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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June 5, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
So i was hanging out this afternoon…planning my weekend caching area. I put together a list of caches and then decided to go scope out the area to check out parking, trail heads etc. So I was driving down Londonderry Turnpike and realized that hey, there’s a nice park and grab right over there, so i parked, and i grabbed and it was good.
Then I continued down the road and passed a cross street and said HEY, i recognize the name of that street, so i whipped down it and sure enough, mogumbo the gps beeped – so I pulled Spike the minivan over and out i got. A quick hike down the path netted me another find. This one, however was a little lost as i’m guessing the cache owner didn’t intend for it to be just sitting on the ground. SO i logged it, tucked it away in a fairly geo-obvious place. I emailed the cache owner when i got home and told him where I hid it in case I was wrong. So now, I have a nice list of caches to go find this weekend, and two spontaneous caches under my belt.
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May 30, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
Today – Steve and Jason of JaJaSt and I went a caching – it was my first caching adventure in my new BOOTS and woo hoo. I am a happy camper 
I have nice dry toesies and i didn’t slip in any of the mud and muck – woot woot. And can I just say – Lobster Roll – possibly the best, funniest cache EVER…must remember to nominate that at NH geocachers. That particular find made me smile all day long
We started out with a place for new caches – Steve already had that one but no biggie and from there, we did Lobster Roll – OMG everyone should do this cache. After that, we headed down to Salem Town Forest and did six of them there, and we saw a snake and some frogs and a turtle and lots of chimpmunks – it was a fun fun time. No DNF’s and all the finds were pretty straightforward which was pretty cool. Then, Jason needed to head home to do the friend thing, so we dropped him off and ran back down to the Winham, Salem line so I could grab the last two on the rail trail. I’d tried to do SENHRR44 last summer when out caching with the kenpo kid aka Zach but we had the wrong info and couldn’t find it. Today, SUCCESS grabbed that, along with Johnny Monkey. Have to say, though as a word of warning, we parked at the end of the trail in the parking lot where the deli and bike shop are and we were told they weren’t allowing people to use the parking lot to access the trail. Seems a bunch of hikers came in during lunch our – their busy time – and tied up 5 spaces for a few hours. Since we were there late in the afternoon, though, they decided to allow us to use the parking lot. So don’t be parking there during business hours. On our way home, Steve was like pull in here and I grabbed 50 state geocache – nevada. You know, I lived here a large portion of my life and I never ever explored that particular area…it’s beautiful.
So all in all, a great day – fun time spent with great people and kick ass caching boots
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May 28, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
well sort of. There is this one cache i’ve been wanting to get since last year. My daugher and I went for it last summer but we were using our first gps (borrowd) and I didn’t know how to use it or anything and we didnt find it. Now every day after work, I drive by this cache – it’s about .2 of a mile from my place of employment, and every time I go past I think Oh I’ve got to get that one. However life, as we all know, is challenging and I just never get to hit it during my lunch period or after school. The one time i tried after school a mum was sitting at ground zero with her two kids
So tonight after dropping the ninja’s at karate, i flew into manchester and grabbed this one. It wasn’t a big grab, it wasn’t a hard grab, but it’s done. Go me.
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May 24, 2009 by The ninja's Mom
So -Mrs. Britpitt and I had a goal today…she was going to reach her 800th cache and I was going to reach my 200th. This was my goal, I wanted to reach 200 caches before my 1 year anniversary, and I did it.
The first two caches were pretty straight forward. Mrs. Britpitt’s new GPS was being a bit persnickity but no biggie. I found the first and Princess E found the second….then came the THIRD = Cole Glee Box and the Three Fears – Too Risky.
Mrs. Bp and I plunged bravely on into the swamp – and if I’ve said this once, i’ve said this a thousand times, I need to get some boots – but i digress. We bush, we whacked and we were stymied….the gps’ were saying “go forth into the middle of the swamp and find the cache,” so we did. Only we didn’t find the cache – I did however ruin an already, perfectly disgusting pair of sneakers. Mrs. Bp kept searching in what we thought was the “perfect spot” but guess what, it wasn’t While she searched, I squished and squashed and sloshed my way to semi dry ground and decided to approach the cache from the OTHER side. And much to my glee, Mogumbo the gps was saying “Hey goofball, you’re close” So I called Mrs. Bp over and she navigated her way over the swamp via a smallish fallen tree. We both searched for a bit along with Princess E but came up empty handed. Mrs. Bp read some of the logs – and came across a clue something about a monkey tool. “Aha,” I thought. “I have no idea what that means!” But then epiphany struck and I surmised that the little bugger was stuck up in some STUPID tree. So I climbed up on a very large fallen tree that also made its way across the swamp and looked up in the nearest dead tree. I was so excited – then I found that the cache wasn’t there. *sigh*
SO I edged further out on the fallen tree OVER THE SWAMP to look in the next dead tree – and again, it wasn’t there. I turned to tell Mrs. Bp that we were SOL when I saw it….RIGHT THERE in front of my eyes. Now came the question of how to retreive the cache – it just wasn’t an easy reach and grab by any stretch of the imagination. And then, using what I like to refer to as NINJA skills garnered from 7 years of sitting at karate with the kids, I devised a plan. Actually, what I used was knowledge garnered from a Land Rocket cache I’d found a couple of weeks ago, and I got that sucker from it’s hiding place.
Mrs. Bp followed me out to my perch and signed the log for both of us. See smart lady that she is, she was on a much lower tree that was next to the one I was on. I, however was frozen in place – one false step would have sent me toppling into the icky gross swampy water and ewww, who wants to go there, right? Anyhow, then Princess E signed the log, we packed up the cache and using the same said ninja skills, I returned the cache to it’s hiding place.
Of course as soon as I got home, I had to dash off an email to the Haveroods – the diabolical cache owners to find out HOW they managed to hide it the way they did. It is truly a feat of caching genius, so kudos to the Haveroods for the incredible hide and kudos to us for finding it!
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