What a Face Letterbox Series

Planted by Cherieph and rtrw on October 31, 2002

Difficulty - simple, I hope. Probably fun for kids
Time - 45 minutes to find them all. This probably includes stamping
in, too.
Directions to starting place - From the center of Granby, take Route
20 West, approximately 2.5 miles to Day Street South on the left.
Follow Day Street South a short distance to the end. You can't miss
the big red barns directly in front of you that mark Holcomb Farm.
(These directions were stolen, as most of mine seem to be, from a
previous planter. In this case, I'd like to thank Tree Fairy and
Chester Copperpot for getting us out to lovely Holcomb farm again.)
If you follow clues toward unlucky clucky you will soon pass the
brookside trail


Details you should know - This is a 7 part series that makes up
total image. THERE ARE NO INK PADS, so be sure to bring one you
don't mind being cross-inked with every one else's. You will want to
have a stamping surface (paper or page in your book) that is at least
7.5 inches high. The first stamp should be at the top of the page and
you should work your way down, placing the stamped images close
together. Be prepared, this is strange and quite silly. The last
box has a log book and is inside traditional tupperware , while the
first six boxes are in a variety of containers inside plastic bags.
Some of the containers are more micro than others. Most are smaller
than a typical tupperware container.

Details you don't need to know -The sweetest dog ever, Jonah, waited
patiently while we hemmed and hawed during planting. Thanks to
BBBunny for helping us make sure the boxes were in the right order
and for checking our clues.

Clues: This series is on a short section of the Brookside Trail.
After you have crossed the large fenced in garden (making sure you
close both gates behind you), look left. You should see the
Brookside trail sign with a bit of a dripping blood looking dot on it.

Box 1
Stand facing the Brookside sign and look right. Behind the fallen
log is the top of your stamp montage. Replace it carefully, because
we want you to keep the location under your well, you know.

Box 2
Just before the trail becomes log lined, find a live and
dead birch next to a white pine on your left. In front of those
trees there is a big exposed root with a striped stone in front of
it. Under the root is stamp #2. For this one you will want the long
sides to point down on your page directly under the last stamp.

Box 3
You will soon come upon a huge fallen log that lies next to the
trail. About of the way down the log is a decent sized stone.
The stone is on your side of the log, not the stream side.
Underneath the stone is a stamp inside a container that once belonged
to my grandfather. It's an old cedar bullet box. I tried to make it
into a pencil holder and that didn't work. So, in my attempt to keep
things simple and slightly less cluttered, I'm sending it out of my
house and into the wild as a holder of a rather small stamp. Heave
that stone back in place and keep on going.

Box 4
You will see a two trunked tree that looks a bit like fingers in a
"v" for victory position on the right side of the trail. The
leftmost of the two "fingers" has a red blaze on it. Standing next
to the tree take seven more steps down the trail and look left at a
sycamore (camoflage) tree with a pile of rocks at its base. Look
under the rocks. This one is small. The opening on the stamp goes
at the top.

Box 5
Keep on going down the trail. At the fork, keep to the right side or
stream side. You will find a fallen log next to a medium sized birch
tree. Standing next to the log, take a reading of 80 degrees. Go 7
paces to three sawn logs. Your stash is stuck into the end of one of
those logs. This was probably not quite large enough a container, so
feel free to shake the stamp out. Back to the path and your next
find.


Box 6
On the left side of the trail look for a gathering of 5 large
hemlocks. Stand inside the group and head toward a spot between 75
and 80 degrees. You will see a tall, gray trunked tree with some
little hemlocks. The box is at the base of the tall tree. Head
further down the trail.

Box 7
Cross a dry stream bed. (at least it was dry in October. If in
April you cross a stream, look for the next clue) Half way up the
far side of the bed is a small pine tree. Stand next to it and take
a compass reading of 100 degrees. Walk 8 paces to a fallen log and
search for a snappy finish. After stamping in, retrace your steps and
go find the rest of Holcomb Farm's wonderful boxes.