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If still no ‘owner’ found for those CD’s.. how about donating them to our picnic for a door prize?
~The Lil Otter
Just reminding all that I’m still hoping for more member donations for door prizes..
~The Lil Otter
What Else Do You Do??
Building/planning design..
Carpentry…
Insulating..
Plumbing…
Electrical..
Cement work…
drywalling…
Painting/staining..
Deck building..coming soon:
tile installing..
trimwork..
carpet installing..Hmmm.. I’m still working on my new home improvement.. (had my home lifted up and added a lower level master bedroom suite consisting of 5 rooms and a 2 story foyer) Now at the drywall/mudding stage.. in the last few weeks I’ve put in 10-15 hr days trying to complete the mudding/sanding.. I’ve went through 240 pounds of mud so far.. had help putting up over 100 sheets of drywall in the last few months.. used over 900 feet of tape.. over 30 pounds of drywall screws.. about 700 ft of corner bead..
It’s been 11 months since I had started this project.. I’ve had my hand and heart into each and every step.. I was lucky to find a carpenter last fall that started turning my dream into a reality.. he/I put up the outside walls and foyer within two months.. after he left/finished I took over all the other tasks of completion..
Hopefully I’ll be done by fall where I’ll be able to get my head back into geocaching more and perhaps have a chance to geo-trek upnorth before hunting season..
~The Lil Otter
(ps.. thanks to all those that have helped keep my caches going while I’m so tied up here on my home)quote:
Originally posted by Ms. WISearcher:
I am so glad that you asked about night caches…thre is a great one which will be a small drive away that Lil’ Otter placed called “Walking in Circles, Seeing Red?”. We still talk about it…excellent night cache!!! One of our all time favorites…I would consider it a must do!
(smiles) I’d be honored to tag along with anyone interested in doing my Walking in Circles cache during that weekend.. I’ll really promise this time that no one gets wet feet (grins)… just give me a hollar if interested.. and which night of the picnic weekend you’d like to go.
~The Lil Otter
I have a few replies about gift donations for our door prizes.. but we could still use more helps.. please email me at the above link to donate a door prize or two.
A big “Thank you” to those that have already donated!
~The Lil Otter
I’ve owned a Magellan Meridian since I began caching… had it get waterlogged.. it was replaced without charge.. I’ve used this model continually until my latest trip to FL in April 04.. figured I’d take two Magellan’s down south.. so I upgraded to a Meridian Gold.. both units can have their hardware programing upgraded easily through their website as a download.. it only uses two AA batteries ( I use rechargables) and has a auto plug for use in the car.. the mapping program software can be loaded on the SD cards as well as ANY amount of waypoints stored on SD cards.. I took over 6000 geocache waypoints with me on a SD card when on my last trip knowing then that I never had to STICK to my orginal plans but could roam around as I wished in my travels.. and I had EVERY back road within each of the states east of the Mississippi River with me on my journey.. I have dropped my units so many times that I lost count.. no problems.. my older model still works great except the backlight doesn’t work.. I get great signals in any weather and have not had many problems with losing satellite lock..
I don’t think I’ll ever need another GPS because the hardware system downloads are always with new features..
~The Lil Otter
oops.. I also forgot to mention Bastille Days will be running during your weekend there.. I’m sure you can read more info about that if you do a ‘search’ on that festival.
~The Lil Otter
A MUST do in Milwaukee would be to go to the Milwaukee Museum and see the Egyptian display.. the last time it was in our area (Chicago) was way back in the 70’s. The Milwaukee Museum is a GREAT place regardless.. The Egyptian display will be there until August 8th.
~The Lil Otter
Thank you AGAIN for the help.. I don’t NEED mentoring from you.. I asked others here for helps.. could you PLEASE either head on back to those caches you’ve posted on and CHANGE them to an ARCHIVE request because I am breaking the guidelines.. this then might give you something else to do in your ATTACKS upon me this evening..
I don’t understand those that wish to RULE over others online.. it just seems like some wish to ruin the fun for others.. my caches have been disabled.. no one is wasting their time hunting these couple of caches.. yet you deem necessary to wish to prove your knowledge about the written rules of caching.. yet if this is all you can offer me in the way of helps.. could you please direct your ATTACKS towards others.. I’m very tired of you attacking me.
~The Lil Otter
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Originally posted by Trudy & the beast:
The note on the cache page isn’t quite as public as these forums but it can be read by any with a concern for the cache. As of now, I have only posted notes at caches that have gone over a year without a find.
~tb
REPEAT from my above post JUST yesterday..
So if the fact that some of my geocaches are in need of helps.. COULD someone that is about to hunt them.. please lend me a hand and do your best to keep it going so that others can enjoy the area??THANKS for the HELP .. Beast.. if this is the HELP area and if all you’ve done is decide to take the matter into your own hands to publically embarrass me in NOTES you’ve deemed necessary to POST .. I can’t WAIT to see what other tactics you are going to do with your “As of now” threat… soon you’ll suck the fun out of geocaching with your policing methods..
On a side note..
I wish to thank those that have HELPED me during this time that I have been STUCK at my home with this home improvement that is tying me to one area..~The Lil Otter
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Originally posted by Miata:
I have seen ‘Lil Otters van and she does have a wide selection of replacement cache containers!
The area around the cache looked much like the day I placed it! I have since put a date on it to be archived after reading this thread.
