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Hey! So I just did a search to see if this topic had ever come up. But didn't notice any previous ones so here goes. What's your favorite snack while geocaching? *Sweetarts are commonly refered to as "proton energy pills" in this clan. Wish I could find the huge kind that they made when I was a kid. *Licorice. I had a bag of 4 flavores (black the best in my opinion, red, green apple and peach) in the van when we went to Ottawa. Was a big hit with the entire group of 11 cachers. But I did notice grimmaces when I mentioned black was my favorite. I also like chocolate licorice which used to be easiest found in PA. *Cereal & yogurt bars. Not the favorite around here cause if they are in the pack for any amount of time they get crushed.....I also found out that if you put them near the bug spray the plastic packaging doesn't protect from odor absorption....oh well at least we wont get any bugs zooming in while yawning on the trails. *Candy bars. Snickers hands down. But I have to remember to take 5. None like to share. Does anyone actually take healthy stuff...carrots and such? Just wish I could find a way to take coffee ... oh yeah...I love chocolate covered coffee beans...great energy booster too...esp for mutli cache days "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Hey! So I just did a search to see if this topic had ever come up. But didn't notice any previous ones so here goes. What's your favorite snack while geocaching? *Sweetarts are commonly refered to as "proton energy pills" in this clan. Wish I could find the huge kind that they made when I was a kid. *Licorice. I had a bag of 4 flavores (black the best in my opinion, red, green apple and peach) in the van when we went to Ottawa. Was a big hit with the entire group of 11 cachers. But I did notice grimmaces when I mentioned black was my favorite. I also like chocolate licorice which used to be easiest found in PA. *Cereal & yogurt bars. Not the favorite around here cause if they are in the pack for any amount of time they get crushed.....I also found out that if you put them near the bug spray the plastic packaging doesn't protect from odor absorption....oh well at least we wont get any bugs zooming in while yawning on the trails. *Candy bars. Snickers hands down. But I have to remember to take 5. None like to share. Does anyone actually take healthy stuff...carrots and such? Just wish I could find a way to take coffee ... oh yeah...I love chocolate covered coffee beans...great energy booster too...esp for mutli cache days "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Ok....it doesn't fit the price thing.....but Dave why don't you give Uno the III+ and buy yourself a Garmin V. We run both. When I ordered the V told the husband....that I needed it cause I always get lost... pluck in address....it beeps before and at each turn........wonderful thing....I thought originally that we would sell the III+. But Fealess delights in outsmarting the maps and arriving at the destination sooner that calculated. Ya just gotta have it! Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Ok....it doesn't fit the price thing.....but Dave why don't you give Uno the III+ and buy yourself a Garmin V. We run both. When I ordered the V told the husband....that I needed it cause I always get lost... pluck in address....it beeps before and at each turn........wonderful thing....I thought originally that we would sell the III+. But Fealess delights in outsmarting the maps and arriving at the destination sooner that calculated. Ya just gotta have it! Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

I'de have to agree on the "extra time needed for socialization". Every time I meet cachers that I've talked to on the forums.......time seems to morph into quick silver. That is for the adults it does. I just seems that there is so much to talk about. Comparing GPS...stories of best caches...and comming to grips with how a cacher actually looks (better than imagined without exception)...I always seem to envision people differenty from the way they post.......(I had a cacher tell me that I look way younger that I "sound".....and I loved that comment!) Oh kids just get this "enough all ready" look and reminded us that meal time had been significantly delayed.......Met cachers in Erie PA and Ottawa Canada.....in both case dinner got moved back by 3 hours Our kids told us that this was close to neglect...so now I have crackers in the car. Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

