Gramma's Goodies

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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  [] In Manitoba, Canada

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An easy walk up, child friendly cache. Camoflaged and in reach of
small children

Bedson Park, built in the 1960's was literally GPS Grampa's back
yard while growing up. His mom still lives in the same home (since
1966) which looks onto the park.

When the homes were being built, before the park area was
developed, the area was about 3' or 4' lower than surrounding
yards, and in spring, was a 2 acre lake. Scrap lumber and nails
were assembled into rafts, and floated better using empty paint
cans with their lids replaced. Good times, until you slipped off,
cursing aloud "AAAWWWWW S#%&, I GOT A BOOTER".

GPS Grampa also has many fond memories of kite flying, playing
catch with his dad, flying model airplanes (crashing one into his
dad's head), and the many hockey baseball and football games played
here. Look to the west end of the park, and you'll notice 2
evergreens in a row are smaller than the others. These were from
GPS Grampa being tackled into them during 2 consecutive plays in
one particularly tough game (we always played tackle). Long story
short, left knee torn cartilage, OUCH (see pic).

The widow of the "crazy old man" still lives here in the last
house facing north at the west end of the park. You know the type,
he kept every ball, kite and frisbee that ever landed in his yard
(rumour was, he paid for his house, cars and retirement by selling
them).

We thought the first cache placed by GPS Gramma should be kid
friendly, thus the park placement and childhood memories. The
neighbourhood has gone through 2 or 3 changes of families growing
up, then away, so there's no telling how many or when muggles will
be present.

Cache includes one of GPS Grampa's custom made FTF, with a Tim's
card to have some tea on Gramma. The people on the FTF are my
Mother-in-Law (Grampa'a mom), and my youngest granddaughter.

Additional Hints ( Decrypt ) 

Decryption Key
A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
(letter above equals below,
and vice versa)

Uvqr naq Frrx (Decrypted Hints)

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First To Find

In keeping with his own ideas, GPS Grampa made the FTF unique to this site. The background features GPS Grampa's Mom, who's home looks onto the park, and her Great-Granddaughter (my granddaughter).
Grumpy old man?

Before the chain link fence, there was a 6 foot wood fence. Although some balls and frisbees were rescued, most were lost to the "Grumpy Old Man"
Two Smaller Trees

Most trees in the park were planted in the 1960's. These 2 smaller ones were planted in around 1978, after GPS Grampa broke the originals by being tackled into them, which resulted in torn cartilage in one of his knees.

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Cache Logs

November 17 by Blkbeard&the5pirates (120 found) Coming back to the old neighborhood is always fun, but why does everything seem smaller? No geocoin here. TFTC. M [view this log]

November 9 by villiam (470 found) Was in the neighborhood and was glad to be able to find this one quickly, thanks! [view this log]

November 7 by swelbergen (266 found) #32 of 43 on a lovely day of caching with skoki and icimondo. Luckily muggle on swing and her dog left as we arrived. What a great park! TFTC! [view this log]

November 7 by Skoki (558 found) A wonderful day to be out caching. This was our 32nd find of the day on our "caching blitz" but we were running out of daylight. Thanks for adding to our fun! [view this log]

October 12 by Lynda. L. (656 found) got this one ,took yamaha shaker ,left loonie,TFTH [view this log]

Current time: 11/22/2009 4:06:00 AM
Last Updated: 11/21/2009 2:44:21 AM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum