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It brought me back to LIFE!!!
Well — at least it brught more joy to my already-existing life; let’s put it that way.
I used to be real involved in motorsports. Just about anything that had an engine: Cars, trucks, snowmobiles, etc. Working on them and driving them consumed most of my free time.
Then came the brain tumor that took much of my eyesight. Nasty little bugger left me legally blind and the state figures I probably shouldn’t drive any more. (could I really be any worse than some of the drivers out there?!?) So it was time to either curl up and do nothing, or find something different to do.
That’s when the boss at my then-new job introduced me to this. Since then, my wife and I have gotten out to nature MUCH more. We’ve discovered a lot of really great places that are right here in our “back yard”. We now visit parks, forests, etc. that we’ve driven within 1/4 mile of and not known of before.
So geocaching became a new hobby that allows me to participate WITH my wife — not INSTEAD of her. It allows us to get out for some fresh air and excercise that was all too lacking before.songs about gravy
boy! the things a guy misses when he skips a Team Badger outing!!
Then again — I don’t have that song stuck in my head!!!
ahhh — but there is a simple cure for the “A” tick.
If you play one certain song loudly enough near the bird, the ticks will depart. It’s the “E” song. I’m sure you know the one…
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The Loon E TuneA question for the masses:
Is there a consensus on whether it would be wise to approach the local PD and offer some info on geocaching. Perhaps if a captain was to disperse a memo to officers, and to the bomb squad in particular, on how to spot a geocache it might help. Perhaps they might even be inclined to check gc.com to see if there is a cache located at that spot before it is treated with suspicion.
Now, please understand that I fully agree with everything posted above. Plastic see-through containers make the contents obvious. Geocaching stickers help identify an ammo can, etc. Those are all excellent starting points.
But perhaps a little conversation with our local constabulary might be the extra step needed (?)I, too, started with a TRS-80 Level 1 in high school. It even came with the schematic! I browsed electronics catalogs and bout RAM chips to updrade it from 4k to 16k !! That’s K — Not M!! And boy — those cassette tapes. If youdidn’t have the volume on the cassette recorder just right, it was CLOAD all over again!
I jumped up to an off-brand 8080 processor-based machine in about 1987. Had an Amiga 500 for a while too. Very much ahead of the PC’s in graphics & sound at that time.
Now I have 5 PC’s plus a laptop that I can turn on and run. Several more pieces/parts besides. Just got a PDA about a month or two ago. So I’m starting to go paperless.
Basically, if it’s electronic in some way, I probably have it or want it. Powered by batteries? Has LED’s? Makes beeping sounds? Fits in my pocket or on my belt? COOL!!! GIMME!!!We did some caches in Florida in February of 2003. Found them to be very similar to WI caches except that, instead of a pile of sticks, at least one was covered by dried seaweed and horseshoe crab shells (seriously!).
Would love to be able to attend the event but, unfortunately, with one big vacation already planned for next year, I won’t be able to do a second. Maybe in ’06!
Can’t remember for sure who took the photo of the whole group (was it Bob?) — but were you going to post it here for us to copy?
I just want to thank everyone for helping thru the caches and for really making me feel welcome in the Team. I had an absolutely great time yesterday. I’m definitely feeling it today, though. Exactly WHY did I walk along for the whole way on “You’re Kiln Me Here” ???
Special thanks to Bob for picking me up. I couldn’t have enjoyed the people and the caches without your help!
HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!!
Something has popped up that Mrs.OuttaHand needs to do at 8am on Saturday. And since I can’t drive, I’m left with no way to get to the meeting spot at 8am.
So I’m hoping someone can lend a hand somehow. If one of you could e-mail me with a cel phone #, then we could call you Saturday morning when we get up to the area and find out where you’re all at. Could meet you all at cache #2 or #3 or so.
OR — if any of you happen to be coming thru Elkhorn on the way to the site, maybe you could pick me up?
Please post with any ideas that might get my sorry, non-driving butt to the fun.
Thanks!Quote:Originally posted by Auntienae:
We are not saying “to go against” the powers that be. We are not saying “to fight” for this. Rather, we are trying to bridge both into the understanding that it is all in how it is written!BINGO!! I’m not suggesting we “slide it by” them; or take an attitude of “he-he — we foolded ’em on this one!”
I just think this is as much a caching event as any other and should be treated as such. And if that can happen by simply re-wording something, so be it.And that was exactly my point. I heartily agree it’s not about the numbers. It’s all about meeting other cachers and having some good fun!
But I guess at some point, it becomes a matter of principle. Why do other meetings qualify as an “event” when this one does not? In priciple, it’s the same thing!
So if we can get it approved as an “event” by renaming it, there is a sort of moral victory.Just call it “The Inaugural Kettle Moraine Area geocaching Gear and Methods Meet”. Its primary purpose is to gather geocachers and allow them to compare the gear and methods used by other local geocachers so that we all may learn what is, and is not, working well for other geocachers.
Oh — and if we happen to go out in search of some of the local caches, just to SEE how these practices and gear actually work in action, well that’s just a bonus.
We’re all in agreement that this is, and should be “allowed” to be, a geocaching event. I think it comes down to re-wording it in such a way that it meets the specific rules.So what if “we” were to put a tupperware container with a log book on the hood of the first car to arrive? Now there’s a temporary “event cache” that can be searched for and logged. It would be just as valid a cache as the ones at any other event cache that don’t strictly meet the guidelines of a regular cache; and it would allow this event to be ‘qualified’.
It doesn’t really matter to me that much. I agree that it’s a silly/stupid ruling, but it doesn’t bother me a lot. While I would like to get another find for the event itself, I am more looking forward to meeting some fellow cachers and finally getting to those caches that have been on my ‘to-do’ list for quite some time.So, if I’m reading you right, you’re just saying we will not get a “find” for the event itself. Is that right? You’re still gathering same time & place to do the same caches?
I got the ‘OK’ from Mrs.OuttaHand so it looks like we’re in.
Sounds great to me! We just did “You’re Kiln Me Here” a couple weeks ago, but the others are on our “to-do” list.
Do you plan to do them in the order listed above?So now all that remains is to convince Mrs. OuttaHand that we can physically do four Kettle Moraine caches and still have enough energy left to go to our league bowling that night!
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