Okay, so you’re right, that’s not how you spell geocaching and there is no ka-ching about geocaching in any case. But I always feel like spelling it that way and, anyway, what do you do in January in northern Michigan when there’s no snow? This is what we/I did, more or less, omitting some of the more slugly activities:

• Drove lazily in a figure-eight pattern around Houghton and Higgins Lakes, stopping at the Hub grocery store, Home Depot, the ski ranch, and several geocaches along the way. I would not let the GG stop at the geocache that was yards away from where a state cop had pulled over what must have been the only vee-hickle besides us on Old US27. I figgered if the cop was bored enough to stop that person, he was probably bored enough to wonder what we were doing rummaging around in the woods. I didn’t feel like trying to ‘splain geocaching to him. Another day for that cache.
• Hiked at Beaver Creek and took GPS readings and corresponding pictures with the intent to eventually synch them together. Don’t hold your breath.
• Took a nature hike at the ski ranch with Karen the forest ranger.
• Transferred files from my old computer and my backup drive to my new computer.
• Studied some experimental web sites and wrote a paper about them.
• Blahgged.
• I don’t know what else.
• Oh yeah! Owl adventure! We were driving along, heading home for the afternoon when some sort of mouse-eater with big wings flew low across the road, right smack in front of our vee-hickle. If we had been going any faster, we might have hit it. When it lit on a tree branch right next to the road, we saw that it was an owl. See the pictures below. I wish they were better (click the thumbnails for larger and and some non-owl pics):

(click pics to enlarge and get more non-owl pics)

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