mousekakat

*mental note... do not invite these folks to use your cabin when they visit Sweden...

Today we went out to do a little caching, and at one of the locations we found a black canvas bag, not very big, weighed down with rocks. Sent the Mr. in to investigate (I draw the line at stuff like that) and when he moved the rocks off of it he noted that it smelled like something decomposing in it. We figure that someone probably took an animal there and placed the rocks on top of it to keep other animals from getting in to it, but we're not sure, and we sure as he** didn't open the bag to see what was in it ! The area was a former shooting range and covered with stones and boulders, and the cache that is there is listed in the hint as under a root... this black bag was under a root, as well, but after getting home tonight and checking the spoiler hints it was definitely not the cache! We're in Sweden, there aren't a lot of kidnappings or missing people around here, but I'm American and my gut tells me to contact the cops to have them check it out. The Swede, though, figures it's just a pet that someone put out there instead of burying (but why would someone go through that trouble?) and is content with that thought. So... call the cops or leave it be?

OK... tonight I eat my words Went to a beautiful cache at the top of a mountain today... After searching a while, we found the cache. Major disappointment on the sprog's face. Inside it was 2 boxes of matches, one which had spilled all over the place, a lighter, some old lipgloss that had been opened, a trashy gargoyle head, a hair bobby pin, and bandaids. We removed everything and chunked it except for the bandaids and replaced it with quite a bit of more appropriate things for a cache. I can understand the matches and lighter, there was a cabin with a stove in it and also a grill at the top of the mountain, but all the same. The log book was filled with kids' signatures from school trips and stuff. Matches and lighters are a no-go! *although I'm still straddling the line with the zippo TB

I vote for taking the flint out, *and if its been soaked in fluid, the sponge material too) then releasing it again. But what if a child finds it, reinstalls the flint and wick and sets the woods on fire? Then you're screwed anyway. If a child is that smart and can get the replacement flint and wick and get them installed properly, you've got more than a forest fire to worry about, lol!

I vote for taking the flint out, *and if its been soaked in fluid, the sponge material too) then releasing it again. Complete agreement here...remove the flint, it's easy to do, and if it's been filled, remove the wadding, too. As for lighters, as long as they aren't left in the middle of Death Valley and they are the ones with the childproof little latch thingie, I've not got a major problem with them and I cache with my kids. Matches are a no-no, though, as well as lighters that have no child lock. Although yesterday I would have given my eye teeth for matches, lighter, even a fricken flint in the cache we found! I was SUCH a good mamma, packed a one time grill, hot dogs, chips, dessert, hot dog bread, ketchup, plastic utensils, cold sodas and even a cold beer for hubby to enjoy at the top of the mountain we were going after a cache on...was gonna be perfect, perfect evening caching and with the family, weather was great, sunset gorgeous, even a rainbow.... Hard to light the stupid grill without something that makes fire, grrrr ! Felt so stupid, he's not gonna let me live it down, either, hehehe... so, we ate the chips, dessert, sodas/beer, and came home and fried the hot dogs in a skillet on the stove *sighs*

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Oh man, I gotta get to a cache after you've been there, my 7 year old wants another hamster!!

First Aid alternative answer ..it could be placed over a profusely bleeding wound and bound in place with a bandage . We actually carry sanitary napkins in our first aid box precisely for that reason!

Bought some decent quality printable magnet paper and printed up these: We placed them in a plastic bag, sealed with packing tape and a little family business card in them saying who we are Easy to do, looks nice, and hopefully appreciated!

In Europe here, we've got a TomTom ONE and we really like it. We're constantly learning new things about it and how to use it and discovered yet another method tonight that helped us find one elusive cache we'd been having trouble with.

And here I thought it meant "Sealed with a gift!"

I think you're one of the exceptions and not the rule! I also applaud you, it's a tough line to toe nowadays! Kids want it all and they want it now! Mine are only allowed dvd's and very little network tv, tv is only on if mamma or pappa want to watch it. I don't think you're terrible at all, I wish more parents were like you, actually.

The exact same thing happened to me! Except I'm not from Texas. Oh and I'm not a girl and I didn't marry a Swede. And I didn't get knocked up and I live in Iowa. But I am living the American dream. Isn't that amazing? The similarities are kinda spooky. OMG! Just boggles the mind! Talk about scary coincidences! Do you breathe, too? I do!

