LBing in Lufkin and Livingston

Blue Butterfly stamping in

On May 23, Blue Butterfly invited me to take a trip to Livingston SP with her and PS Guru. I decided to go with them on their trip and went to their house on Friday night to spend the night. We got up not-so-early (thanks to me) on Saturday morning, and headed South. Blue Butterfly saw that we would be going through Lufkin, so she suggested we stop to get LUFKIN LOOKOUT2 by Silver Eagle. We'd been here before to get the original Lookout box, so it was fun to stop again and log another find.

After this, we were going to check on my LAND OF THE LITTLE ANGEL LB, but there was some sort of fire fighter training going on in the parking lot. We would have to check on the angel another time.

We continued heading south and finally made it to Livingston. By this time, it was lunch time, so we unpacked the cooler at a picnic table and dug in. The birds were singing, and I managed to get a picture of one blue bird.

After we ate, we set out on the trail while PS Guru went another direction to shoot photographs. I have found most of the boxes in this park already, so I tagged along while Blue Butterfly stamped in. I was able to help her since the trails and landmarks were different because of Ike, so that was good. We had on our rain ponchos and it showered on us a couple of times. The bad part of this was it brought out the mosquitoes! They wouldn't leave us alone, even though we sprayed ourselves down with bug repellent. At one point, the mosquitoes were totally covering my head....it was bad.

One new box that I was able to stamp into at Livingston SP was THE LONG KING LB by Boots Tex. This is another absolutely amazing carving with a great story behind it. It is definitely worth the trip to get this one!

Blue Bird at Lunch time

Mother's Day Celebration

Blue Butterfly and I had a mother-daughter-mother's day celebration-letterboxing weekend the first weekend in May. We headed down to Huntsville, did some letterboxing, and attended The Airing of The Quilts in downtown Huntsville. We had a great time, even though we were rudely awakened by the thunderstorm on Sunday morning!

The Airing of the Quilts

Cat Quilt-One of my favorites

Blue Butterfly and Lucy Locket on Sunday morning--getting out of the rain.

Crockett, TX

Pictures from Lake Murray

Movie Time!

On May 9, I had a moonlighting opportunity in the Fort Worth area. I finished up there pretty early, and decided to head up to Ardmore, OK to take advantage of all the fabulous plants from the recent gathering at Lake Murray.

I got to Ardmore around lunch time and checked into a hotel. The room wasn't ready yet, so I went out to the lake and got started. I pulled out the map and was able to find the area where Puddle Splasher and Viewfinder had hidden their boxes. I drove to the trail head and followed the clues to KICKAPOO INDIANS and TORNADO OVER OKLAHOMA.

After getting back in the car, I made may way to another trail head to find the 80's MOVIE SERIES. This was a fun series to find.... and YES, I climbed up the side of that rocky hill! Thanks to Penguin Patrol for collecting and hiding these great stamps.

After finding those boxes, I was pretty beat, so I went back to the hotel and called it a night.

I got up Sunday morning and decided to hit the trail early. It was supposed to rain on Sunday, but I wanted to take my chances. I decided to find two boxes on the same trail. I easily found the first box, JESTER OF MURRAY. Just as I found the right log, the light shower started, but it wasn't too bad. I decided to take my chances and find the next box.

The rain came off and on rather lightly on the trail, but the trail was VERY muddy. I made my way around to the box, and just as I was replacing it in the hiding spot, the bottom fell out of the clouds! It was raining hard. I had an interesting walk back to the trail head. My back was soaked as I had protected my backpack by carrying it on my front side and held the umbrella over it. After making it back to the car, it was time to head back to Navarro County, TX.

I had a great weekend at Lake Murray, and I'll definitely going back to enjoy the rest of the boxes!!!!

Roarin' Lions Birthday

The first week of April, Roarin' Lion turned 8 years old. I can hardly believe it, he is growing up so fast. The good news is, he still loves his Aunt Lucy :-) Blue Butterfly brought the trio out to my house so we could do a little celebrating. We didn't get to go letterboxing because I had to work on Saturday, so I only got to spend a few hours with the kiddos on Friday evening at my house. I loved every minute of it.

Roarin' Lion sporting his elephant.

Stinky Monkey showing off his whoopie cushion.

Baby Sister coloring a picture of Dora.