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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!!!!!!!!!!!
Comments: Lynel, an update on the greyhound ranch you took the deposition on in Chico. We met Mike Walters whose father owned the greyhounds. His dad financed the Bass bros. early in their careers in Ft. Worth.
Comments: At least Dru got her picture made with a couple of celebrities. Do you ever worry about getting arrested for dismantling sprinkler heads? : ) Glad you two are feeling better.
Comments: In the world of Geocaching, being the first one to find a newly hidden cache is a much sought after status. You get to sign the cache log as "FTF" (First to Find). And in some cases there is extra loot for the FTF. This morning I received an email announcing a new geocache hidden 3.7 miles south. I grabbed the GPS and set out to find it with high hopes of attaining FTF rights. I was the first one on the scene and all I found at the coordinates was a huge green transformer on a cement pad. It was about 4ft. tall and wide. For thirty minutes I searched the immediate area, diligently looking for some sort of small container that would hold a paper log. I found a sprinkler head in the ground and dismantled it looking for a log. Just ended up making a mess. Finally, went home, got Dru (for a 2nd set of eyes) and came back 3 hours later. As we drove up I could see a woman and her daughter searching the same area I had gone over. The cache was described as being in plain sight. Suddenly, the two of them were dancing around with excitement as they located the clever cache. It turned out to be a devious magnetic sign that had a paper log tapped to the back of it. Then it was placed on the transformer and just looked like an official marking. Here is the pic: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/cm3.jpg The woman and her daughter are part of "Team Wood" and this was their very first "FTF". Dru manages a weak smile as the mom beams with pride after signing the log: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/cm2.jpg The Thrill of Victory and The Agony of Defeat - we were sooo close.
Comments: I heard on the radio today that Ledbetter Drive is now Great Trinity Forest Way! Glendale Park, The South Loop Drive-In and Sweet Georgia Brown's are now on Great Trinity Forest Way!
Comments: Barry, here's you some more up todate news on Paradise, Texas, our small town football team the Pottsboro Cardinals beat them 20 to 7 in one of our district games, we have only lost one all season and we are now in the playoffs.
Comments: I got this from the Handbook of Texas Online. When I went through there, it looked like the main business was raising fighting roosters. PARADISE, TEXAS. Paradise is on State Highway 114 six miles southwest of Decatur in southwestern Wise County. Settlement at the site began in the early 1870s, when Bill Anderson opened a general store there. At first the community was called Eldorado, but when settlers learned from postal authorities that the name was already taken they suggested the name Paradise Prairie, because of the wildflowers surrounding the site. The name was later shortened, and the community received a post office branch in 1876. In 1893 the Rock Island line (see ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM) reached the area, and the town moved a mile northeast to take advantage of the railroad, which eventually made Paradise a prosperous retail market for area farmers. By 1900 the town had two cotton gins, two lumberyards, two hotels, a grade school, and a weekly newspaper, the Paradise Echo. The population of Paradise fluctuated between 300 and 500 from 1900 until the 1940s; in 1986 and 1990 it was estimated at 275. The population reached 459 in 2000.
Comments: Janelle, another great article. Thank you for sharing that with us, gave me a nice lunch break. May you enjoy your new home for a long time to come and your turkey for more than squish between the toes...ugh.
Comments: Lynell: They had a big grass fire around Paradise a couple of years ago. Hope you weren't wearing those wooden shoes then! Burned a lot of buildings. Barry
Comments: I've been to both Chico and Paradise, California, but wasn't even aware that Texas has its own Chico and Paradise; seems redundant, since Texas IS paradise. Chico may be in Northern California, but the temperature hit 112 while I was there -- August, 1970 -- and Paradise definitely ain't all it's cracked up to be!
Comments: Janelle, I went to Chico TX, for a deposition but didn't make it to Paradise. The day was cold, and I was wearing wooden post-op shoes with open fronts and pins in my toes from recent foot surgery. The mobile home where the deposition was held had mean-looking dogs in the yard, and the people were not friendly. I was happy to get out of Chico and didn't want to go looking for Paradise that day. Ronnie, can the eerie green glow that emits from your house be seen from the highway at night? You Adamson boys are smooth talkers, so you're new broadcast facility will do well.
Comments: Lynell, With all due respect don't you think your fonts are getting fairly large in your message below. I may be having an open house for everyone to see me using my new fiber optic line (70,000kb/s). I'm thinking about starting a net talk show. Sorta like the "Newly Talk Show". I may need someone with TV experience and a purple outfit....how about you and David as first guests?
Comments: Michael, that is too funny. Paradise and Chico are North of Sacramento, California.
Comments: Janelle, I have to ask is this Paradise TX you are referencing. We have a place in Chico TX and NW of Chico is Paradise TX.
Comments: Yippee! A talented SOC writer has contributed an article about how she made lemonade and also got to see the Milky Way at night. She gets to see bats, lizards and other exotics as well. Many thanks to Janelle Carroll. Just click on the Guest Column link to read her latest. She is proof that SOC people are the greatest!
Comments:  Hi, Janelle -- Thanks for the beauty tip!!
Comments: Lynell, What the heck is "lip lard?" Couldn't one just use Crisco?
Comments: Memo to Bob Clifton: I checked and there are at least 20 geocaches within 5 miles of Fruitvale, TX. One geocache looks particularly interesting. It is titled "Iron Horse Tragedy" and requires the seeker to locate the rather prominent tombstone of a person who died in a 19th century transportation incident. Once located, the challenge is to identify "when" this event happened? The general location is indicated by the green arrow in the following link: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/iron_horse.jpg It might be a good hobby to pursue in the off-season. I regret that Dru and I missed your fine peaches and ice cream this year.
Comments: Bob, I found clues to a cache near the CVS where I buy my lip lard and such. Maybe I'll stroll over to that grassy knoll (and try not to do a forward roll into the lake) and see what I can snag. I logged onto that website and even have a handle now -- "hangonsnoopy." You have to admit it's catchy, especially since JS sent that link to the soundalike song and got that stupid ditty running in my head. He will do the same for you if you ask real nice. Happy peach-free season, my friend!
Comments: John, I put my Zip Code in the Geo thingy and all I got was a very snarky answer, " You gotta be kidding me." I guess they don't geo around Fruitvale. |
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