I'de have to agree on the "extra time needed for socialization". Every time I meet cachers that I've talked to on the forums.......time seems to morph into quick silver. That is for the adults it does. I just seems that there is so much to talk about. Comparing GPS...stories of best caches...and comming to grips with how a cacher actually looks (better than imagined without exception)...I always seem to envision people differenty from the way they post.......(I had a cacher tell me that I look way younger that I "sound".....and I loved that comment!) Oh kids just get this "enough all ready" look and reminded us that meal time had been significantly delayed.......Met cachers in Erie PA and Ottawa Canada.....in both case dinner got moved back by 3 hours Our kids told us that this was close to neglect...so now I have crackers in the car. Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Whoa velvet linning.....so what kinda prizes did you put in there? Mine's not nearly as artistic.....But our Hobbit - Bag End cache box has shinny gold lettering then I spatter painted it with shinny gold....It came out looking "up scale cammof. ish" I'm going to a cache event in a couple of weeks and I was thinking of linning an ammo box (we found one of ours that had been stolen) with tin foil and a zip lock bag and filling it with chocolate chip cookies....... Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Ok so I have way too many projects now....but after discovering a benchmark tonight....and reading about the interesting places these benchmarks are in...and how unusual they can be...... What about a quilt composed of pictures of benchmarks.... Cachers could send me 3.5" pictures of a favorite benchmark ....on photo transfere paper.... then the pictures would be iron on to material and sewn into a quilt.....there is a quilt called novelty windows...this would put a fabric frame around each one....... hmmmmm Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Hey! We found one after a date (think we parked in the wrong spot...blocked a plane). Fearless knew several of the pilots at the little airport in our town...so they went in the admin bldg and checked weather.....this shortend our time (babysitter) so quick scoped out the next...as I did so found myself with a cave at my feet....Had I been much thinner.....I'de have slipped away.... Now that was a first!! With so many close by I know what to do on a lunch break!! Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Hey! We found one after a date (think we parked in the wrong spot...blocked a plane). Fearless knew several of the pilots at the little airport in our town...so they went in the admin bldg and checked weather.....this shortend our time (babysitter) so quick scoped out the next...as I did so found myself with a cave at my feet....Had I been much thinner.....I'de have slipped away.... Now that was a first!! With so many close by I know what to do on a lunch break!! Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Just found our first......Then tried to push Fearless to go for another.....The first we walk on top of....Got to within 4.25 feet....so cool to be that accurate! The second didn't have much of a description and we really didn't want to walk the runway So drove a bit and found another way in. I also found a cave...rilght in front of me...If I'de have been much thinner I'de have slipped in!! Got to within 425 feet when fearless said we had to turn back cause the sitter's time was over. Then he comes home and asks me if I want to walk around the block!!! Urg.....power walking would have taken us to the benchmark in time...... Oh well the best thing about these bench marks is they are close!!! Now I can "geocache" on my lunch hour! Otherwise it is an hour to any cache near us! DxChallenged "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Just found our first......Then tried to push Fearless to go for another.....The first we walk on top of....Got to within 4.25 feet....so cool to be that accurate! The second didn't have much of a description and we really didn't want to walk the runway So drove a bit and found another way in. I also found a cave...rilght in front of me...If I'de have been much thinner I'de have slipped in!! Got to within 425 feet when fearless said we had to turn back cause the sitter's time was over. Then he comes home and asks me if I want to walk around the block!!! Urg.....power walking would have taken us to the benchmark in time...... Oh well the best thing about these bench marks is they are close!!! Now I can "geocache" on my lunch hour! Otherwise it is an hour to any cache near us! DxChallenged "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

FYI..px number 2 is of a mini quilt that is sewn together......notice how close my intersections are (ok a little bragging but the lessons I took and 2 years of practice have paid off)......If you don't line them up just right...you miss the intersection altogether....I've seen quilt tops that looked like collapsed umbrellas. Hoping to sew the other together tonight and can send it to Cliffy should it make a difference.... Fearless liked number 2 better also. Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

