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Going back to the neverending job of vacuuming. What fun!
Must be time to work on another FTP
Too long on this page.
:ftp: on page 789
Yup, beer is good.
But I really could do without the trip back to page 1 after every post. #13
Maybe it’s time to bring back the FTP competition, minus the monthly count posting. So here’s 12.
post #11
HAPPY TUESDAY
OK guys here’s your chance to steal a thread!
What should we talk about? hmmmm beer – nope been done, bonfire – when?, rockets – now there’s a topic. I once saw a cache that looked like a rocket. How cool was that! Didn’t fly very high when tossed. Needed more powder. What’s on your mind?
Remember this??? Time to return this thread to Drivel, Serious stuff needs it’s own thread.
This the lost piece Pat?
sandlanders wrote:<br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” /><br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” />I do not dispute the need for the WGA to work with all public properties to develop opportunities for caching in all parts of the state — That is listed first in this organization’s by-laws. (See what has already been accomplished by visiting the Info Center at the top of the website page.) In fact, many WGA events as well as local and individual organized caching events are held on or in conjunction with local properties. Right now, the DNR oversees a great number of properties statewide, and other than state natural areas, as a whole they are hosts to many more caches than local properties. We have visited many local parks and properties to cache, but unless cache owners identify individual park policies in their cache write-ups, we do not know what to expect when we visit them, nor is it easy to find out online what those policies are in many cases.<br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” /><br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” />Consistency is what I see as a big plus for using DNR properties for the two major WGA events. In addition to some counties requiring entrance fees and stickers, which can vary greatly from county to county (most of which cannot be used other than in those counties), there are different rules for each as far as reservations and other camping items go. Some have a two-night camping minimum, some require 30-day advance notice for refunds, some charge more for prime spots (if these are even available), some allow thirty-day stays, seasonal camping, or even allow units to be stored on sites year-round for a fee… Some don’t even have specific sites identified and numbered. Some patrol their properties regularly, others minimally. Some have great local organizations they work with, while others are on their own. Some of what is and isn’t done per county may be due to funding or it may be due to policy or it may be due to both. It is not consistent, as it is w<br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” /> ith DNR properties. The websites for the 72 counties vary greatly as to how information can be easily accessed to see exactly what is what for park use in each county.<br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” /><br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” />A major concern I have with local properties is that many do not restrict nor monitor the firewood that is brought into them. The emerald ash borer was first found in Adams County only a couple of years ago in the Petenwell County Park area, an expanding park with no firewood policy that sees major use by campers from all over the Midwest, including quarantined states as well as those areas of Wisconsin with restrictions. The rules set in place by the DNR to stop the spread of this insect… a beetle that is now causing great devastation to ash trees that are valuable to parks, municipalities, and individuals… do not apply to local properties.<br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” /><br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” />The whole world may be our caching playground, but we would like to keep that so by being good stewards of the lands we play on. As cachers, we have the responsibility to take care of the lands we visit, not just use them to get smiley after smiley after smiley. If we do not, then someday caching may not be allowed on properties or there may not be properties left to cache on.<br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” /><br style=”color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;” />Just my two cents worth…
Guess I missed the notice about Blue Switch Day. Nice surprise souvenir!
Had to get a robin out of the garage earlier. Hope he just got in there this morning before I had to run errands (buying a pH test kit for a cache we are stopping at in the UP. It may have christened the boat :-O
Had a robin make a major mess on my car in the garage. We now have a bike helmut on top of the garage door opener motor and a fake owl in the rafters. Madam Robin is staying out. Maybe helped that her nest got removed before it was finished too.
Got my souvenir for pulling garlic mustard Saturday… but it’s not a piece of electronic art. Just got back from the clinic where they pulled a tick head from just below my armpit and sent me home with a dose of antibiotics. No good deed…
What happened to the rest of the tick?
Will 15 posts fit on the page?
Happy Birthday to CTQ today! And if you want to know how old she is, the answer is blowin’ in the wind! (Hint: She’s older than drivel but younger than copper culture…)
Thank you Pat, I’ve been MIA making a list of caches for a trip on Route 66 & the Grand Canyon. Should have started it months ago but the idea only hit him in Feb. Gotta go before it gets any hotter.
Thank you for the Birthday Wishes from all.
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