The First Half of January

January 1st started with a geocaching event we hosted at 9 in the morning serving donuts and orange juice to about 40 area geocachers who stopped by to start the new year. The event was held at Flatiron Community Park in Apache Junction.

four paneled wall mural near the picnic ramada

the reason geocachers will come out on a chilly morning

Our new wheels arrived on January 2nd. We have decided to rent a golf cart this winter rather than buy new bikes we'd rarely use. Many social events are in the newer part of the resort. A golf cart will make it easier to attend those events...and more fun!

rather spiffy for two old farts

Hubby started another 7 weeks of External Enhanced Counter Pulsation therapy sessions on January 2nd. We both feel EECP in 2018 made a difference in his circulation. Maybe there will be more improvement after these 35 one-hour sessions.

A highly creative and much loved local geocacher created and hid a geocache honoring and thanking the two us for our contributions to the AJ geocaching community . It was released on New Years Day and he, JFOW, thought we would rush right out after our morning event to get the newly placed cache. He doesn't know Hubby very well, does he? New Years Day is college football and has been for many, many years. Even the enticement of a cache in our honor and the opportunity to have a first to find honor did not sway Hubby. College football won out.

But on Saturday, we did head out to find that cache and several others along the way.

luckily, we did not have to look at EVERY shell casing 

to find the one with the log sheet

the remaining snow on Four Peaks one week later

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, its off to cache we go...

Terry, Jane, & Hubby

looking for minions in palo verde trees

cute little cache containers

 a golf ball hiding a log sheet

now there's a cameo geocache container!

rubber snake glued to a round tin container

we don't find them all

4 sets of eyes, 30 minutes of looking

and I looked later for another 15 minutes

FINALLY!!!

See & Sea or C 'n C - You Decide
found the ammo can and signed the log
thanks JFOW!



After all the geocaching excursions, I needed a change of pace. I and 129 other residents from the resort attended this play at the Hale Theater in Gilbert. A little culture.

I remember seeing the movie with Robert Redford and

Jane Fonda back in the late '60s

I laughed so hard during the play

reminded me of another 20 year-old bride

Writing Your Life Story classes have also started this month. I have 5 new writers in the first session and about 10 who are continuing to add to their life story in the second session on Monday afternoons. 

After a 5 year hiatus, I have also decided to join other Red Hat ladies in the resort for some social activities. We had lunch and saw the movie Bombshell. 

The resort bookclub discussed Where the Crawdads Sing in January. Twenty-seven women came to the discussion, the largest one to date. Such a good book to read and to discuss.

And on January 15th...

my January Meet & Greet geocaching event

the guys in blue are from Winnipeg & Grand Forks

about 50 cachers attended the January event

a group of 4 came from the Tucson area

 Sherry (waving) and Jon are from Globe

the sunset at the close of the January 15th event