Saskatchewan: It All Started With a Cream Separator...Part 6

The fence and finding the geo-cache.



Mr. Lackmanec told us that he had one group of kids there for five days looking for the geo-cache. They finally found it and he shared with Angie which side of the driveway to look. This at least narrowed it down. I can certainly understand how it took the first group five days to find it. Here are some pictures of the fence and Angela looking for (and finding) the geo-cache. You can make the pictures larger by clicking on them.

This is one long fence as you can see. In this picture Chris is coming out of the driveway to come over to where I am taking pictures. The driveway is approximately halfway.



Hubcaps, wagon wheels, insulators, cattle yokes all make up this fence, along with many other things like hard hats, tools and bikes. There are many birdhouses, too, both the wooden kind and the ones he has made out of other things, like the hard hats.


A closer look.











Angie making her way along the fence to look behind hub-caps.


Getting ready to peek behind it.


Yay! She found the geo-cache!

Saskatchewan: It All Started With a Cream Separator...Part 4

The Asian couple seemed completely random. The hard hat bird houses in this display were never used, but the ones along the fence were. Maybe they don't like the bright yellow.



The tin can men. He built many of these and they were scattered around in various areas. All of them were painted the same blue or blue and white.







He also had several of these tin can windmills.



Bikes lined the area above the fence and were also included in several of the displays along with trikes and baby buggies and strollers. In this picture there are actually seven bikes and two trikes, although you can only see bits of two of the bikes.

Saskatchewan: It All Started With a Cream Separator...

I don't know if you know what it is to "geo-cache", but it's a fun, new hobby for those people who own GPS units. It's basically a hide and seek game. Someone hides something and then uses the GPS to figure out the coordinates. That information is placed on a web-site and the seekers look it up and then go to find the object by using the coordinates. I wouldn't mind having a GPS just for this game. It's actually fun to go traipsing around finding things and sometimes you see things you would never see otherwise.

Which brings me to the subject of this post.

This man's yard was used to hide a geo-cache. On the website it said, "you have to see it to believe it!" People were careful to not give it away, so we had no idea what it was going to be, but as soon as we drove up to it we knew we had found it. You really had to see it to believe it. If I could have spent five days there just looking around, I bet I would still not have seen everything this man has collected on his property. All junk. But it is all really great junk and nicely arranged and his yard and home are neat and tidy. Even now, looking at the pictures, I am still seeing things that I didn't see that day. It's amazing.

When we got there, we drove right into his driveway and parked. We got out and started looking. He was home and came out to greet us. If he is home when you arrive, he invites you in to sign his guest book. We were able to visit with him awhile and then we went back outside to look around some more and he got in his car and drove away, leaving us there to try and see all there was to see. Very nice man, with a very nice collection of almost everything. I remember he said he had 2800 insulators, but I don't remember the number for the hubcaps. It's amazing that he knows. I asked him how this all got started and that is where I got the title for the post. It all started with a cream separator that his uncle gave him. He cemented it into the ground and used it as yard art. It all built on that. Sadly, I didn't think to have him point out the cream separator so that I could take a picture of it. I don't want to try and post all the pictures in one blog. It would take too long to load on some people's computers, but I will do several each day until I've done them all.
Today I will post the chickens and the gnomes.

The Chickens:








Interestingly enough, this little boy looks amazingly like my grandson, Trenton!










The Gnomes: