Just to be understood, I am not making fun of anybody here Rebel, I am just showing my emotion and shock with another man's expression.
He says it better than I can with words!
However, IMHO I believe as I have learned that "one person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind."
L.C.
LC...I don't know what that picture you posted was about... if you had emotions or shock by anything I wrote, why not ask me to explain further? I also don't understand what you said about 'EsteemS' to Rebel regarding my post, I've tried every Verb and Noun that fits Esteem or Esteemed and couldn't figure the sentence out. Please explain what you were saying if you don't mind. Thanks.
My post was in reply to yours where you came across saying that I should apply to be a Mason in order to understand your thoughts better...You know that's not possible and if it were, you know by my postings I wouldn't. Nothing against Masons but I'd have to choose the Mason's over the Church. I wouldn't do that.
If you were in shock by the Geocaching comments, ask me or research it. Geocaching has been going on for a long time, using detailed maps and compasses. It hit a really high level of popularity with the advent of affordable and portable GPS....people that have the same interests like cemeteries, tombstones and history have created subgroups like here and a lot of folks travel by RV or other vehicle across the country Geocaching certain tombstones like WOW monuments and other unique monuments and mausoleums. These caches are buried in and around monuments and mausoleums. There's many subgroups... a couple more are Corp of Engineer Lakes and Campgrounds and Civil War Battlefields....but there's a lot more.
What you can expect to find for instance at Wyuka, and there are several, would be a jar with code or ciphers... a skeleton key, possibility of a key to decipher the code which using these things after the skeleton key is found... the finder looks around to see what it could fit... (symbolically) which would be the Desk Monument of the Harding family is what you see there, remember you are only doing certain unique monuments.
Just to show you I'm telling you the truth, since you're up there, go look at and around the Harding monument. You'll probably find a pill size bottle with the next coordinates or coded instructions. Be sure and replace it. Newbies to the hobby sometimes remove the jars or containers that were there. Usually the Harding desk cache is in (meaning behind or next to something) or on the desk somewhere (could be held in place somehow) if not, it's not buried deep. If there's metal in it a pointer will pick it up.
All kinds of dates, coordinates to another cache location, numbers,and letters are used to find the next clue or cache. That's where you need the key to the codes... It's like a real treasure map and hunt. I told you where to look on this one, but normally you'd find clues to decipher that would lead you to the desk and the next clue to the cache which after finding the last one at Wyuka sends you to the next stop. If you are playing in the hunt, you are supposed to leave something in each cache and log it.
The Morton monument and the Rudge Chapel, Ganntt's monument along with the Propeller monument at Wyuka are also on the geocache map. Maybe a couple more now, I'd have to look.
You put out Wm. McKendree Gwin's pyramid mausoleum located in Oakland, CA at the Mountain View Cemetery... there are 3 Pyramid Mausoleums there.... it's another cemetery that's on the Geocaching lists.
Why I even brought up Geocaching is that where it use to be family and friends that left jars with momentos, keepsakes, photos and notes or letters at tombstones for several reasons that I mentioned before...it morphed into more and unfortunately for people that still practice this custom, Geocachers who do the destination trips to cemeteries also find these jars/containers and sometimes take what's in them and either put them back empty or change whats in them. Occasionally the whole jar is gone. There is a lake/park by my home and there's two Geocache's there and two at every private park/lake in the county... there is a person that makes things that identifies them by initials or a certain number or symbol and they put these things in every cache that they located. After it's found the next time, it's logged confirming it was found and added to by them. Usually you take one thing, replace it with whatever you want and log it.
It makes a theory like yours harder... to see if what you found or where you want to go could of been compromised it's a good idea to see if that cemetery or particular monument is on any of the many Geocaching lists. I'd hate to see you running cross country only to find your target has been found or Geocached!
If you ever have questions about anything I post, just ask... no need to throw a picture like that out. I'll explain myself. If you want to know anymore about these caches left at monuments or mausoleums, just ask. If I know the answer, I'll gladly share.
Kace