tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87705004098216138912012-02-16T11:43:48.002-08:00The musings of Shirley O'Connell AKA Shirconn in the geocaching community. Currently (May 2007) Shirconn and her partner, Garagedude, are the Southern California Geocachers of the Year. They are an inspiration to younger cachers who hope to be as active and enthusiastic as this pair. Shirley also likes to write so what better vehicle than her own personal blog. Years from now, her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and others will treasure these pages.Shirconnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14605161416782301095noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770500409821613891.post-42039620923931016892009-01-18T22:53:00.000-08:002009-01-19T14:11:12.168-08:00

The stores are filled with bottles of wine with fascinating names but the name on the bottle Shirley is holding is ESTATE, wine from the Biltmore Estate.The wine is Shirley’s, birthday gift to celebrate her 87th birthday. The unique bottle has no paper label but rather an etching of the Biltmore Estate. She was pleased to learn the story of the Biltmores, Learning when they had no money, they

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Sometimes when there’s a football game on and even tho’ I don’t know which end of the field is which or which end to root for. The colors of the players uniforms is a tremendous help in letting me know who to cheer for! While I'm not a football fan, there was one game which I will never forget. It was in December of 1983, the game was between the Los Angeles Rams and the New

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The book was a gift from my dear friends Alan and Harriet. A 6X7 book with empty pages, pages left to my imagination to fill and to enjoy. The inscription read, “May the pleasures you record in this book be as great as those you give to others.” A nice message that left me wondering what to add to this lovely book to make it meaningful.Those empty pages were a challenge and I’d hoped they’d

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What a joy to find a personal letter among the political and commercial items! I grab it quickly and savor the message and say a prayer of thanks for the friend who cared enough to remember me on her day.When I get a long list of e-mails, I go for the personal ones, ones that are a happy and bright escape from the dreary, boring “hoping to sell” ones.This is my attempt to send to you, a personal

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Time to answer my friends e-mailWHAT CAN I SAY?You ask, What have you been doing and why haven't you written to me. My reply is, we have been geocaching, I'm sure you guessed that is what we have been up to. Once we got the 2700th cache, we immediately set out to achieve that figure , we did., So far we now have 2,722 caches found.Let me take you with us as we found eleven caches today. First of

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Every so often you read a questionaire that asks who in your life has changed yours I've always been at a loss to come up with an answer until NOW! Without a doubt, it is my son, Brian. While I'm not professional and the pictures I take are pretty average but snapping photos has been an activity that had put me in front of the one hour photo counter at Costco ,a weekly routine.

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When boxes of greeting cards are overflowing and no longer fit theirdesignated home it's time to sort through them and lighten the number of cards saved.However, I simply cannot toss those cards from my high school Home Economics teacher, someone who thought well enough of me to keep in touch long after I graduated from high school. Cards from her go back over sixty three years to 1940, when they

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After a visit to a lab, after fasting. I went for bloodwork, before my next Dr's visit. Jack (Garagedude) and I headed for a Coco's restaurant to enjoy a strawberry waffle topped with whipped cream! Am I making you drool? Are you counting your pennies to see if you have enough to go there, too? It was a treat BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant,

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Fresh strawberries on cereal, what a delightful way to start my day! What next? I wrote an e-mail to a friend who not only recently lost her husband but also lost her son. Didn't want to start my day without taking care of that issue.Her son was on drugs, he neglected his health, and had he lived, he would have needed constant care. She was not well enough to take care of him. Should I

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At 85 years young, I am filled with a zest for life. And one of the things that keeps me young is to be able to communicate using the computer.I enjoy sharing things that I discover with others using email. Being an avid geocacher means that I share my experiences caching with my life partner Jack (geocaching name: Garagedude) with the community at geocaching.com.Now I am entering the

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