Geocaching Panhandle Power Trail I

We took advantage of the long weekend with very few plans and not much work on tap and planned to go out geocaching. The original plan was to go do some cleanup at South Park. However, last weekend I had gone for a walk on the Panhandle Trail with my friend Laura. I was looking it up online since it was my first visit and noticed that there were a ton and a half of caches there. Clicking on Cache 0 I noticed that they are archiving the power trail of 80 caches in November of this year, so we decided to start working on it to try to capture it before the grand disappearance.  

A long and sometimes winding (rail)road. 

We walked well into Washington county. 

While in McDonald we heard a strange Noise. Nope. Not gang violence, but some sort of historical reinactment with old fashioned shots being fired on the other side of the trail. 

Resting while waiting for fellow walkers to pass us by before the last find of trail for the day. 

Warning: recent flooding has been damaging. 

Took a little longer than this to find some caches and take a short sheetz picnic lunch. 

Success:  5 miles walked, 4 miles cached, 26 total caches!

We grabbed one last cache at dinner to give us a PR of 27 in one day. Go us!

You Go Girl

This month marks the 97th anniversary of  the ratification of the 19th amendment, giving wonderful ladies like me the right to vote. Last week also marked the Pittsburgh Federal Executive Board's annual luncheon honoring  women and their achievements. I was honored to be nominated by the Corps of Engineers for the FEB's Woman of the Year in a Professional Non-Supervisory Series. While I didn't win the Gold or Silver awards, my competition was pretty good - there were about 20 other federal women in our category - and it was an honor to be selected by my office and to win a bronze level award. 

Plus, it's really cool to think of how my great grandmother was a suffragette and four generations later I'm able to win an award for women in a professional aerie job. My how the world has changed. 

The Commander with myself and the two other nominees from the District. 

Garden haul

Today's pickings. I had given up on the peppers, and now we have a purple that made the cut!

Fallingwater

Took a little trip downtown Fayette-nam while my parents were in town to see this gem. It was a beautiful walk and worth the drive. Dad loved it since he grew up in Frank Lloyd Wright's hometown. The rest of us all enjoyed too - somehow this was the first time I went inside a Wright home?!?!?

Vackation Highlights - Yosemite National Park