thanks for wiating in the cold tim. To all you on the conference call. rember to say on the line listen then listen again, then listen to the discussion afterwards. diggin in the right spot is the key.
I'm headed off to the paper...the rest of the Darlin's are at Fabulous Ferns getting comp'd drinks apps and shots...guess I missed out on that one - oh well. We'll have two on top and two on bottom and I will give them the clue....then I'll head over to the "correct" level :sillygrin: Good luck to all the crew and stay safe. Cooler heads prevail!!
<whew> I'm tired just from slogging about y'all's adventures! Don't know that I'll be awake for clue time, but so glad the confernce call could be set up again this year!
It's a shame I'm not at the park, it's probably the closest it's been to me in years. But daily life keeps getting in the way. What is it with schools and their concerts and conferences during the hunt anyway?
I know it'll be good reading in the morning! It's going to be hard to stay away this evening,,,,can't wait to see what the next one says. Hope it's better than "park".
Headache tonight. Thought about going down to the park, but thinking about bundling up with this headache didn't sound like much fun...so we went out to dinner instead and drove around Swede Hollow and said a prayer that one of the crew would find it.
While we sit here waiting...things I have been thinking about today.
DDY, the Woodsman, two clues a day - morning and usually by 2pm (I had connections), being able to noodle the clues and then head out to the park with the kids, fixing hot cocoa when we got back and then getting them in bed, earmuffs (20 years ago now)...and so glad it's warmer this year than last.
I hear you, Terry! I raised 5 kids and I have had all 5 at the hunt. They would usually go sledding and stuff but a lot of times they would dig. It was fun, and I miss those days with the kids. My oldest son still hunts with me on occasion, but more when he drove truck Downtown st paul a couple years ago. There were also more hunts in parks with Rec centers where we could go to warm up and share clue ideas with others (pre-Cooler).
yeah i hear ya. i'm sitting here doing homework, hoping the hunt lasts until tomorrow night, not so much because i want to hunt, but i want video and photos of the hollow from up above, and tomorrow will be even more interesting than tonight.
We drove slowly around Rice Park this evening. The ice sculptures are gorgeous at night. If I had felt a little less witchy, we would have walked through and had a closer look. There will be time for that later this week yet.
but as a prof said a couple of years ago in an early saturday morning class when no one would engage him when he asked a question, "people. remember. you volunteered for this"
still, i have to say though, its nice now that our little one is old enough to stay home by herself in bed so we can go out and get the clue with people on at least a few nights during the hunt.
My favorite memories are the 1965 hunt. We were waiting for someone to show up from the paper and read the clue out loud. People did that back then. The snow was knee deep and the clue told us to pace off so many steps to a statue so off we went. I was very pregnant. Had that baby less than two weeks later.
Also dropping off the school aged children and taking whatever child/children were not in school yet and going off to hunt. We hunted Como a lot even back then and usually ended up at the pound looking at puppies. :grin:
I don't even know if I have a favorite hunt - maybe Indian Mounds because I love that park anyway - but I don't remember a time when I didn't get excited about the medallion hunt. I loved hearing and reading the clues and noodling them with my Mom growing up.
And have loved sharing all that with Inks and our kids over the years.
My only regret is having told Brenda to put those dang things back. It was when we found out later the medallion had been stuck in one of those earpieces, she declared she would never hunt with us again if we were going to make her put it back. She never has.
"My only regret is having told Brenda to put those dang things back. It was when we found out later the medallion had been stuck in one of those earpieces.."
I'm more sorry that she hasn't hunted with us since then losing that chance to have found the prize.
I suspect that if I had let her keep them, she would have lost them somewhere in her room and it would be the year the medallion was never found. :eyeroll: :pbpt: :goofy:
Speaking of haunting forever, shortly after Minnesota got the lottery I had played my numbers on five tickets. This was before Power Ball. I used numbers from birthdays and with my seven children, my husband and myself, I needed to buy five. I woke up one morning and looked at the numbers and they were all my numbers! :eek: However, none of them were on the same ticket. I did win something over $300 with the numbers I had though. I would have shared $26,000,000 with a woman from Indiana or something. :frown:
I've saved a lot of money since though. The odds of those numbers coming up again are about as slim as me winning it in the first place. :sillygrin:
being a relative newbie compared to most of the rest of you all (my first real hunt was conway, although i remember my parents driving past the "fish" in como in '90 and refusing to go where it pointed), i haven't been around for all the changes that have taken place over the years. when i wrote up the header for the 2000's decade for the coolercrew site, i had an interesting time trying to come up with something to say that was half as elegant as something greg could have written. that header focuses on the changes that have come with all of the technology that we've gained since then.
as i look forward to next year's hunt, and the new decade that will inevitably come along with it (the 2010 and 2020 "maps" for the navigation-side of the site have been around for at least 5 years now, but well hidden), i'm struggling once again to come up with something that will kick it off; its not something that's static in the least and can always be changed after its written, as the 2000's decade header has. as a computer science doctoral student, i'm well aware of the impact that technology has had and will continue to have on our access to information for the hunt. the physical tools themselves are certain to not change much from what they were nearly 60 years ago, but the communications that we have now compared to then are absolutely staggering and will continue that trend. even 5 years ago, i remember war-driving around parks, laptop in hand trying to glom onto a wireless signal. now its commonplace on nearly every cell phone out there to have internet access.
things like digital treasure hunters' guides will be all the rage in the next decade, and the expiration of copyright on a lot of older maps (i.e., sanborn, some of those maps will have copyrights that will be expiring in a few years), and that information will proliferate and become invaluable.
anyone who wants to help write the decade header for the next decade can get a hold of me at any time!
my undergrad discrete math class wad murder. it was a recorded class that was broadcast to remote sites at the u. the prof literally sat and read us the text book. most people didn't attend class beyond turning in homework and taking tests. this is much nicer.
