Last Lap Gang

I started caching in the winter though snow and sleet some daze so I thought I would enjoy the better weather but I miss the cold. No little varmints to deal with of the I want to suck your blood variety. With the extreme heat our caching will probably not be as great but we enjoy caching with all or a group of our dogs and the heat of the summer does not do well for them nor is it safe for them. I look forward to the fall but I am sure we will still cache this summer and plan to this weekend on both days. Wags, Russ & Erin

As far as it takes! Wags, Russ & Erin

Man that's alot of waypoints to mark with our herd of three greyhounds and a borzoi. My Garmin might not take that much action. Wags, Russ & Erin

I live in Southern Maryland and Lyme disease is out there as Crashmore (one of Maryland's elite cachers) is on medication for it right now. Two of the Last Lap caches are high tick zones currently. Mrs. Last Lap had me pull two plump ones in early March of her back. We have also run across a nest of garters who in accoradance with us left us alone as we respected them too. Also walked up on a black snake about three feet long sunning in the woods. Yes so careful is the key word. Carry a stick, don't blindly reach, don;t step over logs without watching where you are stepping. Snakes aren't looking for you but they can be startled. Also don't stand around in one place for long being a tick magnet. Keep on the move, where long pants. Same applies for many places I guess. The ticks are what is getting me. They are awful this year! Can anyone tell me what good they do for the environment and the ecological chain. Throw those pesky skeeters in their too. What good do they do? Wags, Russ & Erin

Does anyone remember where they put there mower? Anyway if I do find it I pull that handle thingy to start it right? Wags, Russ & Erin

That is an absolute suck break Crash! The logs this season in Pennsy in Maryland around a few of my caches are reading like MASH unit trage care. The ticks are incredible. I pulled two from Mrs. Last Lap early in March. That was an oemn to me that things were going to be bad. I try never to stay in the same spot too long. Good luck Crash! Wags, Russ & Erin

2003 has just been nominated the GeoRain year of this century. Okay not a hard call but yep we have had 7 straight days in Southern Maryland and have seen sun light a grand total of a couple of hours in that time. Wags, Russ & Erin

[From Mrs. Last Lap...] you all are sick... but I think it's a fantastic plan.... Boom! Cracks me up! Wags, Russ & Erin

Last Lap Gang replies to our current three Greyhounds and Borzoi and it is the old name of our Greyhound Rescue organization (Last Lap Greyhound Connection) we used to run. We now have less responsibilities and love fostering mixed breed dogs. All the great neat things of helping a dog in need without the business end of having that second full time non profit non paying job we used to have. Might I (Mrs. Last Lap) add that our slogan used to be "Make Your Lap a Greyhound's Last!" Now it's "Make Your Lap a Homeless Pet's Last!" Not quite the same pun, but you get the point! Wags, Russ & Erin [This message was edited by Last Lap Gang on May 15, 2003 at 09:13 AM.]

The Maryland Geocaching Society has a forum where you can put caches up for adoption. http://www.mdgps.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=15 Wags, Russ & Erin

Too many gadgets at work and I am cheap. Have to have a "REAL" need for something before we got it. Goft from my wife at Christmas after she found out the hockey jersey she got was not that great $50 deal but the lettering alone was $50 and the whole deal was over $200. In came Mr. Garmin Etrex Venture and we have been stoked ever since! Wags, Russ & Erin

quote:Originally posted by Dinoprophet: quote:Originally posted by Last Lap Gang:Okay I nominate myself for NumbNut Monday Award! Wouldn't you know it, someone starts a thread about liking everyone, and you have to spoil it with this comment. Oh, who am I kidding, I can't stay mad at you! http://www.mi-geocaching.org/ "Winter's just the curtain. Spring will take the bow" -- Richard Shindell, _Spring_ I am glad cause I like you even if you were mad. Wags, Russ & Erin

quote:Originally posted by yumitori:And you have a cool avatar... My wife and I got them as matching tatoos on our honeymoon too in different places. thanks I liked you even before that comment about the Avatar Wags, Russ & Erin

I have two SE Pennsylvania cache hides that have become Tick Havens. The posts are incredible. I think I should post MASH units near both. Dracula would starve to death near them. One cacher quoted 15 ticks on their leg as they signed the log on a log. Wags, Russ & Erin

