delayed caching adventure. We were supposed to go out last week and cache in Candia, but i was broken and felt it best to delay. So we went out today and to a different place – cause i’m really still kind of broken. We did a bunch of caches in Epping and today was my most caches found in one day – not a ton, only 16, but for me, it’s a goodly amount and for me broken – it’s an AWESOME amount.
Anyhow, a fun time was had by all, especially those pesky mosquitos – they were EVERYWHERE . *mental note* buy more bugspray
Very cool too – because I did cache maintence this weekend, i was all organized and prepared. ONe of the caches we happend upon had a very very soggy log – i was able to put in a nice dry log sheet in a new little bag, and a nano we found had a log that was completely filled up, and can you believe it, I actually had a spare nano log in my bag so we popped it in, and I kept the old one and emailed the owners – I can mail it to them if they’d like.
Tonight, when I dropped the ninjas at karate, I ran down to grab the cache 4 queens and a king put out for princ3ss and Chief KJB. I really think King Arnold needs to remember that not ALL of us are equal to him when it comes to height. I thought i was going to have to phone a friend to put the freaking thing BACK.
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July 4, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
Since I’m still kinda broken from my fall last week, I decided this would be a good weekend to do some cache maintenance. Steve of Jajast came with to help me in my task – and to log the caches he didn’t have yet. Good thing I went. Orange Belt was nearly inaccesible because of the ice storm, but we grabbed it and rehung it in the same tree, but on the back side of it. Also, the hanger was broken…we made a temporary fix, but I’ll have to replace it tomorrow.
Black belt is all well and good as are the first two stages of brown belt. Steve wasn’t able to locate the final stage of brown and i’m too broken to make the climb up to it 
But as it was found just about a month ago I’m going to assume that it’s okay – however if anybody wants to go looking for it – i”ll be super duper happy.
First stage of Green/green stripe is gone which sucks, so i temporarily disabled it and I’ll head to wal-mart tomorrow to get a new thingy for it.
Purple Belt’s container needs replacing as does the magnetic key holder for yellow belt.
It’s looking to be a costly weekend
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June 28, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
I’m almost to tired to write this… started out this morning running over to JAJAST’s house to explain the mysteries of gsak – talk about the blind leading the blind lol. Halfway to his house, i get a text from the king requesting my presence at his house for assistance. As majikal a ninja mom as I am, I CANNOT be in two places at once. So I grabbed the king, and brought him with me to Jajast’s house forever known now as puppy central. We got gsak working for Steve, convinced Hydra that now was a great time to go caching, loaded up Spike the minivan and away we went. Detour 1 – stop at the store for snacks. Detour 2 stop at Hydra’s house to show HIM how to use gsak and grab his gps. Okay NOW we’re ready to go. Man it was a busy day and we hadn’t even found a single cache yet.
Anyhow…back to the adventure – first couple of finds – no problem at all we came we saw we cached. Hydra has a kick ass oregon gps like the King and Mrs. Britpitt and he’s working on honing his geoskills – but all was well. THEN it happened – I took one little leap over a brook and my stupid knee decided that it really wanted no part in allowing me to remain in an upright position and bam, down i went. But did that stop us caching for the day – heck no. Jajast, The King and Hydra just dragged my limping, broken, battered body along behind them.
All and all, we found 12 caches ST of Jajast and The King have effectively cleared the Sandown Town Forest. I however haven’t and I will be back.
