Good Marning, All! Hi, Greg! Ares, when one's just awake and not enuff coffee in one, "troupe" reads "toupe"!!!!!
Man, there is NO WAY I'd give up the Pre-Hunt Pary OR The Re-Hash Bash not only for work or for ANYTHING. Specially the The Re-Hash Bash. Gods! What would you guys do w/o 24 lbs o'potatoe salad?????
Well, guess I should get ready for work. In just about 13 days school will be out and it will be Hunt City for me! Nothing shall stay me from my appointed hunting! Ter, remember Conway and the bladder infection I had? Oh! Was I miserable! Climbing outta my goon suit every 10 minutes - thank gods it was warm that year! - and never straying too far from the warming house? I pray THAT never happens again!
I was actually yoking - yust using a phrase, like - when I mentioned school being out. I've not been in school since they used little chalkboards! Me thinks I'm gonna be missing LOTS o'work after about the 24th... YEWBETCHA!!!!
I'm already tired o'this - this waiting. Clue One is gonna tell us The Med's located within the State o'Minnesota, within St. Paul, within a park, and don't EVEN think o'going on a golf course or tearing ANYTHING up.
So, like, since we've got *that* nailed down, lettuce just move rite on to Clue Two, otay? Don't you think that's a fine and dandy idea?
Eye do!
I hope they have electrical outlets at "The Park." I want to bring my Chile Cheeze Dip to da'Bash. And if anybuddy wants me to pick up a porterhouse or rib-eye the size of a roast at Lem's, let me know!
Can you tell I'm HUNGRY? LOL!!! Life don't get in-knee better'un THIS! Talking The Hunt and FOOD! :D
Hay! MJ!!! Would you please ask TT if I may (again, for the third year!) borrow his Marty Michilen suit to Hunt in? In case I can't find a green one...
Oh I'm sure they may be lurking out there somewhere, but the main point is they're not HERE anymore. I was really starting to wonder if they'd ever go away. And for the person who asked earlier, no, not a whole lot gets posted here during the summer.
yeah, but you sounded like you didn't want them to disappear. incidentally, i figured not much got posted here in the summer, since the last one i remember reading at the end of the last hunt was numbered somewhere around 8900.
Something just hit me, besides the rain drops... As I was out ruminating over the loss of the Conway Hunt thread.
Ittiz been two years in a row that they've used Presidents in the clues. The trees in a row: "Wood row," as in Wilson (Conway). And the Franklin Pierce stuff last year. (I remember well the Conway trees/wood row/Wilson, as it's the only single clue ever ever ever - but the first ones! - I've ever figured out!)
Not that I think the use of Presidents two years in a row means anything or will help us in any way, but... You never know. I've tossed it out there for us.
Maybe we've had the same ditzy Clue Writer(s) two years running? (Running? Election? LOL!!!) Maybe if there's anything dealing with Presidents *this* year we'll have a [better] feel for the way whomever writes them as it will be the same purrson(s) and we've noodled his (can't be a woman! LOL!!!) style for two years???
I don't know. It's just something that dawned on me.
Aries-- Most likely to go out hunting with a group of friends and will somehow manage to convince them to excavate an entire softball field.
Taurus-- More likely to want to just go out and dig without worrying a great deal about the clues. Will keep digging in the same place even if others tell them they’re in the wrong park.
Gemini-- Never gets to the right park because they read far too much into the clues. Still, they have a good time making their case.
Cancer-- Is only out there because someone they care about is out hunting and they wanted to go along and enjoy the experience with them.
Leo-- Determined to find the Medallion no matter what. Coordinates all available resources to decipher the clues and will dig tirelessly until it’s found.
Virgo-- May throw out a few ideas to others in an effort to be helpful but won’t go out and look for the Medallion on their own because if they don’t find it, then it was all a waste of time.
Libra-- Listens to everyone’s ideas and tries to get everyone to work together to figure out which park to look in, but by the time they actually decide on one, the Medallion has already been found.
