Piper On The Trail shares her Crock Pot Love project

Piper on the Trail got a bunch of letterboxers together to create a cookbook of their favourite crock pot recipes.  Then she generously shared the Crock Pot Love book file on Atlas Quest.

I’m not much of a cook, that’s why I love crock pots. They are perfect for the person who doesn’t like to spend a lot of time preparing a meal.

First recipe I tried is the super easy steel cut oatmeal (Schizokeet’s Overnight Oatmeal). I had no idea that oatmeal could be cooked overnight in a crock pot. It was great to wake up to a healthy comfort-food breakfast.

Piper did an excellent design and editing job. I love the easy-on-the-eye colourful graphic layout, the photos, the signature stamps, the quotes and write-ups of the contributing letterboxers.

Cinemagram moving photo

My best attempt at a cinemagraph (moving) photo. (Looks like it doesn’t work on WordPress until you click the image ) Bumble posted about this iPhone/iPad app on her blog a couple of weeks ago. She’s done some amazing work with it. This is the best of several attempts I’ve made so far. Wish I had a iPhone tripod to keep the image steady. This one is the steadiest I’ve been able to hold the camera. Rested up against the footbridge rail.

Not sure why Cinemagraph makes the backward loop the default. I forgot to set it to the forward loop.

Where Am I?

Doesn’t this look like a scene from cottage country? But I was in downtown Guelph on my way to Earth Diver and Arabesque’s “School” letterboxes. This spot by the river made me forget I was in a city.

More photos of the picturesque location:

Canoes on the Eramosa River

View from Marianne’s Park

A funny comment on one of our letterboxes posted on geocaching.com

I was re-reading some of the logs on one of our letterbox hybrids and had a good laugh at one of last year’s comments:

iHazFail99
10/10/2011

Me and my friend decided to go find it letterbox style. We were wondering where it was till we realized it was the trail we go through every day! We found it, and I told him to hold the lid for me. Turns out, there wastext on the lid and it freaked my friend out sooooooooo bad cause he never went letterboxing before and didn’t know what to expect.It was aloud the lines of “You found a LETTERBOX. Letterbox is a sickness. If there is ink on your hands, it is too late. There was ink on his hands,and he freaked. I decided to have some fun with him and made him dunk his hands in the river. I then told him it was fake and we laughed.

This is the message on the inside lid of the box:

You have found a LETTERBOX.

Letterboxing is a sickness.

If you don’t already have this affliction,

close this box immediately and put it back where you found it, well hidden.

Wash hands immediately after use.

If fingers are inky prior to box usage, it’s already too late.

Seek another letterbox immediately.

Buzzed by a Goose

I was out checking on one of my hides. I walked to the tree by the creek with Thunder Paw’s leash attached to a loop on my belt (I like to be hands free). I reached into the hidey hole and suddenly there was a kerfuffle of honking and feathers. A Canada Goose buzzed between me and my dog, grazing us both. My dog pulled so hard to get away that the carabiner snapped off my belt loop. Left a hole in my pants. The goose landed in the creek and started swearing up a storm. Still, despite the torn pants, it was a cool experience. Well maybe not so much for Thunder Paws.

My first munzee-letterbox hybrid

Found my first Munzee-Letterbox hybrid yesterday. Wizardsnake planted a Munzee with a custom made stamp. It’s listed on the Munzee site. What a surprise. I didn’t have my letterbox gear with me so I ended up going back a little later to stamp up. This stamp was quite unique. It was made out of a soft plastic material. My guess is it is crayola modelling air-dry clay and it was pressed into a mold.

Street Art while out hide-n-seeking

Saw these at the Grove Street train track bridge overpass (I was hunting munzees at the time):

Loved it. Why did someone create this? Why did they post here? Loved this faceless bunny. A provocative easter theme perhaps? The faceless bunny child.

I love how the heart is divided up on the stairs so that it all fits together when viewed from the proper vantage point.