Training Log Archive: BillD

Turning now to a summer-long effort toward house and yard maintenance. Began with cleaning out the garage.

Nice visit with son Dave and family who were hosting a neighborhood Memorial Day party. Kids running all over the place. Girls sporting red-white-and-blue doodads affixed by the moms. Boys pretty much all had either food or a badminton racquet in their hands at all times. Classic.

Event: WCOC Pond Mountain
 

With Charlie, administering the WCOC event at Pond Mt.

Lots of interesting conversation with friends and with folks I've never met before.

Small world department: While I was registering two people who had never met each before before, one young lady from Japan living in NYC, and the other from NYC, we discovered the native NYC'r works at the very same residential hotel the Japanese lass is living at (the latter never having orienteered before and was simply accompanying an acquaintance who ran off to the Red course, leaving the lass to try the White).

Hanging controls at Pond Mt.

Walked my property borders today in preparation for tree service doing a vista cut tomorrow. Could not find the pins in SE and SW corners, probably need a metal detector since decades of leaves probably have covered them up.

Surprise: At what I believe to be my SW corner about 400' from the house, I found the hollow plastic penguin that a bear stole from in front of the house 10 years ago. I had foolishly used sunflower seed as ballast when I couldn't chip enough frozen sand out of my pile. Neighbor on the ridge came by the next day and said "Damnest thing, I just passed a bear carrying a penguin."