Hay everybody,
The family and I are off to Disney World on thursday. This will be the kids first time there. Please pray for safe travel and good weather. We have put a lot of planning and money into this trip. I will let you all know how it goes!!
Love
angie
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Sunday's Geocache 1-28-07
Here is the result of today's Geocaching. I wasn't going to go out because it was only about 38 degrees and misting and snowing. But finished up some other stuff I wanted to do by noon so I headed out. All three of these are ones John and I attempted last summer. Jody share this with John see if he remembers looking for them
I am up to 21 finds so it is time to hide another one. I am going to make a library cache. I will stock it with some paper backs and ask people to bring a book to exchange. I am going to try and find an amo box for it.
So far I have found 10 and missed 3 within 3 miles of the Apartment. There are19 more within 5 miles of the apartment.
I will post this and future Geocaching activities to the blog site so if your interested you can look there:
Van Bibber Park and Cache
This is a cache my grandson and I looked for at the beginning of summer when he was here for a visit. I had just received the GPS for a father's day present and was new to Geo-caching. We didn't find it then. Got it today. Left a orange sponge ball. I also picked up a whole sack of aluminum cans including 3 beers that had never been opened.
John, This one was at the park and ride. It was hidden inside one of the lamp post. We didn’t find it before, I wasn’t expecting it to be in the lamp post thought it should be under one of the trees.
Bush River Bonanza in the Estuary center
John, remember the Estuary Center? We parked at the center and took the trail back. This time I parked on the corner of 40 and Otter Point road. Walked down 40 until GPS said I was parallel with the cache. Then walked in, up and down the hills a little but pretty much walked right to it. I left a sponge soccer ball I found in the Park and Ride lot at the last cache.
C&D Bamboometric
This is the one that was at the end of a dead on street just before I-95. It was a magnetic cache. We looked on all of the signs and there was a fence with a bunch of metal post. I looked inside several of them and found it. It was a magnetic key holder. I left a Penney
I am up to 21 finds so it is time to hide another one. I am going to make a library cache. I will stock it with some paper backs and ask people to bring a book to exchange. I am going to try and find an amo box for it.
So far I have found 10 and missed 3 within 3 miles of the Apartment. There are19 more within 5 miles of the apartment.
I will post this and future Geocaching activities to the blog site so if your interested you can look there:
Van Bibber Park and Cache
This is a cache my grandson and I looked for at the beginning of summer when he was here for a visit. I had just received the GPS for a father's day present and was new to Geo-caching. We didn't find it then. Got it today. Left a orange sponge ball. I also picked up a whole sack of aluminum cans including 3 beers that had never been opened.
John, This one was at the park and ride. It was hidden inside one of the lamp post. We didn’t find it before, I wasn’t expecting it to be in the lamp post thought it should be under one of the trees.
Bush River Bonanza in the Estuary center
John, remember the Estuary Center? We parked at the center and took the trail back. This time I parked on the corner of 40 and Otter Point road. Walked down 40 until GPS said I was parallel with the cache. Then walked in, up and down the hills a little but pretty much walked right to it. I left a sponge soccer ball I found in the Park and Ride lot at the last cache.
C&D Bamboometric
This is the one that was at the end of a dead on street just before I-95. It was a magnetic cache. We looked on all of the signs and there was a fence with a bunch of metal post. I looked inside several of them and found it. It was a magnetic key holder. I left a Penney
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Geocaching
I was 1 out of 2 today. I didn't find Blisterine but did find "Get to the Bottom of This. It was a small Tupperware that was full of ice. I broke the log book out of the ice and it was surprisingly in good shape. I left a red ball in the cache. On my way to the cache I passed this area that had all kinds of stuff. Suitcase, bags, coats, caps, BBQ grill, tubs, pocket watch, big mug, toothpaste, deodorant and more. I brought a tub, suitcase, a bag, cap and the watch back with me threw out the suitcase even though it was in pretty good shape I didn't know how to clean it up. I will look at the other stuff tomorrow see what is worth keeping and what I should pitch. Of course I picked up a bag of cans too. I found a bag and case from the first cache too. I also saw a toilet in route to both caches. I seem to see a lot of those.
I thought of a new idea. Posting the coordinates of the historical markers on the road. MD has lots of them and I have taken a picture of a lot them although I think I lost a bunch on one of the 1 time use cameras I was using that couldn't be developed. I took pictures of two today and marked the coordinates.
There is a site: http://www.waymarking.com/ you can post the coordinates for most anything. It is arranged in categories and subcategories but you have to be a premium member to create your own categories. There is a "Signs" category and I suggested a historical marker sub-subcategory. Well see if anybody starts it.
There is also http://www.waypoint.org/ that just collects way-points. I have added a bunch to that before maybe I will add the signs to it.
Here is the kind of sign I am talking about:
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Picture
You can modify the site's template to include a picture reference but I don't know what you mean by "slider box". When I modify my blog it doesn't really give me a place for uploading a picture. Can you take a screen shot with [Alt]+[Print Scrn] and upload that?