God.. I’m so embarrassed about my van.. I have not unpacked my van since my return from FL way back in April.. then I tossed stuff in there to head to our WGA campout the weekend afterwards.. then I’ve used my van as a “truck” to haul building matterials (giggles).. then think of cleaning it out but WHERE do I put all this stuff? Can’t bring it into the house because of the CLOUD of drywall dust and all vacant spaces filled with displaced furnature (giggles).. Can’t unpack my van into the garage because it stores even more of my crap.. and is command central for every building supply known to mankind (giggles).. so I keep telling myself that no one will notice the van MESS (grins).. but one of these days.. life will be back to normal and each thing I’ve gathered in my life will have it’s special spot.. til then.. life’s a BIG adventure to not trip over things in the dark.. and it’s fun to try to explain to a police officer that I’m not some homeless creature living out of my van (giggles)…
Miata.. if your cache placement was chosen with respect for its surroundings and all the ‘geo-guests’ visiting haven’t created a mess.. PLEASE don’t feel that you have to archive your cache because of this forum.. I have so enjoyed your caches that you’ve already taken me on.. if concerned just move your cache to a new location within that same area and just update the lon/lat so that many more can enjoy seeing geocaching through your eyes..
~The Lil Otter
Everything’s just fine here.. my thought was how it would have been soooo sad if my home would have gotten damaged and I would have then have to start over … I don’t want to drywall again this life (grins)
~The Lil Otter
(smiles).. I can archive every one of my caches that is in need or in troubles.. but rest assured that anytime I see a cache in trouble.. I try my best to improve that situation .. just as when I hope that we aren’t just after the hunt but will help each other out.. I remember how I spent a ton of time picking up a few caches that bears got into.. knowing that the owners were not able to DASH right up there.. but with my helps at that moment kept those caches ‘alive’.. but after my log of bear chews (grins) most if not all of them haven’t had many visitors since (chuckles).. but the point is.. I tried my best to improve that situation.. or like at the Rib Mountain multi cache.. prior logs stated that the 3rd hike waypoint container had to be moved by another geocacher.. and they stated it was to help it out because of a new ski run.. when I arrived at the 3rd waypoint.. I actually spent hours finding that safer spot.. got the new lon/lat and then hiked back up and then hiked back over to the second waypoint to actually update the coords there at that logbook to assist those in finding out where the 3rd was relocated.. I didn’t have to spend the extra hours or the INTENSE hikes up and down those steep hills.. but I did it because it HELPED out that cache that was in troubles.. I call it my ‘thank you’ back to the geo-community..
No one is asking.. you or anyone else to carry extra logbooks.. baggies .. spare containers.. pens etc.. to assist in the repair of caches in troubles.. but I know I’ve helped out hundreds of caches in my journies.. I don’t publically shout about the glories I have done.. but privately email the cache owner stating the repairs I did.. (in some cases even replacing a missing container)..
For my defense.. I have been held up in my home trying to get it finished.. I have spent most if not all of my ‘spare’ monies upon this project.. it’ll soon be over where I won’t have others in constant need of entry into my home at a moment’s notice.. I’ve only SNUCK out of the home once this year to actually geocache as I had normally done.. left for a geo-trip down south..
So if the fact that some of my geocaches are in need of helps.. COULD someone that is about to hunt them.. please lend me a hand and do your best to keep it going so that others can enjoy the area?? Or if that isn’t enough to keep those caches alive.. please look over my geocaches and adopt any or all that you wish.. it was always about sharing my experiences.. and I wish not to have anyone think I’ve lost the interest in geocaching.. I’ve just not had a moment of time to call my own to actually travel around the state yet..
My van is yet stocked with all my repair materials.. and I have plans to check on each geocache that I own in the state.. each of my archived caches has been or will be picked up.. and I’d suggest that those that are worried that there is ‘geotrash’ (abandoned/archived) caches yet left out there perhaps there is a way that our local approvers can list or access the list of those and publish them for us all.. so that if/when in the area.. and those caches have no “I picked up the container” type logs.. we could all make a point of just checking the location to make sure the container is not yet there after archived…
And I hope that when you ‘save’ your first geocache that is in troubles.. you feel the same way that I always do.. that you become part of what it was always about.. sharing..
When I only had less than 40 caches in the state to find.. I actually included in my list those caches that were ‘temp’ disabled and hunted those.. it added another thrill to the hunt to find a ‘missing’ container.. I found 3 that way in one trip (grins).. and had a blast chatting with those owners that thought their cache was actually missing to only find out that either an animal or human just moved it outside of the normal 30-40feet of ground zero.
Just my two cents..
~The Lil Otter
573 GCB0AC 12/29/02 The floodwall – KY
574 GC404C 12/29/02 KILLER MOVE – TN653 GC7873 1/1/03 Memorial – GA
657 GC4AA5 1/1/03 New Jersey April Fool’s Cache – NC
684 GC79C0 1/3/03 Loco Cache – SC
701 GC6CBC 1/5/03 Big Talbot Island – FL
1130 GC6964 2/20/03 Morgan’s Treasure – AL
1140 GCB4F4 2/21/03 Engulfed – MS
1144 GC8D1D 2/21/03 THE END OF THE ROAD – LA (PharmTeam had a locationless (GC3DAF)from LA but wasn’t there in the state before me)~The Lil Otter
[This message has been edited by The Lil Otter (edited 06-25-2004).]
I’ll be hanging around my campfire this weekend with my sons.. they are bringing up their jetskis and about 5-6 buddies. All will be camping in my back yard .. This joy is a bit clouded with the passing today of my son-in-law’s Mother..
~The Lil Otter
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