NevaP

I was going to post that Albion Sunset but Carleen beat me to the draw. It still takes me half an hour to figure out how to get a photo in here. NevaP

I found one in Florida that was described as hidden Georgia style and I'm still not sure what it means. It *was* "decorated" in an interesting way. NevaP

Perhaps a new format will make it easier but at present when I spot something that would be a locationless cache that might not have been logged I get the coords and photos and a photo of me (or my hand) with the GPS at the site. Then I check for logs like this. Call up the whole list of logs in one window. Click edit and click find in top window (Ctrl F). Enter the latitude degree and the minutes number you have recorded and click find. This should get you any logs for finds in that general vicinity and you can quickly tell if you have a new one. You can double check with longitude degree and minutes. Thanks to Bluet, who clued me in on this. A why didn't I think of that moment. NevaP, still cluless on a lot of computer stuff

Good heavens! Not even close! I'm never happier than early Saturday morning standing on a carpet of pine needles spotted with sunshine listening to the peeping of frogs 490' feet from a cache. But this makes a nice change from Drudge Frogs don't 'peep'. Peeping is the irritating sound that baby chickens aka chicks make. Frogs make a croaking sound aka 'ribbit-ribbit'. Frogs do not peep. Obviously you have missed the joy of being out in the woods about this time of year when the Spring Peepers are doing a deafening chorus of PEEPS. They're small but they're are froggy as they come. NevaP, Geocacher, Birder and Frog-watcher

There have been a number of ecomonic studies done on the impact of birders travel into various areas. Once businesses realize how much money birders are spending in their area the result has been a proliferation of Birder festivals and commercially organized events all over the country. Geocaching needs an ecomonic impact study. Birders, by the way are frequently found in cemeteries, tramping around, peering up into the trees and skulking through the shubbery. I don't know of any place we have been banned. NevaP

Happy Birthday Carleen. It was nice of Dad to take us out to dinner wasn't it? (*I* know how old she is -- I was there -- and I did all the work ) NevaP AKA the Pikamom

My furthest south is also the oldest active cache I've found: Melbourne's First, placed 10/8/2000 at S37° 15.313 E145° 10.020 A few other Australian caches were a bit higher in the E numbers. I think the highest was Departure Dragon Yellow at Cairns E145° 44.913 West - not very far. Somewhere in the Salt Lake area W111° North - barely past the N 40°s but June 11-12 I will be in Barrow, Alaska where there are several caches and those should be the furthest north I will ever get. Altitude ? I've found at least one that was over 10,000 ft in Colorado. And I've done a lot of barely above sea level ones in Florida. NevaP

It's about time I checked in here. The dog is no problem as long as he is not afraid of cats. We would have a hard time finding a level place for the camper because ours is occupying the level place. But I was told you-all would be willing to sleep on my floor so I assume you are not really bringing the trailer. Fortunately, Carleen's dad will be off at an entomology meeting so I have been inspired to do my spring housecleaning for 1992 and I will have two bedrooms and the living room couch available. I'll sleep downstairs in the family room with the cats who will be hiding down there anyway. Pizza and party at my house on the 21st. Breakfast for all cacher's on the 22nd followed by a great day of caching. I haven't found most the caches on that list! NevaP A.K.A. Carleen's mom

Don't ever give up hope. Two days after I posted on 2/17, one of my four missing bugs resurfaced, after not being heard from since early September. Since then he has been logged properly into two caches in two states.

I have been steamed for a couple months, ever since my lovely bug, Triceratops Koosh Triceratops Koosh was left as an "offering" at a virtual cache, the tomb of Marie Laveau, New Orlean's famous Voodoo Queen. Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen This was the bug's first move and I'm sure that whoever cares for this place considered him an inappropriate object and promptly removed him. No one logging the cache after the bug was left there mentioned seeing it so I have sadly sent him off to the Travel Bug Graveyard today. There didn't seem to be any reason to just mark him missing. But of course he could always turn up at a garage sale in New Orleans. One of my other bugs who was sent to the graveyard showed up alive and well a bit later and has since traveled to Australia and back to the USA Thanks for a place to vent one's frustrations. NevaP, who has 16 other TB's, four of them missing.

I am worried about one of my travel bugs, Triceratops Koosh TBDD7C, which was left on November 21 as an "offering" at the virtual cache at Marie Laveau's tomb GCGFHX. I'm afraid it's just sitting there with the candles and things and may get carried off by a muggle. I would be very grateful if a local cacher could stop by, grab my bug and get it logged and placed INSIDE a regular cache. Thanks. NevaP in Nebraska

Success story #1 ENTSOC BUG 1. Each time my husband and I attend an Entomology meeting I release two travel bugs which have a goal of reaching the vicinity of future entomology meetings. My very first bug ever was released in the Fort Lauderdale area in November 2002. It quickly got to the Cincinnati area, site of the Oct. 2003 Entomological Society meeting and then it vanished. But after a trip to the travel bug graveyard it surfaced again in central Ohio, was there in the fall of 2003 fairly close to Cincinnati and soon thereafter it was on it's merry way to Australia. It landed in Melbourne and soon moved to Brisbane, site of an International Congress of Entomology, August 2004. Shortly before the congress a Brisbane area cacher placed it in a new cache hidden very close to the convention center where the congress was held. A friend of ours picked it up and brought it back to the USA. It's now in Iowa and is going have to hurry to get to Salt Lake City by week after next for the upcoming ESA meeting. But I was delighted that it got to the International Congress. (it's twin ENTSOC BUG 2 wandered all over the eastern half of the USA and now is missing in Florida) ENTSOC BUG 1 tracking TB5192

Carleen called mid afternoon to report that she had landed in Lincoln and she still sounded very excited about the great hike. I just wish I had been there too. NevaP AKA the Pika Mom, heading for the Colorado mountains in the morning.

