Run&Hike: Sure enough, GZ was covered in new mulch and the container was gone!
We inquired inside but nobody had seen it, but then a maintenance man said he knew about it and offered to dig through the mulch to be sure it was gone.
Seeing it was gone we gave him our card and were leaving when we heard...
"Is this it?" He had found it in a large decorative trash container about twenty-five feet from GZ.
Sigh... We had labeled it, in large print, "Geocache""Don't Remove""Permission: Hartley Hall""GC1788G 'Polly's Potpourri'" but apparently should have added, "Don't throw away!"
The contents were missing and the container latch was broken, so since the residents, staff and administration have all changed since we hid it for Polly's enjoyment, it's time to retire it.
Thanks to the more than two hundred cachers that visited, especially those who wrote the friendly greetings on the index cards that we posted on the Nursing Home bulletin board.