What great team players! Last night, I posted an invitation:

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'Twas the Night Before Plant a Letterbox Day and all through the house,
Now you all must finish it, one line at a time, please. Who will add the next line?

Here it is:

’Twas the Night Before Plant a Letterbox Day

'Twas the Night Before Plant a Letterbox Day and all through the house, (1)
Not a boxer was carving, not even a louse. (2)
The backpacks were hung on the hook by the door, (3)
In the hopes that a record, soon we would score. (4)

The logbooks were nestled all snug in their ziplocs
While visions of dryness surrounded their lock 'n locks (5)
And I with my Mastercarve and Ryan with his Speedball,
Had just settled down to carve a great stamp! (6)

When out on the lawn there was plenty of chatter,
The neighbors had suddenly started to gather.
At turtleneck speed we sprang to the door,
With carving tools flinging pink stuff on the floor. (1)

And what to our wonder eyes did we see,
An abundance of boxes hidden near trees (7)
There were red ones, and blue ones, and camo and green
All planted and covered n'er more to be seen. (8)

On Mama Cache! On Speedsquare! On Lundy & Vickster!
On Mr. Yuk, Amanda, and every last trickster! (9)
To the hole in the tree, to the crack in the wall,
Now stash away, stash away, stash away y'all! (10)

We spoke not a word but went straight to our work
Hunting a spot in the leaves, rocks and dirt (11)
With dry leaves they hid, with rocks piled high,
Looking o'er their shoulders should muggles walk by... (12)

We found a great spot, we believe, this is true
Now back to the computer to type out the clue (13)
With the clues in their heads, they all knew what to do
To their homes they all raced, then they logged on AQ! (14)

Skipping the office to make a new record instead
Now poor Ryan’s AQ is overloaded and dead. (15)
And as those on the East coast were going to bed,
Those guys out in Cali were planting boxes instead. (16)

They planted and planted, in strange places did delve,
And posted those clues ‘til the cuckoo chirped twelve, (1)
Then I heard them proclaim as they left in full stride,
"Try to be discrete and do your best to re-hide." (17)

~The End~

Thanks to all who joined in the fun!
(1) Mama Cache
(2) speedsquare
(3) LundyandVickster
(4) Mr Yuk
(5) deniserows
(6) Amanda from Seattle
(7) chunna
(8) Artemis
(9) Murray7
(10) Warm Front
(11) hopeinnc
(12) Sprite and Highlander
(13) Shoafsters
(14) The Merry Pranksters
(15) Oread
(16) peas in a pod
(17) mstrwndl

***Thunderous applause*** take a bow one and all !! That's worth printing off and putting on the front of my clue book.!

Great job one and all! Pure poetry at its finest! And well done, Mama Cache, putting it all together.

I had the best time reading this, good work!!

Yellsalot

We loved it! Our first plant a letterbox day was a huge success. All those letterboxes that sat by the door for the winter, waiting to be planted, were dusted off and planted with great haste. Your poem brought big smilss in our home because the visual it created was similar to what happened to us.
thanks again,
Windwolf, Volleyball Star and Winter Fairy