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Comments: does anyone from the class of '63 remember a guy name T om Sawyer?He works where i work and we were talking and discovered we went to the same school.He played foot ball with Mike Livingston.
Comments: Happy Thanksgiving!
Comments: John - I am so impressed with your design. That is really too cool. Happy Thanksgiving to my SOC friends. You are all a treasure to behold. May each of you have a wonderful day of Thanksgiving and looking forward into the Christmas season approaching. So looking for forward to see the 36 and still more to come on December 5th. What a great way to start the season remembering friends along with the real reason for the season!
Comments: Dru and I would like to send out an early "Happy Thanksgiving" to all our SOC buds. Tomorrow we will be spending the day with her son (Ken) and his wife (Kristen) and grandson Reid, plus about 15 other relatives from both sides of their family. Fortunately, we only have to travel 5 miles. A part of the Geocaching world is the exchange of geocoins and pathtags. Pathtags are coin-like items a little smaller than a quarter. Each bears a design that holds significance for the geocacher who has them minted. Earlier this week I sent off an order for my own pathtags. It will take about 6 weeks for them to be stamped, painted and returned to me. My geocaching "handle" is hwyhiker. I'll be leaving one of these behind in the caches I discover in 2011: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/bear-final.jpg [the little circle with an X in it is where a hole will be stamped so that the pathtag can be hung from a cord or nail or displayed in some fashion. I experimented with the background color of "old gold" but the overall appearance was too dull]
Comments: The list is growing........36 now and I know more to come.
Comments: Where is everyone? Wake up. I have 23 rsvp for the SOC Christmas luncheon. Last year we have at least 45. I have not heard from many of the regulars. Happy Thanksgiving.
Comments: Jack Cowley, are you out there? The lady that lives in your former house on Glen Arbor is having the brick retaining wall along the west side of the yard rebuilt. Looks nice. Also, while my brother & I were looking through Mother's recipe box for a dessert we like at Thanksgiving, we found a recipe for Date & Nut Loaf from Ann Cowley. Also another recipe from the lady that lived on the other side of us. Neighbors really knew each other back in the day!
Comments: One more "ring" story: I am leaving in a few minutes to go search for two geocaches hidden in the woods on the perimeter of Bear Branch Sports Field. The facility encompasses seven soccer fields, a fishing pond, and a community garden. Today it will be overrun with soccer leagues (and folks accidentally losing jewelry). In our local metal detecting club, Chris is kind of legend. He specializes in detecting lost jewelry (as opposed to lost coins). Over the past three years he has dug over 30 rings from this sports field. He is meticulous about documenting his "finds". Here is a pic in which he overlayed his various ring finds on an aerial view of the sports field: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/bear_branch_finds.jpg At last month's club meeting he displayed a little chest full of his discoveries. The rest of us just drooled ... http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/chris_finds.jpg
Comments: Jud, I'm afraid I can't help you. As they say ... "that train has sailed". This morning I find myself thinking about rings - specifically, my SOC senior ring. I can recall agonizing over the design choice. Finally, I chose a nice blue stone for it. I wore it with pride. For a while my Kimball girlfriend, who shall remain nameless (Suanne), wore it with pride. Somewhere in my early twenties I began to feel self concious to still be wearing a high school ring - so it went into a box until around 1980. About that time the price of gold spiked up to $800 per ounce. Every day on TV a local jewelry store was offering to buy your gold (much like these days). I made the trek to that jeweler in Almeda Mall south of Houston with my old SOC ring and a wedding band from my disbanded marriage of 1965 to 1971. He weighed the rings and offered me about $65 (less than what I'd hoped). I took the deal and asked him what becomes of these rings? He pointed to a nearby 5 gallon bucket that was about two-thirds full of gold rings. Then he casually tossed my two rings into the bucket where they landed with a brief "clink". "They get melted down", he replied in a bored tone. I remember feeling sad. Which reminds me - I haven't seen my UTA ring in a while?
Comments: John, I lost my high school youth. Will you rev up your Acme 1000 Magnetic Decoder and see if you can find it? Substantial reward offered.
Comments: Cynthia, I love your creativeness! MAGNET CHASER? You should write for TV!
