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@STEMmom wrote:
My mom and I have had discussion about where we would want to be buried after we died. This topic has come up because it seems my dad has been a bit obessed with his burial. My mom want to be cremated and given my brother permission to put her ashes in his garden (it was my mom’s). I told my mom to creamate me and then find one of my geocaching friends to help place a cache near the ashes. This way people will come see me on a somewhat a regular basis.
My instructions are actually pretty close to that. When I die, I want to be cremated and spread in a nice, peaceful, remote location with a cache placed nearby. I’d like the description to mention a little bit about me and my love of caching. While I’m not a numbers guy, it’s the one thing that my children and I love doing together.
I can’t think of a better way to be remembered (and since I’m HIGHLY claustrophobic, it’s much more fitting!).
Agreed – absolutely perfect caching weather today!
We went out today and nabbed 6. We’re excited about the prospect of next weekend being just as nice. We’re 6 away from our 100th find!
My son and I had some shirts made for Geocaching. I designed them online at customink.com. They turned out pretty nice!
Sold!
I should clarify that I’m NOT the CO of the cache in the original discussion (which exploded!). I’m the owner of the one discussed towards the bottom of page 2.
I’m the CO of the cache in question.
To clarify, the tubes in question were pump spray and not aerosol. If they did overheat, they’d simply spring a leak and mess up the inside of the ammo can.
Of course that’s also a problem, and the folks that found my cache were right – those should not have been put in there. While I thought I was being clever due to the unbelievable skeeter season we’ve been having, it completely slipped my mind that there could have been a mess from those tubes leaking.
Now, having said that, I do think that the note was a little harsh. My 9 year old son who helped me hide it nearly burst into tears thinking that we did something horrible. He has anxiety problems and really thought we were in trouble. While there is no possible way anyone could have known that, I think *anyone* would have felt bad after reading that. I wasn’t mad, in fact I truly felt horrible that I made such a dumb mistake. I did consider just archiving the thing – for something that’s supposed to be fun, it created a lot of drama in my life for an hour or so! 🙂
At any rate, I have had a pleasant email exchange with the people who found my cache (they offered to return the tubes), and 100% believe that their intentions are good, and I appreciated that they removed the tubes from then cache. I completely understand their side in all of this. There are no hard feelings at all, and there was a very good lesson learned by us.
Excellent!
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! We were out today searching for a cache when we got hit with a surprise rain shower. Nathan and I debated about whether or not we’d turn back when Nathan said “Geocachers never give up!” So we trekked on! 😀
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