Geocaching with Geocacher Ken

Good morning everyone.  Better late than never.  I had started writing this with intentions of having it ready and published on the first Sunday of the month.  I got pulled away and never came back to complete this.  We've reached the half way point of 2022.  How's your year so far? Comparing numbers, I only went out geocaching on six days in June.  Two of the six days produced some decent numbers for finds.  One of those days was traveling down to the Pembina Valley area of Manitoba.  This is situated towards the U.S. border.  Myself and my caching friend, Auntie Mo, attended a Community Celebration event at a location that I didn't know existed.  Thanks to geocaching, I now know about it and have been there. This place is called Woodhenge.  There's nothing wooden about this location other than the trees that surround it.  You can read more about the creation of Woodhenge and the person behind it here >  Woodhenge My pictures don't really do the location any jus

Good morning everyone, In the past, I've always wrote about my geocaching experiences first, followed by an update on my weight loss.  This month I'm combining the two since they were intertwined together somewhat.  Now that the weather has finally improved, I can make good on one of my goals.  Ride my bike more this year.  What is more?  I don't think I rode it at all last year, and I couldn't say for sure the year before that.   The first thing I needed to do was buy a helmet.  I'm old school when it comes to wearing a bike helmet.  Didn't grow up wearing one (no one did), so why do I need one now?  I'm not getting any younger and I should look after myself, and that includes wearing a bike helmet. Now that I have a helmet, I'm off to explore bike paths.  That's another thing I didn't have growing up; designated bike paths.  And while I'm out riding my bike, I might stop for a geocache or two or three. On my third ri

Good morning everyone. Another month has passed by.  Time to look back on April.  During the week leading up to today, I started my reflection of April so I could have an idea of what to write about.  It was then that I realized what a train wreck this past month was.  Aside from a CITO and an ice cream event during the first weekend, and before the new GCHQ promotion, I have done zero geocaching.  That's a big zip, nothing, goose egg.  There was two CITO events that were postponed because of the weather.  I did manage one more CITO two days ago (Friday).  That's three events and not a single geocache found.  I don't even have any pictures to share.  Despite the rainy weather again, I set out yesterday (Saturday) to find at least one physical geocache. Part of the reason for not getting any geocaching in was because of the weather this month.  Just before Easter, we were hit with a weather system known as a Colorado Low.  These usually bring snow storms.  This one did just

Good morning everyone. Let's dive right in because March turned out to be a busy month.  Good thing I've been off work the whole time.  I had seven days left to reach the peak of Mt. Everest.  When you have successfully reached all the other peaks in Geocaching HQ's promotion, you have to get the last one.  This proved to be more of a challenge due to the unprecedented amount of snow we have received this winter.  I was focusing on Adventure Labs since they were worth the most points when completed.  Unfortunately, I couldn't complete a few that I had started because the information I needed was buried under the snow.  Same could be said for some of the physical caches that have the Winter Friendly attribute.  Not this winter.  I believe three feet above the ground is considered winter friendly.  We've had around five feet of snow so far.  I turned to an old companion that was very useful during my daily streak.  The recently found pocket query.  If a cache has been

Good morning everyone.  How was the month of February for everybody?  January didn't start off too good for me when I tested positive for the Omicron variant.  What will February be like?  I normally keep my personal life out of my blogs, since it's supposed to be about geocaching.  I have to share something that does have a ripple effect on the entire month.   It all started on February 2nd at work.  My boss came up to me and said he has to reassign me off of my floor as Human Resources is doing an investigation.  No information provided as to why or what.  After some adjusting of duties, I swap places with my floor support partner.  I'll be bringing supplies to Urgent Care instead of the 4th floor.   February 3rd:  My boss comes up to me again and wants to talk to me.  Does he have more information as to what is going on?  Nope.  He did just get off the phone with H.R. and I'm being placed on a paid administration leave until further notice.  That's a fancy way of