Travel to Kansas City

After meeting with Scott and Laura for breakfast we headed for Kansas City. I think we make it in a little under 6 hours this time.

Today's Stats:
0 Geocaches.
1608 Steps Today - .83 miles.
0 Aerobic Steps.
57 Calories Burned.

Deluge

 
 
Today it just rained and rained and rained some more. The weather man said we had over 4 inches in the Little Rock area.

These roses are located at the back pourch of my dad's house.

Scott and I installed a new garage door opener.

Today's Stats:
0 Geocaches.
5005 Steps Today - 2.60 miles.
0 Aerobic Steps.
191 Calories Burned. 

Farmer Brown

 
 
Today I'm trying to be Farmer Brown. My brothers and sons are busy building a new fence and mowing my dad's property. We worked hard trying to beat a big rain storm coming our way.

Today's Stats:
0 Geocaches.
11491 Steps Today - 5.98 miles.
0 Aerobic Steps.
541 Calories Burned. 

Travel to Arkansas

This evening when I got off work we took off for Arkansas. We pretty much drove non-stop except for a gas stop.

Today's Stats:
0 Geocaches.
2152 Steps Today - 1.12 miles.
0 Aerobic Steps.
94 Calories Burned.

The 3 Mile Walk Around Southlake

 There's something not right about this on April 26th.
 
 Great Blue Heron
 
Here are a few shots from our 3 mile walk around the lakes at Southlake today at noon.

Today's Stats:
0 Geocaches.
8700 Steps Today - 4.53 miles.
4850 Aerobic Steps.
488 Calories Burned. 

A Beautiful Sunset

 
Mary and I snapped this picture of a beautiful sunset a few days ago while we were out grave hopping for the October grave hopping event.

Today's Stats:
0 Geocaches.
8444 Steps Today - 4.41 miles.
6112 Aerobic Steps.
4.79 Calories Burned 

Baby Ducks at Southlake

 
Andy took this picture of the new baby ducks as we made our way around the lakes at Southlake on our 3 mile noon walk. 

Scott, Laura, Bradley, and Ashley

 
Here's the latest picture of our son Scott, his wife Laura, and their two kids, Bradley and Ashley. This is one of the best pictures yet.

Today's Stats:
0 Geocaches.
8114 Steps Today - 4.35 miles.
5827 Aerobic Steps.
486 Calories Burned. 

A Test from Picasa

  

Grave Hopping Again

 
We spent the afternoon grave hopping for the October event. Here we are resting in front of Daniel Boones son's grave.

Today's Stats:
0 Geocaches.
5699 Steps Today - 3.05 miles.
0 Aerobic Steps.
286 Calories Burned. 

CITO - Cache In Trash Out

 
We participated in the annual CITO-Cache In Trash Out event at Flemming Park today. Webscouter furnished lunch and we really enjoyed the day. 

Today's Stats:
1 Geocaches.
4827 Steps Today - 2.59 miles.
0 Aerobic Steps.
236 Calories Burned.

New HJ-112 Pedometer

Today Mary found me a new HJ-112 Pedometer at Wal-Mart for $19.95. This is a much better price than I paid for the last one.

Today's Stats:
4 Geocaches.
4875 Steps Today - 2.61 miles.
0 Aerobic Steps.
245 Calories Burned.

Kansas City Grave Hop

We spent the evening working on the pages for the Kansas City Grave Hop. There sure are a lot of cemeteries in Jackson County.

Grave Hop Homework

Tonight we're adding a bunch of new pages to our grave hop collection and reworking the old ones. This is a lot of work.

Another Sudoku Evening

Hooray for me! After spending most of another evening I solved the two week old Sudoku puzzle. I may have been working on this thing for three weeks. I lost track.

SudoKu is Killing Me

Tonight I think I spent most of the evening trying a work a Sudoku puzzle. I've been dabbling at this puzzle for a week or two. Tonight I got serious. It's still not worked.

