Month: March 2008

Earthquake and hikes

A sharp jolt woke me up early Saturday morning. I realized immediately that it was an earthquake – a pretty substantial one. If the epicenter was more than a few miles away then I thought it must have been quite a big quake judging by how strong it felt and sounded to me. It took me a while to go back to sleep but eventually I did. First thing Saturday morning I checked out the quake on the USGS website. They described it as being 2 miles ENE from Verdi-Mogul. That is exactly where I live! It was only a magnitude 3.0 but no wonder it felt big. I was almost on top of the epicenter. Today I put the exact coordinates into my GPS and found out that it was actually centered about one mile to the east of me. I think I’ll use the GPS to go check out the exact spot.

I received the GPS for Christmas and I’ve been having fun learning how to use it. Yesterday I hiked 3 miles up the mountain we live on. The top of Peavine Mountain is a long way off but going 3 miles up gave me a good work out and some great views. Where I turned around I saw a herd of about 40 deer.

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The hike yesterday was so nice that today I decided to do another out my front door hike. I also decided to try to find my first geocache using my GPS.  This time I headed down hill. A new road is being built that will connect us much more directly with interstate 80. It is supposed to open this spring. I walked down the new road, across old highway 40 and down to the Truckee River. The geocache was fairly easy to find. It was kind of exciting to find my first one!

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I decided to try to find another geocache nearby. It was back up the hill from the river. The location was supposed to be in this old car but I couldn’t find the cache. As I was making my way back home I startled some more deer. It was fun hike and a beautiful day. I am inspired to find some more geocaches!

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Now that I’m home I’ve checked out the clue to the cache. Maybe later this week  I’ll try again to find it.

What I did on my last 7 March Firsts

On March 1st my friend Christina did a great blog list of what she was doing on March 1st for the last 5 years. She is participating in the NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) challenge to post a list every day in March. I’m not going to do that but I thought I would tell you what I was doing on March 1st for the last several years. It is always surprising to me how time goes by and how my life and the lives of my friends and family change.

2002 – I was working at Sun and spent the day in an all day managers’ meeting.

2003 – Duke and I ordered our wedding invitations.

2004 – I had a piano lesson and and worked all day at Sun then went birthday shopping for Duke.

2005 – I worked at Sun all day and was busy studying for my CFP exam. My March 2005 blog entries are here.

2006 – I was working at Intuit and went out to dinner with Bonnie, Bill and Duke to celebrate Duke’s and Bill’s birthdays. My March 2006 blog entries are here.

2007 – I was retired, I picked up Aidan at the baby-sitter’s and went with Shan to his 6 month check up. My March 2007 blog entries are here.

2008 – Last Saturday the 1st of March I was in the Bay Area visiting. I had breakfast with one friend, lunch with other friends and dinner with Shan, Aidan, Valerie and Vicky.

As you can see I’ve been blogging for more than three years but you may wonder how I know what I was doing on March 1, 2002 . Like Christina I also have a Journal 10+  . I don’t always get around to writing in it every day but I do enjoy looking back to see how my life is changing.