Hoosier Library Day

Trail with a Tale

I have found a few letterboxes in Kentucky labeled "Super Hero Series."  It looks like back in 2008 Kentuckian boxers went out and planted boxes with a super hero theme.  I thought it would be cool if boxers across Indiana would do something like this.

I got on the message boards and we decided on National Library Day, April 11.  I got busy and made 2 boxes.  I carved the stamps, made pouches, logbooks, containers, etc.  They sat on the corner of my desk for a month all ready to go.  I was going to plant one in the library in Mount Vernon, just west of Evansville.  The other would go in a Little Free Library at the northern end of Vanderburgh County.

Bad selfie with letterbox

My boxing buddy, G-MA, doesn't carve and she doesn't like to plant but I suggested that she ask a family friend, Wise Wanderer, to make a box for her.  Wise Wanderer lives in Washington and sends boxes to G-MA from time to time.  But she was not able to this time.  I decided that I would make one.  There is a Little Free Library just a few doors down from one of G-MAs kids.  I got on the LFL website, got the email of the owners, and got their permission to plant the box.

My 1st two Hoosier Library Boxes

While I was on the LFL website I noticed a new LFL in Evansville and I had to make a box for it too.  My boxes doubled in a day.  I planted three of them on April 10th and one on April 11th.  I now have a box in every LFL in Evansville.

After planting all my boxes, I talked with G-MA and she said that she tried to talk to the owners of the LFL near her kids house but no one answered the door.  It would have been funny if we both planted a box there.

My last two Hoosier Library Boxes

I planted 4 boxes and didn't take a picture of a single location!  I must be loosing it.  I did take pics of my stamps.

The boxer who took my spot in BOTM planted a box for Hoosier Library Day and I did get a pic of that.  It is at a new reading path at a local park.  I wanted to get me & the kids with the signs in the background but that didn't work out.

Some people said that they would be late planting their boxes for the event.  So far we have 7 :)

Spring Break

Brownies with their paintings

Last week my kids were on Spring Break.  As a stay at home mom, I am happy that they are back in school XD

We started off the week with Girl Scouts.  My daughter's Brownie Troop is working on the Painting badge and we went to Snickerdoodle Art on Monday.  The girls painted a llama, which is the cookie mascot for this year.  They had a great time painting and hanging out.

Florence Y'all 

Wednesday morning we left early for the Creation Museum.  It is 3.5 hours east of us and this was our 3rd visit.  We got there right at lunch time.  We decided to explore the museum and then have a picnic lunch at the car.  Then we wandered the grounds and looked for a letterbox.  We couldn't find it and went through the museum again.

After all that walking everyone was tired and hungry.  We checked into our hotel and went out for dinner.  While we were out, I talked everyone into getting a letterbox.  It was my only one for the trip :(  I wanted to look for more but the kids wanted to go back to the pool and they won.

Ark Encounter 

Thursday we got up, had breakfast, packed up, and headed toward the Ark Encounter.  I didn't realize this, but the Ark is 45 minutes from the Creation Museum.  Good thing I grabbed a brochure at the hotel or were would have gone to the wrong place!

 The ark is huge and we had a great time checking it out.  We went through the ark, had lunch, checked out the petting zoo, the big kids did a high ropes course, and then we walked thru the ark again.  We got our money's worth.

Rockport, In

On the way home we stopped at a Cracker Barrel in La Grange, Ky.  Just out of curiosity, I looked it up on Atlas Quest to see if they had any boxes close by.  There was supposed to be one IN the parking lot of the Cracker Barrel but the previous finder marked it missing.  We looked and it was missing :(

On Saturday, I went to Rockport to look for 3 boxes.  It is about 45 minutes away.  I got to the first box and found it right away.  I left a hitchhiker.  I could not find the other two boxes.  I was really disappointed that I drove over there for one box.

When I was done looking I explored a city park that I had heard about and I planted a box in a cemetery on my way home.

So, my Spring Break boxing was a bust.  I looked for 6 boxes and found 2 :'(