Photoessay #1101 - Letterboxing work

A picture from just and hour or so ago taken by Dennis. We picked up Melina (with Teddy) and decided to do some letterboxing. We found one of my own boxes (Fircrest Healing Garden) and replaced the logbook (it was full!). A letterboxing gem IMO as it's a Hidden In Plain Sight sort of place. Not really, you have to go into the Fircrest complex and follow the signs to the handicapped access garden.

We didn't get to plenty of those Hamlin Park boxes last weekend. So we tackled a group of 5 boxes entitled Sin City. Has something to do with Frank Miller (?) comics and use of negative spaces. The trail took us ALL over back in the woods and up some big hills (pant pant pant). We found 3 of the 4 boxes though none of them came easy. We spent a long time messing around with a very rotten stump (and it was the WRONG stump) etc. Teddy loves nosing all the rotten steamy stuff. The person who prepared these boxes did a great job, maybe I will feature one of the stamps. Really clever log books with these cute foldup pens that Melina loved.

And you know about letterboxing, when you find the box, it's all about the paperwork You have to stamp the logbook, you have to use their stamp in your book. Times two. Plus date and write notes. So here's Melina and I working away sitting on a log in the middle of the forest. You can see the multi-color stamp ink pinwheel we just gave her for her birthday. Ten years old!

Letterboxing is a great low cost activity to do with a child. You can set somebody up to letterbox for under $10 and have hours of exercise and enjoyment.

We all were pretty pooped after the long walk around the forest in Hamlin. We got a pizza and now Teddy has Melina trapped in the backyard playing an endless game of Fetch.

Ted needs Fetch Anonymous, for dogs who like to retrieve Too Much.

I did work the Husky football game last night. Pretty wet. Actually it rained a bunch before the game but stopped during. Those poor Huskies, they just played the most horrible game against ranked Stanford. The game started ugly and just never improved. 41-0. Only 35 yards offense for US first half. Only 107 for the whole game!