Just Another Day...

I seriously, should post more.

I just always get sidetracked, or something.

The neighbor kid is screaming again. Always screaming, a hours of the day and the night.

I woke up today to find a Hydra Munzee sitting on one of our Munzees in the park across the street. Munzee? It's a game to play with your smart phone. It is six years old so, no, it isn't like Pokémon - Pokémon is sort of like it. Pokémon is ALL virtual. Munzee has physical game pieces that are QR codes. Here are some that can be scanned from anywhere. Normally, you need to be at the location of the Munzee and be able to scan it with your phone. These three have no "location" attached to them.

Our 2nd Social Munzee

Our Referral Code

Our 1st Social Munzee

Hydras, Unicorns, Leprechauns, Dragons, Fauns, Yetis and Pegasus' are Virtual Mythicals creatures that "bounce" from Munzee to Munzee. All but, the Pegasus do this on the physical GREENIES (regular Munzees). They land and stay for up to 12 hours or until the Munzee is scanned. You get 100 points for scanning the mythicals. You get points for scanning all Munzees. You get badges, You get outdoors and you get exercise! 

Yesterday I used a new item called "Magnetize". I was gifted one for free, you activate it on a Greenie Munzee and wait. Within the next hour, you can capture up to THREE of the Mythicals and the Magnet "calls them to the magnetized Munzee". That was cool and it got me within reach of our Clan War level 2 goal for the month. 

On our way home from Idaho (we drove there to watch the Solar Eclipse) as we were flying down the 15 at about 80MPH, I grabbed a Pegasus! They land on Virtual Munzee. A Virtual Munzee is just that. It shows on the phone screen but has no physical QR code to scan. I was VERY lucky as my phone had been charging and I just happened to turn it on and WOW! a Pegasus was less than 3,000 feet away... wait for it - 300 feet - TAP the capture and YES! I got it!! Lucky - very lucky. Then I captured more virtual Munzee for the next hour or so. 80MPH is VERY difficult. 

Go to Munzee.com for more information OR scan that referral code and get the app! 

Get outside! Have fun.

Julie & Julia - Why can't I blog every day?

So I finally saw the movie. wish I had known about the blog. I have Julia's cookbook. It is large and VERY heavy. I used to watch the TV show. I learned many things from that show. I always wished I had a kitchen like Julia's.I still do not have a copper bowl to whisk my egg whites.

As for followers to my blog, I doubt that I have any viewers or readers other than those who visit the blog through Waymarking.com so I know where Julie was coming from. I would be shocked and delighted to learn that someone actually reads this.

I should commit myself to blog daily. I geocache daily so why can't I blog? Mostly because I don't have anything "interesting to blog about" on a daily basis. I don't do anything interesting. I get up every day, walk the dog, get my daughter to school, find a cache or maybe two and come home. I do some house work (which is boring) read email and play games on FaceBook. Pick up my daughter and find something to make for dinner on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. None of that is "interesting".

My daughter and I monitor Western Bluebird Nesting boxes in O'Neill Regional Park and I have a few boxes in three parks near home. It has been a strange year.  Our best box in O'Neill has fledged 4 chicks already and today when I checked, Momma is sitting on 5 new eggs!  

Our box by the creek has momma and 5 eggs as well. I am worried about that one as I think they SHOULD have hatched by now. Her first clutch died and we don't know why.

 

Our box in Monte Vista fledged at least 4 chicks and they too have another five eggs as of yesterday.  AND the box I hung from the eaves of our HOUSE has a nest in it too! Sometime between last Tuesday and yesterday, they little birds built a nest! The female was sitting on the box yesterday when we were leaving for school. She had her beak FULL of grass. My husband saw the male on the bird house when he was leaving for work.

We placed a new geacache in honor or memory of the TEN trees (and that box location) that were removed last November to make way for a NEW Park Monument sign. I made it a Multi Cache with in the field puzzles. "For Ten Trees" http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5WBAZ_for-ten-trees?guid=ab5fa02c-3a29-491b-8dc9-77beef010d61  I am very happy with the fishing leader that I used for the final as it is nearly invisible!  I also like having a cache so close to home. If another cacher has trouble, I am usually home and can go help them if they need help.