Scorpio-- Not really concerned about the clues or finding the Medallion. Just uses the hunt as way to meet members of the opposite sex.
Sagittarius-- Will start out in one park, then decide on a different one and dig there, then become convinced its an a totally different place and will rush off there. Does eventually get to the right place though.
Capricorn-- Will choose a favorite park early on and then manage to fit every clue to their park of choice, never accepting other theories until they have no choice.
Aquarius-- Will be the first one to figure out the clues and is usually content to leave it at that and not bother digging, though is more than willing to share their insights with their fellow hunters.
Pisces-- Most likely to follow the crowd in determining what park to look in and once there, will rely on gut instinct, trying to “feel†where the Medallion lies, to figure out where to dig.
MOUNDS IT NOT BE! if they put it in mounds, it will be the last hunt ever. big lawsuits last time they put it their. battle creek is 3 sections, the maplewood one is not connected, so its a different matter than phaelen is. battle creek good canidate, as phaelen, their'll put the treasure their, when i see it with my own cold dead hands (what ever that means)
now people keep saying highland cuz its the 50th aniversary. i can agree with that, but this might sound dumb. the treasure hunt started in 1952 right? and its 2001, making it the 49th? this year
You know, it's a question of style. I can only write like me because I am me. I bet I could pick out Greg and Allison - and WW! - because they have their own distinctive styles. Everybody does!
Same for The Clue Writers. I'm convinced the clues the past two years were written by the same person, or group of persons. In addition to having a good knowledge of Am., and even St. Paul history (did Boxmeyer write the clues - they are very much like his writing...), two years in a row we've had "first and last" as in Conway Twitty and Tim Conway; and Franklin Pierce and Pierce Butler.
If the same person, or group of, are writing them again this year, it should be easier to maybe understand and "ace" the clues... Because we'll have a feel for their style, what they know, what they're about.
But if someone new... there will be different puzzles, turns of phrases. Because they'll have their own different style.
Oh, never mind. I guess just a puzzle to keep myself busy for the next 10 or so days.
Allison, I love your Zodiac Hunters! But *this* Pisces didn't follow any crowd! LOL!!! She dug all on her lonesome in Phalen in the wee hours o'the marning! But, I will give you, gut instinct *does* play a huge part - LOL!!! Ittiz the intuitiveness of us fishy-folk. Tho, hasn't been a damn bit helpful for three years. Doubt if it will help this year, either (sigh).
Its not the 50th anniversary, its the 50th hunt. After the first hunt, zero years had gone by, after the 2nd hunt, 1 year had gone by since the first, and so on. So in this 49th anniversary of the hunt, we are doing the 50th hunt.
Jake - I want your email too so we can communicate about the prehunt bash and I'd love to get the documentary folks to talk to you. We'll figure something out.
Hey Terry, Jake, and anyone else who cares. If you want to give someone your email and you're both here at the same time, just give it to them. Then after they have it, delete the message or edit it out. Then only whoever sees that message in those couple of minutes will get the email, which at this point is still likely to be almost no one.
Ter- you are right about gemini being in the right park! I swear I won't read too much into the clues this year.
Oh, another thing, I thought we were going to call our party the pre-dig gig. Along with the re-hash bash, and the pity party(I think that is what we called it). It doesn't really matter.
It looks like everyone else is thinking the same thing as me...they're going to make a little harder this year, so we dont end up with a lousy 7clu'er again. Now, Boreas, could you please send us some $@#!!#& cold and some #^$!!@* Snow? Please, we beg you...whatcha doing? Taking a nap? Look what the Vulcans are doing while you are asleep!!!
Hay, Shovel! Quit with the weather reports; SHEESH! You mentioned earlier (I think it was you...) about hoping for no freeze on top o'this [tiny] amount o'snow we gots. And damn if it didn't RAIN today! Was the first thing I thought of! "WHO was IT that evoked the gods????!!!" :D
Shovel, speaking from *my* point o'view - being the Pisces I am! LOL!!! - I'd really like to just walk out there and pick up The Med and not *have* to dig!!!
