All About Kites

This past Saturday was the 2nd Annual Come Fly a Kite event at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Scott and I arrived late, because Scott had to work until noon. Thank goodness we brought our canopy, it was hot!!! We met a lot of new people, folks whose trailnames are familiar from all the posts on AQ, but now we can put a face to the name. The photo was taken by Happy Daze. Scott is sitting in the chair back to, and I am in the ground looking up at him. We didn't search for any of the boxes that had been planted for the day, but planned on coming back the next day to do some boxing. Thanks to Happy Daze for such a great event.

Sunday, Scott and I headed out at 11am to look some of the boxes planted for the Kites event. We headed to South Portland to look for the Bug's Life series. The series was actually planted on the same trail that we walked on our wedding day. Just as we found the last box, it started raining. It didn't really surprise us, since it seems to rain everyday here. We found several more boxes in the rain. Then called it a day.

I have a new series in the works. We'll be planting 2 boxes for it next month and after that we plant one box every year, in August. Keep an eye out for the clues. Soon you'll understand why we only plant one box per year in this series.

I'm also working on our CBB box. I know where I want to plant it, just need to figure out what I want to carve for it. We want it to be challenging and fun!

Happy Boxing,

Jiffy

Dirt Bike

So what exactly does "dirt bike" have to do with letterboxing? Well, that's the trailname our 10-year-old nephew chose to be called. He originally said dirt bike racer, but decided that that was to similar to Uncle Scott's moniker "atvracer." So he shortened it to Dirt Bike.

This past weekend, we took our nephew, Zach, with us to my parents for the weekend. Scott had a drag race scheduled for Saturday and Zach is a great pit crew for the day!

Since we were going up Thursday night, so Scott could work on his bike Friday before the race. Zach and I spent the day in Ellsworth letterboxing! He had a great time and did a great job re-hiding the boxes. He checked the boxes from any abngle it might be seen to make sure it was totally hidden from view. He counted the stamps in his logbook and he found a dozen boxes. (three of them were boxes that Scott and I had already found, but we thought he would have fun finding them for himself.)

We had a great weekend. Scott had a great day at the race track. We were definitely happily exhausted when we got home Sunday.

Happy Boxing!

July 4th Weekend

Scott and I had planned to make our 4th of July weekend a 4-day weekend this year, so we took Thursday the 3rd off as well.

We headed to my parent's house, about 2 hours northeast of us, on Wednesday night after I got out of work. That way we could spend the whole four days doing what we want and only had to drive home after.

Thursday, Scott decided to put the bottom half of his engine back in his ATV (he was still waiting for the top half to come back from the builder.) So I decided to spend the day with one of my good friends, who I hadn't seen for quite a while. We headed to Fort Knox to check on the series that we had planted there. I ended up replacing one of the boxes and discontinuing two that were missing. It was my friend, Lesley's, first experience with letterboxing. Then we headed out for some lunch and shopping (of course, we are girls after all!!!)

Friday was the 4th!!! My favorite holiday! We spent the morning downtown at the annual field day, which has been going on since before I was even born. We watched the parade, then headed out for the afternoon to plant the 15 box series I had carved. Scott wasn't feeling all that well (probably the fried dough at the field day) so he stayed in the car and I did all the planting. We planted 15 boxes in 5 cemetaries in less than 3 hours. WOW!! Must be a record!! We headed to my grandmother's house for lobster, salmon and steak. Then to the town's park for fireworks.

Saturday was letterboxing day (who's kidding, everyday is letterboxing day!) We headed to Ellsworth, my dad's hometown and a place where I know my way around pretty well. We found quite a few boxes, but had problems with two. On the way home we stopped in the cemetary where my grandfather is buried and planted a series of two boxes. After a long couple of days, we were in bed early. Plus, we had to get up early Sunday to pack up and head home.

Sunday morning, we left between 9-10am to make the 2-hour trip south for home. But we made one last stop in town to plant a final letterbox for the weekend. We planted 18 boxes in 3 days! My feet still hurt (I should have worn sneakers instead of flip-flops when we planted the big series!!!)

Happy boxing!! Oh yeah! The picture is of my cousin, in the lobster cap, and her friend at the July 4th rowboat races last year!!