Summer bug spray to ward off chiggers/ticks...15 dollars
Multiple trips to the dr's office for a shot for poison ivy...40 dollars
Summer filled fun of geocaching and 400 finds with friends...priceless!!
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Summer bug spray to ward off chiggers/ticks...15 dollars
Multiple trips to the dr's office for a shot for poison ivy...40 dollars
Summer filled fun of geocaching and 400 finds with friends...priceless!!
Taking all precautions all summer. Bug spray, avoiding posion plants, poking around with a stick and not your hands.
Finding a copperhead after making a wrong decision. No stick. Learning experience--priceless. Medical expenses still rising.
To all geocachers .. don't stick your hand where you can't see.
Jffok, I take it you got bit. How bad is it? Hope you are ok! I always have that fear!!
Yes I got bit by a nasty little Copperhead on Friday evening at Ft. Chaffee. Pretty scary for awhile but on the mend now. The report at the ER was that a lot more people have been bitten this summer than any other summer. Wonder if the hot dry weather has anything to do with that. I will defintely be more careful in the future. It only takes a second.
I lifted one up out in the forest service the other day after looking around and in and when I pulled it out there was a snakeskin under it. I bet the ammo cans hold the cool a bit better than most other things around so they like to lye under them. just a guess though. Hope you make a fast recovery.
Hope to see all you guys at the 5000 Club event in Russellville next month. Thanks for the good wishes. I am pretty much back to normal now.
Judy,
First of all, let me say that I am really sorry that you got bit! :shock:
Second, I am really glad that you are much better and on the mend! :D
But, finally, I just want to know .... DID YOU FIND THE CACHE AND GET THE SMILEY???? :???:
YES ORR I GOT THE LOG SIGNED. I went back with my stick and raked trying to find the snake and raked the cache out. Like I should have done to start with. Signed the log and then replaced cache back under log. (With the stick). Then to ER.
But I do want to say that with precautions this should never stop anyone from geocaching. I have already gotten back out there in the rough. According to stats more people get bitten in the own yards than they do out in the woods.
um...Judy, what cache was this?
new trail at chaffee.
Add another trip to the doctor for a steroid shot... poison ivy again... I am getting the yerly shot after I get rid of it this time.
I can sympathize with you on the poison ivy, we got in some earlier in the year and tried to tuff it out but ended up getting a shot, I go way around it now..
I'm one of the lucky few that can rub poison ivy and oak on my skin with no reaction. My wife on the other hand is very allergic. She can look at it and break out. O.K. maybe not that bad. On the other hand snakes scare the shidoodoo out of me. One look and I get the heebeejeebees. Found one under a log yesterday at "evil green" in cabot. I almost quit looking for the cache and went home crying to momma, but I pulled myself together for the smiley.