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  • in reply to: August Ice Cream Social in Antioch IL #1877363

    @tyedyeskyguy wrote:

    … oh no, not again.

    Heh, heh. No, not again. We now return you to your regularly scheduled topic. I’ll go see what thread-stealers has to say 8) .

    in reply to: August Ice Cream Social in Antioch IL #1877361

    @CinemaBoxers wrote:

    Hey, arent we all forgetting the most important Antioch association??

    The HOLY HAND GRENADE OF ANTIOCH!

    A Reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:

    Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, “Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.” And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals … Now did the Lord say, “First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.”

    — Monty Python, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”

    “We’ll not risk another frontal assault, that rabbit’s dynamite!”

    in reply to: WILD PARSNIP #1876693

    Ran into ArcherDragoon at an event in Rochester, MN over the weekend and he had the worst case of wild parsnip I have yet encountered. He had been bushwhacking in wet conditions and feels that the sap of the plant impregnated his wet pants and passed to his skin. The next day he spent the morning in bright sunlight, the phytophototoxins in the sap had their reaction, and he had terrible blistering all over his lower legs. One blister was literally the size of my thumb, not just the knuckle, the whole thumb, and stood up at least 1/2 inch. Several others were sizeable as well and the entire surface of his legs was reddened, blistered and swollen. He had calamined his legs, and you could see the rivulets where blisters were breaking and leaving tracks. Very, very serious stuff. If you don’t know what it looks like, try to memorize the pictures and keep an eye out. My mild encounters were bad enough, I can only imagine ArcherDragoon’s experience 🙁 .

    in reply to: What are you reading? #1876885

    Reading “Traveling the Lewis and Clark Trail” by Julie Fanselow. Plotting and scheming for our fall trip. Yes there are things to see in North Dakota! St. Louis to Montana this year, hopefully finish our way to the coast next year… This year steaks and buffalo burgers, next year oyster shooters 8).

    in reply to: Astro-D at 2000 #1876813

    Congrats guys! Hope our paths cross again sooner rather than later. More important than the double kilo, what’s your benchmark count up to?

    in reply to: The Tapps climbs to 3,000! #1876366

    Congratulations. At some point maybe we’ll be lucky enough to finally meet. enjoyed our run through some of your caches the other week. 😀

    in reply to: Bandits Steal number 1500!!!!!!! #1876865

    Saw some oooold Bandits logs in Rochester yesterday. Maybe some day we’ll be able to cache as hard as you 😉 . (wish there was a clown emoticon). We need to share the car again, maybe after MWGB!

    in reply to: antigobob completes the WI Delorme Challenge!! #1876877

    Congratulations from us as well! There’s no better way to really see our state. I’m sure you made as many memories in the process as we did! 8)

    in reply to: Cookie cutter copy and paste logs #1876724

    Express Logger! You export your found logs into memos on your Palm Desktop, and then save it as a .txt file then go to the Express Logger website, load your .txt file and it will call up a list of your caches IN THE ORDER THAT YOU FOUND THEM (sorry for the caps, but this feature is awesome), and then as you click each one in order, it takes you directly to the log screen rather than the cache page. With my Palm next to me so I can recall details of the cache, the skipping of screens can save a lot of time on a big day.

    Express Logger has a one page tutorial, but it’s not a very intuitive process for the technologically challenged such as myself. Try it!

    in reply to: Cookie cutter copy and paste logs #1876719

    Oops! I guess I’ll be one of the guilty parties. Once in a while on a caching trip I’ll have a paste-in prefix like “Out caching with so-and-so…” and then add appropriate comments at each cache. It’s just as much a bookmark on my experiences as an expedient. On our honeymoon, every single cache got the same prefix referring to the fact. Vacations always get them too. Logs are just as much for me as the owners.

    If I get into a string of park and logs, I can’t say much about guard rail #5 or film can #7. The person who probably gets cheated is the person who has multiple caches that I visited, but for the person who had only one cache on my list, they get a little story when the cache might not have been that memorable.

    If it was me that the topic referred to, I’ll have to apologize, but it was 1:00 in the morning and I’m not a night owl, but caches must be logged ;).

    in reply to: Cheesehead Geocoin #1876392

    Couldn’t resist a few of His Cheezinessessess’s coins. If there’s a version II, maybe we can get the cow under that wedge. Nice design Dave!

    in reply to: One Paddle Short Finds treasure for #1000 #1876408

    Congrats from us too! After seeing where you hit 500, I’m sure 1,000 was memorable as well. Hmmm…. now where’s that log 😀 .

    in reply to: Timberline Echoes is a two tonner now! #1876340

    Congrats from both of us. Hope to catch up soon and hear all about the trip!

    Yeah, what Zuma said 😀 . Quite the adventure, and I’ll have mile-wide smile for a while. Iowa has a lot to offer,with a lot more variety in scenery than the stereotypes suggest. Thanks for all you thoughts and now maybe we can get back on the trails in Wisconsin…

    in reply to: Roaming Pack Sniffs Out #100 #1875692

    Congrats! Nice to meet you at the Bandits’ event.

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