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Awesome job Team LightningBugs! We hope to catch up with you on the trails another time again!!! Maybe we can behead flowers again sometime, hee hee!
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Originally posted by Linus4Cache:
And remember…EVERYTHING you see is for sale!
Aaaahhh…. but NOT everything was for sale. We actually asked yesterday as Papa Fishcacher fell in love with a free standing baseball player and Little Fishcacher loved the gladiators. Neither was for sale. And a couple women there at the same time as us had tried for four different things and got a *not for sale* from Lady Elenor. I guess the ones everyone kept asking about were ones her son Troy had made and he’s been not making sculpture for awhile since he has been in college instead. (Lady Elenor said something about trying to “save one of everything” that was made…. As a mom as well, I can understand where she was coming from, lol.) He graduates in December she said. He’s getting his degree in advertising so they are hoping that can help their park. (Dr Evermor did say something about *coming late at night and “pinching” one*, lololol.)
Dr. Evermor had a stroke in May so due to limb weakness, is currently in a wheelchair. So it looks like things aren’t being made as quickly as they once were possibly. They have a webpage: http://www.drevermor.com/index.html. It lists three things for sale is all. So maybe as the Doctor regains some strength and Troy returns from college, maybe things will pick up in the creating department again.
They sure were nice people. I sooooo want to go back again! Maybe next time I go caching thru the area, I’ll stop in. I think it would be so neat to see it during each season! The leaves gone from the trees gave it an extra surreal quality.
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Originally posted by rubeeslpr:
We just got a new supply of our signature item….a Ruby Slipper magnet. We also leave our Ruby Slipper card.
I got one of those magnets from my very first cache! It’s on my fridge.
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
It would be pretty tough to make a difference in the law enforcement community, seeing that there are caches in every city and every county in the state.A suspicious package is a suspicious package, regardless of what it looks like. They will all be treated as if they were potentially harmful.
A few weeks ago in Racine, EOD blew up an electric typewriter that was spotted in the parking lot of Home Depot. Another good use of tax dollars.
ROTFLOL about the electric typewriter! (I bet some of those officers were young enough to have never seen an electric typewriter before! Hee hee!)
I agree with the difficulty of making a difference with law enforcement in the state. Our county’s police force numbers over 300 alone…. That doesn’t even include local PDs.
And in this “post 9/11” day and age, law enforcement (and the public as well) is just more wary of suspicious looking items that look out of place. Not that any terrorist would want to blow up Cottage Grove mind you, but you never can be too careful sometimes. And a package that is labeled on the outside with GEOCACHING.COM might be more helpful to geomuggles. I know that in my pre-geocaching days, if I would’ve come across an ammo box in the woods, it would look suspicious to me…. And to answer Bec’s question, a tupperware would definitely look less suspicious to me. I would’ve thought the tupperware was a lost lunch or something, lol.
~Mama Fishcacher
At the last event I attended, I marked “attended” for the event, then used “found it”s for each temp cache.
Eek.
It’s not just you – I just noticed it too.
~Mama Fishcacher
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Originally posted by Buy_The_Tie:
I could understand if this whole process isn’t so clear.The Palm Operating System, resides on the little hand-held gadget (the Palm Pilot) not on your home computer.
What you really need is a copy of some software called the “Palm Desktop” for Windows. This is available for free from http://www.palmone.com/us/support/windt.html
This is the program that you actually run on your computer. It’s job is to establish communications with your Palm, via a serial cable (sometimes called a cradle). This program also controls the backup of data to/from your palm. The latest version of this program supports Windows XP, which is what I am running too.
Hope this helps.
[This message has been edited by Buy_The_Tie (edited 10-31-2004).]
My Palm Pilot came with a software disk for this. That’s cool that you can download it free online as well!
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Originally posted by What’s Next?:
Thank you, that’s helpful.We’re seeing the Palm Pilot IIIxe for a good price, but it doesn’t seem to list our operating system (Windows XP). Would we have a problem?
I also use a Palm IIIxe. Got it on eBay for about $25. It has plenty of memory to store cache pages as well as lots of games, hee hee. My computer runs on Windows XP, and I use Cachemate to convert and store the cache pages in my Palm. It cost me $10 to download, but I love it. I’ve also heard many others speak fondly of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), but I haven’t tried it myself.
~Mama Fishcacher, who was originally nervous to go paperless, but loves it now!!!
Looks cool! Have you tried it?
Very interesting question!
I feel I’m pretty *average* when it comes to technology. I can find my way around the internet and my computer pretty well, but some areas of my computer are still foreign territory. I read all my news and weather online, and converse with many people online and by email, but I still pay bills by mail. I DO balance the checkbook against an online statement though.
As for geocaching savvy, I use a PDA for cache pages, but I still use Mapquest for maps. My GPSr doesn’t upload maps, just has a “points of interest” upload available. (Garmin GPS72) Many times I just look at where I want to go on Mapquest, but I don’t print it out – just write the name of the road I need on a post-it note that sticks to my dash. I still manually load coordinates into my Garmin, but I do have an interface cable on my christmas list.
As for computer use at work – we use the computer a lot in our medical office and are slated to go to an entirely electronic medical record within the next 12-24 months.
[This message has been edited by fishcachers (edited 10-17-2004).]
Maybe it’s more of the travel bug hotels he’s looking for?
When are you gonna clue us in??? The suspense is killin’ me….
Oh! One more thing! If you want some cache recommendations, just ask us for suggestions in a particular area and any of us can tell you which caches would be good to take kids along. (Or some to avoid too, lol.)
~MF
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Originally posted by contemplatingjello:
I’d like to get my sons and I started on this, but don’t know where to start! Can I get some recomendations on what we will need? They are 10 and 7.
First off, I have to say, I love the screen name you picked. Too cute!
My son is 7 and he comes geocaching with me. As for what he needs – I got him some hiking boots and off we went! According to your title, you are looking for a child friendly GPS unit – if it’s for the child alone (if they each get their own) I’d go with small, light, and inexpensive. We happen to use a Garmin 72 that we all share. I like the big screen. And I like that it’s waterproof just in case, lol. But there are lots of options on lots of units in varying price ranges, so I’d recommend trying some out if you can. The event caches others mentioned are a great way to meet other cachers and you can tag along and see lots of different kinds of units.
Other than that, just make sure you take a few trinkets to exchange in the caches as the kids will almost always want to trade something! And one last thing – let THEM find the cache often. If you spot it, play dumb and guide them to the right direction. (“I’m going to check behind this tree. Can you go check that hollow log on the ground?”) I find that if my son complains about an afternoon of caching, it’s because he wasn’t the one to spot any caches first.
I hope that was a little bit helpful. Ask any questions you want. We’re all happy to offer up our opinions!
~Mama Fishcacher
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Originally posted by WISearchers:
Two words…Dirty House. Or two more. Housework neglect! Whatever works.
Gotta have dirt in a house – don’t want it too clean or you start building resistant organisms and what not. Don’t want those organisms to be resistant to Windex or Pledge when you really need to use it! LOL!
I’m glad I’m not the only one that neglects housecleaning…. Fresh air and some walking to a geocache is sooooo much better for a body!
~Mama Fishcacher
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