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Team Sloughfoot is claiming a new record. We were north and west of Coloma on Sunday at Hidden Valley GC148MR. A really nice walk with a surprizing view at GZ. We even sat and enjoyed the view for a few minutes, big mistake. Got back to the car and noticed a few ticks and started picking. After about 24 we felt we had them under control. That was well into the creep zone but headed to the next cache. Hadn’t gotten too far down the road before more were crawling out and going out the window. Got on a dirt road near the next cache and Mrs. S. was ready to jump out the window and she was driving. Pulled over in a remote spot and, cover your eyes, the clothes came off. Turned everything inside out and picked ticks until the total became 46. We looked like a pair of monkeys picking at each other in our underwear. At that point a tour bus could have come along and I wouldn’t have noticed. Found more when we got home and are worried the car is infested. Got to love this sport. After finding a few more in the car the total is up to 49 and one that showed up at 3am makes it 50.

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Way to go geolivestrong, that’s a TON of caches.

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Congrats on the 2.1K Robb & Sue. Hope to cross paths out on the trail this summer.

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Thanks everyone for the congrats. Retirement IS everything we expected and I hope all of you get to retire on your own terms someday. Every day is a saturday and we try to go caching a couple of days a week on saturday of course. We have finally hauled the last load out of Appleton and are still trying to figure out how to fit a 5 bedroom house with two garages into a cottage less then 1000 sq ft. There will be a huge yard sale at Gail’s Moms house in Pardeeville over Memorial Day weekend. We have lots of other things to keep us occupied, elderly mothers and our family down to our Great Grandson Riley. Life is good. We’ll see you all out on the trail.
John & Gail

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Congrats Joe, did you finally get caught up on your logging? How many of that 3K were done in the dark?

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Way to go Jim & Linda. You are pulling away from us, it seems like omly yesterday that we shared #2400. Keep it up and we always enjoy doing a J&L cache.

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Way to go Benny, many more in the future.

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Congrats you two and it was nice to be sitting at #2400 along with you.

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Thanks everyone for the cheers.

The chickens were NOT booming. We did several caches in Prairie Chicken range but didn’t spot any. It was a cold windy snowy day maybe they were hunkered down.

Congrats to JimandLinda also. We were both sitting at #2400 at the same time, that pretty cool for no planning.

Retirement is great and I hope everyone gets to experience it!

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Unemployed for the first time in 43 years and loving it! We still have a few more loads to move from one place to another but there was talk about geocaching just this morning. Catch you all on the trail.[/u]

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Mrs Sloughfoot didn’t tell me that she was starting this thread, so she had to tell me to go look at it. I don’t usually spend a lot of time on the forums. Thanks for all of the good wishes, I think maybe you just want us to hide a bunch more caches. That might happen we have about 15 ammo cans in stock.

It was in April 1967 that I hired on with Honeywell in Madison. We were two 19 year old kids with a 9 month old son. We loaded everything we owned in a 1963 Falcon and a small U-Haul trailer and took off for Wasington D.C. with a six month stop in Boston for training. The first surprise was toll roads. By the time we reached Bean Town we were about broke but Honeywell was a great company and we made out just fine. You didn’t need much money to see all of the historical spots around Boston and later Wash DC and it started an interest in history that we still enjoy.

We all love our pc’s and Macs right. We couldn’t enjoy our sport without them. It took a long time and a lot of miniturization to get them to the point that they are at right now. I wasn’t the inventor of anything but I managed to fix anything the engineers designed. Computers went from living room sized with card equipment ( remember “dont bend, spindle, or mutilate”?) to even larger room sized monsters. There were no monitors on computers just large control panels or maybe a Teletype. I can remember the first green monitors, some people called them scopes. Then WOW, amber text, what a variety. The first computers had no RAM, it was called “core” and you could actually see the wires going through little magnetic cores. The first system I worked on was 2K core ( 2048 bytes) and with that you could read and punch cards, print and put data on mag tape. The first Honeywell computer had 3″ mag tape and a full reel weighed 42 lbs.

As computers got faster and smaller we started trying to connect them together. Modems had acoustic couplers and were at first 110 Baud or about 10 bytes/second. Eventually of course Al Gore invented the Internet ( yea right ) and things progressed to the point we are at right now. I can only let my mind wander and imagine what will happen in the next ten years.

We spent 13 years in Virginia and three more years in Germany before we decided that Wisconsin was a pretty nice place to live and raise a family so we came back in 1982 and have lived in Appleton ever since. We are only moving a few miles down the road to our cottage near Portage so we will still be in touch with all of you and will meet on the trail or at the M&G’s.

As for Jim and his computer problems. Jim I plan to do a memory erase so these will be the new definitions.
“Windows” Open when it is warm, closed when it is cold.
“Mac” Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun
“Hard drive” It is a long way to the next cache.
“Mouse? What the cat is good for.
“Floppy” Can’t be discussed here.

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Team Sloughfoot thinks they might be able to do this one. Sloughfoot is pretty good on the ice but I think the best way to test it is to put a rope on Rsplash and send him out first. If he falls through the other 20 of us should be able to pull him back out.

We had one of our geocoins spend about 9 months in this cache so I am interested in seeing where the cache location is. I have been past the backwater many times over the years.

We did the new woodpecker series in Johnson Creek last weekend and the ice is good on the Rock River so if anyone wants to do those 5 you don’t want to wait too many weekends.

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Congrats EcoRangers (the entire family) on the 20K. I’m sure we will meet many more times on the trail or at an event. Sloughfoot is getting ready to retire on March 19th so we can cache full time. You better keep your good lead going…..LOL
John & Gail

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Sloughfoot has new stick that we might as well put in to service tomorrow. It has been decorating a corner of our cottage for several years now but Sloughfoot is getting ready to retire and expects to pick up the pace of caches so a good stick can help the old guy down the trail. It’s name will be “Rutherford” named after the man that carved it. There are several “Rutherford’s” already out there, Marble Guy and Wrongway Junebug and Thunderslide are using them. See everyone tomorrow.

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One other little item about caches with pictures, the pictures won’t show up in your Palm Pilot if you are going paperless. Team Sloughfoot likes to load up the GPS and Palm and just follow the GPS from cache to cache. When we hit a puzzle or multi with pictures we just skip it. Our thought is if we need to do a lot of studying before we go caching it isn’t a hobby any more.

BTW we placeds a cache in south central WI one sunday, came back to Appleton and submitted it, WGA3 approved it and it was found the same evening in a snow storm.

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