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Welcome, WhiteEagle! Here at the WGA you will get answers to questions you never even asked! :LOL:

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2-5 miles??? You might have to go north for that unless the cache takes you in circles. That distance on public land around here will have you hitting a road or private property before then.

I do have some suggestions, but you might have to solve a puzzle or two first… 🙄 😈 😉 GC1PDVG comes to mind as one option.

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Nice way to achieve your goal on this cold frosty morning, bartrod! :LOL:

:bartrod:

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@beccaday wrote:

But I’ll admit I felt weird about it, I don’t typically claim my own caches as found.

Same here, Becca, but those aren’t “our” caches anymore, no matter what it feels like. 🙁

Maybe we should save the one we put out to fill that last hole in our calendar come December, especially if there is another blizzard! 😆
(Actually, we have saved a couple of roadside P&Gs for that hole. They aren’t much farther, and it would involve less effort to score the smiley at one of those.)

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Sorry. Not going to be of much help here. We haven’t decided yet. 😕

There is no reason not to log the caches, but it will seem weird. We don’t feel the need to clear out our radius or anything, but that cache does come up as our closest unfound cache. Maybe when we do maintenance at some time we will sign the log sheet and claim the smiley. Or not.

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Milestones were celebrated by the hundred, not by the thousand. And what is even a thousand or two these days? 🙄

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@Trekkin and Birdin wrote:

… people actually wrote a note along with their name and date in the logbook …

We still try to do that when the log book is large enough. Usually those caches don’t get visited very often, so we don’t feel guilty taking up half a page or more.

And remember when writing what you traded was a big thing? I like to read previous online logs on caches before I write our own log, and for the older caches where the logs go way back, it was not uncommon to see, “Took (whatever), left (whatever).” That was still going on a bit in late 2007, but the proliferation of micros cuts back on both the swag aspect and the lengthy log book log.

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@Gram and Gramps wrote:

We are looking forward to celebrating our geoversary with you two next month.

:like:
Always like hearing other people’s caching experiences, particularly from “way back when”.

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@BigJim60 wrote:

Happy Geoversary! I remember my first lamppost cache. I was stumped!.

Yes! There are no hiding spots in the middle of a parking lot… are there? And at our first dead end guardrail cache, we were scouring the nearby bushes and grass clumps until we thought to stick our hands inside the metal! :LOL:

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Craphas: from AstroD-Team’s General Forum post about winter precipitation on December 8, 2009…

“I’ll be tucked inside my house. Now that the white craphas arrived, I doubt I’ll be driving anywhere now. I think my caching days are over till summer.”

A mere typo… until Labrat got into the act:

“What’s a craphas and do they come in different colors???”

… and the rest is history. 🙄 😉

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No frost this morning; no craphas, either.

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One year we didn’t have a frost until October 21. We usually get one around the first of October. We have enjoyed the extra time this year to get the houseplants back in the house, to get more tomatoes off our vines, and to see our late-coming morning glories have an extended season. (The morning glories are our canary in the coal mine… If we get any kind of a frost, the morning glories will be the plant that lets us know we got hit.)

Living in town, we can usually avoid the first few frosts that hit the outlying areas. There have been years that we have even had our first snowfall before we had our first frost. Right now, I would like a frost so that the lawn and the weeds will quit growing, and we can prepare for winter properly!

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Thanks, everyone! Looks like Labrat sneaked in this post while we were out of town sans computer. 8) The only caching we’ve done since our milestone was for the WGA Picnic northeast and on an extended trip northwest after the bacon/Cheeze event last week. And we’re still trying to get all the logs written!

The summer home is always a good place to visit, caching or not. It will have to be “not” until someone places more new ones there… 😉

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Well, at least that’s better than tossing all your cookies…

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Sure, Gramps… We can serve as a TB way station.

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