{"id":12035,"date":"2018-11-13T22:03:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T04:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12035"},"modified":"2018-11-13T22:03:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T04:03:55","slug":"skywatch-friday-first-snow-of-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12035","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; First Snow of the Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2bKsRWU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4896\/45124110484_947b327e53.jpg\" alt=\"20181112-073606-3\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We had our first snow of the season on Monday, the 12th. According to Oklahoma lore that means we will have twelve snows this year. That kind of depresses me a little bit. I find nothing romantic about snow at all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2cKmYCb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4814\/45779319042_172ef5a303_c.jpg\" alt=\"20181110-110607-20\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Things got cold and that is a good thing. I have revved my geocaching lately and I love cold weather. All the snakes and bugs are no longer a problem and the brush dies back. I have about 1574 caches found over the last 14 years. I want to get to 2000 in a year. What is geocaching you ask? It is basically a game where people hid containers out in the world with paper log books (caches) using GPS receivers to determine the coordinates and then they post those coordinates on geocaching.com and other people go find them and sign the paper cache and log on to the cache&#8217;s page and log again there. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/play\/search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Things got cold and that is a good thing. I have revved my geocaching lately and I love cold weather. All the snakes and bugs are no longer a problem and the brush dies back. I have about 1574 caches found over the last 14 years. I want to get to 2000 in a year. What is geocaching you ask? It is basically a game where people hid containers out in the world with paper log books (caches) using GPS receivers to determine the coordinates and then they post those coordinates on geocaching.com and other people go find them and sign the paper cache and log on to the cache's page and log again there. Check out geocaching.com or a post geocaching 101 I made several years ago. (opens in a new tab)\">geocaching.com<\/a> or a post <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Things got cold and that is a good thing. I have revved my geocaching lately and I love cold weather. All the snakes and bugs are no longer a problem and the brush dies back. I have about 1574 caches found over the last 14 years. I want to get to 2000 in a year. What is geocaching you ask? It is basically a game where people hid containers out in the world with paper log books (caches) using GPS receivers to determine the coordinates and then they post those coordinates on geocaching.com and other people go find them and sign the paper cache and log on to the cache's page and log again there. Check out geocaching.com or a post geocaching 101 I made several years ago. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/play\/search\" target=\"_blank\">geocaching 101<\/a> I made several years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/QFYu4U\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4854\/31957488898_281c7f92db_c.jpg\" alt=\"20181110-104040-18\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I find it a lot of fun and very challenging. Geocaches are everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"530\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/geocaching-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/geocaching-map.jpg 847w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/geocaching-map-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/geocaching-map-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/geocaching-map-624x390.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a map of geocaches within a few miles of our home. The yellow smilies are ones I found. The green boxes are the caches I haven&#8217;t found the few blue frowns are ones I looked for and did not find. The question marks are mystery caches where a puzzle hast to be solved to find the cache. I have hidden 32 caches myself.\u00a0 I think there are about three million in the world now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, that is what I am up to. What are you up to these days?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I am linking with <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Skywatch Friday<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our first snow of the season on Monday, the 12th. According to Oklahoma lore that means we will have twelve snows this year. That kind of depresses me a little bit. I find nothing romantic about snow at all.&nbsp; Things got cold and that is a good thing. 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