I have had some cachers comment that they wouldn't have figured out this "puzzle" with out a hint form myself or a fellow cacher who had already firgured it out. It makes perfect sense to me. But, I was the one who came up with it. I don't mean for this cache to be difficult, I just want to point out the corner where TEN trees were cut down so that the City could have a "Landscape Enhancement" for the park.

I will try to blog more regularly.  I continue to wonder how blogs get discovered and then become popular.

Until next time - watch for the bluebirds and cache on.

RFL RSM 2014

This year Relay was early.  Moved up from July to avoid the heat?  And what do we get but, REALLY warm California Spring weather!  

Anyway, It was fun.  Honoring and remembering those had and have cancer.  My team Rancho Viejo School, was amazing as always.  At least a half dozen of the kids walked a marathon in HONOR of Kabrina a classmate we lost almost two years ago to leukemia.  I was 4.2 miles short.  If I'd stayed the night, I could have done it too.   

Anyone who wants to donate still can through my Relay Donation Page Relay For Life of Rancho Santa Margarita (Team Rancho Viejo School)   The link will last for a few months, maybe until August 2014.  I am very proud of one of our team members.  She raised nearly $1,000 !!!  

My family and I have added Munzee to our list of activities.  It goes hand-in-hand with Geocaching and Waymarking as many geocaches have Munzees near them.  I went to Central park on Friday, the day before Relay to look around.  I wanted to know how early they set up.  I was there around 9am on Friday.  I stopped at three benches on the far side of the course.  I added a Munzee.  RFL 2014 for Kabrina   If you click the "notes" tab, there is more: "a bench between two others. Foxhound & I have participated in Relay For Life for about 6 or 7 years. This year will mark the 2nd that we have done without Kabrina. She was the reason for our team "Rancho viejo School". This bench is along the (back side) loop that the relay follows.."

The new corner median at Buena Suerte and La Miranda was complete so the road was open but, the sidewalk in the park was still taped off with yellow tape.  Two guys from SAMLARC were there and I asked "what about Relay?" They told me that "no problem theses guys will have it done, they are fast"  Then I asked them about a co-worker and bluebirds.  I had not seen any at Central Park, yet.  And I know there are no nesting boxes there.  I showed them a picture of one of the boxes we have and Monte Vista Park.  

I told them about Easter Grass.  

They had to catch up to the other "inspection" people they were with.   

I continued around the course.  

Just as I cleared the Hockey Rink, on the grass under the palm trees, was the brightest BLUE male bluebird!  I stopped.  I watched.  He flew straight up to the base of where the fronds had been cut and ducked into a little gap there!  A NATURAL Cavity!!! I placed another Munzee.  BLUEBIRD TREE    

It turns out there is also a connection to Bluebirds with Kabrina.  At her house there had never been bluebirds til after she passed away.  Now, her mom sees them in the yard.  Karina is watching over them,  She is watching over all of us for/at Relay!

My daughter and I came to Relay on Saturday at about noon.  We'd been to our monthly Bluebird Club Meeting.  We'd found and placed some Munzees between the meeting and Relay.  We walked through out the day.  We did the Luminari Lap. 

A very special and emotion lap at about 9pm (the halfway mark)  The entire path is lined with Luminaries dedicated to loved ones. 

  

We walked until about 11pm then went home while others stayed through the night.  

I returned the next morning at 6am.  I was joined by some of the members of the team.  It was about 7:30am on the far side near Kabrina's Bench when we saw a bright yellow bird with a red head.  I pointed it out to the two others I was walking with.  A Western Tanager!  I was too slow with my phone/camera and he flew up into the trees.  I walked several more laps in hopes of seeing him again.  But, he was hiding in the trees.  

Another Relay in the books.