Sissy-n-CR

And the tally so far is.... (forgive me if I capitalize your user name wrong or mis-interpreted your post) IN------------------------------------ NOT IN JoGPS--------------------------------Uperdooper El Diablo------------------------------Kealia CR (Woo-hoo!)----------------------- Torry 1oldfart-------------------------------the other oldfart WH------------------------------------Pipanella JamieZ------------------------------- RichardMoore Corp of Discovery-------------------TresOkies++ Welch --------------------------------woof n lulu Johnny Vegas------------------------Sept1c tank RK-------------------------------------leatherman TotemLake---------------------------Divine New England n00b-------------------tirediron Snoogans Robert---------------------------ON THE FENCE (or not obvious by their posts) Azurak AuntieWeasel-------------------------umc Mozartman (5 days)-----------------Lep NFA------------------------------------Carleenp Jennifer&Dean----------------------- Robespierre Fly46 BadAndy clearpath wimseyguy Sissy BlueDeuce camo-crazed

Can you copy/paste the article for us? The link takes me to a site that requires registration and I have enough cookies and malware, thanks. Sissy

Thanks, umc! My keyboard had been nice and clean. Dam, where's the paper towels when you need them.

Just to set the record straight... CR used to post under this account. I believe less that 50 of the post count showing belong to me. This plus his post count as CR puts him as number 18. Sorry umc...

You guys are sadists!

Me too, me too! The ability to selectively ignore certain caches and get them off my nearest page would be TERRIFIC! Any idea when or if it will happen? (We use GSAK, but that is CR's department. I still use the nearest page.) I agree that anonymous and knowing how many are ignoring would be good. Even better if the number was on the cache page like the number of watchers is. Sissy

Can I plug our site? Sissy

I don't like risking broken limbs, because I can't drive (my job) with a cast. So instead of jumping across the slick smooth rocks, I once stripped from the waist down to cross a knee-deep stream when the air temp was 25F. I didn't want my long johns to get wet. (And again to get back!) Sissy

In this cache-placer's defense: -He is from the area, tho no longer lives here. He visits quite regularly, and has found a lot of our area's caches. I believe the person who has agreed to maintain them for him is an old high-school buddy. -He is from a city where there are quite a few cachers with finds in the 4-digits, and it is celebrated. This type of cache placement is enjoyed by his local community. -I think he is trying to also become part of our community by placing these. Partly to give something back, and partly to garner goodwill so some of our cryptic hiders will be more forth-coming with clues. (I have communicated with each of them and have been assured THAT will not happen.) -I think we may have dropped the ball in communication with this person. We tried to help him understand that it was not the size, so much as the 'lameness' that was a factor. There is a cacheless park very near where he has placed these, and hunting for something so tiny in it might be fun. BUT, a gaurdrail in a not-so-nice part of town or a lamppost in an office complex, just leaves me shaking my head and asking 'why?' -He enjoys finding these (I assume), and is maybe trying to get our area to more closely mirror his. One or two of the seven might have redeeming value, but I think CR and I will forgo logging any of them as a find. Now where is that ignore button? Sissy

Oops! Not until you pointed it out! I'll get CR to fix it in the morning.

Awwww, that has to be one of the most romantic lines I have ever seen! Most of you know that CR is my caching partner. We have been married for over 10 years. He really is a lot easier to get along with in person than his forum posts would have you believe...

CR has one that we send out with all our bison tubes. I'll see if I can get him to post it. Sissy

Athiker, Can you provide that in 600dpi black and white?

Little known facts about alligators: While they do not hibernate, being cold-blooded, they become much less active in the cooler months. They need warmth to raise their metabolism enough to digest food. Around here, gators do not feed from late Oct. thru March. If they were force-fed, the food would rot, undigested, in their stomachs, causing death to the gator. A (very large) 14 foot gator needs only to consume about the equivalent of two chickens A WEEK to survive. (Or a small dog !) Gators do not look for human targets. We are too big. They will defend their territory against intruders, and a female will attack anything coming near her nest. They mostly lie around waiting for food to come near enough to grab. They have little nodules along their jaws that are highly sensitive to movement in the water. Just like snakes, generally, if you leave them alone, they will leave you alone.

Why you little stinker! OK, OK, I guess it is a case of 'you snooze, you lose' for me. I spoke to the DNR guy who has authority over Marrington two weeks ago. He welcomes geocaches placed there, gave me his name, office phone and cel phone #'s along with a giant trail map. Last week, I finally got out there to ride the trail. (All 12 miles worth.) I have some ideas and some potential spots, but I wanted to get back with the DNR guy to see if it was OK to place weird ones (climb trees, wade thru swamp, etc). I also wanted to ask him if there were any secret interesting areas he could point out that might be off trail. Marrington is mixed use, allowing permitted hunters on Mon, Wed and Fri afternoons and Sat morning during deer season, so be sure to put that on any cache page. It also is one of the most highly rated mountain bike trails in the state. One of the best things about it is that off-trail placements are no problem, since the hunters go off-trail all the time. Go by the DNR trailer (sign says 'Hunter Check Station') and talk to him before you place anything and give his contact info to HuggyD (our approver) on a note on the cache page, and you should be good to go. BTW, I am going out there to ride again tomorrow, so if you see my silver Toyota Previa, look for me on the trail! Sissy

CR, you better get back to work or get home and take me to dinner!

