New journals!

The remainder of that Barnes & Noble gift card from my brother has been put to good use. Above is a picture of my two new journals that were delivered today.

The first one is an exercise in creativity. It's called "Wreck this Journal," and that's exactly what you're supposed to do with it. It instructs you to do things like spill coffee on it, take a shower with it, and tear out a page and accept the loss. I think I may have trouble doing these things to a brand new book, but I guess that's the point. I will let you know how this works out.

The second one is a guided memoir called "The Book of Me," and it prompts you to write by answering questions about your life. Example: What is the first time you remember getting punished for something? Uh oh! There's not enough pages in this thing! This will be quite interesting--to me at least.

Hurricane Martha and Curly go letterboxing again!

Murdel and I went letterboxing again, and she now has an official trail name: Curly. She is so thrilled to be doing this, and I must say I'm having just as much fun as she is.

I'll give you three guesses as to what my trail name is, and the first two don't count.

Letterboxes get names too, and this one is called Twilight. Notice that the blue stamp is a bunch of stars? This box was hidden well underneath the 168 overpass off the Clovis Old Town Trail. I've lived in Clovis for eight years now, and I had never been on this trail until today.

The third picture is the stamp we left. Next to where the box was buried was a sign that said "Please don't feed the feral cats," so we had to put in our two cents.

More letterboxing!

Today I took my friend Murdel letterboxing in Clovis. We found the above horse stamp at the Clovis Rodeo grounds, and the little star stamp was a hitchhiker. A hitchhiker is a stamp that someone puts in someone else's letterbox. So, we got two for the price of one.

We tried for another, but we couldn't find it. That one was supposed to be hidden under a bridge, but apparently a homeless person is living there because we found all kinds of things like a sleeping bag and canned food. So, maybe they took the box. Anyway, we had a great day, and now I'm tired and dirty from all that digging. What fun!

Cat movie makers.

This is funny!

Father's Day 2011

I went to Bass Lake for Father's Day, and I stopped to take a picture of the Talking Bear in Coarsegold. I must have driven by it at least 50 times in my life, but I've never stopped to see it up close. It's really kind of cool.

I brought my dad three helium balloons and some peanut brittle from See's Candies.

Also, I did manage to drag my dad on a treasure hunt for my first letterbox. He, his wife Gail, and their friend Diane humored me, and I've converted two of the three to hunt for more. You can guess for yourselves which two are now interested!

Letterboxing.

I just found out about "letterboxing," and I'm excited to try it. Put simply, it's a treasure hunt in which you follow clues to find letterboxes that have been hidden. Inside these boxes is a rubber stamp and a notebook. You stamp their notebook with your own stamp, and then you stamp your own notebook with their stamp. Confused? Here's a link to letterboxing.

I'm going to Bass Lake tomorrow to see Dad for Father's Day, and guess what!?! There's two letterboxes hidden there! I wonder if I can drag my dad out on a treasure hunt.

Not crabby!

After giving it some thought, I've decided that I'll just have to work with the tools I've got, even if they are on backwards. That should be enough. It has to be.

WTF?

I couldn't help but laugh when I opened this bottle of fabric softener. LOOK CLOSELY. This is the polar opposite of an easy-pour spout! It also mimics my life at this point in time. I've got the right tools, but I think they're on backwards!

Modoc: The True Story of The Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived.

This book made me cry. I got it from the library, and now I don't want to give it back. I think the Barnes & Noble gift card I got from my brother is going to come in handy right... about... NOW!