I thinkCarleen was counting out a batch of them, 40 or so, that she was sending to someone in South Dakota.

This afternoon CarleenP, in her usual sedate manner, presided over the distribution of Yellow Jeeps to Nebraska cachers.

next year? Hey! You promised a next year event! I wouldn't say I promised... You did too promise. I even told you about a group campground near Colorado springs just in case that's where we will be next year. Pikamom Ok, ok...yes I'd like to host an event next summer. What was the name of the campground near the Springs? Red Rocks group campground in Pike National forest. It's about five miles north of Woodland park. Several other Pike National Forest campgrounds a mile or so away.

Here's my zoom of the white truck. NevaLP

next year? Hey! You promised a next year event! I wouldn't say I promised... You did too promise. I even told you about a group campground near Colorado springs just in case that's where we will be next year. Pikamom

I finally thought of a signature item. While out caching, I do a lot of photography, mostly of birds and nature subjects, and recently I started making "refrigerature magnets" by attaching selected photos, printed about 2 inches wide to the self adhesive magnet sheets that you can cut with a scissors. I've got about 20 different photos I'm using. I put one in a snack-size zip-lock bag along with a "This is my signature item" note. I googled up an online craft place that sold the magnet sheets for about half what the local Hobby Lobby was charging. NevaLP

Well that's close, but I can't do that. So I've decided to give the staff or I should say staffs to... Cacheola and also one to Cacheola Crew Mom Also one to Carleen's mom Nevalp and one to Carleenp as well. You both thought it would be better to give than receive and I think you should be rewarded for such unselfish thoughts. Congratulations to you and yours. El Diablo Thank you so much. I am overwhelmed. You are so generous. The Cacheola Crew really deserves their staffs and I would not have felt right about getting one if they hadn't got two also. And if you hadn't awarded one to Carleen too she probably would be borrowing mine all the time. Thanks again NevaLP

That's so sweet! She didn't even have to talk about freaky cat issues either. She is sweet (usually) Thanks for the nomination Carleen. I finally found time to look at the thread after logging all my caches from my Sandhill Crane watching/caching excursion. First paperless caching attempt. Pocket PC only froze up once but I didn't lose the data. Car only got stuck once and a trucker pulled me out. Caching keeps you young. And I won't be 70 until mid July. NevaLP, AKA CarleenP's MOm

Help. I am trying to go paperless and I have hit the the tech wall. I have been slogging through forum posts on the subject and I'm more confused than ever. I intended to get a Palm/Os PDA but when I ran across a special offer on Dell last week I bought an Axim3 which I find is a pocket PC format. Well, I've figured out how to turn the durn thing on and get the battery charged and set the clock and I even moved a file over from Word and opened it. I downloaded Mobipocket Reader which will open my PQs OK but everybody seems to hate it. But I can't figure out which of the many programs people seem to like will run on the Pocket PC and which are only for Palm. Can someone explain in plain english, comprehensible to a confused senior citizen, which progams I can use for the pocket PC and which will only work on the Palm. Thanks NevaLP

I'm pleased to see other birders among the cachers. The two activities are very compatible. I usually have binocs around my neck when I'm outdoors and this is great camouflage for geocaching. I've been seriously birding for 49 years and geocaching for less than two. It's a lot easier to log new caches than it is to add a bird to my life list in the USA. But all the time I can add birds to my state lists, county lists, year list, daily list, trip list etc etc. and I'm the kind of birder who keeps lists but still gets a big kick out finding a large flock of Robins bathing in puddles near a cache in Florida. I'm always birding while I'm caching. If you check my photo galley on my profile site you will find a number of bird photos taken at cache locations. Some of the organized competitive birding is big time stuff. A few years ago we attended the awards lucheon for the Texas Birding classic when we were in south Texas at the time the event was finishing its run. I'm, not good enough to compete in things like this. Great Texas Birding Classic This is a three weekend team competition which awards around $50,000 annually to conservation projects chosen by the winning teams. The members of the winning teams get nice prizes, like top of the line ($1000+) binoculars. Love that albino hawk. What a beauty! NevaP, AKA CarleenP's mom, 578 birds in North America north of Mexico, 1100 world wide and counting, getting ready to bird Australia in August.

What's not to love! She pretty, loves geocaching, loves anime and she loves geocaching... All right guys. Don't get carried away. Remember her mom reads these forums sometimes. NevaLP AKA CarleenPs Mom