Did I mention I'm lazy and old?
Mom, back in our hayday, when we were yust a budding little on-line comm, they took away The Med Hunting board a bit after The Hunt was over. Thass hows come we were given "Shoot The Breeze With The Cooler Crew"! 'Member now?
Been froin here most of the evening trying to get other stuff done. Too bad the other med board is down...I was planning on sloggin that one too.
This weather stuff is gonna create crunchy snow if we're lucky and solid ice if the luck turns. Could very well be the year for ice picks and choppers.
Tomorrow is Finally Friday!!! Only one week and a couple of days till the first clue that will indicate whether ittiz in St Paul or greater Ramsey County and will probably tell us to stay off the golf courses.
I am tellin' ya...I feel it in these old bones - unless it's the damp weather doing this....Mounds or Phalen this year if it's in the city limits.
Nice to see so many regulars from past years. I hope you all had a wondereful off season. Crusty snow!! this looks to be a hard year for digging. Does anybody know of a good guide that covers Ramsey county parks outside of St. Paul?? It has been a while since it was palced out of the city.
Hey gang, I'm back for another season of diggin'. Hopefully I'll get out to the right park before the dern thing is found. Last year I got to Newell for the first time 15 minutes after it was found. Figures. I was holding out. NOT THIS YEAR! And, this is probably by farewell hunt (boo hoo). I'm getting married in October and moving to Hot Spring, Arkansas! I doubt they have anything THIS cool down there. Granted, they did get 2.5 inches of solid ice a couple of weeks ago. Glad I'm not digging in THAT! I'll try to make it to the pre-dig-gig. I'm coming back from a weekend in Chicago that Sunday, but will hopefully make it before it gets too late.
To answer Green's question, yes, they have talked to DDy, even spoke to him on the phone I believe.
To Answer New Daddy's question, there is a site called "Friends of the Parks" which is really friends of Ramsey County parks. They don't have maps but they do have a search engine that allows you to look for almost anything you can think of whether it be street names, what kinds of facilities they have, who runs the park, etc. The only thing is when I was looking at it yesterday, or maybe it was the day before, it didn't seem to be working. No matter what I looked for, it came up with nothing. Hopefully they'll get it fixed soon.
Now, for my question. Last year, while on this chat site for the medallion hunt, I did not see many of the familiar names that I see today. I am glad that all of you are still here. Anyway, my question is - where did all of you go? There were a lot of newbies posted. Then again, the park was figured out on the fourth clue. Back to my point, will all of you be communicating here or on another site. I enjoy hearing all of your insights and trying to communicate mine. So anyway I am glad that it is only a little more than a week away. I've got my boots lined up by the door, just waiting for me.
I don't know when they stop selling them, but I know the deadline for registration is January 25th.
As for where did people go? Well there are some people who post on here who are really nothing more than annoying, and that is pretty much their aim. I remember someone last year kept posting porno ads too, so its not too surprising that people not spend a lot of time here when its crazy (not to mention the board crashing all the time). I also think last year, after Conway went to 11 clues, a lot of people held off getting involved too early and by the time they did it was over. As for other places, there were more options last year. In addition to the Shoot The Breeze Board here, there were some other sites with chatrooms and message boards. But I think this will always be the central gathering place and everyone will return here at some point.
I'm trying to rearrange my schedule so that I can go to McGovern's on the 20th. I hope to finally meet many of the Cooler Crew regulars. If you see me, it will late evening.
I have also been busy making changes to my web site. Please stop by Treasure Hunt Headquarters and take a look around.
Having trouble getting the links to work, can anybody help?
I've been working on getting a photographer/filmer for the 20th so that none of us have to step back and take pics and possibly not be in a "major moment." I think I've got it nailed down but will have to wait until next week to know for sure. And it will be a professional!!! We may not go with still photos, but actual filming. I'll know more later.