Comments: John geocache Southworth I am doing a horse trip to Doha in Dec. I see they have geocaches in around Doha. I don't think I can get your device through customs 
Comments: It's not a "magnet chaser", it's a Bounty Hunter Legacy 3300 Metal Detector. This morning I did some geo-detecting ... looking for geocaches in the same place I was metal detecting. It was pretty dang cold at 9:00am, but I showed up at Copper Sage Pond with my GPS and my uh, magnet chaser. In 15 years I've never seen or heard of this pond before - just found it recently on a new map of The Woodlands. Pretty little place: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/copper1.jpg The coordinates for the geocache took me off into woods on the edge of the pond. At GZ (ground zero) I looked all over for the cache, knowing it was a smallish one. Just as I was about to give up a sunray through the trees reflected off something shiney right above my head. There was the cache, suspended from a branch about 6 ft. off the ground. I'd seen the light hit the fishing line that suspended it ... a simple pill bottle about 5 inches tall covered in cammo-tape. Inside was a rolled up paper log to sign. I was the 19th person to find it since May 29, 2009. Pretty sneaky way to hide it. Haven't seen that technique before. http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/copper3.jpg
Comments: Ooops Peaches - so sorry. Guess it was the Dens missing - guess Geo Johnny would have a problem finding them with his magnet chaser there.
Comments: Look on the Events page to get your invitation to Peaches' annual Christmas party!
Comments: My SOC ring was not stolen, Cynthia. I still have it. i did lose all my Dens however. The only items i have left behind in a move.
Comments: My SOC ring is missing, too, Geo Johnny. You're going to have your hands full locating all our missing treasures!
Comments: My SOC ring was stolen when I left it on my desk at Republic National Bank. Why would anyone want someone else's school ring. I have had so much jewelry stolen that I rarely wear it any more. It's Sam Moons and Charming Charlies for me.
Comments: Hey John, someone stole all my fine jewerly almost 2 years ago so if you find some good jewerly, could you check with me first - just in case you know..... One of my cousins told me it might have made it to the Houston market and then it seems she bought a spindle ring in a pawn shop that sounds a lot like the one that was stolen. Funny, she did not bring it with her on the trip we met up so I could see it. Oh well - never know - my SOC ring was in the haul. Come to think of it Peaches also had her SOC ring stolen. You could be our hero!
Comments: Wow, Bill! What an amazing story. Thanks so much for providing the link to WFAA. I've yet to find my first ring, but this tale will certainly help steady my moral compass if I get a similar opportunity.
Comments: Bill, I loved that video. Thanks for sharing an amazing tale and I am sure our John would do the same thing.
Comments: Geo-johnny, I saw this on the local news last night and thought of you and your searches for buried treasure. I'm sure Dru would let you give away a valuable piece of jewelry such as this. http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Forney-Man-Returns-Championship-Ring-Lost-in-River-for-more-than-30-Years-108838064.html
Comments: Yesterday I went metal detecting at Forestgate Park with my pal Wayne. I was excited because I knew of a geocache planted in that same park. It took me about 20 minutes to locate the 7 inch round cammo'd container at the base of a pine tree: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/f-gate1.jpg In the cache was a Geocoin from Germany! It is a little larger than a silver dollar. Attached to it is a note saying its "mission" is to travel around the world and return to Germany. http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/f-gate5.jpg I went online to look up the progress of it's travels and found it had covered 16,273 miles since it left it's original cache in Germany on 3/30/2009. From there it was moved to Singapore and then to S. Korea where an Air Force guy found it. Then it set idle for a year until the airman noticed it as he was packing for reassignment to San Antonio, TX in July, 2010. He brought it to San Antonio and placed it in a cache near Sea World, then the geocoin made it's way to The Woodlands on Oct. 31st. I found it on Nov. 17th. My plan is to move it to a geocache somewhere along Tx Hwy I-45 and hope someone locates it and takes it out of state in an easterly direction. Here is the map I found online of the geocoin's journey: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/f-gate7.jpg [Metal Detecting sidebar: pal Wayne found a 14k white gold men's wedding band in front of a soccer goal at the park. The same soccer goal I'd searched 15 minutes earlier]
Comments: Thank you all for the BD wishes. I am having a great celebration.
Comments: Well Martha - it is finally here! Happy Birthday young lady. May you be blessed with many many more in great health and happiness. God's blessings always.
Comments: Happy Birthday, Martha Jo Alice!
Comments: I want to say Happy Birthday to my big sister Martha Bass Hunt..To me the best sister ever God ever put on this earth next to our Aunt Leona and Mom. Our roll models. Have a great day...I love you.
Comments: I made the mistake of clicking on the link that took me to the adventures of Geo-Jen. OMG, it's like a soap opera. She's 42, going on the mental age of an ADD-affected 16 year old. Maybe I'm just jealous, since she's -- apparently -- a free spirit who puts it all out there. Anyway, it appears that she finally made it back to Hawaii, Geo-Johnny.
Comments: Michael, I didn't take the depo on the greyhound ranch, but I saw plenty of them and the tracks they trained on. The mobile home dawgs were of mixed heritage and the only urge to run that they had was toward me!
Comments: greetings 63ers hope all is well with you and yours!!!!!!! i am thinking about a bucket list cruise to alaska next june. would appreciate any help!!!!!!!!!! 2147935040 yual come on down!!!!!!!!!!! |
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