May Box of the Month

In April my BOTM box went missing.  I planted our May one at a completely different location and it had less finders.  The original park I was using was centrally located.  Me & my boxing buddy are west siders but I think most of the fair weather boxers are east siders or are from Newburgh, the town just to the east of us.

The new location is the University of Southern Indiana on the west side of town.  Now a few years ago we had some very active boxers in Mt Vernon, the town just to the west of us, but they quit boxing.  However they have recently said that they are back and one of them came to our restaurant event a few weeks ago.  I am surprised (and frustrated) that they didn't get this one.

When Lil Ewok & I planted this box he fell in the water of one of the creeks and insisted that I take off all his clothes.  That's what is going on in the first pic.  The princess went with us to remove the box and they stopped for a minute so I could take a pic.  She wants everyone to know that she is holding a cicada shell.

Oh, well.  The box had only one finder in the month of May but it is on a beautiful trail that is easier for me to maintain.  And I am pretty sure that is has a lot less muggles than the previous location.

Day in Louisville

Colonel Sanders at Cave Hill Cemetery.

A few months ago my boxing buddy, G-MA, asked me about boxing out of town.  We both have all the boxes in Evansville and have to travel to get more.  G-MA is trying to find her 800th box by the end of the year.  She asked if I would be interesting in going to Louisville.  That sounded good to me so we set a date.

The stamp I planted.

I was in charge of getting the clues together and as I went through the Louisville boxes online I started to panic.  Many of the boxes were old and had not been found since 2011.  I thought this is going to be a complete waist of time and that we were not going to find anything.

I have never seen stained glass
 memorials like this before.  There are
several in Louisville. 

We left Saturday morning at 7 and arrived in Louisville at 9 (our time) and started our adventures in Cave Hill Cemetery.  We spent our morning here and I planted a box here too.  Most of the boxes we looked for we found and it was a beautiful place to be.  I was also worried about the cemetery being really busy due to the holiday weekend but it was not.

G-MA, Lil Ewok, and I left the cemetery about 1 and ate lunch at Mc Donalds.  We got lost after lunch but we also boxed in Eastern Cemetery, St Louis Cemetery, Calvary Cemetery & St Michael's Cemetery.  It was really convenient that these cemeteries were all close.

The Conrad-Caldwell House.

For our last boxing stop of the day we went to The Conrad-Caldwell House.  It is an old Victorian home/museum and the box was planted by some folks who had traveled 2234 miles from Sacramento, Ca.  It was a fun stamp and location.  And while we were there a sky writer was making a message in the sky.  We were busy stamping and didn't see all the message.  But it was interesting.

When we were done there we headed back to Indiana.  We had dinner at the Cracker Barrel in Corydon and then finished our trip home.  We found 13 boxes and had a great time.

Two events in one day

Spring Mini Meet

On Saturday I participated in two letterbox events in one day.

The first one was at our local nature preserve.  They were having a "Big Adventure Day" with several outdoor activities to try.  There was letterboxing/geocaching, archery, knots, orienteering, bird watching, how to fly fish, etc.

The geocacher is a Girl Scout friend of mine and asked if I would teach about letterboxing.  I was free and happy to do so.  The only problem was the weather.  It basically rained all day and the attendance was very low :(  I taught only a handful of people about letterboxing but I had a good time hanging out with my GS/geocacher friend.

In the evening we had a event at a local Chinese restaurant.  We had 17 people sign up but we were missing 5.  Technically, my husband and boys came to eat and then left.  I was looking forward to talking to some new people who have just started boxing but they didn't show up.

In the picture, front row L-R, me (christmas6), Daddy's Favorite Princess, & Carry On Grandma.  Back row L-R, Green Peeper, G-MA, & mojudy.  I am always surprised when the ladies from St Louis come over.  I wish I could go over there more often.

hello! LTC

I originally made this card for the "Alternative Stamps" tracker.  You were supposed to make a stamp out of nontraditional items.  I made a bird stencil out of cardstock and stamped the inside of it with a pencil eraser.  I liked how it looked so I used the pencil eraser for the grass too.  The orange legs were drawn with a marker.  I have had the store bought alphabet stamps for a while and thought they were the perfect size for this card.  And you know that I am currently on a text paper kick.

Here is the problem, the host was hosting many swaps and I think they got over whelmed.  I was in another one of their trackers and waited more than 2 months to get my cards back.  I was so mad that I decided that I would drop from all their trackers, even the ones where I had completed the cards.

I decided that I would send the cards away to "Marjorie's Potpourri."  But then someone pointed out that Jiffy had several swaps that my cards might go with.  I checked them out and sent them off for a swap called "Long on Top."  I did check with Jiffy first since my cards don't have a hand carved stamp and the number rule of LTCs is they must have at least one hand carved stamp image.

So, I am disappointed that I won't get to see the other "Alternative Stamps" but I feel it was for the best :)

Camping at Scales Lake

Fishing with the Smith's

This weekend we camped with some friends at Scales Lake in Boonville, In.  The weather was just beautiful and everyone had a great time.  The kids road their bikes, played on the playground, made a fort, walked trails, etc.  We all went fishing, hiking, and visited the petting zoo several times.

The kids found this hut and added on to it.

We had fun but I never got to just sit around the campsite and chill out.  Our friends have kids the same ages as our 3 older kids and Lil Ewok was often left behind.  So guess who had to walk with him to find the other kids?  Me.  I don't think I every walked so much on a camping trip.  I told the kids we are never camping here again.  There is just too much to do and too many places that I have to take the baby.

While we were here we looked for one box that is listed as active but has been attempted a few times.  We could not find it.  There are supposed to be other boxes here but they are listed as unknown and one is retired so we didn't try them.

We planted our LB near this dirt bike trail.

We did plant a box of our own while we were there.  The stamp we planted was our Curious George stamp that we sent away last year to the Animals at the Zoo event.  I thought this park would be a fun place for a curious monkey to live ;)