Proselytizing

Well, while we didn't do any boxing this weekend, I did talk about it plenty with two different sets of friends. On Saturday evening hubby and I went to a friend's house to help them cut moulding and put it around the floor where they laid new flooring in the dining room. This is their first house, it is old, and there is a lot of remodeling to do. Hubby is a carpenter, so he's been helping them out and teaching the guy how to do these kinds of things for himself. While they were in the other room working, I sat in the livingroom with the wife (who was my roommate in college) and we talked about letterboxing and camping. Her hubby is a big camping fanatic. She, not so much. But he's wearing her down ;) She commented that he would love to go camping in New Hampshire and Conneticut, and wouldn't it be fun to do it together? I suggested we do a few local weekend camping trips together first, and why not combine letterboxing? Her husband has already purchased his stamp. She knows which one she wants, and they are going this weekend to pick out logbooks. She has said that they want their first stamp to be one of my planted boxes. We are going to take a Saturday soon to take them out on a day trip and get their feet wet, maybe even plant a box.

On Sunday evening we went to another friends' home for dinner and they asked about our letterboxing hobby. I had just happened to bring along my logbook ;) so I got to show them stamps I've collected and also the ones I had carved and planted. They were really impressed with the idea that you could carve your own stamps. I guess next time I go I will have to take my stamp carving stuff and do a demonstration for them.

JuJuBee and Cody's stay with us is drawing to a close. They've been here about a month. I wonder who our next guest will be?

Hubby is going away with the NG next week and I'll be going with him. I'm already printing out clues for boxes in the area and along the way. Now I just need to organize....

Boxing Bust

Boxing with my family seems to be getting more and more of a drag. I had several boxes laid out to visit on our trip to the cabin, I even planned a different route to hit them, a way we've never gone before. By the time it was early afternoon, having only hit two of the five boxes planned, they were grumbling. So I didn't even try for the final three, headed into town, had dinner and went straight to the cabin. Didn't have a relaxing weekend either. Hubby kept talking about going to Cranberry Glades, so the next morning we got up and went out for breakfast. However, it was overcast and raining off and on, so we spent ALL day running around stores. We ate mid afternoon and went home. I was wore out and disgusted. The next day we waited until my Mom and brother came in before going into town. I had to go to the library to use the internet to place my Avon order.

BUT, I did carve a stamp while there, and we placed the box at Devil's Backbone -- a distinctive landmark my brother and I always watched for to know we we almost to the cabin (practically a stone's throw...) And, in honor of the 07-07-07 date, we placed our first hitchhiker. Mom took some pics with her digital, and when she gets back into town I will post a couple.

More Boxing Pics

These are pics from our Memorial Day Boxing excursion. The first was from "Like a Hurricane" and the second was the 'reported missing' box "Red Rock." The last pic is from Cathedral Falls in Gauley Bridge. It sure was busy at that location, but it should have been renamed Cathedral Trickle because of the lack of rain we've had.

First Boxing Trip

I got some old photos developed last week and on one of the rolls was pics of the very first letterboxes we found. My family has a camp in Pocahontas Co. WV and we have been vacationing out there for the last 35 years. So, I am very familiar with the area. Droop Mountain Battlefield and Beartown State Park were close by, so those were the boxes we sought first. That was back in 2005. Looking back at my logbook, I see that we went over a year before finding another box, but after that we've been hunting. This year is when I've really kicked into gear, especially since I've learned that I can carve stamps fairly well.

We went to my family reunion in Coal Grove OH this past weekend and I took the opportunity to place a box there, with our family crest image for the stamp. I hope I have lots of finders!