Goldenwattle

I message and most of the time it works.

I tend not to keep many emails, unless I see them as important. I delete most.

The main reason that I like message, is that I have a record of the correspondence.

Why yikes? I often ride to my caches to maintain them. So I don't understand your comment.

The message system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Annoying. Today I clicked on 'Message this owner' for an Earth cache and it didn't work, but then when I clicked on the COs name and then 'Message this owner' it did work.

"Never cache alone" Yes, sounds like an ugly threat. Most of my caching is done alone and I have travelled the world alone. (More countries than my geocaching list suggests, as I visited a number of countries before I started caching.) But not alone tomorrow. I will be joining a couple of others for a day out. Besides, one of the others offered to be the one to get wet. (Good bait to get others to join him .) The weather appears to be warming slightly, but not sure the water has. I hope there is no ice.

Don't you have a bicycle? I've know teenage geocachers cycling around to geocache. I was cycling around my suburb from about 12 years old, although not to geocache as the hobby didn't exist then. Later I cycled in the countryside. I still at times go geocaching by bicycle. I am headed to a cache today by bike.

I understand what you mean. I have a cache out in the countryside. When I placed it there (spot picked to mark something) it didn't get many visitors, but then someone laid a power trail down the quite country road. Now it's just part of the power trail and needs more maintenance than I expected it to have. I maintained it only a month ago; now I need to make another 60km round trip to maintain it again. I'm not saying it needs maintaining regularly that often, but the extra visitors are giving me more work. Fortunately it's a good sized small cache (the size beginners would rate as regular, but it's a small), with a proper log book that's big enough that it hasn't needed changing yet.

I googled FIFY from above. Google didn't assist me.

I don't understand. What is TY and FIFY? Ta is a short form of thanks. "ta!", slang, Exclam. Thank you! {Informal}, an expression of gratitude.

But they aren't looking at all of them . They are going to be...dead !

I have a LFL and had a cache built into the attic. The pillows are beds for the guests.More photographs here. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC847R1_narrabundah-small-library-hotel

Unfortunately I don't have any relatives buried near me with graves I could use. I did put a moveable angel (from another game) beside a grave in full view. I placed it beside an old abandoned grave with no sign that family visit it. I rejected those graves that are obviously visited. That angel will move on. I just hope that a grave decoration robber doesn't pinch it.

I was making a joke about the short logs. Since phones have become commonly used, logs are often short. I'm waiting until 'thanks' is considered,.. like, too much effort and it becomes 'ta'.

Many graves are not visited, and likely haven't been visited for 50 years. They are abandoned. Both of these abandoned cemeteries already have caches though.

There is nothing disrespectful about this if placed sensibly. If someone placed one on one of my ancestor's graves I would NOT find this disrespectful at all. They are dead, they are no longer there; whether one doesn't believe in the life after or one does. The person is gone; either they no longer exit, or they have passed to the world beyond. But the sort of grave I mentioned is a very old neglected one, (likely in a neglected cemetery), where often there is no sign of anyone visiting this cemetery, except geocachers finding a cache there. Caches in cemeteries are common now, so this is just another type of cache.

I have found many caches in cemeteries, so it doesn't appear a problem here.

Only the geocache would have the GC number on it and a place for the log. The other wouldn't. It's not hard to tell. If the wrong angel is picked up put it carefully down again. But I did write, "An old, neglected grave that no one visits." If no-one visits, who is going to add an angel to a grave of someone who died a hundred years or more ago and the grave has been 'forgotten'. Many old graves are like that. No one has visited them for a long time, so not a "recently departed family member". Some even can be found in bushland where the trees have taken over again. I would hope the geocacher who places the angel would use common sense where they placed it. Could even add a hint, such as '1885.

How about a concrete angel stature on a grave. An old, neglected grave that no one visits. The log could be in the base. It would sit there in full sight, the same as many other small statues in a cemetery. In fact, in another game I have hidden a travelling angel in full sight for the next finder to find, in just such a situation. Thinking about this, I might give this hide some consideration myself. A nice, respectful angel; nothing silly and out of place.

Obviously a phone geocacher

I don't think I have ever written just "TFTC". Not even in Quebec when I was struggling to write my logs in French. (I don't speak French.) They might have been short with the basic, such as wet log; beautiful view, good cache and the like, but never only 'MPLC'. If I ever did that (which I haven't), it would be for an insulting reason. Such as a disagreement with the CO and I couldn't bring myself to write a decent log. Otherwise I usually like to write reasonable logs. Even on many power trails I have written individual logs (although maybe with a copied opening comment). I do this on my computer; not from a phone. Phones are lowering the literacy level of geocaching it appears. 

It did follow my entry without a reference, so understandably I was confused.

Yes sometimes, although I placed a NM and a month later a note to remind them about one broken cache with sodden log, and they finally placed an OM log to say that someone had reported leaving a new cache. It didn't sound like they did the maintenance. I hope the old cache was removed.

We have someone in our area continually placing power trails too. I have grizzled here in the past about that. Over 1,000 caches now, although some of those are now archived. And they keep placing them. Most are very ordinary containers. I too find this annoying and wish there was a way to exclude all this person's caches from my bulk load. Needing to ignore hundreds of caches is not practical. If for some reason I wanted to go do a power trail, I could then load the number I wanted manually.

Was that by herself (unaccompanied) in Saudi Arabia; unhindered?