July BOTM

Found a geocache

July has been busy and it is time again remove our Box of the Month.  The box had only one finder again :(

When we dropped it off there were many fungi on the trail.  They were white, tan, orange, and yellow.  It was neat to see so many different colors on one trail.

First Finders on 2 new letterboxes

When we retired the box we looked for a geocache in the area.  It was this dinosaur in a tree with a Bison Tube in it's mouth.  The tube has a logbook in it.  Now don't tell, but we couldn't get the logbook out!  We counted it as a find anyway but I guess we need to add tweezers to our letterboxing bag.  I have some in a pocket knife in my purse but I locked it in the car.  Oh well, the young ins had a great time finding the cache.  I believe that there are others in our area like this that are Disney characters.  We may have to try to look for them too.

Cool leaf bug :)

So while we were out we found 3 Munzee, 2 Letterboxes, and 1 dino in a tree Geocache.  And a cool leaf bug :)  I don't know why the person who planted two new boxes here didn't look for my box.  It's really frustrating.  I am pretty sure that I won't do this BOTM thing again.

Boxing in Indy

Crown Hill Gates selfie

On Tuesday I boxed in Indy :)  Each summer my sister-in-law lets my potty trained kids stay at her house for a few days.  This year all my kids are potty trained, woo hoo!  Which meant that I would have a few days all to myself.  

Downtown Indy in the background

My original plan was to box in Kentucky.  I was going to print off 8 clues and look for 6 boxes in Ky and then look for 2 in Ill.  I was afraid that I wouldn't find many boxes.  The last group to go thru the area marked 4 of the boxes as missing :(

My husband asked what I would do with the kids gone and I told him I was going boxing in Ky.  He didn't like the idea of me going off alone.  But it is a lot easier to letterbox alone.  Have you ever tried boxing with 4 screaming kids?  It's tough.

I saw 4 deer while boxing

My husband had work meetings in Indy on Tuesday and he usually goes up the night before so he doesn't have to drive 3+ hours in the morning.  It just so happened that he was going to be gone while the kids were gone and said that I could come with him.

President Benjamin Harrison's grave

Now, I don't know the difference between boxing alone in Kentucky and boxing alone in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, but I jumped on the opportunity to box in Indy.  (Men, you can't live with 'em and you can't live without 'em.)

On Monday I loaded up my bag, printed clues, highlighted my cemetery map, and put the finishing touches on a box to plant.  I love boxing at Crown Hill; it is beautiful, peaceful, and has many hiding spots.  I easily found a place to put my box.  I was there about 5 1/2 hours and I found 26 boxes.  Only 1-2 of the ones I looked for were missing.  The only problem with boxing on Tuesday was they had a storm roll through on Monday night and many branches were down along with a few trees.   There were a few times I had sticks stuck under my car and I had to back up to get them loose.  

Beautiful grave w/ a matching
LB close by

This was my 3rd time to box at Crown Hill and my noxer husband was surprised that I wanted to box there again.  Well, now there are only 4 boxes there that I need.  So I guess next time I go to Indy I will have to find another place to get lots of boxes.  Or the Indy folks will have to plant more boxes at Crown Hill for me ;)