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    What Kind Of Log

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I have a very unusual cache container & log & needed something very "scroll-like" to fit in the container, so I cut a long strip of Tyvek from an Express Mail envie :antenna: to use. Need a Sharpie to sign it with, though.

     

    Happy Caching!

    Lori V.

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    You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up....

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by TeamVilla5

    This is my log from one just yesterday... not major, but a good insight into the mind of a compulsive... :antenna:

     

    FTF! This one was a great big comedy of errors & pain in my booty! LOL! 

    I attempted this one before Grandpappy Point & made my first grand realization of the day... never, NEVER wear Birkenstock clogs to a 9Key Cache, no matter how low the star rating!!! I came up from the bottom & down from the top, poked everywhere I could think of with a stick, displaced 14,728 fallen leaves, but just could not find... turns out my GPS was playing tricks with me... SIGH!

     

    Ignoring my breakfast sitting next to me in the car, I headed to Grandpappy Point, where I ended up getting a thorn in my foot & one in my tush (go figure ), but ended up with a mighty fine FTF prize of a TX Geocaching coin... #311.

     

    Went back to this cache, sat on a big rock at the cache site & tried to eat my (now cold) breakfast & think about things... I just knew 9Key would do something tricky... even with a clue!  I put the GPSr in time-out & made it sit quietly on a rock next to me, hoping it would start telling the truth... and it did!!! I dug out the container & noticed another FTF TX Geocoin in there.

    I don't know the etiquette of Geocoins, but I know I would be grateful if someone left one in the cache if they had another one, so I did... BUT... I noticed that this one had #318 on it...

     

    Now, my hubby's best friend is a mathematical genius and always sees numbers in their "simplest" form, and from many a conversation with him, I *KNEW* for certain that #318 was better than my other #311 coin... after all, 18 is three squared times two, and 311 is... well, 311. So, I skied my way back down through the leaves, cursing this compulsion to have the numerically superior coin, and traded the coin out, grabbing some micro swag from a kid's backpack while I was there at the car.

     

    So... now... I have the grandest of Geocoins & I left another one, one that any other sane geocacher will love, regardless of its numerical inferiority!

     

    Happy Cachin'!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    Cito Coin ?

    in Trackables

    Posted

    I realy like the idea to make them buyable only for cachers who has attended a cito event.

     

    Whoa! Not so fast there... some of us haven't been caching long enough to have attended a CITO "event," but regularly CITO at each of our caches! :antenna:

     

    Happy Cachin'!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    Anybody Cito Like This?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Okay, I go in to a cache site & CITO a bag of trash. I do NOT just chunk it in the nearest receptacle. I take it home, separate the recyclables into our recycle bin & pitch the trash in the trash bin. Anybody else separate recyclables? It really isn't that hard to do & really helps for a sustainable future!

     

    Happy Trashin'!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    Ftf Log

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    First, let me say that if I'm FTF, I will be bursting with excitement to share (with THREE WHOLE FTF's under my belt! LOL!)...

     

    Second, if I don't log immediately (and sometimes even if I do log immediately :huh: ) I will forget what swag I took/left! :) My kids often call me "Dori" (Finding Nemo) instead of "Lori!" :)

     

    Happy Caching!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    How Long To Keep A Cache

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    You give another cacher a chance at a hide in the same general vicinity. This allows for cache 'churn', I.E. your locale gets a steady stream of 'newish' caches, thus avoiding the need the continue traveling further to find a new cache.

     

    I think this is a good observation and a very valid reason to archive/remove a cache. I, personally, would like to see this sort of thing happen more often!

     

    Happy Cachin'!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    Replacing Muggled Caches

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I recently had my first muggled cache. It was not a terribly hard find, as it was mainly for kids to find, and full of nothing but kiddie swag. It did have the Geocaching information sheet in it. When you are replacing a muggled cache, I figure there are two schools of thought:

     

    1. Replace the cache in exactly the same spot, thinking that whomever muggled the first one won't think it will reappear in exactly the same spot, or

     

    2. Put the cache in a spot nearby, with new coords, thinking that the spot was too obvious, and will prob. be muggled by someone else or same person.

     

    Discuss. TIA!!!

     

    Happy Caching!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    Remains In A Cache

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    My dad says he wants to do this, too... call it "Granddaddy's Ashes Cache!" LOL!

     

    I'd definitely give you a lift & try to show you a good time while out caching with us, too! The only remains that creep me out are full-sized bodies with organs in their bellies & pumped full of poisonous embalming fluid :rolleyes: ...

     

    Anywho... nope... not creepy for this team... but I hope we don't see you for a long time! :D

     

    Happy Caching!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    Cemetery Caches

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Wow, I leave the forums for a week, and there's all manner of good conjecture that starts up!

