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OPS, I couldn’t have said it any better. It’s a great perspective on balance.
Agreed. Well said. I tried to put together a reply for this thread a couple days ago and gave up for the moment. Didn’t have the time to give it then. Someone else mentioned phases. All of our games evolve. Change is inevitable. Some have more time and resources to spend. Some want to stay married, or keep their jobs, at least till blissful retirement. Along with my latest phase of “picking and choosing” a bit more, though I do relapse now and then, I have rediscovered some of the other things I used to share more with my family. Balance is important, but we are all different and need to pick and choose what works well for each of us.
Congrats on the 1.5 K, Frizz! Nice choice!
Congrats!
Congrats, Jim! Oh, yeah, Linda too! 😉 Closing the gap!
Congrats. Ryan! Way to go on the hefty numbers early in the game and doing it in style with an FTF! Don’t wear yourself out! I am getting used to staying at home though I just missed you and bnssmith by ten minutes the other day!
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Wow! WTG Ryan
Looks like this cache had plenty of attention very early on.
Where’s Dave?We still had some so I wasn’t let out for a milk run. 🙄
Congrats. ZB. Well, where are the rest of the logs? Curious to see where you ended up. Get those phots for the cemetery challenge! 😉 Well done!
FINALLY! Congrats, Robb and Sue! Enjoyable log as well, as always. Well done!
Congrats, Mike! Sorry I missed spotting you while you were out on the back forty tossing grenades!
Been the target twice. Not in the yard, but close enough to toss a ball to the final. Gnarly puzzles, too. Got the FTFs both times, once just barely. At least the pressure is off now. I’ve placed enough caches of my own in the neighborhood to create some space. Too bad though, neither of the side yard/backyard caches get many visitors, and I don’t get to enjoy seeing my neighbor try to help searchers look for it. Some funny stories there, with seldom|seen moving a container whenever she went out to help, and had the searchers be really confused why it wasn’t where she told them it was.
O.K., still trying to beat a dead horse, I’ll inch forward a bit more and offer another coin for a monthly prize to the first, or second, new monthly winner. And I will mail it directly or send it via Dave, whichever works best.
About a year ago I unknowingly “pocket” dialed my friend Curly Girl while rooting around for a cache over on the Lake Michigan shore. I heard this voice saying “Hello? Hello?” and thought it was someone approaching on the nearby trail. After I hastily rehid the cache, I realized it was my pocket talking, and I had a chance to wish my friend a Happy Birthday!
Congratulations, the fun continues… Best wishes to you both!
As with too many other things about caching ethics and courtesy, whether it be cool coins or travel bugs, nice swag intended to enhance a cache a make it fun for kids or adults, or even the well-concealed “safe” cache itself, there are increasing numbers of bad apples spoiling the barrel.
We seem to have had better luck with some of our travel bugs than really cool coins, and have followed-up on disappearances or done replacements to keep some of them moving even after going MIA. Overall we feel we have been pretty lucky compared to many with about twenty of twenty-five sent out still traveling. New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Canada. both coasts, and many states in between are present locations. It is fun to “travel” to the caches and with the cachers moving them and sometimes see photos of the travels.
For the coolest coins and even some travel bugs made for us or by us, we have been more cautious and keep them in a box for discovery by friends and others we meet at events or on the trail. In spite of precautions or follow-up, we do have some disappointments, like the loss of one of our Sunburst Nature (suncatcher series) John Muir geocoins in the past couple weeks. A very cool coin with a stained glass window center. After seeing it dropped in a cache by a cacher who kept it too long, apologized and asked for a little more time and told “no problem, just drop it in a safe cache or with a trusted cacher” it got dropped in a TB hotel in Cincinnati with three prior instances of trackable disappearance. Wrote again to the guy who dropped it, then to the cache owner, then posted a note to the cache page asking anyone who stopped at the cache to move it to a safer place. The dropper and owner didn’t reply (till after the latest disappearance of the coin and a couple other trackables from the cache) and we lost one that we really liked too soon for many others to enjoy it. The owner finally did archive that cache last week, wrote an apologetic note, mentioned his own problems with coins and collectors, and said he won’t be sending out any more coins himself. We have a death trap like that in our area that is still “active” so to speak. Needless to say, we won’t be sending out either of the two Sunburst Nature series coins we have left – too nice to risk.
When moving trackables, we try to consider the mission of the coin or TB but more importantly pick a cache that is well hidden or away from muggle traffic and has no history of muggle visits or trackable disappearances. Less and less seems certain these days and we will also be more cautious with coins and probably not send many more out after what we have seen for the past couple years. Might send out laminated front and back versions on some, but that seems to defeat the whole purpose of enjoying the heft of a good coin, or the detailed engraving, or the true colors, or some other aspect of the real thing. Too bad, that experience will be increasingly reserved to those we see in person.
Congrats, Annie! Sorry I missed you at the campout. Hope to see you closer to home again soon!
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