Caching in Leavenworth, Kansas

Today we found the reminder of the caches in our 100 mile circle at Leavenworth, Kansas. We also checked out a bunch of new cemeteries for the Fall Grave Hop.

Beginner Orienteering Class

Today I helped Dick Neuburger put on the beginner Orienteering Class at Erine Miller Park. In the afternoon we went to St. Joe to hunt some caches.

Caching in Butler Missouri

This afternoon we went caching in Butler Missouri. We found the World's Smallest Tombstone as published by Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Grave Hop Project

Tonight we just worked on the Grave hop project. We're making the Word Document pages for each grave that we have visited.

Taco Bell Night

Eating light tonight. We stopped at Taco Bell and got a Taco Salad and a Nacho Bell Grande.

Grave Hop Dinner

This evening we met with a few geocaching friends at Ruby Tuesday’s in North Kansas City and enjoyed a nice meal together. After telling a few caching stories the ladies settled down to business. The job tonight was to get the Grave Hop Coin project off and running. They plan to offer a special minted coin for everyone who attends the Grave Hop event that’s coming up in October of this year. They decided to also give a special button to those who attend. We had so much fun that we didn’t get home until nearly 9:00 p.m.

Dinner with Rob and Rachael

We met Rob and Rachael at the 54th Street Grill and enjoyed and nice dinner together. I'm still sore from the fence building last Saturday.

Return Home from Little Rock

We got away from Little Rock about 2:30 p.m. this afternoon. We stopped off at Bothwell Lodge and found the cache that we had to DNF last Friday. It was a tough find in the dark about 9:15 p.m.

Hardest Day of My Life in Many Years

Today we met with my sister and brothers at my daddy and mother’s house to finish dividing up their personal property between us. We finished up that exercise about 1:30 p.m. and then started building a new fence between the property I inherit and the property Delton inherits. With lots of help we ended up building 1300 feet of fence with 4 strands of barbed wire before dark. We’ll have to go back later and add two more strands of barbed wire. I am so tired tonight that Lee gave me a muscle relaxer to help me sleep.

Bothwell Lodge

Today we headed to Arkansas. We decided to take I-70 over to Hwy 65 and then south so we could get the two new caches at Bothwell Lodge just north of Sedalia, Missouri. This did not work out too well because I could not find one of the caches. That means this is the only cache within 100 miles of my recliner that we have not found. We’ll have to try again soon.

Meat for the Smoker

This evening we went to Sam’s and picked up some meat to take to Arkansas. Lee is planning to fire up his smoker this weekend and we wanted to get in on the action.

Taco Salad

This evening we were tired and did not want to do much. We stopped and picked up a taco salad and went home.

Yesteryear at Carrollton, Missouri

This evening after work we took off for Carrollton, Missouri. Nice evening and nothing to do so this cache looked like just the thing to keep us out of the recliner and watching TV. The Yesteryear cache was on the grounds of the Carrollton Museum. We now have no unfound caches in our hundred mile circle.

Crusty Gizzard Brains

This evening after work we went to Leavenworth, Kansas to hunt the Cheesey Chicken Brains Cache. This was a new area of Leavenworth that we had not been to before. It was an interesting area where motorcycles and four wheelers go. It took a while to hunt down the cache but we found it. Inside the cache I had to use the riddle to come up with a new name for myself. The results was Crusty Gizzard Brains.

Caching at Fort Scott

We headed to Fort Scott this afternoon to find a few caches. We came back up to Lawrence to grab one. We located 5 caches today. We only have one more cache to find in our hundred mile circle at Carrolton, Missouri.

Kill Creek Orienteering

Finally the big day has arrived. I've been preparing for this event since January. Jim Shilt brought a big Xerox color laser printer to the shelter to print the maps. We had three laptop computers at the registration table and Jim had one at the Start/Finish line. Brian and Carlin did a great job of registering people and print maps. We had way over a hundred people. I felt the day was a huge success.