Woo Hoo !!

Celtic Quinn is the First Finder

of Canned by Hand

Excitment builds as I await the arrival of the Great Houdini. Just today I received confirmation, in the form of a highly prized and decorative momento, that Houdini is beginning his travels around the country and my place is on his list of visits.

this post is in regards to the Great Houdini Postal LB by Orion. Thanks Orion!!

Oh my LooLoo!!
I think I might actually have
gotten these blog pages ready to view

what a tangled web I have spun...ughhhh!!

ah heck...it's been fun...or I wouldn't be doing it!!

I think I kinda like this Blogging...
simpler than trying to keep up with all the web pages and the files that go with them...then the web hosting headaches...Whewww!!

I have been working on dixiekin blogs but have neglected my letterbox page (hosted at my original web domain) with clues etc.

Bear with me...I'll get there!!

Fun Day yesterday...

It could have been a bit more productive if I had started out earlier in the day...
but there were some real life issues that needed some attention first...
ya know, feed the family, trip to the home improvement store for stove pipe...we must eat and must keep warm this winter.

We took off to find the Cherokee letterboxes in Robbinsville, NC. These are 2 of the boxes I will start maintaining for kayaklil.

The gravesite of Junaluska gave a good little history lesson. Too bad the herbs and native plants highlighted in the Medicine Trail had all died back or was covered with fallen leaves. Good reason to go back in late Spring.

I can't do long hikes anymore. My body has aged beyond my true years and a mile hike might as well be 5 miles anymore. That really "blows".

This trail is short and easy for me. Nice.
The letterboxes were a bit stale and soggy but with new baggies and some clean up...they are good to go for another season.

The kids (pretty big kids now) had a good time in the woods in another area away from the trail. I laughed until I was sore. :~) That brought back memories of my growing up...I stayed in the woods!!

oh sorry, back on subject...
The trail is easy, quiet, and very educational. This place is a nice memorial for some Native people. Everyone in the area or passing through should go hunt these boxes. FUN

My mind has been working on some new ideas.
Hidden clues...
I keep getting side tracked from those.
I keep thinking up stamps to carve even though I have ideas for at least 2 dozen others in my head that I can't possibly get done. I could probably benefit from a little note book that i would jot down ideas for stamps in...only thing...I'd probably loose track of the book while cluttering my thoughts with more stamp or clue possibilities.

humpf....

I'm excited.

Ha...I am always laughing and saying how it "don't take much to entertain us" with regards to how much fun my family has with simple things. sometimes I think those things are things that can only be discovered by truly bored people...but no, if we were so bored we wouldn't be laughing so often.

anyway...I'm excited. I have 4 boxes in the area I need to go search for now that may need some TLC. I guess you could say the boxes need adopting. They were not deserted but the caretaker is no longer living in the area and really does need help keeping the boxes maintained etc.

Glad to do it!! it's like getting a new puppy or something.

happy, happy, joy, joy!!

No matter how much I deny it (to myself) the Witche's Bloom box may be one of those that is plagued with problems. It was the very first box I placed. I did it on a whim after reading an artical done in a regional magazine.

I knew a story about the rocky knob where i wanted to plant the box...the legend and a store bought flower stamp was all I had to go on. I tried to conjure up my forgotten imagination....and whata ya know...after completing my clues (or story)...I felt good about it. It was unique.

I have realized some things that may be problems in the future with this box...and if that worry wasn't enough...

Well, about a week ago I got an email from some well-meaning geocachers who had found the box out in the open. They did rehide it... but where?? It is not where it sounds as though they put it.

I will not disturb the area by digging thru every inch of leaves, branches or rocks in the vicinity of it's original hiding place. That would go against how I believe this should be done and how I am trying to teach the kids to do it.

I've looked twice...It's lost...so I have just replaced the box. I had to replace the stamp anyway. The only thing truly lost is the impressions left by the first few finders. This I regret.

Some say I should just do away with the box but I am not ready to give up on it yet. It sparked a storm of interest and obviously means something to me.

Dang...who was it that said you shouldn't get emotionally attached to a Letterbox??