FYI..px number 2 is of a mini quilt that is sewn together......notice how close my intersections are (ok a little bragging but the lessons I took and 2 years of practice have paid off)......If you don't line them up just right...you miss the intersection altogether....I've seen quilt tops that looked like collapsed umbrellas. Hoping to sew the other together tonight and can send it to Cliffy should it make a difference.... Fearless liked number 2 better also. Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Hey! Good luck! Now don't you wish you had a signature quilt for this adventure? I've been working with another cacher in my area to get some coverage for us. His parents live next door to a guy who does pieces on local activities....so we're hoping to spin it geocaching way and increase the number of caches here! Good luck and will you be holding the fish for the px? DxChallenged "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Hey! Good luck! Now don't you wish you had a signature quilt for this adventure? I've been working with another cacher in my area to get some coverage for us. His parents live next door to a guy who does pieces on local activities....so we're hoping to spin it geocaching way and increase the number of caches here! Good luck and will you be holding the fish for the px? DxChallenged "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Hey! So last night i made up a mini Canadian geoquilt, pieced all the blocks or a Tolkien signature quilt and have the blocks for an alternative Canadian quilt.......... So tonight I plan on cutting out a few (couple hundred) blocks for this quilt. In the next few days I will e-mail each person who signed up to help distribute.....post a picture of the individual blocks...and arragne a few on my design wall so you can see how it will look..then post that. Man! Just found several caches close to home...so now on my lunch break I too can geocache!!! Way better than walking around the block at night!! DxChallenged "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Hey! So last night i made up a mini Canadian geoquilt, pieced all the blocks or a Tolkien signature quilt and have the blocks for an alternative Canadian quilt.......... So tonight I plan on cutting out a few (couple hundred) blocks for this quilt. In the next few days I will e-mail each person who signed up to help distribute.....post a picture of the individual blocks...and arragne a few on my design wall so you can see how it will look..then post that. Man! Just found several caches close to home...so now on my lunch break I too can geocache!!! Way better than walking around the block at night!! DxChallenged "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Well......the design is interesting......but the triangles are a different kind that what I am using....I thought about using it as a quilting design but that would take more time....... and I really wanted to stitch around each triangle that the cachers had signed......... But here is an alternative suggestion...... What about for the back? When I was in Ottawa I was looking for a linnen tea towel with a map of Canada. I figured that I could use a fabric marker to label cache palcements involved in the quilt....... But if anyone could find a piece of fabric with the maple leaf on it.....or a tea towel with same ...these could be pieced and put on the back....I am a bit restricted for my design because of the traingles and hwo I have envisioned the quilt looking;;;;;If it gets difficult or tedious....my motivation tends to go down......... And I don't applique (I have tried that technique...where you cut out a shape an dturn under the edges and zig zag stich or hand sew them down...but I just didn't like doing that....only piece work.....I have an anceint sewing machine that goes forward and back.....no zig zag ......so like I said I'm a bit limited Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Well......the design is interesting......but the triangles are a different kind that what I am using....I thought about using it as a quilting design but that would take more time....... and I really wanted to stitch around each triangle that the cachers had signed......... But here is an alternative suggestion...... What about for the back? When I was in Ottawa I was looking for a linnen tea towel with a map of Canada. I figured that I could use a fabric marker to label cache palcements involved in the quilt....... But if anyone could find a piece of fabric with the maple leaf on it.....or a tea towel with same ...these could be pieced and put on the back....I am a bit restricted for my design because of the traingles and hwo I have envisioned the quilt looking;;;;;If it gets difficult or tedious....my motivation tends to go down......... And I don't applique (I have tried that technique...where you cut out a shape an dturn under the edges and zig zag stich or hand sew them down...but I just didn't like doing that....only piece work.....I have an anceint sewing machine that goes forward and back.....no zig zag ......so like I said I'm a bit limited Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Hey! MajBach...hope you're feeling better. I work with preschoolers and they seemed to all be sneezing on me in mass Hope you are feeling better! Like I said I have been sewing....I have enough squares done so that by the end of tonight 2 mini quilts (without borders...never can be to careful with borders...lol) will be pieced. I plan on doing 2 different layouts with them. Then I will send them to Cliffy to be posted and the group here can decide on the final layout from the two. Tweeked my Hobbit cache today...no hits of yet and it's making crazy...I put the most time in this one of any.... Also got geoquilt 2 going.....to be in blue and yellow..... Gotta go...gotta sew....hope it's good this weekend so we can hit 6 caches....I miss the hiking but right now would get stuck in the muck! Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Hey! MajBach...hope you're feeling better. I work with preschoolers and they seemed to all be sneezing on me in mass Hope you are feeling better! Like I said I have been sewing....I have enough squares done so that by the end of tonight 2 mini quilts (without borders...never can be to careful with borders...lol) will be pieced. I plan on doing 2 different layouts with them. Then I will send them to Cliffy to be posted and the group here can decide on the final layout from the two. Tweeked my Hobbit cache today...no hits of yet and it's making crazy...I put the most time in this one of any.... Also got geoquilt 2 going.....to be in blue and yellow..... Gotta go...gotta sew....hope it's good this weekend so we can hit 6 caches....I miss the hiking but right now would get stuck in the muck! Dx "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Ok...so I have 6 volunteers.....I will send each of them 50 blocks and give them a region to get signatures from....If that sounds ok..... I need 1 more volunteer......I'm planning on making it a bit bigger. Again volunteers would be responsible for getting the 50 blocks sent out and signed.... How they choose to do that is up to them...cache event, post it on the region that you are given, place in caches that you have that are spread out..(you wouldn't want the same name 2 times) Then sent back to me...... I would also like 1 volunteer for posting pictures and possibly making up a map like majbach did on the Canadian Geoquilt site.... The quilt would then be given to one of these volunteer cachers.....sound ok? DX "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Ok...so I have 6 volunteers.....I will send each of them 50 blocks and give them a region to get signatures from....If that sounds ok..... I need 1 more volunteer......I'm planning on making it a bit bigger. Again volunteers would be responsible for getting the 50 blocks sent out and signed.... How they choose to do that is up to them...cache event, post it on the region that you are given, place in caches that you have that are spread out..(you wouldn't want the same name 2 times) Then sent back to me...... I would also like 1 volunteer for posting pictures and possibly making up a map like majbach did on the Canadian Geoquilt site.... The quilt would then be given to one of these volunteer cachers.....sound ok? DX "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)

Hey! So I didn't realize how many new cachers there are out there.........I should have posted more details......Sorry here are some of the names that the previous and current caching quilts have been posted under..... The Original geoquilt was started back in October and the thread was called ....Quilting bee/cache.. It's delivery and picture of the finished project with the man himself is posted under the thread....The Geoquilt has been presented to Jeremy... The current project is in the Canada section under...Canadain Geoquilt....... I also have a Tolkien theme quilt going with a mini signature quilt going to all cachers who finish all 4 caches in the theme (The Fellowship of the Ring cache...is in Erie PA and out THE HOBBIT - BAG END CACHE is here in Akron NY (the other 2 will be in PA when those movies are released)....I teamed up with the gamehedge rangers to did that one...For cachers in the NW parts of PA and Western NY...and those cachers who have extra frequent flyer miles...... So the geoquilt 2...... The first one I bought all the mailers...sent out all the packets and sewed everything...... That took a lot of time and was the only project I had going.....so this time I would like one cacher from each region (those listed in the threads below) to send and retrieve...by that I mean 1. I would send them a group of blocks....around 50. 2. They would find cachers in their area who want to be involved in the project and mail them 5 to 10 blocks (this would depend on the number of people who request the blocks). 3. These senders would be responsible for providing...A mailer to send out the blocks (the post office preferres the padded kind which are cheapest at Walmart around .50 each. So you would need to buy around 5 mailers. 4. These blocks then would be placed in caches to be signed (a good description of this is on the Canadian Geocache thread). The person who sends out the packets would be the one responsible for making sure they are turned in...by the dealine....which will be established should we get enough of a response...... 5. Once the blocks are signed they would be returned to the person who sent them. 6. All blocks would be sent back to me by a dealine...lets say the end of August..... 7. One of my thoughts is to put the names of the cachers who volunteer to send out and collect the blocks....in a hat .... the person from this group whose name is drawn would then receive the quilt....... Anyway......that's what I'm thinking about....... Does this anwer most of the questions? I just a new quilt book today...on a quilter who gives all her quilts away........ DxChallenged "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888)