Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Heartwarming Handyman Can by 1Queenand4Jokers (2/2.5) N49° 49.533  W97° 08.638 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 633493  N 5520887 Use waypoint: GC1Y7ZV Size: Small    Hidden on 9/5/2009 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                       This cache is at the posted co-ordinates. It is a lock and lock hidden at posted co-ords. Use stealth. Parking nearby. The FTF certificate was created for a hide not approved by geocaching so we will send you one when it is found. FTF should retrieve the certificate. This cache has been hidden to honour the very best friend any cache hider can have - those who maintain/repair/replace caches for us just to keep the game great!!! 33/50 finders have fulfilled the requirements... We are hopeful that your caching team will have repaired 3caches that belong to another team. To log this find you just have to find this cache but we would APPRECIATE you providing 3 cache names and GC numbers with copy and paste highlights of each repair log. Examples that would warm a hiders heart: GC1Q4J3D The Widow's Peak "We found the container in poor shape after the winter so we replaced it with another the same size." Sample two: GC1Q4J4D Humdinger "The cache was wet inside due to a crack so we replaced the logsheets, added a few items and duct taped the container. Sample three, GC1Q4J5D Stuck on You "The magnet was loose so we quickly used our handy dandy marine shoe goop and glued it back in place." Note: This Geocache can be logged online as Found once the physical log has been signed. According to geocaching.com we may ask the cache seeker to accomplish an optional and simple task when writing their online log. Cache finders can choose whether or not to attempt or accomplish optional tasks. We, cache owners, may not delete the cache seeker's log based solely on optional tasks. But we are hopeful that you will choose to accept and enjoy this challenge. These are your Handymen and Handywomen FT Fix - Ertyu Second to Fix -JBrandt

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4/1/2010 by Kabuthunk
AHA! Finally found this fella, thanks to a tip emailed in to me . Gotta say, I had a vague, vague suspicion that it might be hidden like that, but I didn't see it as being possible enough to allot much time to that last time.

But due to lack of text space, let's get started with the pondering of previously fixed caches. Instead of trying to think of the most thoroughly fixed caches, I'm just going to go with the first three I remember. As I said in my earlier DNF, the first one that comes to mind is the bark-armour:

GCW82D - Conquista Del Mundo - Egypt
Since about 3/4 of the entire log is about the repairs, the most relevant part is:
I decided build some impromptu defense shields. First... I kinda soaked up as much moisture out of the logbook as I could (once you get it, it might put up a fight if you plan to scan it or something). Luckily, I had a spare ziplock bag with me, so I put the container in there, and the logbook neatly folded up just inside the ziplock bag. Nearby, I found a piece of old floorboard someone tossed in the bushes. I was able to break it apart a bit (what was once garbage is now a defense mechanism). Then, thanks to me having emergency duct tape in my geocaching kit (hey, y'never know. Situations like THIS might come up), I taped three sides of wood around the baggie'd container, and crammed wood into the sides to keep things from getting into there.

Second one that comes to mind was a lot simpler, basically amounting to replacing a missing logbook:

GCV8MN - It's Worth the Trip
In either case... strangely, me and my mom looked around in there for a while, and couldn't find even the slightest hint that a logbook was there. Luckly, I was carrying a spare logbook with me (aka, small spiral notepad), so I turned that into the new logbook for this cache.
It's a minimal 'repair' at best, but hey, after almost 600 caches, I'm surprised I remember ANY fixes. I don't so much pay attention to remembering what I did to fix them... I just... fix them :P. Cleaning moisture, adding un-waterlogged logbook, removing garbage, taping something up, re-ziplock-bagging, whatever.

Third one came to mind while typing up the second:
EDIT: Bah, turns out that one, and several others I remembered, I didn't note it in the online log (back when I had shorter logs of like... 100 words). Ok, no worries... I eventually found one where I specifically talked about doing stuff:

GCQFYV - A Walk on the Southern Riviera
However, there seemed to have been a bit of an accumulation of water in this cache. Most (if not all) of the items in the cache were either some material that water didn't ruin, or were covered in plastic (like the signature cards), so they were fine. The baseball card in there was looking a little damp, so I tried to lay it in a way that it wouldn't be sitting directly against a surface of the inside of the cache. Poured out the water that had pooled at the bottom, and tossed a chainmail ball inside. Should be good for the next little while, anyway.
Doesn't appear that I mentioned in the online log about mopping out the cache with my shirt, but again, this was when I wrote short log entries.

And yeah, that's the three that come to mind. Thanks for placing the cache (I think my second ever members-only cache ), and for the hint that eventually allowed me to go after it. I'd say more, but text space forbids.

Took: Pirate Booty - Skull and Map Dubloon Geocoin
Left: Logbook entry and limited edition titanium micromail ball (from my emergency supply always on me, since I didn't have my caching kit and just went off memory)

3/28/2010 by Kabuthunk
Unfortunately today is not the day in which I get to relive days of yore in which caches have been attended to. I had been spending the afternoon biking from my place down to St. Vital Park to pick up a cache that had eluded me in the past. After a rather harrowing adventure snagging it, I looked at my GPS and was surprised to learn that there was one other cache in the park! A puzzle however. Hmm... might not be able to do this one (how true this thought ended up being ).

Popping open my palm pilot, I checked the cache description, mentally recalled several times in which I repaired a cache (creating "bark armour" for one of them particularly comes to mind) and started after it. A short bit of biking later and I soon arrived at ground zero. This area was vaguely familiar... and double-checking now, it appears my memory is correct in that there IS another puzzle cache nearby. I instantly set out to find the cache upon arrival.

So... many... places it can hide! Having actually read the cache description several minutes ago (as well as the last few logs... the last find being in December was a tad unsettling though), I had a vague idea of what type of container to look for. Thus, I searched high and low... primarily the latter, since the former didn't have all that many areas. Although that trio of trees had a multitude of spots to hide a cache. Alas, after much searching high, I continued with the low, eventually spreading out to about a 10 meter radius.

After about 15-20 minutes however, my wife called my cellphone and said she was taking a walk today as well, and indicated that she was about halfway between River road and St. Mary's (which is a pretty damn good walk, since she started at Fermor and St. Anne's). Since I wanted to meet her along the way, I figured I'd give myself about another 10 minutes of hunting. However, THAT was in itself cut short when a trio of jocks decided to start tossing a football between eachother RIGHT beside the trees, right beside the coordinates. I have no clue if they saw me, but at that point my streak of no-bystanders was definitely shattered, and I spent a scant few minutes attempting to hunt while not looking conspicuous. I however decided that this was pretty much my time to split, and started to make my way out of the area.

Methinks I might need a bit more help on this one though. The coordinates (updated ones) seemed to keep drawing me to one particular place, that much to my sadness seemed to have a rather square-shaped indent in the ground, completely empty of any container. I have no clue if the cache was once there, however that fact didn't sit well with my hopes of finding the cache either . Nonetheless, the dirt beneath the three conifers there has been well aerated... or at least in regards to the thick blanket of dry, dead needles beneath them. Thank god for my biking gloves .

I shall return another time, although I may wait until another cacher has located it. Or I might just email for a hint in a little bit, we'll see what comes first .