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Followup - Microwaving Sponges
Our fellow Americans, running wild with unlicensed particle acclerators (microwaves), limited science education and internet news items.
A team at the University of Florida found that two minutes in the microwave at full power could kill a range of bacteria, viruses and parasites on kitchen sponges.
They described how they soaked the sponges in wastewater and then zapped them. But several experimenters evidently left out the crucial step of wetting the sponge.
"Just wanted you to know that your article on microwaving sponges and scrubbers aroused my interest. However, when I put my sponge/scrubber into the microwave, it caught fire, smoked up the house, ruined my microwave, and pissed me off," one correspondent wrote in an e-mail to Reuters.
"First, the sponge is worthless afterwards so you have to throw it out instead of using it. And second your entire house stinks like a burning tire for several hours, even with windows/doors open," complained another.
Aaron Hoover, a press officer at the University of Florida, said several other news organizations received similar complaints, although no one had complained directly to the university.
"We figured, 'wow, we better let people know right away that the sponge should be wet,"' Hoover said in a telephone interview.
A team at the University of Florida found that two minutes in the microwave at full power could kill a range of bacteria, viruses and parasites on kitchen sponges.
They described how they soaked the sponges in wastewater and then zapped them. But several experimenters evidently left out the crucial step of wetting the sponge.
"Just wanted you to know that your article on microwaving sponges and scrubbers aroused my interest. However, when I put my sponge/scrubber into the microwave, it caught fire, smoked up the house, ruined my microwave, and pissed me off," one correspondent wrote in an e-mail to Reuters.
"First, the sponge is worthless afterwards so you have to throw it out instead of using it. And second your entire house stinks like a burning tire for several hours, even with windows/doors open," complained another.
Aaron Hoover, a press officer at the University of Florida, said several other news organizations received similar complaints, although no one had complained directly to the university.
"We figured, 'wow, we better let people know right away that the sponge should be wet,"' Hoover said in a telephone interview.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Microwave zaps germs on sponges, study finds
Ha! Your daughters (well, two of them) laughed at me when I did this.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/germs_sponges_dc
Two minutes in a microwave oven can sterilize most household sponges, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/germs_sponges_dc
Two minutes in a microwave oven can sterilize most household sponges, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
A team of engineering researchers at the University of Florida found that two minutes of microwaving on full power killed or inactivated more than 99 percent of bacteria, viruses or parasites, as well as spores, on a kitchen sponge.
Still playing with Blogging
Okay now I logged back in and saw the "New Post" button. I have added comments to both Angie and Lon's post but don't see them yet. I will check in later to see if they are there. I would like to rename this Blog to something like "Bennett Family Blog" but don't see how. Any suggestions?
Okay changed name. Need to click on "comment" to see comments to each post.
Well what do you think can we get the others active with the Blog?
Dad
Okay changed name. Need to click on "comment" to see comments to each post.
Well what do you think can we get the others active with the Blog?
Dad
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Hello I am here
Hay,
I have never blogged befor. I am not sure what I am doing. Is this something only our family is going to see? Did you invite family for other states (Ill., Colorado)? What is the book club? Are you and Terry reading the same book and then discussing it? Can I join? How far are the two of you in the book?
I have never blogged befor. I am not sure what I am doing. Is this something only our family is going to see? Did you invite family for other states (Ill., Colorado)? What is the book club? Are you and Terry reading the same book and then discussing it? Can I join? How far are the two of you in the book?
Book Club - Field Notes From A Catastrophe
Right now the book club we are in (T and some of her friends, I read the books too so I got invited along) is reading Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elisabeth Kolbert.
T has the printed book and I got the audiobook from the library; going to try listening to it on my walks. Audiobooks are nice because you can do other stuff while you listen to them, but they are slower too (I read pretty fast).
(addendum 1/25)
Listening to the book - it's a set of observations by Kolbert from visiting various locations in the world affected by global warming, the history of man's recognition of global warming and some of the science behind it.
So far I'm enjoying it because it's got science without being obssessed with details and it's a narrative without too much of the look-at-the-cool-people-I-hang-out-with that drug down The World Is Flat.
Plus, it's short - 200 pages inc. footnotes, probably 180-190 for the book itself.
T has the printed book and I got the audiobook from the library; going to try listening to it on my walks. Audiobooks are nice because you can do other stuff while you listen to them, but they are slower too (I read pretty fast).
(addendum 1/25)
Listening to the book - it's a set of observations by Kolbert from visiting various locations in the world affected by global warming, the history of man's recognition of global warming and some of the science behind it.
So far I'm enjoying it because it's got science without being obssessed with details and it's a narrative without too much of the look-at-the-cool-people-I-hang-out-with that drug down The World Is Flat.
Plus, it's short - 200 pages inc. footnotes, probably 180-190 for the book itself.
Add a picture
Just putting a picture in this post. Think I will make this my new wallpaper for awhile. Going to publish then view to see if I can download the picture.
My Family blog site
Setting up this blog site. Got to go now but when I come back will see if I can figure out how to share with family.
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