Rain, Rain, Go Away....

I just wanted to let you know what we have been up to since I wrote last. Combine Kid and Fast Track, who are Nitrocat's letterboxing nephews, came over a couple days ago (they just live next door) so that we could exchange with them. We forgot to do it when we went letterboxing with them last Friday.
Yesterday morning there was a big storm, so it wasn't safe to have the computer on and we were all bored. The two cats, Caper and Moppett, were fighting with the puppy, Kirby (Nitrocat says he is a purebred mutt, but he looks like a Border Collie to me) and making a terrible racket. And the girls were arguing and complaining. Finally, Nitrocat decided that she had had enough. The cats went in the basement, the puppy went in his crate, the girls started a video and the buddies went in the kitchen to stamp postals in our logbooks. Then Frankie had this great idea that we cootie Pinky Poo. When she discovered it she was none too happy. She stormed off promising revenge.
With another day of rain we were about ready to go stir crazy, but we found Nitrocat's stash of cooties left over from a gathering in Columbus, OH. It was like an explosion! Cooties were flying everywhere, and we pulled out the carving supplies to bring in reinforcements. But then Nitrocat found a whistle and quickly took control again. She efficiently organized a cootie event, complete with it's own event stamp and then we had to take a nap!
Nitrocat's plans are to take us letterboxing on Friday -- she is still working on reaching her goal of 100. On Saturday, if the weather cooperates, we are going to a Ren Faire. I'm not exactly sure what that is, but she hinted at there being letterboxes. Right now they are off at swim lessons and I think Frankie is up to no good again....
More later!

Silver Springs

It's been busy the last couple of days with all the letterboxing that we have done. Yesterday, we all went with Nitrocat and her two letterboxing nephews to hunt for some of her boxes. She said it was "killing three birds with one stone" because her nephews had never found those boxes, the buddies hadn't found them, and she wanted to make sure that the 700+ people involved in the search for Lisa Stebic hadn't found them either. She said she didn't want to go into details because we were too young, but lots of people had been looking in the preserve for a woman who was missing.
All of the boxes were still at Silver Springs and Nitrocat was happy (although she was mumbling something about "...couldn't have been looking too hard"). We got to see the Spring where the water bubbles up out of the ground. Nitrocat says the Spring never freezes and she let us all get a drink. It was very good and cold!
We also went and found the first box in her adventure series called King's Ransom. It was really neat. You have to go to the King and receive your quest, defeat a dragon and rescue a princess and then claim your reward! The series is in Nitrocat's favorite preserve. We saw a bunch of spiders, but she said I couldn't eat them either, so I forgot what she called them.
Today we went and replanted a box and picked one up that needs a new hiding spot.
More later!

Nature, yum!

Since the weather was so nice yesterday, we all went letterboxing with Nitrocat and her kittens. We had a great time! We went to two different preserves and found five boxes. There was a gigantic hill that the kittens had trouble climbing, but their mom helped them and they were very brave. I'm glad I can fly!

In one of the parks, we kept seeing these small, shiny blue dragonflies. Nitrocat said they were Ebony Jewelwings. They were very tasty! I think it bothered Frankie a little bit that I was eating them. We also saw a butterfly called a Limenitis Arthemis, or Red Spotted Purple. Nitrocat wouldn't let me eat that one because she said that many people consider it the most beautiful butterfly in North America. She said I could eat all the mosquitoes that I wanted though!

We also saw a strange mushroom. We didn't touch it, but took a picture instead.

We are going to stay home today and catch up on housework so that we can go out boxing again tomorrow. It might rain today anyway. Pinky Poo should arrive today. At least that is what Nitrocat thinks the package that the PO called about is.

I'll write more after our trip tomorrow!

Having Fun!

The girls are getting ready for swimming lessons, so I had a chance to sit down and write. I am settling in well here. Jurene is taking good care of me. She lets me sleep with the cats during the day and last night Nitrocat let me look through all of her postal letterbox stamps in her journal while they were sleeping. She has hundreds!

Frankie the Moose is here too and I guess Pinky Poo is supposed to arrive soon. Frankie cootied me while I was napping yesterday! He said he is learning from the Cootie Crew. Today we exchange stamps and personal travellers and I got to stamp a really cool set of stamps from a PLB. It was McElligott's Pool from the Welcome to Seussville! ring.

Nitrocat told me that while I am here she wants me to help her plant a night time letterbox. She said she has never done that before and wants to try.

Jurene read the story of Stellaluna to me yesterday. It is about a fruit bat that gets separated from her mother and grows up in a bird's nest until she finds her mom. I really liked it. Jurene knows a lot about bats. Her mom is planning a surprise for her and has requested the book Silverwing from the library for all of us to read together.

I'll write more later.

Hi, I'm Tweeter!

My name is Tweeter and I'm a fruit bat. I was adopted from a yard sale by midlandtrailblazer and I just found out that I have a little girl interested in hosting me. Evidently her favorite story is Stellaluna. I have it on good authority that she is very eager to read the story to me. I can't wait!