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First aidOn the Farm LbNA #65576

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Dec 30, 2012
Location: 524 Brooksvale Ave. Brooksvale Park
City:Hamden
County:New Haven
State:Connecticut
Boxes:13
Planted by:MrsWanderer
Found by: Ants In My Coffee (13)
Last found:Sep 1, 2018
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Nov 14, 2015
The clues to this series will be available at the "Help Build a Barn" event, held on January 12, 2013. Special Thanks to Pixies and the Sprites for helping me carve and make this series successful! Thank you to Teeker for the title of this series ;-)

There are 13 boxes in total. The hike is just about 1.75 miles long. The series will probably be taken away sometime in February.

CLUES:
~From the Veteran's Memorial Building, follow the driveway from the parking lot until you see a brown message board. This is the red trail. Follow it until the ' y ' intersection with the green trail. Stop and look to your left for a "slingshot" tree. {Beware of the surrounding prickers behind and on the side of this tree} In the fork of the tree, under sticks and bark is an animal that oinks. Stamp and please re-hide as you found or better.
~Bear right on the ' y ' intersection to follow red and then immediately take a right onto the white trail. Stop at the first cedar tree on your right. Just left and a little behind this tree is another cedar with 2 rosy-colored rocks in front of it. Between the two rocks covered with sticks and leaves is an animal that "moo's". Stamp and please re-hide as found or better.
~Continue on white for a short while until you see a 3-sister cedar tree located before a side trail that goes right. Hidden in the sisters covered with bark is an animal that "neighs". Please re-hide as found or better.
~Continue on white until you see a small dam. Walk on the wall of the dam and take 3 paces. Stop and hop down to your right. At the top crevice, hidden by a flat, moveable rock is what many farm animals eat. [Note: Please do not move any rocks except the movable fat one, of course ;-P] Stamp and please re-hide as found or better.
~Continue on. As the trail takes a left turn, away from the stream, there will be a huge rock on your right. The rock sits right in front of a tree. The rock also has an overhang. On the ground, under the overhang, covered with a rock is a farmer's fork . Stamp and please re-hide as found or better.
~Continue following white as it takes a sharp right at a ' T ' intersection with an unmarked trail. As you turn right, notice the first white-blazed tree on your left. Walk up to it and stop. Look to the left at the rock wall. Notice the tree in front of the wall; 4 rocks, horizontally, to the right of the tree is a flat-ish rock. Under that rock is a flat, moveable, rock that is covering an animal that has a tail with a hundred eyes. Stamp and please re-hide as you found or better.
~When continuing on, notice that the white blazes become sparse. It is helpful to look back while hiking by the rock wall, because they will most likely be on the other side of the tree. Cross the stream. Shortly after you will hit a four-way intersection with violet; cross over violet to continue on white and stop. Roughly take 20 paces up the hill and then look right. There should be a rotting, skinny log resting on mossy rocks. Behind the rocks and between the two; covered by leaves is the Kellogg's mascot. Stamp and please re-hide as you found or better.
~Go back to the four-way intersection and turn left onto violet. Keep an eye out for a giant Oak tree on the left. Walk up to it. To the right of the tree is a log with a skinnier log on top of it. To the right of that is a rosy "door" that is covering an animal that people count to fall asleep. Stamp and please re-hide as you found or better.
~Continue a short ways and stop on a mossy carpet rock on the trail (right before the trail takes a left turn). There will be a huge rock to your left. On the right of it and on the ground; covered with leaves and two small rocks is an animal's water bowl. Stamp and please re-hide as found or better.
~Continue on violet as it turns left and ignore the unmarked trail on your right. The trail will then gently slope down and then quickly back up. Keep a lookout for a 5-foot stump that would be about 6 paces off the trail to your left. There will also be a log lying right next to the stump. In this stump covered with leaves, is an animal that goes "Baaaa". [There is a hole on the bottom of the stump to get to the box]. Stamp and please re-hide as found or better.
~Continue on violet, ignoring the carved arrow on a three-sister tree. Bear right and continue until you see a three-sister Oak tree on your right. Covered with leaves and sticks is an essential farm machine. Stamp and please re-hide as found or better.
~Continue on violet. Before the trail ends, there will be a boulder on your left. Walk towards the back to a tree that found itself comfortable growing on the rock. Behind the tree, towards the end of its root, [on your right] hidden under leaves and bark is Thumper's relative. Stamp and please re-hide as found or better.
~Continue to the end of the violet trail and through the opening. Cross the wooden bridge [perhaps get my other stamp that honors my grandma here] and pass the duck pond to the ' T ' intersection. Take a left to a trail that leads to the cedar woods. Walk a short while until you see a green bench that's located to the left of the trail. Hike down the left-side of the bench towards the brook. Notice the rock wall on your left. In between the first two rocks, on ground-level, covered by a dirty, flat rock is an animal that might lay a golden egg! Stamp, log, and please re-hide as found or better.

If you would like to donate to Brooksvale Park to help them build a new barn, you can send a check to any amount to:

Friends of Brooksvale Park, Inc.
c/o James E. Traester -- Treasurer
156 Brooksvale Avenue
Hamden, CT -06518

In the memo area of your check please note: Raise the Roof if it is for the NEW Animal Barn.

Thank you!