Am trying to pull in chits I've out there thru work for media contacts. I've only two, MPR and Channel Two, but it beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. And I've contacted my local widdo tiny paper in hopes they'll like the human interest angle and do a story: "Local Woman In Documentary," or something like that. If any o'you have small papers in your towns/cities (those of you that don't like live in St. Paul) do the same if you're comfortable. The more word and press coverage we get, the better for this posting site, our Web site, The Crew, and Mom Press/Planet, and the doc folks. Company newsletters, too. But again, only if you're comfortable doing something like that.
Mom Planet's going to be working on contacting the heavy hitters (Channel Five, et al) and is going to do little ads that direct folks here for noodling. Maybe even 15 sec radio spots if it can be swung (swang?). They're going to try and dig up the VERY FIRST goup pic - remember that at Chair-O-Key, with Lem? - for use in the documentary if the doc folks wish to use it. There will also prolly be an article in Mom Press. Terry, I'll need your help in getting email addresses to Mom Press for contacting folks, if they want/need to contact them. I hope you'll help out there. I'll know more on this later.
I talked to Lem today! He says, "Hi!" to all and was p-r-e-t-t-y incredulous about the documentary. Greg, he was at our Web site when I was talking to him (he didn't know we had it!) and thought it super nice and professional. He was REALLY impressed!!! I TOLD you you're the greatest and you've done the bestest job with our site!!! He was really impressed we're still together after all this time and had the nicest quote about us, it made me cry. I can't think of it xactly, but it was something like... Oh, I can't even paraphrase. It was like how awesome it is that The Crew came about and we're the perfect example of an on-line community - or something along those lines. I'm going to have him contact the producer to give it to him as it would be a purrfect voice over intro. Tho, it could get canned, too! LOL!!! But I think not!
I've tracked down Brett! SHEESH! He's as hard to get ahold of now as he was when he was at Mom Planet! LOL!!! He needs to talk to the doc folks. After all, it was Brett that got us "Shoot The Breeze," and our Web site. I think he'll be xcited about the documentary!
And I can't promise anything, it's not mine to promise, but there *may* be a surprise for The Crew. Mom Planet's gonna see... No promises, but she's not above begging!
Things moving along nicely. Oh, damn! Forgot to ask if we could be in the parade again this year! Oh, well! Next phone call/email!
Good Marning, All! Hi, Greg! Ares, when one's just awake and not enuff coffee in one, "troupe" reads "toupe"!!!!!
Man, there is NO WAY I'd give up the Pre-Hunt Pary OR The Re-Hash Bash not only for work or for ANYTHING. Specially the The Re-Hash Bash. Gods! What would you guys do w/o 24 lbs o'potatoe salad?????
Well, guess I should get ready for work. In just about 13 days school will be out and it will be Hunt City for me! Nothing shall stay me from my appointed hunting! Ter, remember Conway and the bladder infection I had? Oh! Was I miserable! Climbing outta my goon suit every 10 minutes - thank gods it was warm that year! - and never straying too far from the warming house? I pray THAT never happens again!
Catch you guys later! Have a WAY COOLER Day!
me, green
JOE!!!
green, i was being fascetious about the work party. you're gonna have to miss the last 3 days of school, though for the hunt :).
jason
Better'a been, boy! Better'a been!
I was actually yoking - yust using a phrase, like - when I mentioned school being out. I've not been in school since they used little chalkboards! Me thinks I'm gonna be missing LOTS o'work after about the 24th... YEWBETCHA!!!!
I'm already tired o'this - this waiting. Clue One is gonna tell us The Med's located within the State o'Minnesota, within St. Paul, within a park, and don't EVEN think o'going on a golf course or tearing ANYTHING up.
So, like, since we've got *that* nailed down, lettuce just move rite on to Clue Two, otay? Don't you think that's a fine and dandy idea?
Eye do!
I hope they have electrical outlets at "The Park." I want to bring my Chile Cheeze Dip to da'Bash. And if anybuddy wants me to pick up a porterhouse or rib-eye the size of a roast at Lem's, let me know!