We have had luck with Rubbermaid top of the line $7.00 containers with the extra lining around the lid. By far Ammo Boxes are the best but it certain areas they are frowned upon but I still love hunting for them. The best is Tupperware but not the easiest accessible. Don;t skimp on Containers. I have actually replaced two cache containers in the last few months that were Salad containers that you get from the Salad Bar at a grocery store. Wags, Russ & Erin

Hey now that may be true but disregard this bineheaded post. I was replying to Jeremy's post poll about Watch Lists. Okay I nominate myself for NumbNut Monday Award! Wags, Russ & Erin

Whats there to hide. At the very least the owner. I have often wondered who watched ours not in a bad way though. Wags, Russ & Erin

Vacation caches are dangerous territory for abadonment issues. We place in two states in three locations that we either visit or live in more than four times a year and will for the next five years at least. Bith of our other areas have someone designated with their prior approval to monitor the cache if needed. It is very hard on the geocaching approval team for everyone to jsut willy nilly place a cache in a place that they will never visit again. Common sense is the key here. This is the type of situation a cache can become litter due to abandonment but I agree with the original poster if you travel to and from on a regular schedule then it should taken into account. Wags, Russ & Erin

Yes we recently found one in rocks in 3 feet of snow in Pennsylvania. It had been around the worlkd and 23k miles in 13 months and needed to get to North Carolina and its home base to complete the mission. Well we took it to a caching event (Where bugs get tossed like hot potatoes) and it got lost in the process and finally logged but before I could even log it in the cache I placed it. I finally got that straightened out after I heard through the whisper down the lane who got it. They kept it for a long time and then I heard that the bug and the TB tag were seperated in the last cache seen. Well luckily that did not and about two weeks ago the TB made it to its final destination. 24K miles around the world in 14 months with many exotic ports of call including Spain and Austrailia. I was relieved and also learned a lesson. I will never take a bug to a caching event again. Wags, Russ & Erin

The Last Lap Gang was working the registration table at a local Animal Relief benifit and one of our demonstrators was there for a flyball demo with her team and her Jack Russell Terrier. She asked who was giving the geocaching demonstration at the registration table and I told her it was us.She said she cached but not down here since there weren;t very many caches (St Marys county Maryland). I told her things had changed and she was standing about 500 feet from one as we talked. I loaned her my Garmin and she went caching and then stayed for our demo where we found a placed dummy cache for the audience while explaining the benefits and rules of caching. The fellow cacher was even nice enough to post pictures of us while she logged her find. So you never no where you will run into a fellow cacher. Wags, Russ & Erin

Wow what was that all about. The uses are a little greater than our beloved little hobby for the satellites and yes they are rotated by age -- hence the numbering of the satellites on your display. Wags, Russ & Erin

Signed log equals found cache since it is not a logless (code word) cache. Wags, Russ & Erin

We lost two this past week and will probably send them to the TB Graveyard cache. It is so hard to let go. One TB was placed in a cache and the cache was destoryed before it moved. Another TB was put in one of ours and someone took it and never logged it. I tried to find the cacher on line after inspection of the physical log cache book but to know avail. That is my #1 geocaching Pet Peeve. Cachers who do not know what do or how to treat Travel Bugs abusing them. Those tags are not cheap so it is always a dissapointment when they are mistreated. It is a shame that I am starting to feel like I do not want to buy anymore Bugs. How can geocaching.com better educate cachers on Travel Bugs. One thing I am seeing is that individual cachers are improving on directivies with thier bug so we are going to do that also. Have others had these problems too? Wags, Russ & Erin

Congratulations to two great Maryland cachers and genuinely nice guys. Way to go and thanks for to both of you for all you do for us Marylanders in the Maryland Geocaching Society. Wags, Russ & Erin

Man they are everywhere this season. I have two caches hidden in Pennsylvania that are infested around them. One person logged they had fifteen ticks on their pants as they sat down writing in the log. I am seeing Tick posts everywhere. My wife got two bad bites down here in southern Maryland back at the end of March. We keep the Last Lap dogs up to date on verything but what can we use? Any advice out their for any deterrants to humans beside bundling up and tucking paints legs. Why can;t their be a Frontline for humans or something. You know take some topical solution once a month and rub it on the back of our necks. I have been too busy to cache the last few weeks but now I know I must face the music and be attacked by the pesky little good for nothing varmints! Wags, Russ & Erin