After having the weekend start with freezing rain and sleet, it turned out to
be a boxious weekend in CT! Once the rain died down at around 4:30 on
Saturday afternoon, I was able to (finally) get The Red Men at Holbrook Pond
and the new Peggy Dow, both in Hebron! Red Men was where I expected it to
be, however, the first time I went out to look for it, it was frozen solid in
a block of snowy ice! Peggy Dow is in a really cool, old cemetery, so if you
are into those kinds of things (like I am).... definitely go and check it
out! Irishtinker did a great job on the stamp too!

Sunday proved to be a better boxing day! Though I was in church until 12:30,
I still was able to pick up 18 boxes and one Hitchhiker by 6 pm! I started
off by grabbing the fifth box in the Women of the Revolutionary War series,
since I couldn't find it the first time in the huge amounts of snow we had
this winter! I also picked up the Connecticut State Stamp by the Needeeps!
Nathan Hale Forest is becoming a boxing mecca! Then off to find Watership
Downs and Presidential Animals. In the third box of Presidential Animals, I
found the Lantern Light Hitchhiker! I'll replant it sometime soon! I want
to put it into a second baggie since the pen doesn't really fit very well in
the present baggie. Then off to Mansfield to grab the two new Vinton
Elementary School boxes: Winterfest and Chico y Frio Hermano, followed by the
"Puzzles are Double the Fun" letterboxes in Mansfield Depot. Oy.... every
box required the letterboxer to solve a puzzle..... I'm just lucky I found
them all! Then I went over to KJ's and grabbed some ice cream (I already
have the box), then went over and stamped into the Queen of Hearts, Cupid's
Letterbox and Cupid's Arrow. Finally, I went and found Fireman2B's box,
Eagleville Dam. All boxes were in semi good condition (some in better
condition than others).

Just a note on the boxes themselves. I found that many boxes in the woods
today were made from the thin Glad boxes and such. I can already tell you
that these boxes won't last. The Queen of Hearts box has a crack in it, as
does Eagleville Dam, if I remember correctly. I would check on these boxes
often, since they are easily crackable. (is that a word????)

Anyway, hope everyone had a great boxious day!

Music Woman


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