Can you tell I'm HUNGRY? LOL!!! Life don't get in-knee better'un THIS! Talking The Hunt and FOOD! :D
Hay! MJ!!! Would you please ask TT if I may (again, for the third year!) borrow his Marty Michilen suit to Hunt in? In case I can't find a green one...
Terry- What is your e-mail address?
using last years garage logic it might be by the snoopy at midway stadium lol
The Conway board is gone! All 22175 messages vanished into history. Sigh. Hopefully this year will be a worthy replacement.
dave, check google. maybe they've got them cached somewhere.
Oh I'm sure they may be lurking out there somewhere, but the main point is they're not HERE anymore. I was really starting to wonder if they'd ever go away. And for the person who asked earlier, no, not a whole lot gets posted here during the summer.
yeah, but you sounded like you didn't want them to disappear. incidentally, i figured not much got posted here in the summer, since the last one i remember reading at the end of the last hunt was numbered somewhere around 8900.
jason
Hay, man. You know? Ittiz like just way too ingrained!
JOE!!!
Man, that's pretty lookin'!!! :D
Something just hit me, besides the rain drops... As I was out ruminating over the loss of the Conway Hunt thread.
Ittiz been two years in a row that they've used Presidents in the clues. The trees in a row: "Wood row," as in Wilson (Conway). And the Franklin Pierce stuff last year. (I remember well the Conway trees/wood row/Wilson, as it's the only single clue ever ever ever - but the first ones! - I've ever figured out!)
Not that I think the use of Presidents two years in a row means anything or will help us in any way, but... You never know. I've tossed it out there for us.
Maybe we've had the same ditzy Clue Writer(s) two years running? (Running? Election? LOL!!!) Maybe if there's anything dealing with Presidents *this* year we'll have a [better] feel for the way whomever writes them as it will be the same purrson(s) and we've noodled his (can't be a woman! LOL!!!) style for two years???
I don't know. It's just something that dawned on me.
My money's on Battlecreek or Mounds. Yup. YEWBETCHA!!!
The Zodiac Hunter
Aries-- Most likely to go out hunting with a group of friends and will somehow manage to convince them to excavate an entire softball field.
Taurus-- More likely to want to just go out and dig without worrying a great deal about the clues. Will keep digging in the same place even if others tell them they’re in the wrong park.
Gemini-- Never gets to the right park because they read far too much into the clues. Still, they have a good time making their case.
Cancer-- Is only out there because someone they care about is out hunting and they wanted to go along and enjoy the experience with them.
Leo-- Determined to find the Medallion no matter what. Coordinates all available resources to decipher the clues and will dig tirelessly until it’s found.
Virgo-- May throw out a few ideas to others in an effort to be helpful but won’t go out and look for the Medallion on their own because if they don’t find it, then it was all a waste of time.
Libra-- Listens to everyone’s ideas and tries to get everyone to work together to figure out which park to look in, but by the time they actually decide on one, the Medallion has already been found.
Scorpio-- Not really concerned about the clues or finding the Medallion. Just uses the hunt as way to meet members of the opposite sex.
Sagittarius-- Will start out in one park, then decide on a different one and dig there, then become convinced its an a totally different place and will rush off there. Does eventually get to the right place though.
Capricorn-- Will choose a favorite park early on and then manage to fit every clue to their park of choice, never accepting other theories until they have no choice.
Aquarius-- Will be the first one to figure out the clues and is usually content to leave it at that and not bother digging, though is more than willing to share their insights with their fellow hunters.
Pisces-- Most likely to follow the crowd in determining what park to look in and once there, will rely on gut instinct, trying to “feel†where the Medallion lies, to figure out where to dig.