In reply to BeeBot: I agree that the language we speak is changing. I see our language as a fluid thing, constantly mutating. We no longer use the same spelling rules as the writers of our Constitution did, and the meaning of words evolve through common usage. Most people write and speak what they hear. My mother has a hearing problem, and she has mispronounced some words for so long that it is kind of like knowing a second language for me. Vafume for vacuum, baining for bathing. No one told her that is was incorrect, for fear of hurting her feelings. Recently, she confided that she had spoken to someone else with a hearing loss, and she hoped that was not what she sounded like. We had a nice talk about it and she was surprisingly open to practicing some of her worst words. Mispronounciation also comes when a person reads a larger vocabulary than he hears. For years I thought it was 'guess-ture', not jesture (gesture) and in-E-vetible. CR still delights with my struggle for pal-ah-table (palatable). One hundred years from now, most of us will not recognize many parts of our own language. (if we are living to hear it! ) Sissy

Sorry about the delay in responding...CR and I have been thinking this over. At this time, we do not feel we could easily add gift certificates to the list of things we offer . As a small part-time thing run out of our spare bedroom, we do not have a way to conveniently deal with the extra issues that would entail- what to do about change leftover and how to issue them in such a way as to prevent their re-use- being some of them. However, if you would like to get some physical items to use, we can custom engrave them. Drop me an e-mail with exactly what you are looking for and we will go from there. Sissy

I hear ya, brother. Today I rode part of a 12 mile mountain bike trail with the idea of placing a few more "challenging" caches. After SSW#1 and #2, I feel like I have a certain standard to meet, even if it means they are only found once every two years. As I was riding, I thought "Hey, here's something neat. I could come out and ride the whole trail 3 times a week, timing myself and trying to improve my speed." Totally unrelated to caching. Problem is, I'd be doing it alone, and I kinda like CR's company. Caching is the only activity I have found that will get CR away from the house and active. We have slowed our pace quite a bit. Part of that is my doing. In the beginning, I would spend Friday night getting everything ready. Saturday, I would be up before dawn packing lunches so we could head out at 6:30 or so. As you can guess, that got old for CR pretty quick. I also had a bad habit of wanting to stay out WAY too late. Now, we cache some week-ends, and do other stuff some week-ends. This week-end we are going to an event, and will probably cache in the area. Having our 2nd closest cache over 80 road miles away doesn't help either! I hope you don't give up the caching forums, I have always enjoyed your posts. Sissy

(As I wipe the spewed coffee from my monitor!) You got me! I had not been reading this thread and got the e-mail. I figured you must have meant to log another waypoint that was similar, but where is it freezing? CR pointed me in the right direction. Thanks for the laugh! Edited because I just re-read the log. Here it is for others to enjoy! " Wow, what a swim--and boy, was it cold at the coordinates! Found the cache at the bottom of the frozen ocean floor. Couldn't sign the log as the container had frozen shut and the ink in my pen had solidified anyway. Thanks for the challenge!" This was a log left on a cache page that CR used to test layouts. (Has been deleted by poster).

Yuck! Now I remember why I stopped reading it! Sorry I asked! (But thanks for answering.)

OK, refresh my memory. I read a version of it as an adolescent, but all I remember is it was about a prisoner. (Really, I only read part of it, Asimov was much more interesting!)

This is tough! Someone put up a list of the rookies for us. I have seen several insightful posts from new folks over the past couple of months, but would have a hard time singling any one out (because my memory is so bad). I think I might have a hard time telling who is new, also.

Wow... I don't know what to say. Thanks!

I guess I am still somewhat of a kid at heart. I will hunt just about anything if I am in the area, but my preference (all other things being equal) is a full size cache with trades. I like the idea of opening the box to see what is inside. It doesn't even have to be good stuff or anything that I would want. It is the surprise that delights me. I almost always take any stickers I find, and use them on all outgoing mail, as those of you who have ordered anything from us already know. It makes me happy, and hopefully gives a small spot of cheer to the person who receives it. Even if it is the lady who gets the check for the water bill! I also enjoy trips to Big Lots and always checking out the sale racks and bins at other stores. Usually, I will buy one for me, and 3 to 10 more for trades. I try to picture the next person to open the box as an eight year old kid. If there is something I would not want an eight-year-old to see, I take it. If there is nothing new for that eight-year-old, I leave something, whether I traded or not. The only exceptions are if I forget because the adventure was so crazy, or if the cache doesn't look like it will last. (Not waterproof or poorly hidden.) And yes, the OP knows all this!