     

    My personal opinion of graveyard caching is that I'm perfectly comfortable doing it and will prob. place one eventually.

     

    I think that cemeteries are places of history, and by experiencing them and using them (for respectful REASONS, rather than parties or thrill-seeking excursions at night), we are not only meeting a part of history but giving the families of the deceased their money's worth in the obscene amount they paid just to bury a dead relative!

     

    My views of cremation vs. full burial aside, the full-time residents of a cemetery likely won't care much if there's a cache there or not. As for families of the deceased, they likely won't know what you are doing here, so they prob. won't care much either!

     

    Happy Cachin'!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    Cache Treasures

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Let me take inventory of our swag bag... we have:

     

    An R2D2 BK toy

    A 6" Star Wars aluminum tin (tube)

    2-pk. Madagascar toothbrushes

    Aqua Cool bandanna neck coolers

    A Disney wobbler

    Chick-fil-A cow antenna toppers

    Plush cow changepurse

    Ping Pong eyeballs

    Lego people

    Bouncy balls

    Dice

    Super Stretchy Caterpillars

    IHOP 15% Discount Card

    Pedometer

    Golf Swing Counter

    "Fashion" Post-It Notes

    Unscented Lubriderm lotion

    Funny Keychains (Example: "Well Adjusted, But Slipping")

    Tangle Jr. Twisty Things

    Shell leis

    2006 Weekly Planners

    Mini LCD Sports Games (Basketball, Skateboarding, Tennis, Etc.)

    Cute Girly Memo Pads

    Mini LED Pocket Light Keychains

    Small baggies of metallic buttons (gold & silver heart-shaped, cool shapes, etc.)

    Travel Kleenex

    Hot Wheels Ferraris

    Some extra mini composition notebooks to replace soggy logs

    Extra pens to replace missing ones

     

    That's inventory right now...

     

    Happy Cachin'!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    San Fran/no. Cal Cacher Needed For Tb Goal Help!

    in Trackables

    Posted

    Walts: Yeah, I know it's a very specific goal, but these are $2 keychains... I'm just wanting to see if it ever does happen, and watch the progress of them... which is the reason behind offering a geocaching related prize to the cacher that finally makes it happen... I won't be devastated if "plans" go awry, and to me, MOST of the fun is just watching where they go, anyway! :)

     

    Happy Cachin'!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    What Did You Get For Xmas That Is Geocaching

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    The bestest Christmas adventure ever!!!!! :)

     

    My hubby came up with a most elaborate scheme, with the help of The VillaKids :) ... here's the scoop:

     

    He went outside & took our home coords on the GPS...applied them to the front door of our house. He then got MadChild (14 y.o. daughter) to draw a pretty precise replica of the bottom floor of our house using grid paper; she used transparencies & Sharpies & drew a replica of the top floor (in relation to the bottom floor). The "blueprint" was then marked off on the grid in "degrees," using one square for each 10 "minutes" on the grid paper.

     

    In my stocking, I received nothing but the rolled up blueprints that were titled: "Your Christmas Geocaching Adventure 2005" and a set of coordinates for, essentially, the first stage of a very elaborate multi-stage cache, with each set of coordinates leading to gifts increasing in size/value/significance. The best part was that he also used the concept of a GPS unit not accounting for elevation, so I had to find the coords on the blueprint, decide where the spot would be on EACH floor, and check both places! :P

     

    My gifts ranged in size/value from a MOTHER LODE of Butterfinger Minis (my all-time fave munch) :) to my first Louis Vuitton tote/purse (for years, joked that he needed to get me one... my initials are "LV," so we joked I could have the best-ever "monogrammed" purse ) :)

     

    The gifts that were somewhat geocaching-related were a Tamrac photographers' vest (10 pockets which I will also use to carry swag, CITO containers, & extra pens) and a pair of Canon 15x50 Image Stabilizing All Weather binoculars!!!! :)

     

    This has got to be the very best Christmas EVER!!! :)

     

    Happy Cachin'!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

    San Fran/no. Cal Cacher Needed For Tb Goal Help!

    in Trackables

    Posted

    I have a pair of bugs that we are about send away. We will place one in Georgia & we would like the other to start in California, preferably San Fran (a city the kids have been to in Cali). They are keychains of Victor & Emily from The Corpse Bride. Emily has a skeleton hand attached to her, and Victor has a tiny "gold wedding ring." Their goal will be to end up back together in a cache & then sent back to me when they are. I will prob. offer some prize or reward for the cacher that happens to reunite them.

     

    Is anyone willing to let me mail them one of the pair to place in a No. Cal/San Fran/Monterey cache?

     

    Also, any thoughts on the idea behind the goal? These will be our first ones.

     

    Thanks!

    Lori V.

    TeamVilla5

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