General:
Brokenwing, T-storm and Geoferret live in Fort Worth, Texas. T-storm and Geoferret were both born here (even in the same hospital), and Brokenwing is transplanted military who spent many years on the California coast. Brokenwing and T-storm met during reputed attempts to educate themselves at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. They spent their last $25 cash in the world to purchase a marriage license, which the state of Arkansas allowed them to promptly take downstairs to a JP and turn in to the real deal. Broke and unable to make a living in the NW Arkansas economy they moved back to T-storm's old stomping grounds in Texas. Somehow, both built successful careers in the information technology field, became complete computer geeks, and finally did something worthwhile in 1999 by blessing the world with the advent of Geoferret. She is the light of their lives and gets a thrill out of "treasure hunting" with mom and dad, having been known to wake from a Friday afternoon nap and insistently say, "Daddy, go TREASURE HUNT!" In addition to providing the family quality time and entertainment together, Geocaching is offering the adults some much needed exercise and time away from the homestead, plus it helps the family explore the world around them.

Brokenwing:
Brokenwing tried out both sides of the continent before settling somewhere in the middle with T-storm. Born in rural Georgia, Brokenwing then lived on the beaches of Hawaii and California. He misses the beach, but has no interest in returning to California, despite the Texas heat. After working several years as a consultant in the network engineering field, he currently works as Director of Information Technology for a regional, university affiliated cancer treatment center. This activity distracts from geocaching time, but does buy the family a roof over their heads, food for the table, and a steady supply of toys and gadgets suitable for placing in caches. His other interests include web design, the sometime brewing of beer, computers and other gadgetry, and playing with a certain super-toddler (complete with towel cape). Brokenwing is convinced that Geoferret is the perfect child.

T-storm:
T-storm has lived most of her life in Dallas/Fort Worth. In a previous incarnation, she made a living as a computer hardware manager for the data center of a Fortune 500 retailer. She now is a fulltime household engineer and proud mom to Geoferret, an active toddler. T-storm's non-geocaching interests include MOMS Club activities, including produce cooperative, newsletter production and internet mailing list administration, ferrets, including webmaster functions for the local ferret enthusiast club, cooking, travel (when the opportunity presents), and the rare pleasures of reading and painting porcelain. T-storm not so secretly believes her child is a genius and highly photogenic.

Geoferret:
Finding herself in the care of doting parents, and the only grandchild on both sides of the family, Geoferret fills her time entertaining others and directing family activities, such as geocaching. She regularly requests to go "treasure hunting", where her favorite finds include a playground with slides that are easily toddler accessible and coins for her bank. Daddy, "outside", friends, and ferrets are favored playthings. She loves to talk and she loves people. Her friendly disposition and large vocabulary quickly take her beyond just being a "cutie" with everyone she meets!

Signature Item:
When Brokenwing, T-storm, and little Geoferret started hunting caches we selected a special item that was meaningful to us to leave behind in each found cache as a sort of "we were here." It seemed most appropriate to select something related to our somewhat unique pets, ferrets. We've owned pet ferrets for over 8 years now and our little girl adores them (and they seem to like her too!). The best quality item we found for a reasonable price was a cloisonne-style enameled pin in the shape of a ferret sitting up on its haunches. We chose the white version of this pin to place only in caches we find. For caches we place, we add a few of the color verions of the pin (browns or black) as tokens for the earlier finders. The division between pins in found and hidden caches actually developed once we realized that our little pins were starting to catch on as a "collector item" with local geocachers… a ferret pin became a prized find! So we thought that pins from our own caches should be unique from those we leave in found caches to show that the finder actually located a cache planted by Brokenwing, T-storm, and Geoferret! It's been fun to track how the pins have been collected, and now some are even starting to "travel"! One of our pins is now at 69 North in Norway, and another is reputed to be somewhere in the Austin Texas area.