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I’ve never heard of it…but I love Edy’s 🙂
I hadn’t, either. I just assumed it was one of those West Coast establishments that’s starting to go more national. I was actually surprised when I saw pints were available in grocery stores.
Exactly why I put my name in the mix for this one, when I didn’t for the Magic The Gathering TB last year. If Cachekins had done this one as a purchasable tag, I would have definitely considered buying it.
Are you guys going to try the ice cream? I looked it up, and pints are available locally. Then, I compared its Vanilla Bean flavor with that of Edy’s. Fewer calories than Edy’s, but MUCH higher in sodium, and higher in cholesterol. And only a couple of grams more protein. With high blood pressure, I think I’m better off with the Edy’s than this “healthier ice cream.” Who eats ice cream for its health benefits, anyway?
I doubt I’ll want to fit into one particular type of hider. There’s a hider that seems to be how I always saw myself as a hider. The handful of hides I’ve found by this hider have included a skirt-lifter, a couple of micros interestingly hidden, a small in an area I could see how it was worthy of a hide, and a well constructed multi.
While I’ve been happy to help out hiders with maintenance if I can, I’m too much of a first-born Saggitarian to want more hides than I feel I can maintain myself.
I also kind of have a goal of hiding caches that get Regular members interested in keeping with this long enough to make a Premium membership worth having. I think I got lucky with my first finds, even though they were micros. They were more than just pill bottles in dead end barriers or under light skirts with almost no story to make up for it. Not that there’s anything wrong with those, but if that’s all there is to find for brand new cachers, it’s not surprising they don’t stick with it long enough to find the really good caches.
an experienced cacher that isn’t desperate for an FTF!
Those exist? 🙂
Just gotta get out and make that placement and stop thinking about it 🙂 . People will still come and find it, people will still like it, people will still log just a “TFTC”, some people will still say it was too long of a hike, some will say it was too short. If its ready to place just go out and place it. I’ve got a large number of ideas and plenty I’m wanting to do as well. For me now its a mix of life changes and not having the same amount of time to caching as I used too. Some of it is I’ve now got so many out there is having to keep up with maintenance. Some of it is just not getting out and just placing the hide. Thats what happened for half of my Windmill Geo-art. I had half the caches placed one summer but just never pushed to get the rest out. Had to finally do that the next year to just get out and place them so I can get the series posted. It’s a lot of fun hiding, at least I enjoy it. Some of my hides are creative, some of them not so much. Some are placed for one reason, some are placed for another. I’ve wanted to and have tried to get a variety of hides placed in my name so there can be a little bit of a variety. Plus I like finding all types as well. Now I just need to get past some mental blocks in solving how I want to make some of this new caches I want to make but have no idea what I want to make for one of my next series. If you know what I mean haha.
Glad to know I’m not alone!
I know I just need to get out & start placing them. I think part of my mental block, though, comes from living in SE WI, where an open space on the geo-map begs the question of “Why hasn’t someone put one there yet?” I keep thinking that, if I lived in a less densely cache-populated area, I’d have placed a few by now.
Like you, I also like different kinds of hides. Until recently, all my ideas were micros & nanos, and I’ve made the mistake of reading message boards here and on the mother site from anti-micro snobs who won’t look for anything that small. But, I cut my geocaching teeth on a small series of micros that was done well, and in fact, the one non-micro I found when I got started was unimpressive.
It’s not easy being one of the good newer geocachers. It’s a different perspective from those who have been around for over a decade, and there’s a lot more pressure to place good hides.
Just in case you missed it – they extended this for another week because of the site crashes.
I could have been the FTF for the cache placed right by the latest Milwaukee event, as it was just up the road, and no one had found it when it popped up on my map. Thing is,then that would have meant that the cache wouldn’t be there to find when I really needed a nearby cache, so I let someone else find it first. The GZ is only 3 miles away, so my goal is to perhaps find it in the summer by walking to the GZ. It’s much more important to me in either of those cases than it would have been as an FTF.
Being a cacher who’s creeping up on 600 finds – I’m at 585 as of today – I can get the FTF gratification of being the first to sign on a brand new log by replacing log sheets that need them for the ones y’all found years ago. 🙂
The CITO comment was sort of a joke on how, as new announcements are made, it’s harder to see older ones. Depending on screen size, the COTM & POTM announcements bumped the CITO announcement down far enough that unless someone scrolls to be reminded of it, it can be missed. It’ll only take one or two more announcements for the POTM announcement to get bumped down.
I’ve already checked out the upcoming CITO events, BTW, and am bummed that the closest one to me, the Hack/Wisjanine event, is at a day & time I can’t go. Kim made it sound really fun when I talked to her at the Chili event, but I’ve got a ticket to that day’s Brewers game. And, it’s Eric Thames bobblehead day. So, the closest I can get to practicing CITO that day is if I do the Earthcache near the one parking lot, and make sure any garbage accumulated throughout the game is properly disposed of.
The sign in question has two brackets around the pole – one about shoulder height, the other more stomach height – that are in addition to the sign itself. One is made of a metal that makes it great for attaching a magnetic micro. But if it’s there for temporary signs to be attached, then it’s probably not good for a cache.
Been thinking about it ever since posting the question, and I’m thinking I need to come up with a Plan B if I want to place a hide at that location. Good thing I didn’t submit it yet!
So….not a good idea to attach a cache to the bracket?
I was actually a little disappointed in it. The container was on the ground & open when I found it. It was also a round mayonnaise container, not what you’d think of if the CO wanted it to also be a recipe exchange. No recipes, either, but I’m sure we’ve all run across TB caches with no TBs.
Hmm…maybe I’ll think of doing a recipe cache after I’ve started hiding my own caches. I’ve been trying to think of non-micro ideas, and this is certainly one I could do.
Newbie’s $0.02 here. Having never nominated a cache for COTM, I don’t know what the submission form looks like, but does it state WHY the cache is being nominated? If so, can that glowing praise be shared on the page? If not, why not? Just seeing the name/link to the cache page might not be enough to get people interested enough to check it out.
To use an out of state one as an example of what I mean, since it cannot be nominated itself, I gave a favorite point to GC23XQ9, “Little Flyer.” Why? Because it was a cute container just off the freeway that made it more than the expected end of the road barrier cache. If I knew that about a COTM nominee, it’d get me interested in finding it, and possibly voting for it.and get me pumped up to nominate one in the future.
Am I making sense?
It’s possible. The seller sells a lot of coins on eBay, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they had another one. Plus, the auction I was bidding on just ended, so there’s still time for the winner to make a payment. They’re giving me til Sunday to decide if I think he’s worth $31 plus shipping.
Well, the auction for the cow coin ended. I went to see how much it went for, and I have a “second chance” to buy it for $31, which was the amount I was last outbid by. Wonder what happened with the other bidder?
Me, too! I gave up after $32, though I thought about trying to go as high as $40. My max bid on the state coin was $25, and it never got that high.
Thinking about not activating it, after seeing a couple of comments. I’ve activated most of my geocoins, and I’m still catching up on making proxies for them. I certainly don’t need another personal mileage TB!
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