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I'm still looking for someone to go caching in / around Birmingham on Sunday. Anyone interested?
Jeff / drexotic
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Congratulations on the BIG NUMBERS DUGANRM! Fattboy!
and MMCGR who hit 800 yesterday!
A big BZ to you all!
Jeff
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Email Mcd1 - he may be up for some central Brum caches
Will do!
Thanks, Jeff
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UPPS!
Just for a minute thought you meant this weekend!!!!!
As far as i know i am free that saturday, wont have a car either, but will be able to meet you in central brum and we can do an urban multi and urban micro (both of which i havnt found yet) and then if there is time maybe a short bus ride to one of my own caches.
Great! I think I have a single lecture on Saturday and I have all day of on Sunday (have to just say my prayers at a cache
). I'll keep in touch between now and then and we can firm up plans as the day get closer. I will have a cell phone (don't have a number yet) and should have no problem getting email, etc.I continue to be impressed with the character of geocachers.
Anyone else up for the day?
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I'll be in Brum (Birmingham) April 18-24,2006 giving a few talks at the British Small Animal Veterinary Association Conference at the ICC through Saturday and I fly back to the States on Monday. I won't have transportation but I'd be happy to buy food / gas if one or more local Geocachers would like to visit a few caches on Sunday.
Jeff / drexotic
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By any chance did anyone bring the Dora 2 TB back from At the Top?
I've been busy getting ready to go to England and only this evening thought about Dora.
I've been watching here but have not seen any activity from her in weeks! Then, what do I see but the SDCET geocachers logging her out and back into caches in Palomar!
Well, If anyone has her or can get a hold of her by next weekend, will you please let me know so I can take her with me to England. I'm leaving Tuesday 4/18.
Thanks, Jeff
I am not sure where it ended up but I know Infinitee had her and thought about taking her. You might want to email her and/or Team Adelos and see if they ended up with her.
Thanks! Sounds like you had a great time up there. Sorry I missed it!
I spent the day moving furniture and medical equipment while my Hospital got it's floors waxed and polished.
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Wow!! It seems like such a long time since we have looked at the forums or even visited the geocaching web site. Our last geocaching was in February for our Palm Springs caching trip and I guess we picked up our own little Tex&Capie "travel bug" while there! Yep, Capie is expecting a new little San Diego geocacher due around Thanksgiving!
Must have been all that clean desert air! This was a surprise for us and the shell shock is now wearing off....so on that note I think we will go caching today!! 
P.S. In my excitement I accidently made a new topic instead of a new reply. How do I delete this new topic? Thanks.
Congratulations!!!
Nothing else in your lives will ever compare to being parents. Take lots of time and enjoy every second of it!
Jeff
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By any chance did anyone bring the Dora 2 TB back from At the Top?
I've been busy getting ready to go to England and only this evening thought about Dora.
I've been watching here but have not seen any activity from her in weeks! Then, what do I see but the SDCET geocachers logging her out and back into caches in Palomar!
Well, If anyone has her or can get a hold of her by next weekend, will you please let me know so I can take her with me to England. I'm leaving Tuesday 4/18.
Thanks, Jeff
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You take a break for an hour or two and look what happens! So here goes:
WooooooooHooooooooooo! To Gobolts, Miragee, jahoadi and john, Trailgators and Grnzoom!!! Hope I didn't miss anyone..
Yes... a big BZ to all!
BRAVO ZULO ALL!!!
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Ok Picture People,
I have a 10 year-old son that just raked in some cash selling his Thomas the Train collection on ebay. (With dad's help of course!)
He decided he wants to become a photographer, and has about $200.00 to spend. Does anybody have any input on what would be a good digital camera in this price range?
(Silly question, I know you all have an opinion, but would you mind sharing it?)
Definately the A610. It is similar to the A520 but with superior image quality and more manual controls available. An excellent first camera for a beginner witha lot of room to learn enough to be ready later if you want to move into something like a DSLR. It has an excellent automatic exposure mode, too.
Click here for example images taken with my A610.
Jeff
(Stillhaveing problems with the new forums!)
