NevaP

As a cacher who travels in a pickup pulling a 24 foot RV trailer I add my thanks to those getting GeoTruckers.com started. And thanks for including the RV people. I've already bookmarked the site. NevaP

In penance for placing a lame micro (lift-up base of lamp post type) two days ago, I just read this whole thread I really placed it only to annoy our cache approver ( I happen to know our cache approver well. I first became acquainted with her months before she was born ) The cache was listed yesterday and was immediately logged by five people, mostly relatively new cachers, and all of them seemed to enjoy it because they had not seen this particular style of Urban Micro previously. We have few lamp posts of this variety locally. Of course now many of the ones we do have will sprout micro caches. Solution? - try to be unique in your vicinity even if it's old stuff elsewhere. I'm off to find some ice cream (chocolate - never strawberry) and ponder all this. NevaP

Everyone who has ever lost a Travel Bug knows that there's enough confusion now about how to properly log and transfer them. Please don't let them into Waymarking. If Waymarks are opened as places to log bugs some people will just assume it's OK to physically drop a bug off at a Waymark. I had nice bug, which on its first transfer, was physically left at a virtual cache site and of course has not been seen since. Maybe down the road, in a year or two, when Waymarking is nicely established , some kind of tag or mark visitor can be invented. NevaP, happy that 15 of her 20 Travel Bugs are still alive and traveling.

I just added a Waypoint to the State Border Signs category, one I had listed as a locationless find a couple years ago. I loaded a couple photos and mis-identified one of them as View of Nebraska from the Kansas side when it should be View of Kansas from the Nebraska side. But I can't find anyway to edit my caption. I did a search but can't find this mentioned yet in the new forum. Is this something omitted so far in the beta version or haven't I looked enough to find a photo edit button. NevaP

I found this topic today and used it as an excuse to figure out how to put a bookmark list together. Here's what I produced. Hope it is working. Nebraska I-80 reststop caches NevaP

I just posted my log for this cache at Barrow, Alaska Bowhead I hadn't been able to devise a pocket query to tell me if it was the northernmost in North America so I was pleased that a forum search turned up this topic and gave me an answer. Thanks guys, Looks I will have to settle for northernmost cache in the United States. NevaP, who also will not acknowledge the Four Windows Virtual.

I was going to follow CarleenP's lead (Really, sometimes I do!) and not respond to this topic (and I admit I have only skimmed through it) BUT I have to get my say in. A couple days ago I was caching with CarleenP's dad (KP) who always groans and says "I hate Micros" when I say that's what we are looking for. We were in the middle of Anchorage, Alaska at the time but we were bushwacking through bogs on moose trails which is how things are there. Plenty of places to hide ammo can and larger caches which most of them were that day. But the next two caches on the route were Micros. KP immediately found the first one (suspended down inside a metal post - I didn't know he knew about that trick - and gloated as he always does when he finds it first. The site of the next Micro was a fairly thick spruce forest with thousands of places to put something small and even though the hint said it was five and a half feet above the ground we couldn't find it. After about an hour I was wanting to give up but KP who hates micros wouldn't quit looking. I finally spotted the bison tube hung in plain sight. KP was annoyed that He hadn't found it. I tend to say I don't like Micros too and I tend to avoid them. I have concluded that both KP and I have this attitude just because the durn things can be so hard to find. Most of my DNF posts are for micros. NevaP, planning to hide a couple Micros soon

She forgets that I'm often snooping on what she's posting. I just don't find time to post all that often myself. This week I seem to be avoiding doing other things I should be doing. Anyway, thanks, Carleen for saying those nice things about me and Dad. (She may have ulterior motives. We are having lunch Friday to fill out the ticket order for the performing arts center 05-06 season. Guess whose credit card it goes on. ) NevaP, home from the retired faculty spring lunch where she felt much younger than most of those old people.

Nino's first Hey, Nino! congrats to you and the family on your first post AND your first cache placed. Neat cache!

Last I checked you decided to be a scientist researching the number of different birds in geocache vicinities across the globe. Or are you considering a new career? I kind of like the one you have chosen! You gals tickle me. I'm glad somebody thinks we are amusing and not annoying. Currently, being a complusive list keeper I am trying to decide if I should start a list of birds seen while caching or a list of caches found while birding. The problem is I usually am not sure which I am doing. I have so many lists that almost every time I see a bird it goes on one list or another. I don't have the caches sorted out that well yet. NevaP, one day older than she was yesterday

Let's see, not counting event caching, I've encountered others with the same pursuit four times. In Florida, Missouri, Utah and Illinois. Maybe I'll keep a list of states where I have cached AND met other cachers while caching. Just a couple weeks ago as I was about to give up on a lakefront micro in Chicago I saw another woman approaching with an obvious GPS in hand. We joined forces, found it and had a great conversation about why we liked caching so much. NevaP