Hehehe, I'm as American as apple pie... I'm originally a Texas gal who met a Swede online, fell in love, got knocked up, and then moved to Sweden to continue living the "American dream" there Life is good! Especially since discovering that our GPS is good for something besides getting us from point a to point b Now my hubby, with the exception of a few minor words or if he's really, really tired, he will fool you! He's had other Swedes argue him that he's not really Swedish when they hear his English, it's almost perfect, but 8 years with a big-mouth, talkative American wife will do that to ya, so I hear

Trust me, the kids here are catching up in the chunky department, sadly! BK and Mickey D's and pizza and video/pc games are no longer an "American" thing . My oldest isn't the only kid in her class that has a cell phone (with a prepaid card), game boy, mp3 player, etc. My oldest is packing about 1o lbs she could easily stand to lose. The terrain is one of the great things about caching. It gets us all up and moving, and as a family, no less! She can moan and groan all she wants, but she's coming with us and treking with us, too! I just pull rank and tell her it's time to go and to get over it. After the first cache and the goodies found in it she's good to go to the next one

We cache with our 7 1/2 year old on foot and our 14 month old either being held or carried in a sling. It's child friendly, in our opinion, if we can make it in and out fairly easily and with a minimum amount of b*tching from the older one. It still rates as kid friendly even if whoever holding the baby has to sit out a bit of the trail, as long as the older one can make it. I guess it's just an experience type thing. We went to one last weekend that had a pretty steep hillside with lots of loose rock and ground cover, the type where you kind of sit on your rump and slide down it and grab hold of whatever you can find to help climb up it. The older one made it. Mamma sat at the bottom with the baby and the dog. That one was pushing it on kid friendly, pappa and kidlet made it, and it was only the end of the trail that was rough. I don't know if it would have made the "kid friendly" rating had my oldest been smaller...

Had an incredible little black cat that I adopted from a no-kill shelter outside of Austin, Texas. He actually chose me as I was looking for a cat with a certain pattern, not a solid coal black cat, but every time I walked by his cage he reached a paw out to tap me. I was on the way out when the lady asked if I wouldn't at least take a look at the little cat who was so taken with me, and I did, and it was love at first sight I brought him home and he settled in like he had been there all his life, wonderful little guy, so great that I actually transported him across the Atlantic when I moved to Sweden and paid over 2k bucks to put him in quarantine with his buddy that I also adopted. His name was Mouse... and people always laughed at a cat named mouse and I would explain that I didn't name the cat mouse, but that the shelter did. It just eventually morphed to Mousekakat. Like everyone else, I was looking for something that wasn't really common on the net and found that no one had used that name before, so I started using it for my user name everywhere. We lost the wonderful Mousekakat almost 3 years old suddenly from feline upper urinary tract disease that we didn't know he had. He's missed, but Mouse II helps a lot, along with his sister Missy, both adopted from a shelter here in Sweden and both also coal black. Mouse II is eerily like his predecessor namesake, so much so that it makes you wonder about reincarnation. I can't bring myself to call him Mousekakat or Mousester monster yet, though. Not sure I'll ever be able to!

That seems really odd to me. Jesus did it. Christians are commanded to do it. Huge difference between witnessing and proselytizing.... HUGE difference. Kind of like the difference between talking and yelling

Yeah, that almost 7 bucks a gallon is getting us here in Sweden, too! I get 0,79l/10 km in my Opel Zafira, so it's not too bad, hubby gets a LOT better in his little Renault Twingo sardine can, 0,5l/10km, but his car isn't as comfy as the family Opel is, so we suffer the gas mileage and go in the Opel when it's caching time! I'm American living here, so the other day when I converted gas prices to gallon and what it costs me to fill my tank here I almost had a heart attack!!

Oh crap, do I need that for Hou(n)dini! I swear, my stupid (or not so stupid) dog can open doors if they aren't locked and she's a husky, so when she escapes, she escapes until she's ready to come home!

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It won't work for me, either. I use OperaMini on my phone and I have the same problem.... kind of sucks when you're out and want to check on something you forgot!

So... we're a Christian family. Mr Mousekakat is studying to be a priest. If we were to leave a simple little wooden cross in a cache it would be found as offensive to someone? It was something we were considering doing to leave in caches. We're as against proselytizing as the next person, is it the tracts and such that creates the problem, or is it just the simple fact that it is a symbol of faith? FWIW, I kind of like the idea of leaving a Rosary, and I'm no longer Catholic. It's a beautiful item with a lot of symbolism, and there are so many beautiful places that inspire people to possibly draw closer to God or to meditate or whatnot, I just don't see the harm. Oh, and also, I think it's great with other religious symbols, too, be it Buddhas or Stars of David of Ankhs or even Tor's Hammers... we believe in God, but we also believe that others have the right to believe, or not believe, what they want

There are 12 caches within a 16km (10mile) radius of my home, four of which are mine. And yes, I have found the other eight. Over 1000!! - goes off muttering . . . I think I'm going to go off and join you muttering on this one... There are a whopping 5 within 16km of my house. One we placed. One we found. One we dnf but plan to go back. One is listed in bad condition, so we won't go look for that until it's undergone maintenance, and one that we can't take the baby to and need to find a sitter for, but it is definitely on our "to do" list!