holiday weekend...
I hope everyone's July 4th weekend was a blast. We had a nice long weekend visiting with friends and, I'm sure this will come as no surprise, letterboxing. The letterboxing? It's like crack, I tell you. And here's proof: this morning at the breakfast table Logan wanted to know what we were doing today to which we replied, "nothing." In return Logan suggested we do something fun, something that doesn't "rot his brain like television or Wii," something outdoors, like maybe some letterboxing? [insert seven year old blonde kid with a giant wishful grin here]. You see? C R A C K.
We went out Friday morning and hunted for this series and found all six stamps. They were some seriously cool stamps too. After we found our letterboxes we had another picnic lunch. The boys are all about picnic lunches these days...I think it's part of the allure of letterboxing for them. Anyway, on the way home from our outing the boys and I got to talking about hitchhikers and planting our own boxes again. They were ready to draw pictures for me to carve right that minute. But we had plans with our neighbor friends for swimming and cooking out and fireworks so no carving was done on Friday.
Cut to Saturday morning when I woke up for no apparent reason at 6am. The night before Lynn had a wild hair and folded about four loads of laundry AND straightened the kitchen, so much to my surprise and delight, there was no busy work to be done. Everyone was sound asleep leaving me no excuse but to get out my carving stuff and get to playing. I started sketching little (one inch-ish) drawings to carve for a hitchhiker and ended up deciding on a fat little fairy who quickly turned into a tomato fairy named Ella and by the time I was finished with her her story was too involved and her book was too fancy to be JUST a hitchhiker...she was destined to become a full-blown traditional letterbox. We bought some containers and camouflage duct tape today and later this week we'll find a good spot to plant her. Plus, I hear she has a boyfriend named Sam...details to come.
Caleb woke up as I was sewing signatures together for Ella's logbook. I showed him Ella and told him to draw a small picture for me to carve for him and he did a great job. When Logan woke up, he did the same.
On Saturday we had plans to attend a BBQ hosted by one of Lynn's vendors down in Burleson. We made the most of the trek down there by stopping in for lunch at Joe T. Garcia's and hunting for two more letterboxes in the Oakwood Cemetery in Fort Worth. We found the letterboxes we were looking for and planted Caleb's hitchhiker too.
Our plans for vegging today worked out for the most part, although we did hit one letterbox on the way to find boxes and camouflage duct tape before church this evening. We are addicted. I admit it.
We went out Friday morning and hunted for this series and found all six stamps. They were some seriously cool stamps too. After we found our letterboxes we had another picnic lunch. The boys are all about picnic lunches these days...I think it's part of the allure of letterboxing for them. Anyway, on the way home from our outing the boys and I got to talking about hitchhikers and planting our own boxes again. They were ready to draw pictures for me to carve right that minute. But we had plans with our neighbor friends for swimming and cooking out and fireworks so no carving was done on Friday.
Cut to Saturday morning when I woke up for no apparent reason at 6am. The night before Lynn had a wild hair and folded about four loads of laundry AND straightened the kitchen, so much to my surprise and delight, there was no busy work to be done. Everyone was sound asleep leaving me no excuse but to get out my carving stuff and get to playing. I started sketching little (one inch-ish) drawings to carve for a hitchhiker and ended up deciding on a fat little fairy who quickly turned into a tomato fairy named Ella and by the time I was finished with her her story was too involved and her book was too fancy to be JUST a hitchhiker...she was destined to become a full-blown traditional letterbox. We bought some containers and camouflage duct tape today and later this week we'll find a good spot to plant her. Plus, I hear she has a boyfriend named Sam...details to come.
Caleb woke up as I was sewing signatures together for Ella's logbook. I showed him Ella and told him to draw a small picture for me to carve for him and he did a great job. When Logan woke up, he did the same.
On Saturday we had plans to attend a BBQ hosted by one of Lynn's vendors down in Burleson. We made the most of the trek down there by stopping in for lunch at Joe T. Garcia's and hunting for two more letterboxes in the Oakwood Cemetery in Fort Worth. We found the letterboxes we were looking for and planted Caleb's hitchhiker too.
Our plans for vegging today worked out for the most part, although we did hit one letterbox on the way to find boxes and camouflage duct tape before church this evening. We are addicted. I admit it.
Labels: letterboxing
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