The closest thing to revenge was seeing that one picture that CM took at Phalen the night of the most pit...and seeing that light blue glow peeking out of the snow.
I'm sure that was it. It was right where the finder plucked it out the next morning.
I only had the earmuffs in my hand. He had a picture of the med and he missed it.
Five years ago, maybe YOU had a laptop, driving around hoping for a signal....most of us did not :smile:
I still remember the Conway year, when my work let me "borrow" a Winnebago (yes, it WAS a Winnebago - of sorts), and a bunch of us were all high-tech like huddling inside waiting for a clue to be called on a CELL PHONE!
At Como in '97 I borrowed my boyfriend's (now hubby's) cool "cell phone" thingy so he could call me with the clue. I came very close to the med that year.
I would like to be there but NOt feeling good at all!!!
 :sillygrin: :sillygrin: :sillygrin: (just joking)
So I am like the beer refreshed!
from setting it up to waiting in line
So much appreciated
As far as who said beer....
I just have pixie dust. :sillygrin:
It's a shame I'm not at the park, it's probably the closest it's been to me in years. But daily life keeps getting in the way. What is it with schools and their concerts and conferences during the hunt anyway?
I know it'll be good reading in the morning! It's going to be hard to stay away this evening,,,,can't wait to see what the next one says. Hope it's better than "park".
:::::covers face and heads for the corner:::::
Headache tonight. Thought about going down to the park, but thinking about bundling up with this headache didn't sound like much fun...so we went out to dinner instead and drove around Swede Hollow and said a prayer that one of the crew would find it.
DDY, the Woodsman, two clues a day - morning and usually by 2pm (I had connections), being able to noodle the clues and then head out to the park with the kids, fixing hot cocoa when we got back and then getting them in bed, earmuffs (20 years ago now)...and so glad it's warmer this year than last.
the vulc is supposed to work his magic by saturday.
but as a prof said a couple of years ago in an early saturday morning class when no one would engage him when he asked a question, "people. remember. you volunteered for this"
still, i have to say though, its nice now that our little one is old enough to stay home by herself in bed so we can go out and get the clue with people on at least a few nights during the hunt.
Also dropping off the school aged children and taking whatever child/children were not in school yet and going off to hunt. We hunted Como a lot even back then and usually ended up at the pound looking at puppies. :grin:
I was 8 in 65....
My first hunt.
Eons ago.
I loved 2 clues a day.
When Ma press went to one paper I thought they would do away with the hunt.
Oh my word ....so many memories
Then I got my kids involved
My My how far we have come
Who would of ever dreamed of conference calls back then and cell phones
Back then this was something straight out of the Jetsons. :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
And have loved sharing all that with Inks and our kids over the years.
My only regret is having told Brenda to put those dang things back. It was when we found out later the medallion had been stuck in one of those earpieces, she declared she would never hunt with us again if we were going to make her put it back. She never has.
Oh No! That would haunt me for life!
I'm more sorry that she hasn't hunted with us since then losing that chance to have found the prize.
I suspect that if I had let her keep them, she would have lost them somewhere in her room and it would be the year the medallion was never found. :eyeroll: :pbpt: :goofy:
I've saved a lot of money since though. The odds of those numbers coming up again are about as slim as me winning it in the first place. :sillygrin:
But I do think about that.
JK but really we never let her forget!!! lol
as i look forward to next year's hunt, and the new decade that will inevitably come along with it (the 2010 and 2020 "maps" for the navigation-side of the site have been around for at least 5 years now, but well hidden), i'm struggling once again to come up with something that will kick it off; its not something that's static in the least and can always be changed after its written, as the 2000's decade header has. as a computer science doctoral student, i'm well aware of the impact that technology has had and will continue to have on our access to information for the hunt. the physical tools themselves are certain to not change much from what they were nearly 60 years ago, but the communications that we have now compared to then are absolutely staggering and will continue that trend. even 5 years ago, i remember war-driving around parks, laptop in hand trying to glom onto a wireless signal. now its commonplace on nearly every cell phone out there to have internet access.
things like digital treasure hunters' guides will be all the rage in the next decade, and the expiration of copyright on a lot of older maps (i.e., sanborn, some of those maps will have copyrights that will be expiring in a few years), and that information will proliferate and become invaluable.
anyone who wants to help write the decade header for the next decade can get a hold of me at any time!
good thing she likes us and takes it as good clean fun.
It is one of the heart break stories that make us a group!!!
we all have ours!! and some just more like TV's that Would have caused me to stop Hunting ALSO!!!!
 :eyeroll: :eyeroll:
The closest thing to revenge was seeing that one picture that CM took at Phalen the night of the most pit...and seeing that light blue glow peeking out of the snow.
I'm sure that was it. It was right where the finder plucked it out the next morning.
I only had the earmuffs in my hand. He had a picture of the med and he missed it.
And I'm sure no one will ever let him forget it. :smile:
I still remember the Conway year, when my work let me "borrow" a Winnebago (yes, it WAS a Winnebago - of sorts), and a bunch of us were all high-tech like huddling inside waiting for a clue to be called on a CELL PHONE!
That's almost dark-ages like nowadays.