The First Half of December

December could be divided into two parts: the first half which we spent in AZ and the second half which was spent in SD. This will cover the AZ part. More sunsets, hummers and geocaching.

December 1st sunset

December 5th sunset

December 6th was a full day of geocaching activities. It started with a Cache In Trash Out event hosted by John at 8:30 AM. We picked up trash along a half-mile stretch of a road and did some caching and walking in the desert. John and some of the other local cachers had placed new geocaches which were to be released that morning. John's CITO event, the dozen or so newly released caches and an event later in the day would bring geocachers to Apache Junction for the day. And it did. 

John loves to build gadget caches

this was one of his new ones

it took four of us to 'solve' it

another cacher had donated a geocaching-themed

Christmas tree as a door prize for my event later that day

some of those attending the December 6th event

This was the day I knew my hip was in need of some major attention. I think I had made the appointment after the last caching day in November. You all know the result of the right hip's medical attention during the second half of December. So What Did You Do Over the Holiday?

Hummer visitor

I spent a lot of time studying the hummers

more on that later

and another beautiful AZ sunset on December 11th

Second half of December and Christmas next.