Sadly though, St and I and Mrs. Britpitt were SUPPOSED to go caching tomorrow, but the fact that I can’t really WALK right now. That’s really putting a damper on our plans to cache together every monday. Hopefully we can start next week when i’m NOT as broken. Feel free to send sympathy c/o 2ninjasandmom at gmail dot com lol
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June 21, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
So there I was, minding my own business tonight when the phone rang, and it was the King of 4 queens and a king, wanting to know what I was doing? After the traditional wise ass answer of “Oh, talking to you,” I asked what he was up to and he said – going back after grundlage – wanna come. Well YEAH of course I did. So I jumped into Spike the minivan and met The King, ST of jajast and a new caching buddy Hydra over at Beaver Lake Boat Launch. We jumped into the king’s chariot and took off. After a brief albeit INTERESTING ride, we pulled in in front of the nice mailboxes mentioned in my previous log post. Can I just say there are WAY too many slugs in this area…ewwww. Anyhow The king found the cache and we headed home, but you much like potatoe chips and not being able to eat just one, we stopped and grabbed another cache – but I have NO idea what it is…so I’ll wait for King Arnold to get back to me and i’ll update the blog later on
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June 21, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
The best laid caching plans of mice and men and all that – blah blah blah. Steve of Jajast and Arnold of 4 Queens and a King and I made caching plans for Saturday. Mama Queen even took custody of one of the ninja twins for a day at Beaver Lake with the other little queens whilst the other ninja twin stayed home and recovered from his cold and did his guitar and keyboard thing, so I had a caching day all to myself.
I downloaded a PQ, and I went in to gsak (which I have just started really using) and created a filter for the caches we were searching for and put them in mogumbo the gps. All good, right – WRONG.
Dropped off a ninja, picked up a king and grabbed an St and off we went to the Sandown Town Forest. Stopped to grab Bounce for Arnold and Steve and then we grabbed another one just down the road before heading on our way. Here is where the difficulties started. I didn’t have that extra cache in mogumbo – no biggie because King Arnold has EVERYTHING in his new Oregon – and I do mean EVERYTHING. So there we were, right ON the turn we needed to take when my erstwhile navigator decides to tell me that it’s the turn that I wanted. Well I MADE the turn, so what if it was on two wheels lol – Spike the minivan rocks!
Grabbed the cache and went on our way to STF only to find that NONE of the caches were in mogumbo. I obviously screwed up No worries though, because as I said, King Arnold has EVERYTHING in his Oregon lol. All went very well, and we cached merrily along, though I was sad to find out my new boots were NOT as waterproof as I thought they were – Tracie is very sad about this – but no matter. We cached along happily, until we came to grundlage. We searched and searched and searched and searched – and I KNOW we were right there but we just couldn’t find it. the king and St decided that i should be the one to email plumb69 and beg for a clue, lol.
Spent a little time talking to a guy across from the invisible grundlage for a bit – he was curious about the car that parked by his mailbox all the time and they guys going into the woods staring at something in their hands. So we promptly explained the whole geocaching concept and headed on our merry way back to Spike the mini van.
On our way home, we grabbed a couple of more caches – none of which were in mogumbo, but at the first one, that didn’t stop me. Arnold told me where to park, I got out of the car and while he and Steve were fumbling for their GPS’s I walked to the cache, grabbed it and handed it to them. Most definately my rock star moment of the day lol – and it wasn’t even a lame guardrail cache. Totally made up for my squealing like a girl when i touched the slug. From there we grabbed one more at a nearby park and ride and headed home.
Then I sat down with geocaching.com and gsak and figured out what I did wrong. My queries didn’t extend far enough to get all of the Sandown Town Forest. That’s all fixed now. Go me! And I worked on creating a very cool filter. I’m not a mystery cache fan, I want them in GSAK, but not taking up room in mogumbo – he has no slot for a memory card so I created a mystery free cache.
So while I was caching blind yesterday, it didn’t matter – good fun with good friends is what it’s all about for me. And as always, because I am too lazy to list all the caches, here is the info copied and pasted from geocaching.com. Oh and before I forget, I nominated Lobster Roll for granite state geocachers cache of the month. Go vote for it…it’s the cutest hide ever.
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June 7, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
It was a bad caching day for Tracie I seriously couldn’t find ANYTHING today. Well not quite true. I found a fox, and a snake, and a turkey and a really big black dog and two caches, but other than that – bupkis. I just wasn’t into it today, I guess. ON the plus side, it was an opportunity to get out, do some hiking and listen to some tunes. AND, I got my headset to work with my cell phone, so the weekend wasn’t a complete loss. Plus – since I couldn’t find next to anything today, that means I still have all of Massabesic to explore. Maybe I can get Steve of jajast to explore with me. Mrs. Britpitt has already exhausted this area, and King Arnold has his whole ZONE thing going on, lol. So it’ll either be me and the ipod, or Steve when he’s around.
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