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Pipanella

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  1. We have an awesome place near us to hide a cache. There is a creek, with a narrow band of woods running on each side of it. You can start at a bridge, and follow the creek, or there is a mud lane that goes part-way back, until it dead-ends a couple hundred feet short of the creek. The mud lane is an extension of a paved county road. I would like to hide the cache somewhere along the creek (not anywhere that is in danger of flooding), with access to the cache either by starting at the bridge, or parking along the mud lane. My question is...do I need to get permission from either of the farmers that have fields adjacent to the creek? Or is anyone allowed to roam freely alongside a creek? It's not a small creek, but not as large as a river, either.
  2. Anyone interested in cards.........VistaPrint is having one of their sales right now. 250 Premium cards are $3.99. I don't see an expiration date, my e-mail just said, "Limited Time Only." VistaPrint Premium Business Cards 80% off
  3. Yes, they're here every summer, but nothing like what's coming.
  4. I actually like hearing them. It means that it's summer. Much nicer than hearing the snow plow.
  5. Yes, I've heard it pronounced that way, too, but my English teacher made a huge deal out of us NOT saying it that way, so maybe it depends on what part of the state you live in.
  6. Then logs are useless, too, is that what you're saying?
  7. Well, I can only imagine what the people who lived across the street from where we were searching on Saturday thought. My husband, daughter and I were searching on all fours (well, my daughter and I were) under some bushes for like 15 minutes. This was next to a library, but on the opposite side of the entrance. After a little while, even my husband walked away, not wanting to be associated with us in any way. Come to find out, the micro was located about 15 feet away in a super easy location. (Darn GPS)
  8. After having gotten back from a day of geocaching which featured damp caches with rotting geo-cards in them -- I threw away a couple of them -- I HATE the idea of inexpensive ones. At least encase them in plastic so that they stand up to cache abuse. Or find a more interesting and waterproof sig item. Vista-Print cards themselves are high-quality, but you can laminate them if you want. Hopefully, when cards are left in a cache, they're put in a plastic bag like the rest of the cache, to insure that they don't get wet. I'd never leave anything like that just lying in the cache. I realize I haven't found that many caches, but every one that I found so far has had everything in a ziploc as well as being in a watertight container. I know not all are like that, but it doesn't take much effort to put everything in a ziploc inside the cache.
  9. I'm not a geek either! I was one of those 'snotty' cheerleaders 30 years ago! LOL! Nah, I wasn't snotty, but I was a cheerleader. And I won a beauty contest, too. How many geeks can say that! LOL!! (Not bragging at all, just trying to dispell the 'geek' myth.)
  10. Now wait a minute! I was born and raised here, never left here (except for a short time while I was in college in Indiana), and I don't say it that way!
  11. I LOVE the idea of geo-cards! You can get 250 printed fairly inexpensively at http://www.vistaprint.com. And if you watch, they have sales on the custom printed cards fairly often.
  12. Well, I DO stress a bit over fashion and makeup, and I don't get outdoors a lot, but I do exercise my mind, and I am happy and well-adjusted. And though I've been happily married for almost 29 years, I still get a look or two from the male species, both geeks and non-geeks. LOL!! And I'm already addicted to geocaching, except you probably won't see me out there doing it if it's pouring down rain or in a snowstorm. Well, maybe in the rain...
  13. I need a cable for that, and I don't have one. Maybe later........
  14. Well, it was just easy to go outside and mark the waypoints. Editing was a breeze. Got that down pretty easily! Now to the next thing......... Thanks for the confirmation, RK!
  15. I'm having the same problem. I just got my Garmin eTrex (basic yellow), and I want to enter the coordinates of the caches we are going to search for on Saturday. I just can't seem to figure it out. The way I understand it is I just set any old waypoint by going outside and marking it, then go in and edit it to what I want it to be. Is that what I do? For someone whose IQ is one point away from genius, I sure feel DUMB.
  16. That reminds me........ For Christmas one year, I made up clues for our kids to find their Christmas presents. They had the first clue, which led them to the first present, which contained a clue to the next present, etc. They loved it!
  17. None of my friends or relatives even know enough about geocaching to figure out what it is, let alone think I'm a dork for doing it. Give them time..........
  18. Sort of like when we took our Australian friends to their first baseball game and they roared when we sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at the seventh-inning stretch. When we got to the part, "Root root root for the home team....." and they were beside themselves, we just looked at them like, "What the heck?" Then they told us. (Use minstrelcat's link, if you're naive and innocent, as we WERE.)
  19. Well, I found my first cache yesterday, and specifically went to it because it had a TB. It's hanging on my refrigerator right now, awaiting placement this weekend. I would NEVER keep a TB!! I just couldn't sleep at night if I did that! Here's a pic from yesterday, with the Travel Bug hitching a ride on MY Travel Bug.
  20. Oh, and you have to be careful with the stairs, too! The part of this that appeals to me is the searching for the cache. I don't really care what's in the cache, that's just a bonus! Although yesterday, I really wanted that TB........
  21. Hey, cujo!! I got an eTrex yellow for $70 on eBay the other night. I would imagine that as the weather gets nicer in the northern parts, the demand for these will increase, so the prices probably will be a little higher, too (on eBay).
  22. I'm a newbie, and female. I'm normally more of an indoors kind of person, my husband is DEFINITELY the outdoorsman, but I've had to really drive him crazy with my enthusiasm for this to get him going on it. We did a super easy letterbox yesterday, just to get our feet wet (and BOY did we......lots of mud and muck!), and once we get our GPS this week, we'll get out there and try to find some caches near us. Once we really get into it, I just know he'll be hooked. I have a pretty addictive personality, and I just KNOW I'll be addicted to this. I used to put together car rallies, and loved coming up with the clues, and it was even more fun doing them.
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