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Geocaching and My Week in Pictures.

Good morning everyone.

How was everyone's week?  Did you get out and find many geocaches?  I've been busy filling in my date found calendar so that every day shows a minimum of eleven finds.  Starting with last Saturday, I went on an unplanned peanut butter run.

There is a series of caches that were made and hidden by a grade 1&2 class.  I believe there was 13 to start with.  Not sure how many are still active.  I was able to locate five of them.  They were all PB containers.

Sunday I went after a couple of six yesr old DNFs.  They are both in a corner of the city that I rarely go to.  It took me six years to get back here.  Today, they were very easy finds.

Monday, I was headed back to the power trail I featured last week.  Before I got there, I stopped for a cache hidden under a highway bridge.  This one was full of swag.  Not often do you find a cache so full of goodies.  While I was marveling at the contents, vehicles were whizzing over my head at 100+ kilometers/hour.

I made it to the trail and set off to go North from where I parked, which was the same spot I parked last week.  I walked South that day.  I didn't realize this until I got home, but the last one I found on this day was also my 5,000th traditional found.

I found two on Wednesday, the second being my 6,500th overall find.  I forgot to take pictures or a video.  Given what had just transpired at my workplace mere hours earlier, I'm surprised that I was able to locate geocaches.  Geocaching is my therapy.  I wasn't in the same part of the building when the incident occurred, but I can still hear the overhead paige and you knew something horrible was happening.  Both parties involved work on the same floor that I stock with supplies.  I know both of them.

I found three more on Thursday and didn't think to take pictures.  Two were "slims" in a telephone pole.  Nothing really exciting.

Four more finds on Friday that included this one.  I also had two attempts at other geocaches.  One is in a tree that requires a ladder and I don't have one.  A telescopic ladder is on my wish list.  The other attempt was along the riverbank.  Just my luck, someone just had to be fishing nearby.

That is my week in pictures.  I don't have to go out again until November 5th.  Every day between now and then already has a minimum of eleven finds.  I now enter the four busiest and possibly the hardest months to work on my date found calendar.  November, December, January, and February have the lowest number of found caches of all the twelve months.  We shall see how these four months go.

That's all for this week.  Until next week, be happy, stay safe, be respectful of others, hug your pets, and most importantly, just have fun.  Peace out.  ✌ 

Connecting with nature is also good therapy as well.  I can sit at this spot all day feeding the birds out of my hand.  It's such a cool experience that I'll never get tired of.

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