The Second Half of the Month

May's weather (in South Dakota) is always unpredictable and this year is no exception. The forecast for our birthday was to be cool and rainy. We had invited local geocachers to come to our place for birthday cake and ice cream to help us celebrate. We cleaned the garage which needed it. 

Thanks for the photos, Sherry!

As it turned out, the weather was perfect for a gathering with the garage door open. Notice no one is wearing a coat on a Thursday evening.

Two young neighborhood geocachers saw the event posted online and stopped to get some water. I insisted they have cake and ice cream. (boys in the lower center)

We were very excited to learn our friends Jon & Sherry (seated) would be attending. We were supposed to meet them in northern MN earlier in the month, but weather changed their plans. They adjusted their schedule and joined the geocaching group of about 15 people.

Another birthday in the books for the two of us.

On Saturday of our birthday week I hosted geocachers in a Cache In Trash Out event to clean up Oxbow Park in Sioux Falls. It is the park area in the above photo along the Sioux River. The Parks and Rec Department said it is a neglected area that does not get the attention some of the other parks do during spring clean up events.

A nice sized group helped with the cleanup on a chilly Saturday morning. We worked for only an hour and and barely touched the size of the park. We'll request the area for our fall CITO event and work on another area in the park. (A geocacher from WI stopped by to help as did one from WV!)

On another note, a friend from AZ posted this idea on Facebook as an organizing addition for the space next to the garage door. I showed the idea to Hubby and the very next day, our geocaching tools had a storage space as did the other items that seem to fall over or are always in the wrong place. The original idea was to reuse a packing pallet. We didn't have one, so we used some of the excess lumber we seem to always have on hand. Well done, Hubby! Thanks Linda Booker for the idea!