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 that. We lucked out compared to our neighbors to the South, North Dakota. They got wolloped with crazy amounts of snow. We already had unprecedented amounts of snow over the course of the winter. Some geocaches that were marked as Winter Friendly were starting to appear again after being buried in snow. If that wasn't enough, we got hit again eight days later with another Colorado Low. Once again we lucked out and got mostly rain, including thunder showers. North Dakota got more snow. If that wasn't enough, for the third straight week, we are experiencing yet another Colorado Low. To the kind people of Colorado, please keep your low pressure systems to yourselves. Sincerely, the people of Montana, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and anyone else that's been affected by this weather pattern this month.
As mentioned, I braved the rain and soggy ground to find a letterbox cache. My one and only physical find for April.
That pink looking thing in the middle and basically on an island is the cache. Somehow I was able to retrieve, sign and replace without getting my feet wet.
The Ducks were enjoying the new, temporary lake in the middle of the field near ground zero. Now it's off to hide a geocache. I would like to hide one per month and I haven't done so yet. This is the last day of April. I have an area of the city in mind for future puzzle caches. Off I went and hid a bison tube on a sign post. I haven't created the puzzle yet for submission. Hopefully today.
That's the extent of my geocaching for April. On a personal note, a couple of things happened. I'm back at work. I was cleared of any wrong doing, but I'm no longer on my floor. I've been reassigned to a different role within the department.
I started April with an abscessed tooth. I was on antibiotics for that. One of the antibiotics was Tylenol 3, or T3. Great for pain relief, not so good for the weight. After getting my tooth pulled, I was on a soft diet. During the whole process, I saw my weight go up to 235lbs and drop down to 227lbs. At the end of the month, my scale told me 228.4lbs A drop of two pounds since last month. I'll take that after watching my weight go up. I've been doing more cardio and less weights lately. Sixty minutes on the treadmill has been my workout lately. I'm also doing more running.
That's all for this month. Hopefully the month of May will be more productive. Until then, be happy, stay safe, hug your pets, and most importantly, just have fun. Peace out ✌️
All I have for one last picture is something that popped up on my FB memory.
This is from five years ago. I had ended my daily streak by this point. This cache was a zombie cache. I've found 2,500 caches since this picture was taken.
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