March 2nd - March 4th

Thursday, March 2^nd, while running a few errands, we were tempted to take our iPhones to Miracle Ear to see if there was anything they could do to make Siri understand the words we speak to her. Anyone who uses the speaker function on their smart phones has probably experienced multiple occasions when the words we speak are not what the phone displays.

 

 

Cordell and I consider ourselves puzzle challenged. A cache owner has placed a series of puzzle caches with the express purpose to teach people like us. Jim, Cordell and Barbara were able to solve all 10 puzzles while I had minimal input.

 

 

I saw some interesting seed pods while we were at a geocaching site.

 

 

 

While we were out and about on March 3^rd, Barb and I really enjoy seeing the various flowers that are blooming. Wonder how people in southwest Florida know when spring has sprung?

 

 

 

 

Our local geofriend, Brian, joined us for dinner. He has a well deserved reputation for uniquely designed and/or placed geocaches. We had an enjoyable evening picking his brain, but he didn’t give away all his secrets.

 

 

 

We spent March 4^th, caching at Port Charlotte. Cordell and I have cached there in the past, but we left some to look for with Jim and Barb. We found 9 caches and each of them was a bit different.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim ad Barb attained a milestone when they found their 400^th cache.

 

 

At the end of our adventure, we returned to the Blanchard House Museum, a site that had a geocache we liked and found especially challenging. Jim and Barb also had difficulty finding this cleverly placed container. The hidden place was marked with an “x” and all of us overlooked it several times.