[Sportsandrec] family yard sports

[Roger Acuna]

I've have seen a luggage locater once at camp. It was atached to the 
basketball rim and operated by remote, not by whistling.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sivill" <mike.sivill at viewplus.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] family yard sports


> Hi,
> I got a few of the beeper boxes from the Braille superstore and they are
> just little plastic boxes that beep constantly until you switch them off.
> I've used the luggage locators before, but you have to whistle to get them
> to beep, which I didn't like.  Except for when the sidewalk was snowed 
> over
> and I had to use one to find my house one winter. That was ideal.
> The doorbell idea sounds cool but expensive. You could take the noise 
> makers
> out of electronic dog toys to get the same effect since somebody has to 
> push
> them to start the noise anyway.
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Roger Acuna
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 7:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] family yard sports
>
> What is a beeper box?  Maybe I can use this as my beeping homeplate 
> target.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Sivill" <mike.sivill at viewplus.com>
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> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 1:07 PM
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>
>> But the beeping Frisbees you can buy from say, independence market, don't
>> fly well at all. I had better luck getting a beeper box from the Braille
>> superstore and hot-gluing it to a real Frisbee from Wal-Mart.
>> Mike
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of JUSTIN LOUCHART
>> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 11:05 AM
>> To: Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] family yard sports
>>
>> Beeping frisbees are certainly inexpensive. For  ball sports, putting
>> a platic grocery bag on the ball and tying it off at the handles is
>> the best auditory marker I've ever found.
>>
>> On 6/6/11, Julie J. <julielj at neb.rr.com> wrote:
>>> Hello all!
>>>
>>> The other day my teen age son and I were talking.  He expressed an
>> interest
>>> in playing Frisbee with me.    I am totally clueless as to how I might 
>>> be
>>> able to accomplish this.  Does anyone have any ideas?  should we start
>>> looking for other outdoor activities we can do together instead?
>>>
>>> How about bad mitten?  Has anyone had any success nonvisually?  We have 
>>> a
>>> regular set, but I'm willing to purchase anything that would make it
>>> accessible.
>>>
>>> I'd also welcome any other ideas for family friendly activities we can 
>>> do
>> in
>>> the yard.  My son and step daughters are all teens if that helps with
>>> suggestions.  My son and I are not super athletically talented, but do
>> enjoy
>>> outdoor activities.
>>>
>>> Thanks muchly!
>>> Julie
>>>
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Justin Louchart
>> JALOUCHART at GMAIL.COM
>>
>> "Teachers teaching to disregard possibilities are teachers teaching to
>> disregard potentials."
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