Yep, like I said, it was a way way bigger than the pileated ones I'd seen. And besides the white bill there was amazing color. I just couldn't believe it could be true. BTW I'm going to report the sighting to Cornell. And thanks for the info about where to report it. My wife was excited when she saw the report about the ones they found because she remembered how moved and amazed I'd been when I described the bird I'd seen. - T of TandS Is that huge Woodpecker a Pileated (it almost certainly is) or an Ivory-bill ? (highly unlikely unless you are seeing it in an extremely remote southern cypress swamp -5+++++ terrain in caching terms) The bill color is NOT a realiable distinguishing character. the Pileated's bill is large and can look quite pale. Very experienced birders find it hard to rely on impression of size unless there is something to compare the bird to. Pileateds are also huge woodpeckers The distinguishing marks are the amount and position of white in the wings. The Ivory Bill has large white patches in the wings. These are the secondary flight feathers at the base of the wing and when the bird is perched they appear as two large white bands across its back with a pair of white lines running upward along the edge of the wing. In flight,in top view they make a broad white band along the rear side of the wing Pileateds have a very small amount of white in the primary flight feathers toward the tip of the wing and when perched these barely show if at all so the back of the bird apears solid or almost solid black. There is no white patch seen at the rear of the wing in flight Both species have a white patch on the foreward underside of the wing. In flight, seen from underneath, the Ivory-bill will show two patches of white- one at the front edge of the wing and one at the rear- separated by a band of black. The Pileated will show only the underwing whiet patch at the front of the wing. Also the Ivory -bill has a black chin and the Pileated has a white chin. Both male and female Pileateds have red crests. The female Ivory-bill has a black crest. Only the male has a red crest. If you think it might, just might, be an Ivory-bill -TAKE PICTURES! And be prepared to describe exactly where all the white feathers were located. Please note that I used the word caching in the first line NevaP, who has seen a lot of Pileated Woodpeckers but doesn't expect to see an Ivory-bill in this lifetime at least.

Still 70 until July, heading for Alaska mid May for two weeks of strenuous off in the boonies birding and then, accompanied by Carleenp's dad (73), some geocaching in the more civilized parts of the state. NevaP, aka Carleen's mom, still trying to decide what she wants to be when she grows up.

Thanks for all the help!

Here's a Sunrise. This is at Lithgow, NSW, Australia. OK I was birding when I took this photo but I did find a geocache near here the day before and another one the day after. NevaP, delighted that she can get photos to post again

After much difficulty, a strange error message and some trouble shooting over in the newbie forums I finally think I can post a Sunset picture. This is a sunset at Lake Ogallala Nebraska, near GCJE8K The Little Lake. If it's not here ( I got it to post in the test thread) I give up and declare myself computer challenged at present. NevaP, who still swears its all done by magic

I think I have it working now, using a resized image and the url I get when I select the photo and then do the click for a larger image. I still have no idea what was causing the error message.

still testing

What did Stunod do that I didn't to to get my sunset picture to show?

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I was using the url that appeared when I clicked on the photo on the edit my profile page because it wasdifferent for each photo and I assumed it was not the url for the page. I just tried again in the test thread using the url that appears when I click on the photo and then on edit this photo. Same error message. I checked and I didn't have http:// twice. The url was proceeded by and followed by Only one in each place. If I removed either one of these I got a link to the edit this photo page but not the photo inserted into the post. NevaP, still perplexed

http://www.geocaching.com/my/image.aspx?imgid=97836

http://www.geocaching.com/my/image.aspx?imgid=97836[/img] Image test

I have been trying to insert an image into a post in the way that has always worked for me: upload the photo from my hard drive file to my edit profile page, click on it, copy the url and paste it into the IMG box on the posting form. I get an error message that says: Sorry, dynamic pages in the tags are not allowed. I haven't a clue as to what this means and what I am doing wrong. NevaP

Geez! Do you go to the movies and yell out the ending and ruin that for everyone, too? You better not come out west and start giving away hints like that or you'd find yourself stuffed into an ammo can I'm with mtn-man. The less hints the better. I was thinking that this list was tongue in cheek and not giving anything away. After all anybody who has cached in Florida quickly learns to look under the plametto fronds. Whatever, the "Georgia Style" cache I found in Florida did have a pine needles on it but I had to look at a photo to remember that. What I noticed was the other object covering it and I assumed that was what was meant by Georgia style. My apologies to Georgians if I'm wrong. NevaP, who looks at the hints when in a hurry or totaly bamboozled