(written by AllisonWondrland)
MOUNDS IT NOT BE! if they put it in mounds, it will be the last hunt ever. big lawsuits last time they put it their. battle creek is 3 sections, the maplewood one is not connected, so its a different matter than phaelen is. battle creek good canidate, as phaelen, their'll put the treasure their, when i see it with my own cold dead hands (what ever that means)
now people keep saying highland cuz its the 50th aniversary. i can agree with that, but this might sound dumb. the treasure hunt started in 1952 right? and its 2001, making it the 49th? this year
You know, it's a question of style. I can only write like me because I am me. I bet I could pick out Greg and Allison - and WW! - because they have their own distinctive styles. Everybody does!
Same for The Clue Writers. I'm convinced the clues the past two years were written by the same person, or group of persons. In addition to having a good knowledge of Am., and even St. Paul history (did Boxmeyer write the clues - they are very much like his writing...), two years in a row we've had "first and last" as in Conway Twitty and Tim Conway; and Franklin Pierce and Pierce Butler.
If the same person, or group of, are writing them again this year, it should be easier to maybe understand and "ace" the clues... Because we'll have a feel for their style, what they know, what they're about.
But if someone new... there will be different puzzles, turns of phrases. Because they'll have their own different style.
Oh, never mind. I guess just a puzzle to keep myself busy for the next 10 or so days.
Allison, I love your Zodiac Hunters! But *this* Pisces didn't follow any crowd! LOL!!! She dug all on her lonesome in Phalen in the wee hours o'the marning! But, I will give you, gut instinct *does* play a huge part - LOL!!! Ittiz the intuitiveness of us fishy-folk. Tho, hasn't been a damn bit helpful for three years. Doubt if it will help this year, either (sigh).
Well, I'll just keep trying! :D
Its not the 50th anniversary, its the 50th hunt. After the first hunt, zero years had gone by, after the 2nd hunt, 1 year had gone by since the first, and so on. So in this 49th anniversary of the hunt, we are doing the 50th hunt.
That must be why me bones is so tired!!!
Does anyone have Terry Valentine's e-mail address???
Wish I could help you Jakey...
Hi all!
Jake do you have IM? I'm not real sure about putting my email up for everyone to get.
That Zodiac Hunter thing is funny - but this Gemini is usually in the right park - and I sure read less into the clues than some around here do!
Jake - I want your email too so we can communicate about the prehunt bash and I'd love to get the documentary folks to talk to you. We'll figure something out.
And the 21st century began this year.
Terry- my screen name is inge01, im me, i'll be on for a while.
Hey Terry, Jake, and anyone else who cares. If you want to give someone your email and you're both here at the same time, just give it to them. Then after they have it, delete the message or edit it out. Then only whoever sees that message in those couple of minutes will get the email, which at this point is still likely to be almost no one.
Ter- you are right about gemini being in the right park! I swear I won't read too much into the clues this year.
Oh, another thing, I thought we were going to call our party the pre-dig gig. Along with the re-hash bash, and the pity party(I think that is what we called it). It doesn't really matter.
Jake - nice chatting with you! See ya at the prehunt bash or the predig gig or whatever!
Gonna scoot here for a bit and get some stuff done.
It looks like everyone else is thinking the same thing as me...they're going to make a little harder this year, so we dont end up with a lousy 7clu'er again. Now, Boreas, could you please send us some $@#!!#& cold and some #^$!!@* Snow? Please, we beg you...whatcha doing? Taking a nap? Look what the Vulcans are doing while you are asleep!!!
Good Evening!
One day closer to the BIG DAY! What is it? Nine days to the Pre-dig-gig? I like that!
I didn't think they *ever* took away message boards!
Nice Joe!, Mom. (said a titch begrudingly...) Hi!
Hay, Shovel! Quit with the weather reports; SHEESH! You mentioned earlier (I think it was you...) about hoping for no freeze on top o'this [tiny] amount o'snow we gots. And damn if it didn't RAIN today! Was the first thing I thought of! "WHO was IT that evoked the gods????!!!" :D
Shovel, speaking from *my* point o'view - being the Pisces I am! LOL!!! - I'd really like to just walk out there and pick up The Med and not *have* to dig!!!
