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Colonel Mustard

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  1. I was going to say something about rattlers......... but I don't want a flame war from the Jeep People. Lets just say it's from the same family as the Viper.
  2. I've noticed a slew of new micros and a couple of traditionals in my area that were recently approved. Quite a few of these hidden by cachers who consistantly are the FTFs on other new caches. At the same time this group has a number of "Temporarily Unavailable" caches that are sitting unrepaired and unmaintained, some of them for months. Perhaps I'm just ranting, but it doesn't seem right to approve new caches when the same hider has unmaintained caches in limbo. I think that maintaining existing caches should be first priority. Am I missing something?
  3. If your brother is the geocacher, what is his Screen Name/ Handle? Let us see who he is before we jump on a bandwagon of sorts.
  4. yeah!!! And in styrofoam containers no less!!!
  5. Don't ever think that if you are allergic to the stuff that you won't get it in winter. One of the worst cases I ever had of the stuff I contracted in winter by just brushing against the trunk of a vine. All parts of the stinkin' plant carry the oil that causes the reaction. Roots, stems, leaves, all of it. Also to those who wear special clothes into it, please remember that the oil will stay on the clothes after you remove them. Anyone succeptible who handles the clothes can then pick up the oil. Same for a dog who runs through the stuff. if he picks it up on his fur, he can pass it along. Even smoke from burning the stuff has been known to carry the allergin along. Just a mean, nasty weed. Should be easy to distinguish it from the creeper by counting the leaves.
  6. Eventually you end up with a flying cat. Frisbee anyone? I thought they were called "sail-cats"...... No.....................Pizza Cats
  7. I wasn't serious about trying to deceive anyone. But here's an idea. Make a regular cache in the garlic mustard area filled with yard leaf bags and a good picture of the weed. Offer to send co-ordinates to a special prize cache to anyone who posts a picture of a bag full of weeds taken from the origanal cache location. You may get some takers, plus you create a viable cache (or two).
  8. Brings back memories of my heavy rescue squad days. Somewhere I have pictures of an 18 wheeler in a similar state of disassembly. They leave a much larger debris trail. The results for the driver are much the same though.
  9. QUOTE (The Leprechauns @ May 19 2004, 11:51 AM) Colonel Mustard, by any chance is your first name "Garlic"??? But perhaps you are afraid this is getting too close to home? I knew that was coming. As far as poison ivy being introduced to other parts of the world, then yes in my opinion it is legitimate to remove it. Heck I'm in favor of removing MOST poison ivy, native or not. I just don't think it should be a geocache theme to promote doing it. Can garlic mustard be put on hot dogs? Maybe an event cache with a few BBQ grills would get by the approvers.
  10. Poison oak, ivy and sumac are all native species. The others were accidental or deliberate imports that have gained a foothold and are overunning the native population. Much as i agree with the concept, Geocaching is for hiding and finding caches, not saving the environment. Let the tree huggers who give cachers a bad time get out and do that. What comes next ? Shoot the Starling cache? or Catch an English Sparrow or Nail a Ringneck Pheasant cache? They are non-native too. No thanks. Let's stick to caching. Just my two cents.
  11. Just did a couple of caches with plastic ammo boxes. Didn't seem too shabby. Much quieter than the steel cans, if you need to be stealthy.
  12. Just remember that on impact those little speedo needles bounce all over the place. Doesn't prove a thing. Heck he may have been going even faster than indicated.
  13. If the invitation is a problem, I'd venture that you shouldn't plan on attending the event.
  14. I find it hard to believe that the geocaching community has become so large that they've decended on this virtual cache by the hundreds or thousands and caused huge amounts of damage. More likely it is the Griswold types of vacationers whom the park is open to anyway. What I'd like to see is that when people have a gripe about cache placement in a sensitive area, that they post a detailed description of the area and some pictures to back it up. Then the caching community could make a reasonable judgement. Certainly there will never be one percent consensus, but at least we would be rightly informed with facts rather than the opinion of someone who may be biased for one reason or another. If there is a cache that is causing harm, then show it to us. Prove your point in the best way. As was said, bent grass and disturbed leaves are not an ecological disaster. Devastating a bed of protected wildflowers is. Show us.......... and offer proof that the cache is the cause.
  15. Well as I said I reloaded all the start up data a couple times and it has fresh batteries. I figured it would take a while to lock on the first time around but I wouldn't have guessed more than 15-20 minutes. I'll throw another set of batteries in it and let it set on the picnic table for a few hours and see what happens. After that, if no luck it becomes a hockey puck. Thanks for the advice.
  16. I was given an old Magellen 2000. I can't seem to ever lock on to more than 2 sats. I know this is an antique, but it was free. The guy who had it before me never could get it to lock on either. I reloaded all the start up data several times. Moved to other locations. Nothing seems to help. Anyone have any ideas before I turn this thing into dumpster fill? I normally use my Garmin so I was just playing with this thing to see if i could make it work. Just wondering what I may have missed.
  17. If it ain't broke keep fixing it till it is. Helicopters don't really fly........... they are so ugly that the earth repels them. That light at the end of the tunnel is really the headlight of the oncoming train.
  18. hmmmmmm...............Seems to me that if these were really bright people, they'd have already heard of geocaching and got on the site and checked to see if a cache was logged in the area. Geocaching is not exactly a secret anymore.
  19. Sorta gives a whole new meaning to "bushwacking"
  20. Leaves of three..............let it be. Don't ever believe the old wives tale about eating leaves from poison ivy. If you've ever seen someone with an ivy rash INSIDE their mouth you will know why. And don't think you just have to contact the leaves to get a rash. The stems, vines and trunks all carry the same oils.
  21. suspended animation (or Pennsylvania, depending on the time of day)
  22. Well DUH!!!! It's obvious it's a question from a newbie. Anyone else would have known NOT to use Einsteinian physics. It is clearly a scenario for Newtonian physics.
  23. I have a bridge I'd sell her for less than a million. Nice bridge. Big city. meet lots of nice folks. A real bargain.
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