nutlady
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We have one icon for Travel Bugs.
And then we have icons for geocoins, and other trackables, and there are thousands of geocoins out there with individual icons. These icons are designed/added by whoever made the geocoin. You can see them in this link.
I want a trackable tattoo...travelbug, or does it matter, and how does one do this? Get a travelbug tag, and use the same number thats on it???????? Are there pictures somewhere on here?
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AWESOME! THANK YOU! I know it was a strange request.....long story.....ok, I was a decade off...lol
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OK, it was Christmas night of 95 or 96. I wrote a haiku to win the coveted coin...Uranium Yellom Yime. Trying to find it again with no sucess...how do I go back that far here?
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I did 20-21 one day...but they were all city ones. Blech. Give me one good country cache anyday.
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Just wondering the protocal.....theres a cache hidden on a mailbox , and the mailbox doesnt belong to the owner. Cache hider is kinda new.....Mailbox belongs to a public place. Like a park......
Anyway, Im going to remain indifferent about the placement for the meantime, but Im not going to log it either, Im scared to be caught.
Is this type of placement ok?
I know, I know, we can never agree on whats right or wrong when it comes to cache placement.....this one does bother me though enough to ask.
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Ive found a few caches where business cards were put in them . I thought I read somewhere that business cards are not allowed. ( solitation). PLease correct me if Im wrong! Id love to toss in some of my cards!
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Me too! One of each please!
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In no particular order.....
Dorkfish 2006
Uranium yime ( yeah! I won!)
2006 Compass rose
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Not any particular coin....but I wonder if a coin has no particular geoname or group on it...how do you find out where it came from? I like to know who made them. Call me nosey.
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Um, we are the nations #1 agriculture state, recently becoming the #1 dairy state (sorry Wisconsin)and also the leading producer of about 150 different crops and agriculture products.
Of course, not too many people know this. How about educating them?
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Totally concur! The food comes from somewhere before it hits the supermarket!
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That looks like a boat load of fun. I hope I can make it, Tom.
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Did everyone see this new caching system? You never want to play it but when you do, you're sure to get FTF. And the prize is part of your family!
SnEEKERSDang....I wish I embedded a chip in my oldest...she ran to Arkasas last Sat. Supposedly returning this weekend after LOTS of talk and encouraging her to graduate in a few months.
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I agree with TAR (I do that a lot when he's right!)
but there is nothing wrong with a nice note to the cache owner to say
"Hi. I was out scouting a spot for a new hide and realized that a place I want to place a cache is too close to your XXXXX cache. When you do eventually decide to archive that cache, would you please give me a warning, so I can check my spot again to see if it will still be a good place for my cache? Thanks heaps in advance!"
If they have grown tired of their cache, they may decide to archive it right away (bonus: they can go find your new cache nearby).
If they are still thrilled by their cache, they will likely write back to say "Sure thing, will do"
In either event, you have not been judgemental about their hide, and you have indicated that you want to place one near there.
Um, nutlady, don't you already have like seventy zillion caches out there?
(no hidden intent)Not quite that many, but thanks. And Im sure I could do the above and the hider would comply. But it really doesnt matter in this case. I can put it somewhere else. No biggie. I was just tossing off a thought out of my head that I didnt expect to get heat on. I actually thought it was kinda funny, since you can find lamp posts darn near anywhere....that was my meaning. And my only meaning. Nothing against the hide or the hider.
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Two of the most selfish and offensive posts I think I have seen yet.
NutLady
Someone beat you to a hide location? Sorry, it happens - what you think of their hide has no relevance on the fact that they have that territory staked out.
Cache-n-dash
Try to get a cache killed because you want that space? I can't even address that!
Holy cow! Im about speachless! It was meant tongue in cheek! Im beat to hide locations I have staked out almost weekly! So I suck it in and move on! I meant nothing against the hide! NOTHING! It was just an aw shucks moment and certainly not meant selfish or offensive in anyway. Sorry you read it that way!
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Just to start off with, Im not dissing the hides, or the distance rule. Was placing a cache today with a certain theme. So I found what I thought to be a nice theme orientated placement area. Was taking the coords on the hide when I realized that only 350 feet away was a lamp post hide.
Im against saturation at all counts, so I moved on with my cache and will find another location. But suddenly it slapped me upside my head.....and I know its terribly PETTY of me, but I started thinking there are thousands of lamp post skirts around! Tens of thousands! Does it matter if the cache is in that particular skirt? If I could make a rule......it would be that in the case of a different cache being placed near a skirt, the cache in the skirt could move on a few lamp posts.
I know, it wont happen. Just somthing stuck in my head.
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I just wish I could see these things. Im still on a phone line, in California no less, and the phone company sais it will be at least a decade till I can get faster internet. But the nearest po-dunk town gets wireless. Go figure. It just seems like someone should be able to come up with faster service for the few of us in the boonies.
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Well, if it was one of my caches, I would appreciate a note saying cache/log were wet. And if you could leave a new note in a plastic bag and toss out the old. Im guilty of one of these caches that you mention......I have disabled it till I can get in that direction.
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I wasnt able to attend....but a local group of cachers put up a cache run for a cachers Birthday, and the wife was in on it. The last cache of the day was a surprise party. That must of been great.
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What pranks have you pulled on fellow cachers. Here is one of mine on a night cache a while back. Terminal of the Insane, check out the Oct. 23, 2005 logs.
I know one that was pulled ON me.
Last Spring, we saw a new cache pop up. Being FTF hounds at that point, we headed right out the door. We searched long and hard trying to get FTF on that "Sloop Fair Lady" cache, without success. Later, back at the apt, we started seeing Found logs from other cachers. Eventually, we returned and made the find without too much trouble, swearing we must have looked in that spot during our first visit.
