I carved a new letterboxing stamp for myself today! I haven’t been out letterboxing much lately, because I was tired of using my store bought stamp. I didn’t want all the local Guelph letterboxes to have that in it, but until today I hadn’t had the time to sit down and carve one for myself.
Here is is, along with a scan to show detail:

My trail name is KittyCanuck, so that’s what I tried to convey with this stamp. I think it turned out pretty well, considering it’s the second one I’ve ever done. ^_^

This is a little heart I did for practise when I first started letterboxing. Very simple:

I think tomorrow I’m going to go out and do a bunch of letterboxes with my new stamp! Yay!

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Our potential Omegacon roommates have figured out that they can't make it this year.

That leaves us with an extra Queen bed in a standard room. We don't mind having the room to ourselves, but the spending less thing is good if you can get it.

So, In a last ditch effort to appease my budget, if you know of a friend or couple who really want to be there, but can't find a space to sleep, We have one.

We are checking in Thursday night and would (of course) only expect to share the costs for the nights that the other bed is occupied.

Regular checkout.

I can be contacted at angelique@lareau.org

Friends,
We are in Dryden Ontario now, which is between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg, Manitoba. We're still having a fabulous time!

As many of you know, I had planned a few "pub nights" along the way, to meet the local magical people, and raise money for our travel expenses by selling copies of my books. And as mentioned, we had a very good time in Calgary: and some of the debate we participated in there stimulated thoughts of our own in the hours and days that followed. Read some of Juni's thoughts here.

In Regina, we arrived rather later than we had originally hoped, since we estimated the driving time a little low, and I forgot to include the crossing of a time zone in the plan. Upon arriving at the pub, we found just one person there to meet us. We had a lovely conversation with him - after all, it's still a privilege when someone takes time from his day to come and hear what a writer has to say. We went to the home of Erin and Jef Woods, who were billeting us for the night, and there we found that the party had moved to their house! A room full of people had been waiting three hours, and some had already gone home before we arrived. I felt a little embarrassed. But we had a very invigorating conversation, and we are very much hoping to visit Regina again. Erin and Jef are definetly our kind of people, and we were sorry to have spent such a short amount of time there.

In Winnipeg, Juni and I visited The Forks National Historic Site, and absolutely loved it! This was an ancient meeting and trading place for people in this part of the world for many centuries. We felt the parkland and marketplace was very beautiful, and the whole area very welcoming. Later that day, we were treated to another room full of people; most of them the members of a book club which had been studying The Other Side of Virtue in great detail for quite some time. I was asked some very tough, very intelligent questions about various passages in the book. This is one of the things that I was hoping to accomplish with the book. And the room was crouded! We also recorded an episode of The Magical Earth podcast. We were enormously grateful for the hospitality shown to us by Jacinthe Labbe and Susan Hurrel, and all the people there - including the three people (one anonymous) who between them donated quite a bit of money to us to fuel up the van. Friends, the community is alive and well, and is full of generosity, in the very best of the pagan tradition. It's difficult for me to express how grateful we are.

Speaking of podcasts: here's the most recent episode of God Box Cafe, in which Yvonne and I talk about the spirituality of loneliness, conversations, dialogues, and relationships. I hope you enjoy it.

Back home in Ottawa in two or three days. See you then!