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Thanks! The moss was actually on one of many rock piles in the area around GCMWRR, that one happened to be conveniently located chest high, so at least I wasn't laying on the ground counting broken bones and selecting nice flowers for my room in the hospital! The flowers I just shot at an odd angle, was trying to not get left behind as the rest of the group headed off to the next cache in the series. Congrats to the recent finders of pots of gold, those tales about what's at the end of the rainbow must be true!!

I think something a bit more likely to get moderator attention... Binary to text conversion

And also Billwolf1's Early Bird Special Meet & Greet (GC1A6A6), I know of at least a few coins from NC that'll be in the raffle!

While wandering the rocky highlands not too far from home this weekend with a group tackling a challenging Lord of the Rings themed series of caches, couldn't help but notice things that I thought a Leprechaun would love, such as this verdant and shaggy carpet! Hoping the Geo Leprechaun finds his way to this part of the states, the flowers are in bloom, the weather is pleasant, and we have plenty of places to hide those pots of gold!

Hmm, I guess my question was a bit oblique....we've conversed via email already, was just wondering if that proposed trade was still in the pipeline, as it has been a few weeks.

Woo hoo! Hope I'm still on the list there somewhere....

Good grief, and I thought I had a lot of traders! Now that we have another apparently prolific trader in our midst in the RDU area, someone needs to host a coin trading event, quick! edit to stay on topic....after a glance through your seeking list, pretty sure I've got at least a handful of coins you're after...

Didn't catch that on the first reading, the misspelling of Hillary (it says Hillaray on the one note) and the mention of a commemorative geocoin versus a diploma on the other note. Is the commemorative coin going to be another version of the GeoScrew?

The Hippie Bus Race Standings have been updated (finally, as usual! ) Lots more racers are either now in California somewhere, dropped in the GW6 event, or have recent logs saying they are headed that way! Now I have to start wading through the logs with pics, woo!

Anybody have a quick template to use to create the little sheets? I'm sure I could figure it out by measuring the coin case, but I'd rather not waste paper and ink through trial and error. I've put a sample Word doc up on my website, meant for two sided printing where the sheet of paper makes two passes through the printer, so the pic/name/date is on one side, and a short blurb is on the reverse. The font sizes on the picture side vary a bit, as I was cropping the photos from the Washington Post site to get as much detail as possible, and some of the names/ranks wanted to wrap to several lines more than others. Sized with a bit of leeway to fit in the pocket on the coin flip after a trip through the laminator. Fallen coin insert template Word doc

I'll 2nd that! Or maybe that should be 3rd since you already 2nded yourself?

Just looked at that coin, and the link to the washingtonpost was missing a character in the URL. I've corrected that and verified the link works. Not sure if that means I originally activated that coin and setup the URL incorrectly, or if they've changed some of them over time. That particular coin was in one of the earliest batches of coins I setup, so maybe I fat fingered the data, who knows. What's the other coin that is having issues, should be able to fix that in a jiffy as well.

Thanks for asking, he and I have been gnawed on before when we don't catch them before they latch on, finally wised up and got one of those tick removal tools a few years back that gently pries the little bugger off without killing it or leaving the head still in the bite. Then he likes to run after my wife and torment her while the tick is still caught in the tool and wiggling around. We usually just squash and flush 'em, but after hearing that various tick borne diseases are on the upswing in NC, we're keeping them in a zip-lock for a few weeks for identification purposes in case he starts coming down with something odd. Just have to remember to not use that zip-lock for anything else by mistake! As to the dipping rules, I've been a bit lenient with the few cachers who have been toting hippie buses around the country for months on end. I usually just discount multiple logs in the same day down to a single "hop" in the cache category, and sometimes more if they are dip-o-holics. Since there are only a few days left until the finish line, have at it!

Ooooh, I'd forgotten about the few Mickey pins we have gotten over the years, if my WDW vacation lanyard wasn't buried somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my office closet, that would have made a perfect pic with the Mickey Diver coin!

Was just dealing with the other kind of travel bugs....son picked up a few ticks either at school or the yard today, one medium sized one firmly attached and one huge one running around free-range. Ack, 4/15, didn't think it had been THAT long ago! Looks like about 200 message in my hippie tracking inbox, should be able to chew through them at work tomorrow if all goes well!

So after attending the 4th annual Airborne event in Fayetteville, NC over the weekend, and chatting with some fellow cachers who were going to GW6, I got kind of blue thinking about all the fun they'd be having while I was unable to attend. Having volunteered at GW5, I knew just how much fun could be had, both behind the scenes and roaming around the event itself. I spent a good bit of time talking with one of the caching spouses at the event (whose husband is over in Iraq and helped organize a recent meet-n-greet event over there), they are planning their first trip to WDW in the fall when he is on leave, which of course got me going full steam ahead on thinking about Mickey and all the fun he brings to the world! Back in the grind at work now, came home from another day of "fun" and find an envelope from me to me in the mailbox between the bills and junk mail! Who could THAT be from?! WHAT could it be?!? Turned out to be a Mickey Diver coin!!! Thanks you SOOOO much Mickey Diver, you don't know how much I'll cherish this little beauty! Here's a pic of the li'l fella: And a pic with the first Mickey themed item I could lay hands on!

Looking for a Project A.P.E. coin on behalf of a non-collecting cacher. List of available coins linked in signature. Thanks!

John Milton?

Woo hoo! Don't forget the price of shipping via USPS has changed as of today (mostly for the upwards, I'm sure! ), would hate to see a package returned with that evil "insufficient postage" stamp on it! Tempted to have them delivered to my coin collecting proxy at GW6 in case she has a hard time getting some of the coins debuting at the event and needs some motivation...

You've got mail!

Sent you a package this morning with drilled racers, included some ferrules and wire as well, just need the final assembly and they'll be ready! Thanks for running another race!

So the bright red banner warning on the order page would seem to limit sales a bit.

Whoops, somehow I was thinking the race start was a week later and so I haven't got around to mailing my racer-wanna-bees your way. Definitely wouldn't get there in time for the launch event, guess I'll need to mark my calendar with the correct date next year!

I'm sorry you don't like them. This is my first time working with translucent colors in such a large amount. They are indeed butterflies on the back side. Maybe the art does it better justice? I haven't yet seen them in person either. The orange one was actually supposed to be pink, but again I"m not all that familiar with translucents and I was never shown a sample coin. This is my first time working with Coins and Pins too. Anyway, here's my original art... Whoops, my bad, I was solely focusing on them as flowers and didn't realize they were butterflies on the back! Now it makes a heck of a lot more sense, and does look like a cool coin, just my first knee-jerk reaction was "ack using wild color just for the sake of more colors!", which turned out to be waaay off base. Sorry for the unwarranted negative comments on my part.

While I'm a big fan of roses (the alluring scent, the delicately soft touch of the petals on a ripening bud and the various shades of multi-hued flowers), these coins do not do a rose justice in my mind. I guess it is mostly the back side of the flowers that grates upon my senses so profoundly...when have such atrociously vibrant colors ever been seen on the leaves underneath a beautiful rose bud? If you'd have stuck solely to the differences between the petals of the numerous varieties of roses currently in vogue, you would likely have had a buyer in me. But once you decided that roses had purple, blue and orange leaves while in bloom, you totally lost me as a buyer.