Did I mention I'm lazy and old?
Mom, back in our hayday, when we were yust a budding little on-line comm, they took away The Med Hunting board a bit after The Hunt was over. Thass hows come we were given "Shoot The Breeze With The Cooler Crew"! 'Member now?
Joe!!!
Good Evening!
Been froin here most of the evening trying to get other stuff done. Too bad the other med board is down...I was planning on sloggin that one too.
This weather stuff is gonna create crunchy snow if we're lucky and solid ice if the luck turns. Could very well be the year for ice picks and choppers.
Tomorrow is Finally Friday!!! Only one week and a couple of days till the first clue that will indicate whether ittiz in St Paul or greater Ramsey County and will probably tell us to stay off the golf courses.
I am tellin' ya...I feel it in these old bones - unless it's the damp weather doing this....Mounds or Phalen this year if it's in the city limits.
Mounds or Battlecreek.
Check out Truman Drive...
Fro'ing until tomorrow. When I can drive you all around the bend yet some more with another no-matter synapis flash!
Can't help it. Just trying to help. Never know. Some year I may just hit something more than "trees in a row."
(Tho I seriously doubt it!)
Nite, All! SCDs! Keep the light on and the coffee hot and strong. Ian'll be here soon... He's lurking.
Fro'ing...
Hello, back again, though at an awkward time I have a few questions for you, the other loyal ones. I shall check back at a later time.
Bee, get outta the Frog Pond! The Doc folks want to talk to you!
Ittiz, they wanna talk to you, too...
Has DDY been informed and gotten in touch with them?
WHERE is Ian???
Ter, you got Cheryl and Reed's email?????
Hay, Rush! Whuss up?
Nice to see so many regulars from past years. I hope you all had a wondereful off season. Crusty snow!! this looks to be a hard year for digging. Does anybody know of a good guide that covers Ramsey county parks outside of St. Paul?? It has been a while since it was palced out of the city.
Hey gang, I'm back for another season of diggin'. Hopefully I'll get out to the right park before the dern thing is found. Last year I got to Newell for the first time 15 minutes after it was found. Figures. I was holding out. NOT THIS YEAR! And, this is probably by farewell hunt (boo hoo). I'm getting married in October and moving to Hot Spring, Arkansas! I doubt they have anything THIS cool down there. Granted, they did get 2.5 inches of solid ice a couple of weeks ago. Glad I'm not digging in THAT! I'll try to make it to the pre-dig-gig. I'm coming back from a weekend in Chicago that Sunday, but will hopefully make it before it gets too late.
See ya out there! SueBee
sue its things like that 2.5 inches of ice that provide a great reason to break the "no blowtorches" rule from the treasure hunter's guide :).
To answer Green's question, yes, they have talked to DDy, even spoke to him on the phone I believe.
To Answer New Daddy's question, there is a site called "Friends of the Parks" which is really friends of Ramsey County parks. They don't have maps but they do have a search engine that allows you to look for almost anything you can think of whether it be street names, what kinds of facilities they have, who runs the park, etc. The only thing is when I was looking at it yesterday, or maybe it was the day before, it didn't seem to be working. No matter what I looked for, it came up with nothing. Hopefully they'll get it fixed soon.
The URL is http://www.friendsoftheparks.org/
Now, for my question. Last year, while on this chat site for the medallion hunt, I did not see many of the familiar names that I see today. I am glad that all of you are still here. Anyway, my question is - where did all of you go? There were a lot of newbies posted. Then again, the park was figured out on the fourth clue. Back to my point, will all of you be communicating here or on another site. I enjoy hearing all of your insights and trying to communicate mine. So anyway I am glad that it is only a little more than a week away. I've got my boots lined up by the door, just waiting for me.
Another thing - does anyone know when they stop selling and accepting the buttons? And- are they sold in the south metro?
I don't know when they stop selling them, but I know the deadline for registration is January 25th.
