hairball45

Same here

"Should there be nothing but traditionals?" Uh, no. Is that decaying horse flesh that I smell?

Yep yep yep. Now if I could only crack a few of the puzzles around here that are giving me fits..........Hey, maybe we could do it armchair virtual style. That could raise a bigger stink than that Hog Barn is gonna.

As to "bombs" along the highway, I will say I have seen quite a few. Those gallon jugs of amber liquid aren't filled with apple juice or Bud Light you know. I havn't heard of the bomb squad blowing up these well known "Trucker Bombs". I guess once in awhile the mowing crew gets one though.......

Not quite so tongue in cheek, Xaa is right, the terrorists, whether they be religious extremists from someplace else, domestic crazies from your own town, or media trying to gain viewer share or readership, they all have the world terrified. Every unknown container is a bomb, every peanut is poisonous, water, food and air all cause cancer, high blood pressure and aids. I for one refuse to be scared, and figure my chances of surviving all of the scaries are excellent. I'm gonna cache on, continue to eat pretty much what I like, and generally live my life in spite of it all. Being afraid of everything is just going to take the joy out of life, and I'm not going to let it. hairball

Lost pet posters don't sadden me, they scare me a little bit. Of course I'm a Stephen King fan, especially anything related to the Dark Tower series................

Actually, it's $3,000,006, because I'm sure I'm the only wahoo who pays $3 monthly. Nah, I'm a three dollar guy too. That's left over from the first month when it was a test to see if I got anything out of it. Yeah, I did, do, and never changed the membership to yearly.

Yeah, hide 'em to your heart's content. It looks like you have some amazing locations already. I'm sorry I'll probably never in this life have a chance to hunt them. hairball

That sawzall appears to be the corded sort. I've got an 18v battery job that can be used on the highest mountain trail as happily as at a parking lot micro..........

I've used my wife's collapsible aluminum hiking pole to drag one down from a high point on a lamp pole, and carried a borrowed folding ladder into the woods to retrieve an ammo can from inside the top of a chimney of a long ago burned out cabin. I figure that if somebody else got it there, I can get it down. Sometimes stealth might be a bit absent on a task like these, but if you look like that's what you are supposed to be doing you'll be fine. hairball (and yes, do sign the log, even if you have to be creative on that too)

Smile, you're on Candid Camera! By the way, who has some good hamster recipes? Can they be served with geoduck clams for instance?

Oh well, until Google maps works the way we'd like I'll just keep dragging my pqs through GSAK and on into Mapsource where they show nicely and print that way too, albiet without the specialized icons, just generic treasure chests. Print in landscape mode and a couple of pages will show you a heck of a map, at least at the cache density around here. hairball

Why does my post say "Ringbone"? (somebody had to say it)

My two Yorkshire Terriers often accompany me on walks in the woods. They get excited when they see an obvious trail. They couldn't care less about caches, but smelling the places rabbits, deer and other woodland critters have been.......well, there's some fun for them. Of course removing the inevitable burrs and ticks from those fancy coats presents a challenge later, but that's later. It is a hoot seeing a five pound dog wearing a pink coat jump over a log. Back in the summer we were out west. In one place there was a prairie dog town. She tried to chase them right down their holes. Again, no caches, but she sure wanted those critters. I guess if I wanted a cache huntin' dog I'd get a lab or the like, but I think I'll just hunt the caches myself. Besides, I don't think ANY dog can lift a lamp post skirt

I used to have a cache inside a toy spider in a hollow log. I asked a couple of folks to remove their pictures of the spider. That was a flat spoiler. It also took away the possibility of an "eek" when found. They took the pics down. A picture of the area, the ball diamonds at the park, their dog nosing around, themselves near the site were no problem. Those I'd appreciate. JMO hairball

Night, day, rain, snow, heat, cold, wind you name it folks will cache in it. It's all good, some just better than other.

Santa got me a Dell Mini 9. After she hacked my Dell account. I've been paperless almost since I started caching, but this will take it to a new level. No, the Mini won't leave the car, it's my sweetie's job to navigate and manage the caches. She's been addicted to video games since Atari 2600 (then VCS) days so she got a Wii. GSAK is already installed on the Mini and ready to go. hairball

I put a micro in a hollow log. The film can was inside of a huge, rather real looking rubber spider. I cut a slit in its butt and inserted the film can there. Placed in the log under a handful of leaves it got a couple of hearts beating before the victims realized what they had. Sadly two of them wandered off, the first to a critter from the look of the left behind film can. The second I suspect a two legged critter - the can was unchewed, open, and the log nearby. No spider though. I archived it, the location obviously being compromised. hairball oh yeah, I did a couple of the 200 film cans in a jug dealies. First one, I couldn't stop laughing. The second only had about 25 cans so it wasn't a big deal, just not as funny.

Just a bit off topic, but when composing posts you can adjust the size of the font which would help those of us with eyes not as sharp as they once were, and avoid what's often considered "shouting" in internet communications. Use the dropdown labeled "size" just above the row of buttons B I U etc. hairball

I have one cache on my ignore list. When it was posted it was clear that the cache was very difficult to obtain. No problem there. There was an amazing list of swag, true things of value that anyone would like to have. No problem so far. Finding it would be a true adventure involving time and lots of travel. Still no problem. Now, when there was, after months, finally an FTF, the cacher was directed to the owners home where he was handed the final. A micro. No mention of the great swag, nothin'. All of that has since disappeared from the cache page. As a rule, I ignore swag, and cache for the pure joy of it, but the massive deterioration of this mess left a very sour taste in my mouth. Ignore list. Do I ignore puzzles? No Do I ignore micros? No Do I ignore parking lots? No Do I ignore housing additions? No, but I look around a good bit for unfriendly neighbors. Do I ignore trashy places? Havn't seen very many around here. but no. Do I ignore dumpsters? What, somebody really puts caches on dumpsters? Eww. Never saw one. I suppose if I were in a more cache dense area, I could afford to ignore the caches that thrill me less, but I don't so I don't. hairball

Dumb timeout

Lots more danger running across the Best Buy parking lot and getting hit by someone racing to get to a big sale while you're heading for the magic light post. That micro isn't likely filled with Anthrax either.

I saw this similar magnetic sign at MWGB 2007. Hope the owner doesn't mind me sharing. I like 'em both, and sending the (unlikely) caller to Time and Temp is a pretty slick idea. hairball

Speaking as a member of my village council and head of the sign committee, I would not think it was a real swell idea to affix anything sticky to the sign. Altering it in any way, false bolts, fake numbers, etc would likely find you in Mayor's Court. That said, a magnetic nano stuck to the sign post wouldn't get any reaction from me except the signing of the log. Obviously magnets aren't going to cling to the aluminum sign.

Faced with a similar situation this summer I improvised. I found a can of brown primer left over from some forgotten project hiding in the back of the Jeep. I sprayed a little puddle of paint into the cap and found a small twig nearby. Bingo! Instant pen! The sig wasn't real neat, and looked like the doctors wouldn't give me my pen back, but the log did say "hairball45" and the appropriate date. No deer poo was nearby, but there sure was a mess of poison ivy. The juice from that stuff is clear though and would make poor ink. hairball