[Lacknothing]

Congrats on all those smileys! I remember when the Foxes played at Goodland and we would just walk down to the games….oh the good old days! Keep on caching!

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[Lacknothing]

Way o go Ed! That’s a fine number of smileys to have. Sorry we missed you yesterday. Soccer games in the rain….next year! Can’t wait to see what 600 looks like….

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[Lacknothing]

Yeah on 1400….that’s a heap of caches for some penguins! 🙂 Could not resist….Congrats!

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[Lacknothing]

Congrats to the Hitsquad! Especially to my favorite Hitperson – Eagle Eye Phoebe. Way to go! Seems like just yesterday you were at 300…..wow! Time flies.

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[Lacknothing]

Nice work Pete! I think that’s the number next on the horizon for us….you are getting very near the 2k number….pretty soon! Congrats on all 1700!

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[Lacknothing]

Nice job Jay! Now that I know you have a real name. I am sure you took many BakRdz to get to 900…..1000 is on the way! What will it be? May I suggest a certain dead end one in Oshkosh…oh wait…that’s yours! How about Trestle Bridge? Have you found that one yet? 8)

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[Lacknothing]

Wow….I tried for W….but could not get my GPS to settle….Congrats to you guys for not only making the find, but logging 2400….yeah! Way to go….

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[Lacknothing]

First tick this year just yesterday (named him Tim). I was surprised….generally do not see them until May…but then again, spring usually isn’t so warm in March either. Having contracted Lyme’s several years ago, I am always on high tick alert.

Truth be told, if it wasn’t so nice out, this could really “tick” me off! (I could not resist)

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[Lacknothing]

Sending you a PM with file.

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[Lacknothing]

Very nice! Congratulations…

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[Lacknothing]

Amazing! Congratulatons on 2000! Can’t wait to see what you pick for 2500. Way to go!

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[Lacknothing]

Last week I headed out to Sherwood because I wanted to find a cache on a puzzle I had solved. While I was out that way, I thought I would visit Calumet County Park and search out those caches also. Long story short. I never found the puzzle cache and I am bummed….but the puzzle sure was fun to solve. I got to visit it park I had NEVER been to (we have only lived in the valley 24 years). What a treasure. While hiking up and down the trails, I saw several red-tailed hawks, a couple of eagles, five deer bounding through the forest and a red fox. Plus I got to see what looks like a fun tubing hill for next winter. All in a couple of hours one afternoon. I walked away with a few more finds, but mostly the memories of a beautiful park on a nice spring day! It doesn’t get much better than that.

Yesterday, Aida and I headed down to Fond du Lac to geocache. She’s on spring break and it was a BEAUTIFUL day and we wanted to be outside. What adventures we had and some really fun caches. Our favorite of the day was hiking down this marshy trail only to come into an open place and an incredible view of Lake Winnebago. Seemed like our own private haven. When we got to GZ on that cache, there were plenty of trees to climb on and just be a kid. What fun! Yes…we did find the cache, in a pretty neat hidey spot, but mostly we just had fun. As we drove home in the afternoon, we talked about what our favorite caches were (as we always do) and laughed about some of the funny things! No puzzle caches because we hadn’t solved any ahead of time. It was one of those spontaneous trips.

I have done a number of the puzzle caches and they have been a blast, an education, a challenge, a point of frustration, ambigious…but I must enjoy them despite the varying range of emotions I feel as I try working through each one because I keep doing them. I especially love the historical puzzle caches that many CO’s have taken a lot of time to research and put together. I have learned more about my community from a historical perspective from these puzzle caches than from anywhere else.

In doing these puzzler caches, I have learned that:

-cheeto-‘s I can generally solve if I just stick with them
s|s has a unique kind of mind and I do not think like him too much, but if I stick with it and ask him for a nudge or two, I can generally solve them
sagasu’s – need I say more? Sinsister says it all!
gottarun’s – challenging for sure, but solvable
marc_54140’s – just started working on these and they are challenging
GizFinder – I let my husband do those!
zoesbrother – I love suduko puzzles!
JimandLinda – solvable and educational!

I will try any puzzle at least once. And I tend to be like a puppy with a pork chop once I get going on a puzzle. I find it amazing that so many CO’s have put so much time and effort and even expense into creating these puzzle caches. Wow! Don’t get me wrong, I still like those dead-end traditionals too that I can run out for at 10:30 at night and snag an FTF (thanks neonride93)….but if caching was only dead-end traditionals, how boring would that be. It is so wonderful that we have such a variety of geocaches here in the valley. You can find anything from the simplest 1/1 that you could find blindfolded to a 5/5 puzzle that is downright sinister (yes…I admit I have been working on it off and on for several months) which requires every ounce of brain power and tenacity that you have….and everything in between.

I have seen the word “respect” several times and it is about respect. We need to respect each other. This is suppose to be a fun sport that one can enjoy with family and/or friends while at the same time raising our level of awareness about the communities we live, work and play in.

I am pretty much a newbie on these forums, but I have great respect for the veteran geocachers of this area. They have all been wonderful in making the Lacknothing team feel a part of the geocaching community. And I want to publically say “thank you” to each CO listed above and the many, many more whose caches we have searched out and found. We are having a blast! Our foreign exchange student, Aida, has seen more of Wisconsin than most Wisconsin natives have. We appreciate each of you and are looking forward to differences being settled in a respectful manner and every geocacher using common sense when it comes to any kind of cache.

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[Lacknothing]

Hey CodeJunkie….you are definitely my hero when it comes to puzzle caches. You seem to do them in your sleep which blows my mind…..I spend hours and days and weeks and sometimes months (not to mention any particular puzzle Sagasu)….and you just inhale and have a solution. How did you get so smart? Are you related to Alex? I have been suspecting for quite some time that Alex has two brothers, huffpuffin2 and CodeJunkie….am I right? You guys all think alike!

Anyway…congrats on the 400 milestone. That is pretty amazing when you consider all those puzzles….

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[Lacknothing]

That’s a LOT of caches. Congratulations. Will be watching for the 2k….coming soon I bet.

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[Lacknothing]

That’s a MILEstone for sure. Congrats. What was your absolute favorite of those 1500?

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