As for where did people go? Well there are some people who post on here who are really nothing more than annoying, and that is pretty much their aim. I remember someone last year kept posting porno ads too, so its not too surprising that people not spend a lot of time here when its crazy (not to mention the board crashing all the time). I also think last year, after Conway went to 11 clues, a lot of people held off getting involved too early and by the time they did it was over. As for other places, there were more options last year. In addition to the Shoot The Breeze Board here, there were some other sites with chatrooms and message boards. But I think this will always be the central gathering place and everyone will return here at some point.
The medallion is at Hidden Falls. That is my pre-hunt statement, not a guess, a statement. Good luck to Coolerheads everywhere!!!!!
I'm trying to rearrange my schedule so that I can go to McGovern's on the 20th. I hope to finally meet many of the Cooler Crew regulars. If you see me, it will late evening.
I have also been busy making changes to my web site. Please stop by Treasure Hunt Headquarters and take a look around.
Having trouble getting the links to work, can anybody help?
They changed things here so that HTML links don't work here like they used to. It's hard to have fun here any more.
From what I can figure out, the way to do a link is simply to type in the whole url for the site you want folks to go to... http://www.coolercrew.com/
Not as fancy as doing it with HTML - but it works. That's the main thing. Everything else is gravy.
Hmmmmmm.....that didn't work. How did the parks thing get to be a link???
Got it!!! Just gotta get the whole thing right.
Howdy-Do! And Happy Friday!
I've been working on getting a photographer/filmer for the 20th so that none of us have to step back and take pics and possibly not be in a "major moment." I think I've got it nailed down but will have to wait until next week to know for sure. And it will be a professional!!! We may not go with still photos, but actual filming. I'll know more later.
Am trying to pull in chits I've out there thru work for media contacts. I've only two, MPR and Channel Two, but it beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. And I've contacted my local widdo tiny paper in hopes they'll like the human interest angle and do a story: "Local Woman In Documentary," or something like that. If any o'you have small papers in your towns/cities (those of you that don't like live in St. Paul) do the same if you're comfortable. The more word and press coverage we get, the better for this posting site, our Web site, The Crew, and Mom Press/Planet, and the doc folks. Company newsletters, too. But again, only if you're comfortable doing something like that.
Mom Planet's going to be working on contacting the heavy hitters (Channel Five, et al) and is going to do little ads that direct folks here for noodling. Maybe even 15 sec radio spots if it can be swung (swang?). They're going to try and dig up the VERY FIRST goup pic - remember that at Chair-O-Key, with Lem? - for use in the documentary if the doc folks wish to use it. There will also prolly be an article in Mom Press. Terry, I'll need your help in getting email addresses to Mom Press for contacting folks, if they want/need to contact them. I hope you'll help out there. I'll know more on this later.
I talked to Lem today! He says, "Hi!" to all and was p-r-e-t-t-y incredulous about the documentary. Greg, he was at our Web site when I was talking to him (he didn't know we had it!) and thought it super nice and professional. He was REALLY impressed!!! I TOLD you you're the greatest and you've done the bestest job with our site!!! He was really impressed we're still together after all this time and had the nicest quote about us, it made me cry. I can't think of it xactly, but it was something like... Oh, I can't even paraphrase. It was like how awesome it is that The Crew came about and we're the perfect example of an on-line community - or something along those lines. I'm going to have him contact the producer to give it to him as it would be a purrfect voice over intro. Tho, it could get canned, too! LOL!!! But I think not!
I've tracked down Brett! SHEESH! He's as hard to get ahold of now as he was when he was at Mom Planet! LOL!!! He needs to talk to the doc folks. After all, it was Brett that got us "Shoot The Breeze," and our Web site. I think he'll be xcited about the documentary!
And I can't promise anything, it's not mine to promise, but there *may* be a surprise for The Crew. Mom Planet's gonna see... No promises, but she's not above begging!
Things moving along nicely. Oh, damn! Forgot to ask if we could be in the parade again this year! Oh, well! Next phone call/email!
green, The Head Cheer Leader