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"Garden Stamp" LbNA #51528

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Nov 26, 2009
Location:
City:Freeport
County:Stephenson
State:Illinois
Boxes:1
Planted by:Picture It
Found by: wolf trackers
Last found:Aug 10, 2014
Status:FFFFFFFFFFa
Last edited:Nov 26, 2009
"Garden Stamp"

Mary, Mary, Bright and Airy,
That’s how your garden grows.
With fragrant smells and plants so swell,
Taken care of with rake and hoe.

Mary, Mary, A dish you carry,
To special meals to eat.
With canning skills for holiday fills,
Your red beets are always a treat.

Our cousin, Mary, celebrated her 75th Birthday on Thanksgiving this year ~ November 26, 2009! In honor of this special event, we placed a letterbox in her honor on Thanksgiving Day just before nightfall in "The Garden Area" (as the locals have always called it) at Krape Park.

Clues:

** Thank you, again, to those who let us know of our lost 'original' letterbox... **

On Labor Day, 09/06/10, we had an opportunity to hide a new Garden Stamp in honor of Mary... It's not "garden tools" this time, but a "wheelbarrow."

Go into Krape Park from the Empire Street/Pearl City Road entrance down Park Blvd (as opposed to "The Back-Road" entrance that's tree-lined). As you drive into the park, follow the bend to the left and then to the left again. Keep driving around the baseball field which will be off to your right and around a garden area where you'll see a gazebo also situated off to your right.

Turn into the parking lot, right, and park in front of the Rod-Iron Gates in between the baseball diamond and tennis courts. Walk between the columns down the path straight into the garden area. Whoofle will be on your right.

Behind the point where you're standing, there should be a tree. As you face the sculpture from this spot, you will notice a number that Whoofle's tail makes. Look again at the tree behind you, and now notice that it lines up with two other trees ---- There are three trees in a row.

Starting with the tree after the 3rd tree, count down the number of trees that Whoofle's tail indicated toward your right (East), and you will come to the resting place for the wheelbarrow Garden Stamp.

If you have trouble following these directions, you can also look for the tag that reads #2787.

This is an easy find and should only take just a few minutes. Please bring your own ink, stamp-in, and re-hide the Baggie carefully. Please cover it with branches and leaves to conceal the wheelbarrow; so hopefully this #2 stamp won't disappear like the first one did.

We hope to fill up this log-book within the next few years; so we can give it to Mary for a special keepsake. Thank you for helping us with this endeavor!