Trader Rick & Rosie

HERE'S ONE WAY: @GC.com click at top: Play Click: hide and seek a cache @seek a cache, enter postal zone or whatever click: go @all geocaches click: New Search @advanced search select: Search for All event caches types and enter postal code or whatever Click search

Thanks. Being right in my beliefs IS a comfort! And goofy logic and tricky wording never trumps truth...

Except Gators don't taste their food-- it's just "Chomp, Chomp, Swallow"

Technically, it's not cheating. Those folks just have a different definition of "Found It" than we do. After all, if they can point it out, they have "found" it... sorta. I took part in a CITO at an island on the Space Coast a while back. Capaldo (or was it Rogue23?) has a cache way up in a tree on the island. With my boogered up knee, I couldn't make the first step. It required lifting your foot up past your belt. Everything past that point was pretty easy. I just couldn't make the first step. Eventually, some kind hearted soul climbed up and passed the cache down to me. I signed the log, passed it back up the tree and logged it as a note. The owner emailed me, saying I should log a find on it, but it just didn't feel like one. He had created a very specific challenge for the cache, and I didn't meet that challenge. Other people who didn't make the climb logged it as a find. I don't consider them cheaters. Apparently, neither does the owner. Techically, it IS cheating. Of course, a cache owner could allow smilies for "finds" even if the finder never got within a mile of the cache, that's his right. But if you don't SIGN THE LOGBOOK, it ain't a find...at least according to the guidelines as published by Groundspeak.

The smooth still green slime is broken by the nose and eyes of the enormous reptile. His yellow eyes shine in the morning mist. The white water lilies sway in his gentle wake as he passes by. Every other living creature in the swamp shudders in anticipation of what he'll do next...The Gator is once more on the prowl!!!

Be prepared for people to claim smilies just for going to the tree and staring up at the cache. Lots of cheaters tried to claim smilies on this one: indiana Tree cache

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MOST OF THE COUNTRY IS ENDURING AN AWFUL SCORCHING HEAT WAVE, BUT NOT US HERE IN PARADISE!!!

You have to know how to gently dance around avoiding those big raindrops!! We're still bailing water out of the jeep--we need a drain plug!!!! The up-side is JEEPS look better with mud splattered all over them...

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!! Eat a piggy! drink some Tennesseee Whisky. Find a geocache!!

And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. ~Lee Greenwood

DON'T PLANT THEM TOO DEEP, IT'S AGAINST THE LAW TO BURY THEM....HAHAHAHAHAHA :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

That's a joke, right?

Today, June 21, is the longest day of the year in the northern Hemisphere and it also marks the official beginning of the summer season.

It's getting awful hot out here!

That event looks like a blast. My two Yaks are up north, but we're looking for some small used ones to buy to berth down here....

Use it in a sentence...

Ah you are so wise for one of your years, grasshoppah...

I know, and I don't have a boat and I gotta work the day of the flash mob event. Oh well. Going to Jupiter/ West Palm Beach area in June, any super cool caches there that I just gotta get? Also going to the Everglades, but don't know if we'll be doing any caching there. Will bring GPS and pocket query Billy Swamp Safari area, just in case. Trying to hit all the counties in FLORIDA, if it takes me 20 years. I just got myself a letterbox hunting kit, too. (is that traitor-ish of me?) I challenged another family to find the most letterboxes this summer as another way to get out to the parks and get my kids to go with me. Of course, my GPS will be going with me, too. SWEET!

TODAY IS D-DAY--Thank a Vet for your Freedom!!

First day of Hurricane Season--all we got here in Palm Harbor was a rainy day with some gusts to 30 mph... Predictions are for ten namaed storms this season. Stayed tuned. Another day in Paradise!!!

ON THIS DECORATION DAY We salute all citizen soldiers of the U.S. , past and present: from the rough old cobbs and the young farmboys of Lexington to today's modern high tech warriors; from the Band of Brothers who gave the last full measure on the fields of Antietam to the bothers who humped the boonies from the Delta to the DMZ...

I think you don't have to hunt his caches if you think he has hidden too many, too close together. I'd like to SEE his "nasty" email, so we could judge for ourselves what's really going on here...

It's still awhile until sunup, and it's 49 degrees in Indiana, and 75 degrees here in Palm Harbor. Aren't you glad you live in Paradise?

CAN YOU SAY ARSE? Guess so!