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Anyone here been Geocaching in England? I'm most interested if anyone has used a North America Garmin map 60cs and, in your opinion, what map set worked or did not work for you. I will post this to the GPSr Forum but I know and trust this community and thought I'd start by asking here.
Thanks, Jeff / drexotic
The built-in map in my eTrex Legend C was quite comical when I went home last Christmas. Quite often while visiting my family in Cornwall, I was apparently in the Atlantic! So if you actually rely on your GPSr for navigation, you should definitely invest in some specific software with auto-routing. You may also find the roads quite strange - they go around corners and there isn't a traffic light every 0.1 miles!! OTOH, I'm sure a bright chap like you could handle using a map, and unless you're in the arse end of nowhere, the road signs are usually pretty accurate
You may also find it pretty sparsely populated with caches if you're used to San Diego!!
I'm hoping to find a few. I'm lecturing at the Conference Center in Birmingham and there are a half dozen caches within 5 miles of the Center.
I'd like to drop a few bugs and coins while I'm there to see if they'll come home. If I get a chance I'll "hire a car" and venture away from town a ways.
Thanks all for your input.
Jeff
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BTW, I have a client who will place an owl box on your home or other building with or without a video camera so that you can observe the nesting owls and growing babies. Having an owl box on your home will solve your roof rat problems but may not be a good idea if you have small pets
Are 17 pound happy-go-lucky Cairn Terriers safe?
We have had some owls hooting around our house and I have never been sure if they would attack our dog. I have a 18 pound Norwich and a 5 pound Chihuahua that have so far stayed out of the way of the GHO that takes pigeons off my roof every few weeks. I ran into her Face-to-face sitting on my fence finishing off one of the new squabs last spring. Again, it is odd for an adult bird to take on anything that would be dangerous (like a dog . . . but I have some concerns about the Chihuahua). It's the passage birds (first year birds making their first migration or out on their own for their first winter) that are the greatest concern. They don't have the experience (what is that big ol' fury animal down there?) and they are often challenged to find enough to eat, so they are ready to try anything. We see lots of them hit by cars trying to pick up road kill, etc.
Jeff
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Anyone here been Geocaching in England? I'm most interested if anyone has used a North America Garmin map 60cs and, in your opinion, what map set worked or did not work for you. I will post this to the GPSr Forum but I know and trust this community and thought I'd start by asking here.
Thanks, Jeff / drexotic
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I"M PRETTY SURE I LEFT MY Garmin Legend GPS ON TOP OF THE GREEN BOX FOR THE NEW CACHE "CASTLE ON THE CORNER" I DIDN"T REALIZE IT UNITL I WAS AT WORK AND NOW I CAN"T LEAVE. HOPEFULLY SOMEONE CAN TRY TO GET A CACHE AND MY GPS this morning? I WOULD BE FOREVER GREATFULL! . . . That's just the kind of thing I might do . . . I'm just so excited about finding the cache! Last few months I've been making myself clip my GPSr to my back pack before I open the cache because I know I'm going to leave it (as well as part of my brain) there at the cache when I leave if I'm not careful!
Jeff / drexotic
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Hi Don,
I've got a question for you, and figured you would see it here! (Hopefully pictures to follow.)
Is there any other owl species besides barn owls that are white?
Here is why I am asking. We have a HUGE owl in our neighborhood that I either hear above me, or actually see several times a week. Last weekend, it tried to carry off our neighbors 28# Jack Russell Terrier!
I thought barn owls were usually smaller owls, but this one is big, and it is white.
Last year, I had an up close and personal experience with a pair of nesting barn owls. Our new church building was nearing completion, and they had just hung all of the doors on the gym level. Well, we discovered that there was a pair of barn owls that had taken up residence in the gym! We called animal control, and fish and game, and nobody would help us. I saw where they were nesting, and took a 30' lift up there, and they had laid 2 eggs on the steel I-Beams. Well, the last window was about to be installed, and they would have been trapped. I called a falconer friend of mine, and we caught both birds, and released them 20 miles away. (They returned within a day!) They made a nest on the top of the church roof, and still live there today.
Anyway, that's a long story to say that neither one of those birds would have come close to being large enough to go after a dog that size, and they are much smaller than our local resident.
