Our letterbox

I got an email from someone a couple of weeks ago telling me that our letterbox was found left out and exposed, and was all damp. We've been so busy (and okay, I actually forgot there for a while) that we didn't get to it till today.

Good news and bad. The good news is that 17 groups had visited our letterbox! And we only placed it at the end of March! It was really exciting to look through the book and see all the stamps and comments. Making a box which is easy to find made it a first try for lots of people!

Bad news: The box is soaking wet. Moldy too. Many of the stamps have run. We took it home though and dried out the pages which got wet. We are going to tape them into a new book when we pick one up within the next few days. And we will be sure to pack up the stuff even more carefully this time. I think we'll hide it a little deeper under the bridge too, so that nobody accidentally finds it, which is what I think may have happened this time.

The bugs out in the woods were quite annoying today. We didn't stroll as we usually do; after picking up our box, we booked out of those woods PDQ.