Hi folks,
Well I am glad to back in some good LBing territory! I just
returned from 10 days in the Nebraska and Kansas where I was
visiting family. Unfortunatley due to all the family visiting I did
not have much time for boxing. Not that the weather was very
conducive....100 degrees and humidity to match. I did try for a
Funhog box at Standing Bear Lake which is a few miles from where I
grew up. I could not believe how much things had changed there...it
used to a be surrounded by farmland and miles from town, now it is
surrounded by suburbia.
Anyway it was my last day in Omaha and I drug my brother and his two
kids plus my family to the lake where we planted Disgruntled Couple
and Porta Potty. We then went to find the funhog box. We got
skunked....or at least after narrowing down the location (and then
realizing to my chagrin I did not have my compass) I lost heart in
groping all the possible trees in the vicinity to locate the box.
IT was hot, humid, itchy (chiggers, mosquitoes and ticks), and full
of thistles, cockleburrs and foxtails and possible rattlesnakes.
UGh! How I wished for a nice dry heat.
Same news in Kansas...with the added bonus of copperhead and
cottonmouth snakes and poison ivy. I went with my 15 year old
boyscouting nephew who warned me he had seen a copperhead in the
park where we were searching, so use a stick to probe any cavity
first. We did find "Comes with the territory" which honors the two
constants of Kansas LBing....mosquitoes and poison ivy. This taken
from the text of the clues...so I am not exagerrating. I also now
know how to tell a shagbark hickory apart from a swamp oak.
But I found 3 boxes in 10 days! Smirk. I did really wish I had
more opportunity to do more, but we had not been back in 18 months
so needed to hang with the homies. And do a tour of KC BBQ joints.
THere seems to be a few committed boxers there, but nothing like the
vibrant scene we have here.
Here is to all the fun boxes in CA!
Mimulus
Lbing in the Midwest
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Started on 2005-08-09
Lbing in the Midwest
From: jceg5540 (greendoc@sonic.net) |
Date: 2005-08-09 14:47:14 UTC
RE: [LbNCA] Lbing in the Midwest
From: Hedglin, Nils A (Nils.A.Hedglin@Intel.Com) |
Date: 2005-08-09 08:20:01 UTC-07:00
So does this mean they'll be added to lb.org shortly so we can record
the Gabbering finds?
-----Original Message-----
From: LbNCA@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LbNCA@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
jceg5540
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 7:47 AM
To: LbNCA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNCA] Lbing in the Midwest
Hi folks,
Well I am glad to back in some good LBing territory! I just
returned from 10 days in the Nebraska and Kansas where I was
visiting family. Unfortunatley due to all the family visiting I did
not have much time for boxing. Not that the weather was very
conducive....100 degrees and humidity to match. I did try for a
Funhog box at Standing Bear Lake which is a few miles from where I
grew up. I could not believe how much things had changed there...it
used to a be surrounded by farmland and miles from town, now it is
surrounded by suburbia.
Anyway it was my last day in Omaha and I drug my brother and his two
kids plus my family to the lake where we planted Disgruntled Couple
and Porta Potty. We then went to find the funhog box. We got
skunked....or at least after narrowing down the location (and then
realizing to my chagrin I did not have my compass) I lost heart in
groping all the possible trees in the vicinity to locate the box.
IT was hot, humid, itchy (chiggers, mosquitoes and ticks), and full
of thistles, cockleburrs and foxtails and possible rattlesnakes.
UGh! How I wished for a nice dry heat.
Same news in Kansas...with the added bonus of copperhead and
cottonmouth snakes and poison ivy. I went with my 15 year old
boyscouting nephew who warned me he had seen a copperhead in the
park where we were searching, so use a stick to probe any cavity
first. We did find "Comes with the territory" which honors the two
constants of Kansas LBing....mosquitoes and poison ivy. This taken
from the text of the clues...so I am not exagerrating. I also now
know how to tell a shagbark hickory apart from a swamp oak.
But I found 3 boxes in 10 days! Smirk. I did really wish I had
more opportunity to do more, but we had not been back in 18 months
so needed to hang with the homies. And do a tour of KC BBQ joints.
THere seems to be a few committed boxers there, but nothing like the
vibrant scene we have here.
Here is to all the fun boxes in CA!
Mimulus
Yahoo! Groups Links
the Gabbering finds?
-----Original Message-----
From: LbNCA@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LbNCA@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
jceg5540
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 7:47 AM
To: LbNCA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNCA] Lbing in the Midwest
Hi folks,
Well I am glad to back in some good LBing territory! I just
returned from 10 days in the Nebraska and Kansas where I was
visiting family. Unfortunatley due to all the family visiting I did
not have much time for boxing. Not that the weather was very
conducive....100 degrees and humidity to match. I did try for a
Funhog box at Standing Bear Lake which is a few miles from where I
grew up. I could not believe how much things had changed there...it
used to a be surrounded by farmland and miles from town, now it is
surrounded by suburbia.
Anyway it was my last day in Omaha and I drug my brother and his two
kids plus my family to the lake where we planted Disgruntled Couple
and Porta Potty. We then went to find the funhog box. We got
skunked....or at least after narrowing down the location (and then
realizing to my chagrin I did not have my compass) I lost heart in
groping all the possible trees in the vicinity to locate the box.
IT was hot, humid, itchy (chiggers, mosquitoes and ticks), and full
of thistles, cockleburrs and foxtails and possible rattlesnakes.
UGh! How I wished for a nice dry heat.
Same news in Kansas...with the added bonus of copperhead and
cottonmouth snakes and poison ivy. I went with my 15 year old
boyscouting nephew who warned me he had seen a copperhead in the
park where we were searching, so use a stick to probe any cavity
first. We did find "Comes with the territory" which honors the two
constants of Kansas LBing....mosquitoes and poison ivy. This taken
from the text of the clues...so I am not exagerrating. I also now
know how to tell a shagbark hickory apart from a swamp oak.
But I found 3 boxes in 10 days! Smirk. I did really wish I had
more opportunity to do more, but we had not been back in 18 months
so needed to hang with the homies. And do a tour of KC BBQ joints.
THere seems to be a few committed boxers there, but nothing like the
vibrant scene we have here.
Here is to all the fun boxes in CA!
Mimulus
Yahoo! Groups Links