It's been a blessedly normal week for the most part. The snow called for missed Grand Rapids - and now spring is back in the air which thrills me to no end!
Thursday night was roundtable. Carolyn and others did a great job taking over the cub RT so that I could go to the boy scout RT and present a session on geocaching. It went well, and had a nice turnout.
Friday was my typical half day at work. After work, I had a dental appointment (the regular twice a year one) then dropped off some library books, then ready for caching! Nice to get back to caching in my own area, fun though it was to cache in other countries. Since I was already on the SE side of town, I decided to go for two caches in Paris Park, at 60th & East Paris. I'm glad I decided to wear my boots as the first cache involved walking through some very muddy territory. The cache was high and dry, though, and I found it without too much trouble. Went for the second cache, about 3/10 of a mile away. As I walked towards it, there were wet areas to my left, and I could hear many frogs trilling, it was pretty neat. As I got closer I realized that the coords were leading me towards the wet areas. Got as close as I could to the wet area without going in, still about 50 feet off. Looked to my right and saw the cache. It was sitting atop a tree trunk which looked to be about 15 feet out into the wet area. You've gotta be kidding! was my comment-to-nobody. Decided to go around and closer to see what was what and found a log that -almost- reached the trunk. The water was maybe 2 inches high so I walked the log, waded through the water, and retrieved the cache. More of an adventure than I thought it would be!
Cache 3 was along a walking trail. Had quite a bit of trouble with it and almost gave up but finally spotted it. Cache 4 was along an electrical right-of-way next to a subdivision. Very easy find.
After this, it was about time to head for home. But one more stop - needed to do a little last-minute Easter shopping at Meijer. Lots of people had the same idea. Headed home after that for a quiet evening at home with Steve and Eric.
Today, Steve and I went to a Gold Wing Riders group meeting. First time I'd been to one since they are usually on Sunday mornings. This time it was moved to Saturday because of Easter. Too cold to ride (26 degrees this morning) so we took the car. Nice to talk with others but it's hard to tell how involved Steve wants to be so therefore how involved I can be. Rest of today has been spent catching up on regular tasks.
Tomorrow is Easter - Eric & I will go to church, then we are going over to Steve's dad's for a visit.
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