Thanks!

I wanted to take the time to say thanks to Sea Dove and Boots Tex who both helped me out by doing some maintenance on some of my newer boxes in the Houston area. Special thanks to these letterbox rescuers!

On January 25, there will be a mini-meet in the Tyler area hosted by Blue Butterfly. This meet will be held at one of the local restaurants and we should have some fun meeting some of the new letterboxers from the area.

As you can see, I was feeling a little nostalgic and I attached a picture of Stinky Monkey from two years ago.

Happy Trails and Happy New Year!!

Pictures from Weekend Before Christmas

Lucy Locket stamping in.



Blue Butterfly stamping in.



Nightfall at Kleb Woods.



Water Lilly at Mercer Arboretum.

Weekend Before Christmas-Part 2

On Sunday morning, we were itching to get over to Memorial Park and find some of the many, many boxes located there. We were only staying about 4 miles from the park, so it didn't take us long to get there. We started off by going to the Arboretum so that we could first find Baby Bear's Parting the Waters #1. We easily followed the clues to his box and wondered what the other half of this joke would look like...but it would have to wait!

Blue Butterfly had already found A Box of Legos by MO5, but I was dying to get it myself, so we wandered over and stamped into this fun little box. After taking care of that, I hid Fireworks, which is a carving by Mama Cache. I gave the clues to BB so she could stamp into her first Mama Cache production.

After completing our mission at the arboretum, we went down the road to the mountain bike trails. We had lots of fun finding various boxes, mostly from the Yellow Brick Trail event that day. BB had already found some of these, but she humored me as I found some of her favorites. One of the most pleasurable boxes is A Texas Tornado in Oz. It's one of those boxes that has the complete package: location, stamp, and logbook all tie together for the theme of the box.

We took a short break for lunch, then hit the trail again. We scouted out where our next adventures would be so that we could be somewhat organized. We eventually finished up at memorial park, then found a mystery box. After finding the mystery box, we looked on the map to try and find the 11th street park for Dewberry's Box of the Month. We had two maps, but none of the streets from the clue were listed on either map. I decided to use our greatest resource--a local letterboxer. I got Mother of 5 on the line and she was happy to give us directions to 11th street park. Thanks to her, we were able to log into our last couple of boxes for the day. By this time, it was pushing 5:00 and we needed to head home.

Our trip was a pretty successful one. We visited many boxes by many different carvers and had a jolly good time. Merry Christmas to all the letterboxers out there!

Weekend Before Christmas

On December 22, Blue Butterfly and I arose quite early and made our way to the Houston area to find some letterboxes. We started out by finding a few WOM boxes....boy were these boxes fun to find! We had such a great time trekking through the woods to find these fabulous boxes....special thanks to the secret friends who shared their clues with us!

After we finished those boxes, we headed to Mercer Arboretum. We'd been there for the Candyland event last year, but there were still a couple of boxes we'd not found. We started off by finding Mercer Monarch by Silver Eagle. We enjoyed looking through this historic logbook...especially when we found Mother of Four's signature stamp! After replacing the butterfly, we headed off to find Elmer by Baby Bear. The stamp in this box is broken, but you can easily get a good image from this little guy. After wrapping things up at Mercer, we headed west to Kleb Woods.

We got to Kleb Woods, and finally figured out that there are two very different parts to Kleb Woods, so we hopped back in the car and headed to the other entrance. By now, it was pushing four o'clock and we knew we didn't have a whole lot of daylight left. We found Mother of Five's Build a Nativity: Mary and saw that some fellow letterboxers had been there that very day! How did we miss them? By the time we stamped in, we decided we better go ahead and hide our own boxes, then trade clues. After hiding and finding the new boxes, we headed to our hotel for a long winter's nap.