Fast forward to a GeoMeet help this Fall. The host of the event comes over to chat and asks me if I ever checked to see what you could anagram from ""Sloop Fair Lady"...
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Floop Sair Fady? And here is why I cant do puzzle caches .........But It does sound like some rapper name....
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For the first year I just went for every cache regardless. And will admit to placing some pretty lame ones as well. I am currently trying to atone for the lame ones by placing caches that I would like to get more then a TNSL on. Unfortunatly, I still get that on what I consider clever caches....so my caches MUST be that bad.:-(.So now I sit here and think think think....it might be months before I hide a cache just so I come up with what I THINK is a cool idea. Maybe its my area, reception is still TNSL, TFTC!
In that vein, I do try to say somthing in each of my finds a hard as it is to come up with at times. So far, I have never TNSL'ed a cache. Thats like the death knoll to me.
Lately became choosy about the finds...not TOO much, but if I think its on private property, I pass it by.
Couldnt care less about FTF. Im sure I have a hundred or so.....but I dont go find the caches for that purpose and dont post it that way.
If I have found several in one day...for me thats like 20.....I still keep notes on each cache as I find them so I can write somthing appropriate on the found log . No generic log finds for me.
I dont like the sticker logs. Come on, how long does it take you to sign a log anyways?
My favorite finds are in old cemeterys. I know some dont approve, but I find myself walking about for an hour or so reading the old stones.
I might bribe a child to go with me, but for them, its old school already, SIGH. Come on mom, are we going to go shopping? But, you PROMISED!
I pass on TBS now, because I dont go very far. I couldnt actually move them much.
For some reason, after hitting 1000 finds, its just not so important for me anymore. SURE, Ill go find them.....but not going way out of the way unless Im going there anyway.
Im more concentrated now on making caches that make people go wow. 202 hid and still not met that mark. So I need to think ALOT more!
My goal is to make the TNSL people log a find with a WOW. Or at least more .
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Aw Bill, no need to defend me like that. Its me! Surprised the finder was so far south though.....Ive got two hidden in walls of Ivy. Covered with fake ivy. One is in Sangar, and I drove past It last Jan, there was a green blob . LOL. But as far as I know, its still there! Go figure....the ivy swallowing my house doesnt give it up for winter, must be different types. ( now with a red face admitting I took Ornamental Horticulture team 4 years in FFA in high school. But then again I changed my major in College to Music theology-some high falutin name like that....and look where I am at now! Yeah, thats right, raking in the BIG bucks! I would here inset a LOL, but its not even remotely funny. )
Hey! Wait a minute. Last Saturday my geo-buddy and I found 40 caches. Most were fairly quick. But there was one that was NOT sticking out like a bald bottle in a decidious tree - called "CREW you, 2." THIS EVIL hide took: a) 45 minutes (and I may be exaggerating on the LOW side),
One phone call to a prior finder (who broke into histerical laughter), and c) TWO calls to the owner. AND THIS PERSON (HIDER) HAS THE GALL TO CLAIM INNOCENCE? That's just not right. Im pure as the driven slush. Pay no attention. By the way, I had a finder pretty much tell me today in not so many words I am a wus hider. YAWN. Cant imagine what your problem was. It stuck out like a green thumb.
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USED colostomy bag. What made it ALMOST funny, is that the cache hider was a nurse. She enjoyed my log. Top that?
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...But then again, the logsheet didn't have the cache's name or the hider's name, so obviously he just pitches them out without too much thought.......
So it could have been most any of my caches! I'm awful at that.
Aw Bill, no need to defend me like that. Its me! Surprised the finder was so far south though.....Ive got two hidden in walls of Ivy. Covered with fake ivy. One is in Sangar, and I drove past It last Jan, there was a green blob . LOL. But as far as I know, its still there! Go figure....the ivy swallowing my house doesnt give it up for winter, must be different types. ( now with a red face admitting I took Ornamental Horticulture team 4 years in FFA in high school. But then again I changed my major in College to Music theology-some high falutin name like that....and look where I am at now! Yeah, thats right, raking in the BIG bucks! I would here inset a LOL, but its not even remotely funny. )
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Caches in front yards, caches placed on WORKING farm machinery ( thats just not funny folks) , and caches near mailboxes.
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Well, I had just started caching and.......sorry, you knew I had to do that! Ive killed most of them, but still a few are active that I just CRINGE when I get a found it post. I plan on killing them too.....why oh WHY is it that my worst uninspired caches dont take leave of absence by themselves? Hard to say which is worse.....and Im not smart enough like the rest of you to post a yawn link.......One is simply a cammoed salsa tub ( bet the camo is gone) stuck in a large wall of bushes that somehow gets stuffed with trash despite the area. I plan on actually replacing it with somthing bush worthy...if there is such a thing, because I do have a few expensive cache ideas in my cache mobile, and the folks that work at the cache site know about it and are cool with it. Maybe at least if the cache itself is pretty dern cool its a redeeming factor?
My most shameful is called Dazed and Confused. its actually an antique fuse that hasnt been seen for decades. The first two were taken care of by I suppose landscapers. As the cache is several miles from my house, when I went back the last time to replace it with the LAST fuse of this type I had....I looked around, and noticed that without changing the coords I could put it in a lamp post skirt. I wrote on the cache page that no one would ever see another hide like this from me and why I did it. None the less, I am ashamed.
(no hidden intent)
One phone call to a prior finder (who broke into histerical laughter), and c) TWO calls to the owner. AND THIS PERSON (HIDER) HAS THE GALL TO CLAIM INNOCENCE? That's just not right. 
What Irks you most?
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Someone that has found over 10 thousand caches, but still hides lamp posts. I expect that from a newbie...but not an experienced geocacher.