Dave
It would be unusual for a barn owl to take on a JRT but (especially with "passage" (young) birds) they may give it a try just to see what happens.
Flying raptors always "seem" larger than they are (this is more true when they are flying at your head) and the most common owl here in San Diego is the Barn owl. That said we do have many Great-horned owls. A female GHO is a formidable beast and would be able to take a female JRT (at least from a size and weight standpoint). I have seen them take full grown Jack Rabbits and I hear of them making attempts on clients cats from time to time.
Jeff / drexotic
BTW, I have a client who will place an owl box on your home or other building with or without a video camera so that you can observe the nesting owls and growing babies. Having an owl box on your home will solve your roof rat problems but may not be a good idea if you have small pets
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Congratulations ALL! Very impressive!
Jeff
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ScreaminIan,
Do you own the property at the intersection of Mesa Grande Rd and Black Canyon Rd? Is that your property with the landing strip . . . . The one I've always thought was the property in Ann Rand's Atlas Shrugged?
Wow . . . .
I grew up in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City. Not that far from town but it was a ways away from the closest store.
Welcome to Geocachin.' We'll be looking for you on the trail.
drexotic
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Beautiful! I had to carry one around in my pocket today! Great job Christopher!
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I'd like to get 2 coins if there are still coins available. Thanks, Jeff / drexotic
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I have placed lots of different items in caches, LiveStrong wrist bands, wooden fish, pocket angels (in micro's). I DO tend to pick up Flagman's Flag Swag more often than anything else. I enjoy giving American flags to kids that come into my practice and wear one most every day!
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Question for all you San Diego folks... As some of you already know I'll be heading to SD for a business trip on March 11, and will have the whole day on the 12th to go caching. I know a lot of you will be at a desert campout event on the 12th, but I wanted to know what's the best way for me to get around the city for caching? I figured on a taxi, or maybe even renting a car for a day, but Chuy mentioned taking a trolley... is that the way to get around town? Or maybe even to other more distant areas? I'd like the input of you folks since you deal with travel on a daily basis. I'm still thinking of a rental car for Sunday the 12th so I can hit some more "out of the way" caches though... lots of the good one look like they're not going to be attainable by trolley.
You may be able to plan a day of caching using the Trolley but I think you are right, a rental car will be MUCH easier way to get around and will allow you to pick caches you want to find based on the cache not the path of the trolley.
Welcome to San Diego in advance!
Jeff / drexotic
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Congrats to drexotic for hitting 2 today!!! Woo Hoo!!
Thanks for remembering!
What a wild day of geocaching!
It was great! Beautiful weather, GREAT COMPANY! Topped with a nice event.
Thanks again, Jeff / drexotic
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Unfortunately, I think we've done all of the caches on this map
If anyone gets stuck on any of these and needs a lifeline, feel free to call. I won't put my cell number on the forum, but there are a number of people attending that have it. Alternately, you can email us and I'll email you back the number if you want it.
--Rich
Rich, Thanks for the offer of support. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the event.
Jeff
Must have been all that clean desert air! This was a surprise for us and the shell shock is now wearing off....so on that note I think we will go caching today!! 
Thank You Midland Geocachers!
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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Just a post of thanks to all the Geocachers that made me feel so well cared for during my trip to Birmingham.
First I need to thank The Washers, Diane, Kim, Ron (for trusting me with his wife and daughter) and Billie. Diane adopted me for a day, shuttled me around, supplied foot wear, fed me and entertained me! Kim is one of the best mannered teenagers I've met in years, and Billie was friendly and full of energy! I may have not seen a cache larger than a film can with out them. I owe you a great debt and you are welcome here in San Diego any time!
Thank you as well to lathama and Mcd1 for their offers to take me under their wings. I'm sorry we could not make it work.
Thanks to Steve-e-b for his coordinate correction on Take Art. Even though I didn't make it to the final cache I very much enjoyed the tour of the art galleries of Birmingham
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Thanks to The Mars Bars and Chris&MaryB that took me places in Birmingham that I may not have gone with our their caches, Brum's First Urban Micro and A bit of..........
A beautiful Country and Wonderful people.
Thanks again!
drexotic