Is winter ever going to get over? Snow is still covering lots of ground, and now it’s crusty from the little sunshine and warmer weather we have had. Temperatures are still quite brisk, and when you figure the wind chill factor it’s downright cold. I don’t want to go for a long hike and find GZ is a foot deep in snow for 100 feet in all directions. I could take my snow blower but I don’t want to be hunted down by all the CO’s after I post a “Needs Maintenance” log! Just kidding.

There is a rumor of sunshine and temps in the upper 40’s and low 50’s coming in a few days, but I have lived in Nebraska long enough to know that we could get 12 inches of snow right after that too.

I have done some online shopping this winter. I bought some of those Newbie favorites, the dreaded magnetic micros. I also went to a hobby shop and bought various colors of paint to make them really blend in. Insert mad scientist’s depraved laugh here. I also bought a window decal traveling bug, so if you see it, log it. Feel free to follow me to where ever I am going and after I explore every foot of GZ and I’m heading back to my truck with that blank look of DNF on my face, you can go find the cache. You can chuckle to yourself as you post your, “Found it with no problem TNLN TYFC” right behind my DNF. It makes me feel so inept when I see that. lol

While I am waiting for warm weather and a new population of ticks to mature, I am gathering the parts I will need for a new cache idea I have. It will be a multi cache, not sure of how many stages yet. I want to make it more difficult , my caches have been very lame so far.

I am going to retire Feb 23, 38 years in one job is long enough. I am anxious to log more finds, see more places in Nebraska, and take more pictures of the places my GPS leads me . I have a new computer coming in a week and want to learn all about Pocket Queries, and loading digital pictures to my logs. For some selfish reason, my job wants their computer and cell phone back before I turn off the lights and lock the door on that last day.

My first grandchild will be born in April and I am looking forward to the day HE will want to go geocaching with Grandpa.

OLD MAN WINTER it’s time for you to retire for the season too!

By g_o_caching Don Kramer

My geocache.com handle is g_o_caching. I am a member of Nebraskache as go.caching3651 and I attend the monthly meetings at Tommys. I started geocaching in March 2010. I have some very lame caches in and around my hometown. I normally go caching solo but I am open to teaming up if I can when you are in the area.     

Comments(2):

1. I feel your pain!

   Really! I Do! I have only two finds so far this month, and only six over the last two. I am NOT happy with that. Going to have to bundle up and trudge out into the snow some more. Great Article! I hope you have thousands of post retirement finds! --Terry

   Thursday, February 10, 2011 Terry

2. I retired in 08 after 41 years in the same company. You're right it is long enough. The wife and I have never been happier. Next week we are going south to cache. When you retire you can do the same. Good luk and have fun.

   Monday, February 14, 2011 Marvin