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I had found a white Jeep TB and I guess I didn’t realize what I had until I placed it in one of my caches and I had a host of cachers falling over each other to get it. 😯

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Hey all,
I contacted Grandpa Jim and he gave his okay to let everyone in on why he needed 70 Travel bugs. Here is an exerpt from the email I received from Sagasu as he was the FTF on the “Seton’s Eagle Nest cache (GC13EA5) set out by The SetonCachers, JEM Team, and Grandpa.

“This fall, every sixth grader in our school will be releasing a TB – close
> to 70 total. We’ll be counting on our caching friends in the Valley to help
> disperse these and send them along on their various missions, so spread the
> word, please. Many of these TB’s will start out in this cache. We’ll track
> these as a part of Geography, learn about various communities in Social
> Studies, do the website stuff in Computer Ed, email letters as Com Arts
> projects, etc.”

With such a dedication to the Kids (and Geocaching), I asked if it was okay to help make up some of the difference as they were overcharged on their TB order (certainly not letting Groudspeak off the hook).
Below is his response:

@Gram&Gramps wrote:

WOW, what a great offer! Thanks a bunch.

Being a parochial school, we are always on the hunt for extra money, and this project has been funded in exactly that way – not from tuitions, fundraisers, etc, but by people who are committed to Geocaching, kids, and education.

Anything you’d care to share would be greatly appreciated. Please clearly mark your check and cover note that your gift is for the ‘GeoCaching Project’, and send to:

Seton Catholic Middle School
312 Nicolet Bvld.
Menasha, WI 54952

Thanks, too, for the offer to hawk this on the website. I intend to to that, but will probably wait until Fall when we actually get the kids back, and they begin putting together their TB’s. We’ll launch some over in the Valley, but probably also send some out from our Computer cache here in Waupaca. We’ll need some help dispersing them from the cachers out this way as well as some of the fanatics over around Menasha! But discussion about the new cache and it’s intentions and our project in the forums is certainly OK anytime…

Thanks a lot for the support, it is really appreciated.

cYa, Grandpa Jim

anyone else want to help? The info is above.

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Found this on Care2 greenliving website

Tick Repellant

by Annie Berthold-Bond
I dug deep in my herbal formula books for this recipe out of desperation, given that I live in the epicenter of the tick-generated Lyme disease epidemic. I tested the essential oil that is recommended for ticks, Rose Geranium, by putting a few drops—no more!— on our dogs’ collars, to see if it would repel ticks. Lo and behold, we went from 20 ticks a day on each dog, to none. The second best essential oil for repelling ticks is American Pennyroyal (also called tickweed).
SIMPLE SOLUTION:
2 tablespoons vegetable or nut oil (almond oil contains sulfur, a repellent in its own right)
10 to 25 drops Rose Geranium essential oil
Combine the ingredients in a glass jar; shake to blend.
Makes: 2 tablespoons
Shelf Life: 6 months

Dab a few drops on your skin or clothing, making sure to avoid eyes.

Caution
Skip the Pennyroyal if there is anyone pregnant (including pets) in the home, as it can induce miscarriage. And as always, use essential oils with caution as they can burn the skin and harm eyes. Don’t use these essential oils around cats.

HELPFUL HINTS:
Palmerosa is a sister essential oil to Rose Geranium, and also repels ticks. It is cheaper, and sometimes easier to find than Rose Geranium.
Another good repellent that also worked on our dogs, is to eat garlic pills (but don’t give garlic to cats). A number of people have written me to say that they have had good luck with their dogs and themselves, by keeping to the garlic pill eating regimen every day.
The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) reported in their winter of 1996 Journal of Pesticide Reform that nymphal ticks are reduced from 72.7 to 100 percent when dead leaves are removed from the forest areas surrounding residential areas.

Let us all know your results, if you choose to try this.

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This is a hobby that can turn “going to the store to pick up a few things” into an eight hour trip. Makes me think that Gilligan’s Island was actually a geocaching trip that got out of hand.

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Way to Go!! Keep ’em comin’ and we’ll keep on seekin’

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I don’t know how this would look but to be in print…. why not try.

This is my brother’s(Lemoncurry) post for TALL TALE#1:Pete’s Tackle Tote by Sagasu with Me, my daughter and niece

(how do I get this to display the photo?)

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